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Students have many schools to select from when it comes to studying a particular health science field, but one of the top reasons they choose Samuel Merritt University is because of the early entry to clinical agencies to gain "hands-on experience" with real patients. In more than 1,400 different health institutions across the country, a majority of them in California, SMU students are interacting with patients of all ages, ethnicities, and cultural backgrounds and working in diverse clinical settings, including acute care hospitals, doctor's offices, clinics, social support agencies, and community shelters. Usually, clinical experiences start early in the program of study, often within the first year of enrollment.
Selected SMU Educational Clinic Sites
- Alameda County Medical Center
- Bay Area Community Services (BACS)
- Kaiser Foundation Hospital, San Francisco
- California Pacific Medical Center - Pacific Campus
- Children's Hospital and Research Center of Oakland
- David Grant USAF Medical Center (Travis AFB)
- John Muir Medical Center
- Stanford Hospital
- Sonoma Valley Hospital
- Sutter Delta Medical Center
- University of California Berkeley Tang Center
- Santa Barbara Cardiovascular Medical Group
- Buena Salud Pediatrics
- Alta Bates Summit Medical Center
- Santa Clara Valley Medical Center
- Kaiser Oakland
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"Although initially intimidating for some, students love early exposure to patients, both to test their theoretical knowledge borne of classroom experience, and to begin building the professional confidence that they have made a "right" career selection and can actually care for patients safely and effectively," explains Scot Foster, PhD, Academic Vice President and Provost. "At any one time there are at least 500 students a day in a metropolitan or rural clinical agency; most close to home, but others across the country."
Clinical areas in which Samuel Merritt University students learn are not limited to the traditional hospital environment, as was common in the past. Today's fast-paced clinical settings require that University faculty find new and inventive clinical settings in which students can learn. The University highly values the relationship it has developed with clinical agencies, and works to help those institutions understand the value and unique contributions SMU students make to their patients.
"One of the newest and increasingly common educational practices is to incorporate human simulation in a laboratory-based setting to prepare students better and faster to enter the clinical area. Simulation provides virtual real-time experiences with the basics of how to approach, plan and organize care," explains Dr. Foster. "We find that this is a valuable way to prepare students to take better advantage of real patient interactions, as their skill set is much greater and more sophisticated."
In the School of Nursing students are placed in clinical settings within the first year of enrollment. This provides students with early handson experience to practice the skills learned in class, lab or through simulation. The clinical experience for nursing students may occur on any day of the week and any shift. Undergraduate students are placed in acute care and community settings in groups of 8 to 10 students. They are accompanied by a clinical instructor who guides the learning process.
"Students become familiar with the role of the nurse in both acute and community care settings," explains Nancy Haugen, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor and Chair of the Accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing. "This allows them to become familiar with the nursing routines in both areas, and allows them to better understand the continuum of care." Graduate students in nursing are placed in a wide variety of settings, including hospital operating rooms for the nurse anesthetists, community care centers, clinics and numerous other venues which offer routine care and wellness options.
Doctor of Podiatric Medicine (DPM) students are seeing patients at the beginning of their second year. "Our clinical experiences are 100 percent hands-on and include secondyear rotations at the busy Alameda County Medical Center, which operates Highland Hospital, the San Francisco homeless shelters, and the SMU simulation center," explains Eric Stamps, DPM, Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs and Assistant Professor. "Highland Hospital is a county teaching hospital with a solid educational culture. It has a high volume of patients, often with undertreated disease. Our students excel in this busy environment."
Third year podiatric clinical experiences extend throughout the year and include general surgery, internal medicine, biomechanics and three months of podiatric medicine and surgery. The third year also includes a month in a private practitioner's office. "The idea is to teach the students something about private practice, to allow students to form relationships with potential future business partners and to spread the word about our educational program," said Dr. Stamps. "Many of our private office practitioners have been involved with this program for decades."
Physical Therapy and Occupational Therapy students also have unique clinical environments. Portions of their clinical work take place in University sponsored clinics. These clinics focus on rehabilitation issues and serve individuals who have a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits their skills of daily living, and serve those who have exhausted their health insurance. Michael De Rosa, PhD, MPH, PA-C, Chair of the Master Physician Assistant program, credits early clinical placement as one of the top reasons why his program has a 98 percent first time pass rate on the Physician Assistant National Certification Examination for all graduates. (Average national first time pass rate over same period is 91 percent.)
The excellence of any type of practitioner is largely dependent on the quality and range of clinical care offered to students during their educational program. "These responsibilities are managed by dedicated faculty whose sole role is scheduling and managing clinical sites and their attendant contracts," adds Dr. Foster. "It is well accepted that in the academic community, these clinical coordinators have some of the toughest jobs handling a myriad of sites, contracts, student issues, scheduling, and of course, counseling and evaluating students through this most critical phase of their education."
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It's time to end privatised Britain and return to the ideology and practicalities that once made this country great.
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They should never have been privatised in the first place.
We're passengers, not customers and we need one good service, not a wasteful bunch of businesses.
I have lived in Switzerland where the rail system is cheap, comprehensive and excellent. Our current rail system is emphatically not fit for purpose.
I'm sick of overcrowded, late trains on my commute to and from work. I have to travel half my journey by bus due to poor connecting trains. Bring back British Rail.
Everyone who uses the trains on a daily basis can see that privatisation has failed. Trains cancelled with little warning and the dreadful rail replacement buses.
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Foreign ownership doesn't work hence why DB are selling Arriva and First Bus are selling up
Great idea - and the railways too.
How ironic - I read somewhere that DB are looking to offload Arriva.
Just sold its ,Manchester garage / services to Go Ahead group. Ageing feet of vehicles , so getting out.
Can we not do this in Southampton after first destroyed it
Its more likely that First will be sold in entirety to Arrival (solely owned by the Federal Republic of Germany) or to a Chinese bidder.
First sold their London bus operations to Tower Transit several years ago. This particular bus started life with First London - hence the London plate beginning LK. Similar double deckers have been cascaded down to operations elsewhere in vast numbers as TfL is rapidly moving towards 100% hybrids (or in the case of single deckers, usually pure electric).
How times change. The creditable alternative is "Nationalisation".
Great idea - and the railways too.
I agree, we should take back our buses. Look at the damage a single bus did just by putting £350 million a week for the NHS on the side of it. Without that silly bus we would be looking at enjoying our membership of the EU ad Infinitum. Take them back, they ruin countries by persuading the gullible to believe their lies.
Take them back. No unjust enrichment.
Our friends at Guardians of the Arches are fighting against the privatisation of our railway arches which are currently publicly-owned by Network Rail. This would have a devastating impact on all the local businesses, clubs and organisations who use them if new private landlords chose to hike up rents. Say no to privatisation by supporting their Crowdfunder campaign at crowdfunder.co.uk/guardiansRailway property tenants are joining forces to build a powerful democratic organisation to hold landlords and the government to account! ...
What's next? Privatising the air above the rails?
How the hell you can sell parts of a viaduct is beyond me.
British rail was crap, I remember it well, oh when they actually run and weren't on strike !!
This is all a bit late ne sale was completed February this year
Shame takes a revenue stream away from Network Rail, guess higher taxes will sort the shortfall
I thought they had already been sold.
Grayling is an absolute catastrophe of a man
Yet more evidence rail franchising is broken. Virgin Trains lost the East Coast franchise in 2018 and are about to lose the West Coast for "repeatedly ignoring established rules", yet they're now trying to get their hands on another route! Join our campaign for a re-unified national railway run for people not profit: bringbackbritishrail.org ...
Hmm... Virgin Trains Has Come Up With A Clever Way Of Keeping Its FranchiseLondon to Liverpool service may continue after 2020.
The tender for the franchise submitted by Stagecoach who are the majority shareholder has been disqualified as a consequence of it being non-compliant re pensions arrangements. This is not necessarily a comment on Virgin's performance which I have found to be consistently good to excellent. But what do I know ? After all I only commuted daily from Birmingham to London with them for four years 😂
Be interesting to see what happens if the Open Access gets denied by the DfT....beardy takes the DfT to the high Court???
I thought they lost the west coast because of stagecoach not meeting pension rules
Open track is available to anyone,and let's hope he has dumped Souter
Though to be fair they offer the best service by far
Applying for 'open access '. After the attitude they showed towards 'Wrexham and Shropshire '. Hypocrisy comes to mind.
When will they understand
Virgin are definitely the fastest service. But as I'm often Ill I cannot per book a seat in advance and trying to find an available non reserved seat is often difficult or impossible!
i live in cumbria and go to see partick thistle every other week. great service on prompt and virtually empty trains - £13 return. brilliant
To be fair virgin trains are the best brilliant service above the others
If the WCML is so crammed at the moment that we can't add additional capacity, then how the hell are they going to manage a whole new franchise on it? Or, are the capacity problems at them moment a load of bollocks, like I suspect.
Can we not just have a non bureaucratic and joined up railway, where fares are affordable (Regardless Of when booked), trains have adequate capacity, luggage space and comfortable seats.
I very much doubt this open access will be granted. If it was possible Renaissance Trains would of put a bid for open access on that route before now.
Virgin Trains should be keeping the West Coast Mainline. No company comes to them for being on time, hardly any delays and comfort on the trains. When I've used them, I've never had an issue.
What next? They failed to keep the Cross Country and East Coast franchise .
Hope Virgin gets treated the same way it treated open access operators like Wrexham and Shropshire.
Its not a franchise its open access the same as grand central, it applies to NR and ORR with what it want to do with a safety case and if theres track space and it can run that service. Anyone can apply for.open access if it has the resources and all the paperwork. If it wasn't for franchising open access wouldn't exist, open access was put there to bring in competition !!
Virgin trains leave other train lines in the dust as far as comfort, cleanliness and food are concerned.
As much as I would like to see the return of a nationalised systems, it will never happen. Not even under a labour government, government and stakeholders make far too much money out of the industry including you and I got it to return back to the days of British Rail......
For once I agree.
Be interesting to know were they will get their rolling stock from. There be plenty of Mk3s soon from Greater Anglia
Yes bring back BRS
Bring back the class 87
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Stagecoach was the problem in both cases, not virgin....
Non of its Virgin's fail the main problem was with Stagecoach
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I totally agree. Why do we need to cross the busy road to get a ticket from a different company. Risking your life to travel
I wouldn't hold your breathe on the "Williams" review, he's on record pointing out that he's an independent chairman of a government review, not a chairman of an independent review, whatever is decided will be agreed with Grayling prior to any publication.
Bring back British Rail ?so why show 2 foreign railways
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DARTMOUTH — Unregistered temporary staffing agencies are allegedly violating state law by hiring unlicensed workers to install conductive solar electric components at a Dartmouth solar farm, the National Electrical Contractors Association of Greater Boston (NECA) charged last week.
DARTMOUTH — Unregistered temporary staffing agencies are allegedly violating state law by hiring unlicensed workers to install conductive solar electric components at a Dartmouth solar farm, the National Electrical Contractors Association of Greater Boston (NECA) charged last week.
NECA, a regional trade group, made the allegations in five complaints filed with the Mass. Division of Professional Licensure against CLP/Skilled Trades Solutions of Woburn, D&D Electrical Contractors of Woburn, Skilled Trades Services of Milwaukee, Trillium Staffing Solutions of Marlborough, and Zimmermann Staffing of Panama City, Florida.
NECA claims none of the four staffing companies possess the necessary "Class A" Mass. master electrical license required by law to engage in electrical contracting as employers, and are filling electrician positions at a $2.4 million solar photovoltaic (PV) farm at 560 High Hill Road in Dartmouth.
Mass. General Law Chapter 141, 527 C.M.R. 12.00 and the Mass. Electrical Code both call for licensed electricians and electrical contractors to install solar power systems. Some of the firms are not properly registered with the Secretary of the Commonwealth or the Department of Labor Standards as employment agencies, the association alleged in a press release.
"Regulators require licensed electricians to install solar PV systems because they produce power and pose the same dangers of electrocution or fire as any other electrical system would," said NECA Boston Executive Director Glenn W. Kingsbury. "Qualified electricians complete a minimum of 8,000 hours in the field and 600 hours of related classroom study as a condition of licensure. Their training is best-in-class when it comes to keeping the public safe."
NECA Boston initially grew leery after speaking with Skilled Trades Services employees who contended only five of the 40 workers on-site were actually licensed electricians. State law stipulates a ratio of one supervising licensed journeyman electrician for every unlicensed helper.
If true, the Skilled Trades Services' ratio on the Dartmouth site is approximately 8-to-1, NECA said. Pay records confirmed the employment relationship with Skilled Trades Services, which does not hold a master electrical license as an employer, the association said.
NECA officially lodged complaints against Skilled Trades Services and D&D Electrical Contractors, the electrical permit holder that presumably assumes responsibility for the entire installation, on Dec. 7.
Shortly thereafter, CLP/Skilled Trades Solutions, Trillium Staffing and Zimmermann Staffing all posted Craigslist advertisements for licensed electricians in Dartmouth. NECA issued additional complaints on Dec. 14 on the grounds all three firms do not have the necessary "Class A" master electrical licenses.
"Sadly, there are players in the construction industry taking shortcuts at the expense of public safety and we hope the Division of Professional Licensure takes all necessary, timely steps to stop unlawful behavior," Mr. Kingsbury said. "As Massachusetts leads the nation in renewable energy, we expect all contractors — union or not — to obey the law and make best efforts to create socially responsible, family-sustaining jobs. Temporary placements devoid of genuine training definitely do not fit the bill."
Lowell-based Borrego Solar Systems, Inc., is the project's general contractor.


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(12/P157) TRENTON –Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Bob Martin has signed an order reopening shellfish beds in the northern end of Barnegat Bay, which became effective at sunrise today.
Commissioner Martin signed the order following water monitoring and tissue sampling that found no issues with contamination from bacteria or viruses as a result of the storm. The beds had been closed since October 29 as a precaution in anticipation of Hurricane Sandy. The area of Barnegat Bay reopened for shellfish harvesting is north of the Mathis Bridge, also known as the Route 37 Bridge, in Toms River.
The DEP closed all New Jersey shellfish beds to commercial and recreational harvesting on October 29 in preparation for Hurricane Sandy, due to concerns over degradation of coastal water quality from the storm.
On November 11, the DEP reopened shellfish beds in Delaware Bay from Lower Alloways Creek south to Cape May Point after sampling found no issue with contamination as a result of the storm. On November 14, the DEP reopened shellfish beds in Atlantic coastal waters from Little Egg Inlet south to Cape May Point, On Dec. 7, the shellfish beds in the Navesink and Shrewsbury rivers in Monmouth County were reopened, followed by the reopening of the beds in Sandy Hook Bay on Dec. 14
Beds in the Raritan Bay remain closed until further notice due to intermittent bypasses of temporary pumps at the Sayreville pump station in the Raritan River resulting from storm damage from Hurricane Sandy. The DEP is continuing to monitor water quality and shellfish tissue, and will reopen shellfish beds in the remaining closed areas when monitoring and sampling criteria are met.
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A number of developments on both global and European level are on-going and are changing the way MET Service Provision to Air Navigation will be organized in the near-future. On a global level, there are the ICAO Global Air Navigation Plan (GANP – Doc 9750) and the Global ATM Operational Concept (Doc 9854). These address the current and future air navigation needs and exploit new scientific and technological capabilities. The modernization process will be carried out by implementing the so-called Aviation System Block Upgrade (ASBU) concept.
On a European level, the European Union "Single European Sky" (SES) initiative has the aim to solve some of the many problems of air navigation caused by, amongst others, airspace fragmentation in Europe. SES is led by the European Commission (EC) and focuses on the achievement of some key goals: increasing safety and capacity, more cost effective air navigation services and lowering the environmental impact of aviation. The modernization process will be carried out by implementing the European ATM Master Plan through, for example, the deployment of new procedures and tools developed in the SES ATM Research (SESAR) programme, to which EUMETNET is a committed implementing partner. The European Master Plan can be seen as the European contribution to the ICAO GANP.
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ORLANDO, Fla., July 17 (UPI) -- No one in Florida was saying where Casey Anthony went after her pre-dawn release from jail following her acquittal on charges she murdered her daughter, Caylee.
Anthony walked out of the Orange County jail in Orlando with her attorney at 3 a.m. EDT Sunday and was whisked away in a black SUV for parts unknowns.
The Orlando Sentinel said the vehicle was last seen entering a downtown parking garage where it was suspected Anthony and her party switched cars out of the view of the media.
WFTV-TV, Orlando, said Anthony wound up aboard a private plane that flew out of Orlando without filing a flight plan. The sheriff's department said it was not assisting in Anthony's security after her release.
The stealthy release was aimed at heading off any sizable protests from members of the public still outraged at the not-guilty verdict earlier this month. Anthony, 25, had been accused of killing 2-year-old Caylee in 2008 in order to unburden herself of the responsibilities of being a single mother.
The Sentinel said a handful of protesters gathered outside the jail where heavy security was in place. One of the demonstrators held up a sign asking Anthony to marry him. "Hopefully, she will just be able to see my sign," a smitten Tim Allen told the newspaper as he waited for Anthony to walk out. "Find me on Facebook. She can find out how to contact me."


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Dr. Song's research interests include the development and refinement of new imaging methods to improve radiation targeting, as well as innovative means of reducing potential side effects of radiation treatment. His research is supported by federal and private research funding programs including two R01 awards from the National Cancer Institute, Department of Defense Prostate Cancer Clinical Trial Award, the American Cancer Society, and the Hopkins-BMS Immuno-Oncology Consortium.
He is a reviewer and examiner for the American Board of Radiology, which administers the national board certification examination for radiation oncologists. He has served on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics and The Prostate, and on the scientific review committees for the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO), American Brachytherapy Society, and the Dept of Defense Prostate Cancer Research Program. He currently serves on the Scientific Planning Committee for the American Brachytherapy Society annual meeting. He has co-authored consensus guidelines on stereotactic body radiation therapy (TG-101) and image-guided robotic brachytherapy (TG-192) produced by the American Association of Physics in Medicine.
Dr. Song sees patients at the Johns Hopkins Hospital (downtown Baltimore) as well as Greenspring Station (Timonium) practices.
- Co-Director, Prostate Cancer Multidisciplinary Clinic
- Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences
- Associate Professor of Oncology
- Associate Professor of Urology
Departments / Divisions
- Oncology - Prostate Cancer and GU
- Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences - Molecular Radiation Science
- Urology
- MD, Medical College of Georgia (1996)
- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine / Radiation Oncology (2001)
Board Certifications
- American Board of Radiology / Radiation Oncology (2001)
Research & Publications
Research Summary
Dr. Song's research focuses on developting an improved seed visualization method for prostate brachytherapy. His research is currently funded by the National Cancer Institute, and he is working in collaboration with scientists from the Johns Hopkins Engineering Research Center.
Dr. Song's research interests include the development and refinement of new imaging methods to improve radiation targeting, as well as innovative means of reducing potential side effects of radiation treatment. His research efforts have been sponsored and funded by competitive grants from organizations such as the Department of Defense, the National Cancer Institute, and the American Cancer Society.
Clinical Trial KeywordsProstate brachytherapy, Hypofractionated radiotherapy
Clinical Trials
Prostate Cancer Clinical Trial: We are currently accepting prostate cancer patients to participate in a clinical study using new imaging tools for increased accuracy during seed implantation. Learn more:
J13164: Pilot Study of Dynamic Intraoperative Dosimetry for Prostate Brachytherapy using Registered Fluoroscopy and Ultrasound (RadVision)
Selected PublicationsView all on Pubmed
Benedict SH, Yenice KM, Followill D, Galvin JM, Hinson W, Kavanagh B, Keall P, Lovelock M, Meeks S, Papiez L, Purdie T, Sadagopan R, Schell MC, Salter B, Schlesinger DJ, Shiu AS, Solberg T, Song DY, Stieber V, Timmerman R, Tomé WA, Verellen D, Wang L, Yin FF: Stereotactic body radiation therapy: the report of AAPM Task Group 101. Med Phys. 2010;37:4078-101.
Podder TK, Beaulieu L, Caldwell B, Cormack RA, Crass JB, Dicker AP, Fenster A, Fichtinger G, Meltsner MA, Moerland MA, Nath R, Rivard MJ, Salcudean T, Song DY, Thomadsen BR, Yu Y: AAPM and GEC-ESTRO guidelines for image-guided robotic brachytherapy: Report of Task Group 192. Med Phys. 2014 Oct;41(10):101501. doi: 10.1118/1.4895013.
Song DY, Herfarth KK, Uhl M, Eble MJ, Pinkawa M, van Triest B, Kalisvaart R, Weber DC, Miralbell R, DeWeese TL, Ford EC: A multi-institutional clinical trial of rectal dose reduction via injected polyethylene-glycol hydrogel during IMRT for prostate cancer: Analysis of dosimetric outcomes. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2013;87(1):81-87. (Epub 2013 Feb 13) PMC3737267
Susil RC, McNutt T, DeWeese TL, Song DY: Effects of prostate-rectum separation on rectal dose from external beam radiation therapy. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2010;76(4):1251-1258. PMC3115781
Song DY, Jain AK, Zhang Z, Deguet A, Le Y, Armour E, Burdette EC, Fichtinger G: Dynamic intraoperative dosimetry for prostate brachytherapy using a non-isocentric C-arm. Brachytherapy. 2011;10:98-106.
Uhl M, Herfarth K, Eble MJ, Pinkawa M, van Triest B, Kalisvaart R, Weber DC, Miralbell R, Song DY, DeWeese TL: Absorbable hydrogel spacer use in men undergoing prostate cancer radiotherapy: 12 month toxicity and proctoscopy results of a prospective multicenter phase II trial. Radiat Oncol. 2014;9:96. PMC24758224
Qiu H, Herman J, Ahuja N, DeWeese T, Song DY: Neoadjuvant chemoradiation followed by interstitial prostate brachytherapy for synchronous prostate and rectal cancer. Pract Radiat Oncol. 2012;4:e77-84.
Song DY, Burdette EC, Fiene J, Armour E, Kronreif G, Deguet A, Zhang Z, Iordachita I, Fichtinger G, Kazanzides P: Robotic needle guide for prostate brachytherapy: clinical testing of feasibility and performance. Brachytherapy. 2011;10:57-63. PMC3021094
Corn PG, Song DY, Heath E, Maier J, Meyn R, Kuban D, DePetrillo TA, Mathew P: Sunitinib plus androgen deprivation and radiation therapy for patients with localized high-risk prostate cancer: results from a multi-institutional phase I study. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2013;86(3):540-545. PMC4103023.
Kumar R, Le Y, DeWeese T, Song DY: Re-implantation following sub-optimal dosimetry in low-dose-rate prostate brachytherapy: technique for outpatient source insertion using local anesthesia. J Contemp Brachy (in press).
Sundi D, Cohen J, Cole A, Neuman B, Cooper J, Faisal F, Raben M, Song DY, Drake C, Netto G, Macura K, DeWeese T, Partin A, Bivalacqua T, Ross A, Schaeffer E: Establishment of a new prostate cancer multidisciplinary clinic. Prostate. 2015 75(2):191-9. PMCID: PMC4270998.
Swartz MJ, Janson K, DeWeese TL, Song DY. Radiation therapy for prostate cancer: the role for dose escalation. Compr Ther. 2007;33:216-222.
Song DY: Oncology scan—rising stars, fading stars, and shooting stars: new trends in prostate cancer management. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2014;89(1):4-6.
Song DY, Kavanagh BD, Benedict SH, Schefter TA: Stereotactic body radiotherapy: rationale, techniques, optimization, and application of an emerging technology. Oncology. 2004;18:1419-1430.
Song DY: The role of radiotherapy in the treatment of locally advanced prostate cancer. Community Oncol. 2006;3:759-764.
Kuo N, Dehghan E, Deguet A, Mian OY, Le Y, Burdette EC, Fichtinger G, Prince JL, Lee J, Song DY: An image-guidance system for dynamic dose calculation in prostate brachytherapy using ultrasound and fluoroscopy. Med Phys. 2014;41(9):091712. doi: 10.1118/1.4893761.
Huynh-Le M, Zhang Z, Tran PT, DeWeese TL, Song DY: Low interrater reliability in grading of rectal bleeding using National Cancer Institute Common Toxicity Criteria and Radiation Therapy Oncology Group toxicity scales: a survey of radiation oncologists. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2014;Dec 1;90(5):1076-1082. doi: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2014.08.014. (Epub 2014 Oct 13).
Tran PT, Hales RK, Zeng J, Aziz K, Salih T, Gajula RP, Chettiar S, Gandhi N, Wild AT, Kumar R, Herman JM, Song DY, DeWeese TL: Tissue biomarkers for prostate cancer radiation therapy. Curr Mol Med. 2012;12:772-787.
Pinkawa M, Schoth F, Bohmer D, Hatiboglu G, Sharabi A, Song D, Eble MJ: Current standards and future directions for prostate cancer radiation therapy. Exp Rev Anticancer Ther. 2013;13:75-88
DeWeese TL, Song DY: Radiation dose escalation as treatment for clinically-localized prostate cancer: is more really better? JAMA. 2005;294:1274-1275.
Song DY, DeWeese TL: Can PSA nadir predict prostate cancer outcomes following radiotherapy? Nat Clin Pract Urol. 2006;3:464-465.
Song DY, DeWeese TL: Defining the appropriate measure of success for adjuvant radiation following prostatectomy. Nat Clin Pract Urol. 2007;4(8):416-417. Munn DH, Beall AC,
Song DY, Lawrie WT, Abrams RA, Kafonek DR, Bayless TM, Welsh JS, DeWeese TL: Acute and late radiotherapy toxicity in patients with inflammatory bowel disease. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2001;51(2):455-459.
Song DY, Thompson TL, Ramakrishnan V, Harrison R, Bhavsar N, Onaodowan O, DeWeese TL: Salvage Radiotherapy for Rising or Persistent PSA after Radical Prostatectomy. Urology. 2002;60(2):281-287.
Yu HH, Song DY, Tsai Y, Thompson T, Frassica DA, DeWeese TL: Perineural invasion affects biochemical recurrence-free survival in patients with prostate cancer treated with definitive external beam radiotherapy. Urology. 2007;70(1):111-116.
Jain A, Deguet A, Iordachita I, Chintalapani G, Blevins J, Le Y, Armour E, Burdette C, Song D, Fichtinger G: Intra-operative 3D guidance in prostate brachytherapy using a non-isocentric C-arm. Med Image Comput Comput Assist Interv Int Conf Med Image Comput Comput Assist Interv. 2007;10(Pt 2):9-17.
Fichtinger G, Fiene J, Kennedy CW, Kronreif G, Iordachita I, Song DY, Burdette EC, Kazanzides P: Robotic assistance for ultrasound guided prostate brachytherapy. Med Image Anal. 2008;12(5);535-545.
Muntener M, Patriciu A, Petrisor D, Schar M, Ursu D, Song DY, Stoianovici D: Transperineal prostate intervention: robot for fully automated MR imaging – system description and proof of principle in a canine model. Radiology. 2008;247(2):543-549. PMC3108451
Lin SH, Sugar E, Teslow T, McNutt T, Saleh H, Song DY: Comparison of daily couch shifts using MVCT (TomoTherapy) and B-mode Ultrasound (BAT system) during prostate radiotherapy. Technol Cancer Res Treat. 2008;7(4):279-285. PMC3634324
Ford EC, Gaudette R, Myers L, Vanderver B, Engineer L, Zellars R, Song DY, Wong J, DeWeese TL: Evaluation of safety in a radiation oncology setting using failure mode and effects analysis. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2009;74(3):852-858. PMC3655406
Lin J, Sinibaldi VJ, Carducci MA, Denmeade S, Song D, DeWeese T, Eisenberger MA: Phase I trial with a combination of docetaxel and (153)Sm-lexidronam in patients with castration-resistant metastatic prostate cancer. Urol Oncol. 2011;29:670-675. PMC3483074
Lee J, Kuo N, Deguet A, Dehghan E, Song DY, Burdette EC, Prince JL: Intraoperative 3D reconstruction of prostate brachytherapy implants with automatic pose correction. Phys Med Biol. 2011;56:5011-5027. PMC3172706
Kuo N, Deguet A, Song DY, Burdette EC, Prince JL, Lee J: Automatic segmentation of radiographic fiducial and seeds from fluoroscopic images in prostate brachytherapy. Med Eng Phys. 2012;34:64-77. PMC3209498
Jain A, Deguet A, Iordachita I, Chintalapani G, Vikal S, Blevins J, Le Y, Armour E, Burdette C, Song D, Fichtinger G: Intra-operative 3D guidance and edema detection in prostate brachytherapy using a non-isocentric C-arm. Med Image Anal. 2012;16:731-743.
Kuo N, Kang HJ, Song DY, Kang JU, Boctor EM: Real-time photoacoustic imaging of prostate brachytherapy seeds using a clinical ultrasound system. J Biomed Opt. 2012;17(6):066005.
Yang Y, Ford EC, Wu B, Pinkawa M, van Triest B, Campbell P, Song DY, McNutt TR: An overlap-volume-histogram based method for rectal dose prediction and automated treatment planning in the external beam prostate radiotherapy following hydrogel injection. Med Phys. 2013;Jan;40(1):011709. doi: 10.1118/1.4769424.
Gandhi N, Wild AT, Chettiar ST, Aziz K, Kato Y, Gajula RP, Williams RD, Cades JA, Annadanam A, Song D, Zhang Y, Hales RK, Herman JM, Armour E, DeWeese TL, Schaeffer EM, Tran PT: Novel Hsp90 inhibitor NVP-AUY922 radiosensitizes prostate cancer cells. Cancer Biol Ther. 2013;14(4):347-356. (Epub 2013 Jan 28) PMC3667875
Christodouleas JP, Tang S, Susil RC, McNutt TR, Song DY, Bekelman J, Deville C, Vapiwala N, DeWeese TL, Lu HM, Both S: The effect of anterior proton beams in the setting of a prostate-rectum spacer. Med Dosim. 2013;38(3):315-319. (Epub 2013 Apr 8)
Alcorn S, Walker AJ, Gandhi N, Narang A, Wild AT, Hales RK, Herman JM, Song DY, DeWeese TL, Antonarakis ES, Tran PT: Molecularly targeted agents as radiosensitizers in cancer therapy--focus on prostate cancer. Int J Mol Sci. 2013;Jul 16;14(7):14800-14832. doi: 10.3390/ijms140714800. PMC3742274
DeWeese TL, Song DY: Current evidence for the role of combined androgen suppression and radiation in the treatment of adenocarcinoma of the prostate. Urology. 2000;55:169-174.
Song DY, Blomgren H: "Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy for Lung Tumors" in Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy, Kavanagh and Timmerman, eds., Williams-Wilkins, 2004.
Benedict S, Cardinale RM, and Song DY: "Application of IMRT to stereotactic radiosurgery", in Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy: A Clinical Perspective, Arno J. Mundt and John C. Roeske, eds., BC Decker Inc Publisher, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 2004.
Song DY, and DeWeese TL: "Radiotherapy for the treatment of locally advanced and metastatic prostate cancer", in Prostate Cancer: Surgical Principles and Practice, Kirby, Partin, Feneley, and Parsons eds., Taylor and Francis, London, 2005.
Song DY, Jabbour S, and DeWeese TL: "Emerging concepts in improving the therapeutic outcome of locally advanced prostate cancer using radiation therapy", in Prostate Cancer: Biology, genetics, and the new therapeutics, Chung, Isaacs, and Simon eds., Humana Press, NJ, 2006.
Song DY, DeWeese TL: "Radiation Therapy", in Dr. Patrick Walsh's Guide to Surviving Prostate Cancer, Janet Worthington and Patrick C. Walsh, Warner Books, NY, 2007.
Christodouleas J, Fox J, Song DY, DeWeese TL: "Radiation Therapy for Prostate Cancer", in Early Diagnosis of Cancer Series: Prostate Cancer, Su LM (Ed), Saunders Elsevier, Philadelphia, PA, 2009.
Song DY: "Brachytherapy for Prostate Cancer", in Radiation Oncology: a Question-Based Review", Hristov B, Lin S, Christodouleas J (Eds), Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, PA, 2010.
Hales R, Song DY: "Radiation Therapy" in Johns Hopkins Patients' Guide to Lung Cancer, Klamerus J, Brahmer J, Ettinger D (Eds), Jones and Bartlett, Sudbury, MA.
Sharabi A, Song DY: "Effects on rectal dose of injectable hydrogel spacer", in Innovative Radiotherapy Techniques for Prostate Cancer, Pinkawa M (Ed), UNI-MED Science (in press).
Song DY. Stereotactic body radiation therapy: rationale and clinical experience. In: UpToDate.com, Rose BD (Ed), UpToDate, Wellesley, MA, 2008-2013.
Dehghan E, Kuo N, Deguet A, Le Y, Armour E, Burdette EC, Song DY, Fichtinger G, Prince JL, Lee J: "Ultrasound-Fluoroscopy Registration for Intraoperative Dynamic Dosimetry in Prostate Brachytherapy", in Abdomen and Thoracic Imaging, El-Baz, Saba, and Suri eds., Springer, 2014.
Activities & Honors
- National Institutes of Health 2nd Biennial Career Development Award
- Director's Teaching Award, The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, 2014
- Faculty Teaching Award, VCU Department of Radiation Oncology, 2002
- "Best Pediatric Doctors in Richmond,", Richmond magazine, 2002
- Educator of the Year Award, Association of Residents in Radiation Oncology, 2002
- Educator of the Year Award, Association of Residents in Radiation Oncology, 2010
- Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society, 1995
- American Brachytherapy Society
- American Society of Radiation Oncology
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The View From 1776
§ American Traditions
§ People and Ideas
§ Decline of Western Civilization: a Snapshot
§ Books to Read
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Federal Reserve's NewSpeak
Like Big Brother in George Orwell's novel, the Fed chairman uses words to mean the opposite of reality.
The Wall Street Journal reports that Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke, speaking at a German central bank conference, stated:
...my reading of recent developments is that although some of the details have changed, the fundamental elements of the global saving glut remain in place.
There is no such thing as a "global savings glut." There is, however, a global, inflationary over-expansion of the money supply, by the Federal Reserve itself, to fund the Federal government's always-growing welfare state and pork-barrelling by individual politicians.
The current bust in the real estate market and the implosion of the subprime mortgage market are examples of what former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan called "exuberance" in the marketplace, induced by the Fed's excessive expansion of the money supply over the past several years.
If one reads chairman Bernanke's statement literally, he equates Federal spending with saving. If that were true, each of us could become rich by spending to the max on our credit cards. In that lexicon, the more you spend, the more you save.
As non-Marxian economists will tell you, a "savings glut" is nonsense. Savings, in an economy not distorted by government taxation or regulatory intervention, must always equal investment. What is not invested is spent on consumption goods.
Investment is money put to use in productive enterprises for the purpose of increasing the output of goods and services that people value and are prepared to spend consumption dollars to acquire.
The income that people do not spend on current consumption (i.e., savings) winds up in financial instruments such as savings deposits, mutual funds, hedge funds, or pension funds. Institutions receiving those savings then lend to businessmen who present economically sound proposals to start or to expand businesses.
In the unlikely event that not enough sound lending or investment opportunities can be found to absorb the full amount of individuals' savings, interest rates on deposits, along with distributions on mutual funds and interest rates on bonds, will decline. If those rates of return go low enough, individual savers will increase their consumption and decrease their savings, until available savings come into equilibrium with investment opportunities. At the same time, as interest rates fall, sound business investments that produce lower returns than those of the first category can be funded out of savings.
In recent years, however, the Fed over-inflated the money supply, and financial institutions became anxious to lend money on any deals available, sound or purely speculative. Hence the declining credit standards in the subprime mortgage market and the proliferation of untested, complex derivative securities.
With the supply of money artificially boosted, the price of money (interest rates) has been abnormally low, leading to low personal savings and massive consumer spending funded by credit cards and so-called home equity loans.
A "glut of savings" exists only in the phantasmic rationalizations of Keynesian economic doctrine, which is still the orthodoxy of liberal-Progressive-socialism. Keynes's hypothesis that excessive savings caused the Depression, in practice, was nothing more than a pretext for socialistic collectivism under Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. Keynes and his American acolytes preached that, individuals having saved too much, the economy could recover only with ballooning and never-ending Federal spending.
The record of history belies Mr. Keynes's theorizing.
Higher taxes and higher government spending produce recessions or, in the case of the Depression, prolong them. Higher government spending, funded by Treasury debt, produces inflation, leading ultimately to conditions similar to the 1970s stagflation ? recession, high unemployment, and hyper inflation.
Lower taxes lead to business booms. If Federal spending is reduced to balance lower taxes, the result is a non-inflationary boom in which the whole economy benefits. But, if Federal spending continues to rise after tax cuts, we suffer inflation, distortions of investment, and eventually painful economic collapses of the sort now besetting the housing industry and housing lenders.
For more details regarding Federal spending and savings, read Is Social Security a Form of Savings?
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Normally, all entity bean updates within a transaction are batched and executed at the end of the transaction. The only exception is the database flush that precedes execution of a finder or select query.
Since a transaction often spans many method calls, you might want to find out if the updates made by a method succeeded or failed immediately after method execution. To force a flush at the end of a method's execution, use the flush-at-end-of-method element in the sun-ejb-jar.xml file. Only non-finder methods in an entity bean can be flush-enabled. (For an EJB 2.1 bean, these methods must be in the Local, Local Home, Remote, or Remote Home interface.) See flush-at-end-of-method in Oracle GlassFish Server 3.0.1 Application Deployment Guide.
Upon completion of the method, the EJB container updates the database. Any exception thrown by the underlying data store is wrapped as follows:
If the method that triggered the flush is a create method, the exception is wrapped with CreateException.
If the method that triggered the flush is a remove method, the exception is wrapped with RemoveException.
For all other methods, the exception is wrapped with EJBException.
All normal end-of-transaction database synchronization steps occur regardless of whether the database has been flushed during the transaction.


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Last week, the NFLPA announced a group of its members putting their names and jersey numbers on t-shirts supporting LGBT Pride Month, the proceeds of which would benefit Athlete Ally. Former Texans Eric Winston and Connor Barwin were among them.
Shortly after their initial release, Texans running back Arian Foster added his name to the list.
Foster's name and jersey number now appear on this shirt for men and this one for women. Athlete Ally is a non-profit organization that fights homophobia in sports.
The NFLPA shop currently has t-shirts from nine players for sale for $24.99 each.
Photo: Brett Coomer / Houston Chronicle


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Are These Model Airplanes?
Most U.S. Flights Are on Smaller Jets; Tight Squeezes and 'the Right Amount of Misery'
People are feeling the frustration of living in RJ Nation.
The small regional jets once loved because they replaced rickety, noisy, slow turboprops have multiplied into the majority of domestic airline flights in the U.S., and are now seen as some of the least desirable airplanes. Travelers accustomed to riding in a full-size jet instead find themselves on planes with tighter seating, lower ceilings and fewer amenities for flights as long as four hours....


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We truly loved being able to be a part of the Modern Living Showhouse that was featured at Dwell on Design this year. The experience was forever memorable and we met so many wonderful people ranging from the EcoFabulous team, to every one of the wonderful companies that were representing products inside the house. Such wonderful people who are striving to get the word out there on sustainability and wonderful eco choices.
This is why we are thrilled to let the OMI community know that the Modern Living House is now up for auction! You can own your own piece of eco heaven and design bliss!
The house is now being auctioned on www.eBay.com/ecofabuloushouse until this Friday, July 15th with proceeds benefitting Global Green USA. Please help share the news with your community!
Zem Joaquin and Jonathan Davis have put heart, soul, and ecofabulousness into ever inch of this 520 square foot house. Functionality and sustainability were the key, but the entire house screams "Design!". Modern, sleek, and sexy, the house is truly one of a kind.
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Saturday, September 06, 2014
25 years younger ???
Today I was told that I "look 25 years younger than the calendar says and still have boundless energy."
Well, I do typically get my age estimated to be 12-15 years younger than my age, but not 25. That wasn't (and isn't) always the case. Staring at a computer, getting inadequate sleep, and drinking tea or coffee can depress the muscles in the eyes and face. But I think that proper nourishment is important, and merely eating vegan-compliant diets may not do that. Avoiding the animal-based inputs is important, but ensuring the plant-based inputs is just as important for health.
(but tolerant of others because they publicly say that their principles apply to everyone, but that meat eaters should not eat much meat or dairy - and McDougall tells them to swear off the dairy first - Fuhrman says that dairy is entirely unnecessary - and shows them how to nourish themselves),
- the Fuhrman "nutritarian" emphasis is on the nutrient-rich diet and fat-burning (which I strongly advocate - selecting foods for nutrient value, not for taste or satiety. I think that satiety and satisfaction follow from getting the nutrients in one's daily diet (one MUST exercise** IN ORDER TO build muscle and burn fat - Fuhrman photos show that, despite his foot injury, he hasn't stopped exercising after he left competitive figure skating);
- the McDougall "starchitarian" emphasis seems to be on a "starchitarian" weight loss by "no added fat" - and that means no nuts or oils.
*One of my long-time vegan friends in Boston has FLIPPED his loyalties from the vegan diet of Dr. Joel Fuhrman ("His diet is a good diet") to the vegan diet of Dr. John McDougall on the basis of the emphasis non weight loss (we all have problems with piling on extra weight; Steve lost "mucho" weight when he stopped eating a handful of nuts each day)
** All right - so, to START exercising, one walks around as much as possible; gently move and exercise each of the joints (yoga has ways to do this); in bed before rising, something called "a crunch" is stretching your chest UP toward your abdomen as much as possible - about 8-10 times - that's a set of 'reps' or 'repetitions' - and the goal is to build the muscles one has by exercising each muscle group, including the muscles in the abdomen. On can also stand up and rotate around the waste, then slowly bend forward, back, sideways, and stretch up and down until one aches.
** All right - so, to START exercising, one walks around as much as possible; gently move and exercise each of the joints (yoga has ways to do this); in bed before rising, something called "a crunch" is stretching your chest UP toward your abdomen as much as possible - about 8-10 times - that's a set of 'reps' or 'repetitions' - and the goal is to build the muscles one has by exercising each muscle group, including the muscles in the abdomen. On can also stand up and rotate around the waste, then slowly bend forward, back, sideways, and stretch up and down until one aches.
Everyone can do crunches each day.
The nuance seems to be on the definitions of a 'starch' and a 'carb' or carbohydrate (few of us have the sophistication, but we ought to understand the differences between starches and sugars - particularly simple sugars. A starch is a carbohydrate; fiber is a carbohydrate.
From Wikipedia:
In food science and in many informal contexts, the term carbohydrate often means any food that is particularly rich in the complex carbohydrate starch (such as cereals, bread, and pasta) or simple carbohydrates, such as sugar (found in candy, jams, and desserts).
McDougall likes COMPLEX carbohydrates but not simple carbohydrates; Fuhrman likes the carbohydrates bound in vegetables, beans, and whole fruits, but not those carbs that are ground up into grains and then made into breads. However, what about whole grain cereals (oatmeal, not instant oatmeal)?
- As I seem to recall it, McDougall was trying to help us understand how we would educate all of South and Central American about plant-based vegan diets. No one wanted to do that EXCEPT for Victor Forsythe, who inherited the California Vegetarian Association from Blanche Leonardo, then moved to Colorado and joined the Colorado Green Party. South American root vegetables are SUFFICIENTLY rich in proteins to provide all the human requirements for protein, according to the WHO. Therefore, one could live entirely on tubers and root vegetables grown in the South American mountains without supplementing with nuts, beans, or soy. "Protein is not an issue" in a plant-based whole foods diet based on real foods, not prepared and packaged foods. The indigenous diet is sufficient; in America, the (SAD/MAD) diet isn't mainly whole foods. When I talk with inquirers, I tell them that many Americans like to "eat out" - eat out of a package, out of a drive-in-window, eat out of a tragically conceived restaurant menu, etc.
- Fuhrman began as 'a natural hygienist' an told me in person, when we flew together in mid-August 1995 from the 8th International Vegan Festival in San Diego to Boston, that he was 'more vegan' than hygienist - then he said, 'just vegan' with an emphasis on the nutrients in whole fresh vegetables - more vegetables than fruits.
They agree, but they substantially disagree - and they settled on agreeing to the notion that they "agree about 90% of the time..."
From Wikipedia:
Starch is the most common carbohydrate in the human diet and is contained in many staple foods. The major sources of starch intake worldwide are thecereals (rice, wheat, and maize) and the root vegetables (potatoes and cassava).[23] Many other starchy foods are grown, some only in specific climates, including acorns, arrowroot, arracacha, bananas, barley, breadfruit, buckwheat, canna, colacasia, katakuri, kudzu, malanga, millet, oats, oca, polynesian arrowroot, sago, sorghum, sweet potatoes, rye, taro, chestnuts, water chestnuts and yams, and many kinds of beans, such as favas, lentils, mung beans,peas, and chickpeas.
If we ate fewer starches, might we fart less frequently?
From Wikipedia:
Digestive enzymes have problems digesting crystalline structures. Raw starch will digest poorly in the duodenum and small intestine, while bacterial degradation will take place mainly in the colon.
Some of us have celebrated the WIDE VARIETY of available foods of plant origin Vance Lehmkuhl even sings about it.
I still think that erring on the side of nutrient-density is good, but affordability and refrigeration can be issues. Therefore, whole vegetables (grow your own, like the Obama family does at the White House); farmers' markets; regular grocery store (shop produce aisle first), etc. Eat them as you need them (and share the rest). Further, when talking with students, other singles, and general inquirers, buying vegetables in the grocery is ALWAYS cheaper than dining out. But college students have overpriced dining hall meal plans.
I need to credit my boss who raised the rhetorical question: "Why do so many Americans NOT want to be thin and attractive?" Nudging from many sources - my boss, my vegan friends, and my doctor - pushed me to search for how as a vegan I could lose weight on an evidence-based program.
And to credit Michelle Obama, though she and her program are not my specific reason for 'daily motions' throughout my day, every one of us ought to get up and get out there and 'start moving' around...
I'm concerned to live by just principles. Vegans CAN do that with evidence-based strategies that are built from the growing bodies of knowledge relevant to that project in human history. Others seem to live, but that may not be justice, simply because they are able to live in health, if they do great damage and harm to other persons - simply because they only ways they know to feed themselves involve the destruction of others.
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Wyoming has three state nicknames that combine to do a pretty good job of describing this state of vast landscapes and few residents. One of them is Big Wyoming, an apt name for a state that is nearly 100,000 square miles in size, but has only 500,000 residents living on it. It's also called the Cowboy State, which gives a glimpse into the state's historic past on the western frontier, as well as its culture and heritage of independent and self-sufficient people. Finally, Wyoming is called the Equality State. This name, along with the state motto of "Equal Rights," pays homage to the state's legacy of supporting women's rights. Wyoming women were the first to vote (in 1869), serve on juries and hold public office.
Mining, tourism and agriculture are the main components of Wyoming's economy. Oil, natural gas, sodium carbonate and uranium are all mined from the ground, while sheep and cattle graze on top of it. The state's chief agriculture products include livestock, wool, what, oats and sugar beets. The tourism industry accounts for more than $1 billion in revenue each year, and employs a good number of the state's residents. Visitors and residents alike appreciate Wyoming's spectacular scenery and opportunities for outdoor recreation. Wyoming is home to two world-famous national parks: Grand Teton and Yellowstone. Beautiful and breathtaking, the famed Yellowstone awes admirers with its geysers, hot springs and wildlife.
Wyoming's cost of living is right at the national average, with housing costs--including apartments for rent--just 1% above the average. However, here's something to keep in mind for those determining how much they're able to spend on apartments: Wyoming has neither individual nor corporate income tax, so your money goes further here than in many other states.
The state capital and largest city with 50,000 residents, Cheyenne is the economic, cultural and political center for the state. Called the Magic City of the Plains, Cheyenne has a lot to festive indoor and outdoor activities to offer, most of which are family oriented. The city is most famous for the annual Frontier Days (held every year since 1897), which celebrate the area's history and heritage. Other events include organized sports programs, Oktoberfest, the annual Christmas Parade and much more. There are a decent number of apartments to choose from, with the median price for apartment rentals at about $475 per month.
Forty-five miles from Cheyenne you'll find Laramie, a small college town in a scenic area nestled against the majestic Snowy Range Mountains. "Wyoming's Hometown" is home to the University of Wyoming, the state's only four-year university. The campus's influence has created an urban, cultured environment that blends with the rural frontier spirit to create a truly unique place to live. Crime rates are low, housing is affordable, and the people are friendly. As in any college town, apartments for rent are plentiful, with more than 5,000 rental property units in the area. Average two-bedroom apartment rentals go for $530 per month, and average three-bedroom houses and apartments cost about $800 per month.


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The Bills are still waiting on Mark Anderson to return from a knee injury, but they decided to place another one of their defensive ends on injured reserve Wednesday.
Chris Kelsay's year is over as a result of a torn ligament in his neck. He's missed three of the last four games and had to leave the one game he did play, against the Colts in Week 12, early because of the injury.
After years as a starter in Buffalo, Kelsay moved into a different role with the arrival of Anderson and Mario Williams. He wound up starting four games and finishes the year with 14 tackles and two sacks. He's got two years left on a five-year, $28.2 million contract, but he's unlikely to see them at salaries north of $3.7 million now that he's playing a reserve role.
The Bills also announced that they have promoted cornerback T.J. Heath and guard Keith Williams from the practice squad. The team's dealing with injuries to Aaron Williams and Leodis McKelvin at corner while the offensive line has suffered one injury after another this year.


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In an effort to avoid wasted time (and CPU cycles) we offer the following suggestions: (i) XSTAR does not attempt to calculate ionization, excitation, etc. for elements whose abundances are specified to be less than 10 relative to hydrogen. Large reductions in computation time can be achieved by zeroing the abundances of elements which are likely to be unimportant anyway: calcium, argon, and nickel. (ii) For some purposes constant temperature is an adequate approximation, and is often a useful preliminary step in deciding parameter values such as column density, and require a fraction of the execution time of full thermal equilibrium models. (iii) For some purposes a low column density ( 10 cm) will provide sufficient information. Large column densities require significantly more execution time. If large columns are needed, then execution can be speeded up by use of a large value of emult, or a small value of taumax, ans by setting npass to 1. (iv) New in version 2.2 is the ability to specify fewer continuum bins on input. Execution time is approximately proportional to the number of continuum bins.
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Arlene Minard Williams, 95, passed away May 19 2013 at Peabody Care Center in Peabody, Kan.
She was born May 15, 1918 in Narka, Kan., to Raymond and Lena Dovel Smith.
She married William E. Smith Sr., Aug. 1936; they divorced in 1940. She married Arthur N. Minard June 1, 1946. Arthur passed away Aug. 5, 1987. Arlene married Paul Williams on Dec. 6, 1988. Paul passed away Sept. 22, 2009.
Preceding her in death were her parents; brothers: Alfred, Clyde, Delbert, Johnny, and Harold; son, William (Zeke) Smith Jr. and twin granddaughters.
She is survived by her daughter Connie Blank, Lyons, Kan.; six grandchildren, John Arthur Blank of Geneseo, Kan., Jane and Steve Montgomery, Spring Hill, Kan., Cherry, Terry, Robert, and Arlene Smith of Bricktown, N.J.; three stepchildren, Ruth Lott of Peabody, Jim Williams of Mobile, Ala., Fred Williams of San Antonio; sister in law, Evelyn Smith of Omaha, Neb.; 16 great-grandchildren; six great-great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews.
Arlene was a life member of the American Legion, Rod and Gun Club, Peabody. She was a volunteer of Peabody Care Center for 21 years. She was a member of Peabody Christian Church.
She enjoyed quilting, crocheting, gardening, and fishing.
Funeral services will be held 10 a.m. May 22 at Peabody Christian with the graveside service following at the Potwin Cemetery, Potwin, Kan.
Memorials can be sent to Peabody Christian Church and the American Heart Association.


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Amanda Berry, who went missing the day before her 17th birthday, escaped this week after a decade held captive in a Cleveland row house. Her screams for help and 9-1-1 call from a neighbor's house helped free two other women imprisoned for so many years with her, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight. Her tone during that call is firm and frantic.
Berry: Help me, I'm Amanda Berry.
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Berry: I need police.
Dispatcher: OK, what's going on there?
Berry: I've been kidnapped and been missing for 10 years. I am here, I'm free now.
She's free now. It's a shocking, unlikely, yet welcome ending to a disappearance that 10 years ago rocked the nation. After enough time passed, people presumed Berry dead. Instead, she's back in the arms of family, reunited, and now with a 6-year-old daughter she gave birth to during her capture.
Now begins the road to healing.
Elizabeth Smart and Jaycee Dugard, both of whom were kidnapped as girls and subsequently rescued, have managed to maintain some privacy while carefully choosing paid interviews. From the limited information we have of them, both Smart and Dugard have adjusted well to a return to regular life.
Dugard, who survived a similar ordeal for 18 years before her rescue in Antioch, Calif., in 2009, says the rest of the world needs to give these women the space and time to recover.
"These individuals need the opportunity to heal and connect back into the world," Dugard tells People magazine in a statement. "This isn't who they are. It is only what happened to them."
Authorities have only just begun to investigate what happened during Berry's imprisonment, allegedly at the hands of a 52-year-old bus driver named Ariel Castro. Whatever the case, Berry's heroics should be celebrated, Dugard says.
"The human spirit is incredibly resilient," says Dugard, who gave birth to two of her own captor's children. "More then ever this reaffirms we should never give up hope."
Smart, who was kidnapped at knife-point 11 years ago and held as sex slave for nine months by a street preacher, offered her own words of hope.
"I am just so overjoyed, so happy to hear another happy ending," she told ABC's Good Morning America. "I think it's just proof there are more happy endings out there, and that it just means we need to have constant vigilance, constantly keep our eyes open and our ears open, because miracles do happen and there are happy endings out there waiting to happen."
Like Dugard, Smart cautions the world to respect the women's privacy to allow them to find themselves after years of someone holding their sense of identity hostage.
"[The captor has] stolen so much from them already, they deserve to be happy," Smart tells the morning news program. "I would tell them, I hope that they realize there is so much ahead of them, that they don't need to hold on to the past, they don't need to relive everything that's happened, because it's proof, their rescue is proof there are good people out there … who want the best for them, who want them to be happy, who want good things to happen."
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We're pleased to share this blog post from special AN reporter Émilie Sarrazin. She reports here on a Saturday afternoon session "Revolution in the Middle-East and North Africa: Anthropological Perspectives."
Saturday afternoon, a four-hour session of the AAA Annual Meeting was devoted to the major uprisings that have taken place in 2010 and 2011 in many regions of the Middle East and North Africa. This session, titled "Revolution in the Middle-East and North Africa: Anthropological Perspectives", aimed at challenging the explanatory models proposed by the media by offering more complex interpretations not solely based on political or economical rationales. More precisely, anthropologists discussed how identities, affiliations, symbols, and historical precedents played a role in shaping the ongoing events in the Arab World.
For example, according to Farha Ghannam, political corruption, underemployment and social media are non-negligible aspects of the "Arab Revolution", but are insufficient to account for the unprecedented level of public mobilization unless the changes in thought and feelings of individuals are addressed. Also, the discussion of the form and rhetoric adopted by the revolutionary movement allows Mongher Kilani to study the "Arab Spring" as an anthropological revolution, which has in many ways redefined the participants' identity and socio-political ideals. New perspectives on the uprisings were also offered through the study of the ways individuals made sense of the unfamiliar revolutionary reality, and how symbols were manipulated and appropriated by diverse parties as a means to negotiate and dispute power.
Moreover, the scope of inquiry was geographically and temporarily broadened through the discussion of the political realities and past uprisings of less mediatised regions like the Yemen, Jordan and the Emirates. However, one of the most interesting aspects of the session was not how anthropology can help rethinking the "Arab Spring", but how the "Arab Spring" can help rethinking anthropology. Some scholars have struggled to write about those seemingly incoherent events which are yet unresolved and into which they are much involved. This challenge has highlighted difficulties in the application of some anthropological tools; some forms of "revolution" might be necessary in the discipline.


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In the Facebook documentation about Login the user with Facebook APP they say:
"Because it requires you to include your App Secret you should not attempt to make this call client-side as that would expose this secret to all your app users. It is important that your App Secret is never shared with anyone".
I understend it is about APP Secret, but what about the Developer ID?
The developer ID is added in the URL address of the window for login the user with Facebook:
The APP_ID can be copied and used by anyone.
I tryed with JavaScript SDK, and with PHP SDK, but in both cases the developer ID appears in the address bar.
I tryed also the get and display the page from that URL address using cURL, but of course not works.
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In one of the first, if not the first, calls on gold this year, Bank of America Merrill Lynch slashed its average 2014 forecast for the shiny stuff by 11% to $1,150 an ounce on Thursday, with a warning it could get even uglier.
Gold plunged 28% in 2013 to just above $1,200, snapping a 12-year annual winning streak and recording its worst annual performance in nearly three decades. Silver, which also didn't escape the chop from Bank of America Merrill Lynch, suffered a 36% loss in 2013, its worst since at least the early 1980s. The investment bank cut its forecast for silver by 21% to $18.38 an ounce.
On Nov. 26, the bank forecast gold for 2014 at $1,294 an ounce, and silver at $26.38 an ounce. (Check out some other calls that MarketWatch rounded up at the year end.)
Strategist Michael Widmer said his biggest gold worry is a lack of buyer interest, as investors have been a marginal driver of prices in recent years. A gain of around 2% so far this year hasn't really convinced him either.
"If investors stopped selling gold, prices could stabilize around $1,200/oz. Yet, this is not our base case and a more likely scenario is for investors to continue reducing their exposure. Our model suggest that this could take prices down to $1,000/oz."
He adds that not even traditional buying of physical gold in India and China will be enough to keep prices from falling.
Other forecasters also see few prospects for recovery this year. MKS Group and HSBC also cut their gold forecasts, and Barclays' Suki Cooper predicted gold could slump to a low of $1,050 an ounce this year. (On Thursday, gold settled higher for the first time in four sessions, rising $3.9 to $1,229.40 an ounce.) Then there's blogger Robert Bonomo, who predicted gold will break below $960 an ounce, blaming the likes of MarketWatch and a few others. (h/t Need to Know.)
But gold bugs can cheer up somewhat, as all is not uber-gloomy at B. of A./Merrill.
Widmer says prices for gold could bottom out later this year. He reasons that a continued acceleration in the U.S. economy, tightening labor market and slowly rising inflation could trigger gold market players to increasingly adjust low inflation expectations, pricing in some unexpected inflation and luring back buyers.
The bottom line: Investors could see some "interesting entry points" for gold this year, he says.
Still from the "gold is pretty doomed camp," Wednesday's fairly hawkish set of minutes from the Fed's December taper meeting was hardly a boon for gold, says Daily FX's Ilya Spivak. Watch out, he says, for Thursday's report on weekly jobless claims to drop to the lowest in five weeks (which it did), boosting the dollar and further eroding that anti-fiat demand for gold. Bigger jobs data lay in wait on Friday.
-- Barbara Kollmeyer covers markets for MarketWatch out of Madrid. Follow on @bkollmeyer
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Gayed: Gold has its S.O.S. moment, and it's bullish
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There's no doubt that the Lake Superior shoreline is one of the most distinguishing features of the city of Marquette.
The shoreline meanders for about 10 miles from the east to west city limits, and contains a variety of shore types, from sandstone shelves and cliffs at Presque Isle Park to rocky outcroppings at Lighthouse Point to stretches of pristine sandy beaches.
Residents of and visitors to the city are drawn to the picturesque shoreline for recreation, enjoying everything from hiking and biking to boating and swimming.
On hot summer days the main beaches in the city can be found packed with swimmers and sunbathers enjoying the relaxing atmosphere and cooling waters of the big lake.
Crowning many of these beaches are dunes that have been built up from wave action and changing lake levels over many years. Unfortunately, though, those same people drawn to the beaches can harm a special feature of the dunes – the native beach grass that tops them off.
The haphazard foot traffic, as well as storms and receding ice in the spring, can strip off these native grasses. In addition, invasive species have also moved onto the dunes and can displace the native plants.
However, there is a project set for Saturday aimed at replenishing some of the native beach grass, as well as removing invasive species, and the Superior Watershed Partnership is looking for some volunteers to help with the effort.
The partnership, in cooperation with the city of Marquette, is sponsoring the event, which gets under way at 10 a.m. with volunteers meeting at SWP offices at Presque Isle Park. The event will run until about 2 p.m.
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Right now, lots and lots of people are emailing us to make absolutely sure that we've heard the exciting news that the geniuses behind Conservapedia want to rewrite the Bible without all the bits that they consider too liberal. To be blunt, it reminds me of trying to rewrite Olsen's Standard Book of British Birds by removing the ones who wet their nests. (And to see opinions I've already rendered on Conservapedia, check out this older post at Kazim's Korner.)
I have to say, when I first saw this at Pharyngula I immediately assumed it was a hoax. Then I saw the actual page on Conservapedia (which at the time of this writing is down, probably flooded by hilarity-seeking atheists). But I still imagined that somebody had punked them. I mean, anyone can edit the site, and their famous objective standards are a bit, hmmmm, what's the word, nonexistent. So clearly some silly person was seeing what he could slip by the censors.
Then I saw the discussion page. It may or may not be a joke, but enough of the regulars there take it seriously that it looks like it's taken on a life of its own.
So, okay. A nontrivial number of Conservapedians really think that their Bible should be improved. After all, if you leave the Bible in its current inferior form, then terrible liberals like E. J. Dionne are free to claim that the book actually supports their point of view, which is clearly ridiculous and unthinkable.
Now, you might say that this is an act of tremendous hubris, but I say, really, what's the big deal? It's not like it is without precedent, for a group of people to write or rewrite some holy text to suit their convenience, and claim the end result to be unchanging eternal truth. I mean, for starters, we've got the original authors of the Bible, unless you accept that they were divinely inspired. Then you've got the Council of Nicea, who went through all the books that were candidates for inclusion at the time and decided which ones did and didn't fit in with their conception of what the Bible should be.
Then you have the big Catholic/Protestant split in the 16th century, which by now has spawned alternate versions of the Bible. You have the Book of Mormon, supposedly dictated by an angel, and you have L. Ron Hubbard who specifically announced his (highly successful) intention to start his own religion.
What I'm saying is that, to borrow a description from the great George Carlin, it's all bullshit anyway. What difference does it make whether you take a 2000 year old book and claim that it is infallible as written literally, or you retranslate it and claim that the translation is infallible, or you make up some entirely new bullshit and claim THAT'S infallible? It's all bullshit, and the beauty of this Conservapedia project is how close they come to flatly admitting that it doesn't matter.
Don't tell me you take any of this stuff seriously anyway.