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Description: The wild boar is an animal species that gets mixed reviews on the type of species it is. Some people think that they are just as the same as farm pigs, but that is the farthest thing from the truth. Unlike the pink or white colored pigs we are familiar with, boars are animals that do not originally come from North America. Instead they are native to Europe and they where brought over by the Spaniard back in the 1500s sometime. Over the years, the wild boar became a pig that was hunted for sport because they lived in high wooded or forest like areas. Now because they grow to become very large, they are considered to be a prized kill. Boars can weigh up to three hundred pounds, and grow to be five feet in length. Unlike pigs, both males and females have tusks, with the males having longer ones. Boars also have thick hides and rough black fur that is also very coarse. One thing that these animals do the same as farm pigs is roll around in mud baths. They do this because they do not have sweat glands. To cool themselves down they will roll in cool watery mud that quenches their bodies ten fold. Contrary to what people believe pigs to be, they are also very fast and excellent swimmers. Female boar will give birth to one litter per year with litter sizes ranging between five and fourteen babies. They eat grass, nuts, roots, fruits, mushrooms, bugs, and whatever else they can get their noses in. This will definitely be a simple lesson to follow because drawing a boar is not that hard. They are relatively solid animals which means they have little folds, creases or wrinkles. I hope you enjoy this tutorial, I will be back with some more drawing fun soon.


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Wines from Saxony are known as rare gems because the Saxony wine region is the most north-easterly and one of the smallest in Europe. People have been producing wine here on the river Elbe for 850 years. Special features include the vineyards divided into small plots that are cultivated by more than 3,000 small independent growers. Saxony has a broad range of grape varieties – including goldriesling which is only grown here. The majority of Saxony wines are drunk locally, a rarity in Germany.
Saxony's wine-growing region currently covers around 472ha, 80 per cent of which is used for growing white-wine grapes. Saxony has a broad range of grape varieties, currently 37 are grown. The main cultivars grown include müller-thurgau, riesling, pinot blanc and pinot gris, plus pinot noir and dornfelder for making red wine. Regional specialities include traminer and goldriesling.
The special character of Saxony wines is determined by a variety of different soil types depending on the location of the vineyard. The Elbe Valley features a wealth of geological formations. During the main folding phase of the Erzgebirge mountains in the Lower Carboniferous period, rocks from Meissen's granite-syenite massif pushed their way to the surface. The syenite layers were partially covered by sandstone and pläner layers from the Upper Cretaceous period. In turn, these were also partially covered over by ice-age deposits such as loess, clay and river sand.
Saxony's easterly position means it is heavily influenced by the continental climate. In addition to cold winters and late frosts, this also means plenty of rainfall and a high average amount of sunshine a year. This creates the perfect conditions for the grapes to grow and mature. Some parts of the region have more sunshine than a number of other German wine regions, such as the Elbe Valley which enjoys an average of approx. 1,570 hours of sunshine a year. Also, the closer you get to the outer limit of the wine-growing region, the richer the aroma and bouquet of the wine.
Saxony's wine-growing structure is unique in Germany: the wine region is currently cultivated by approx. 3,650 independent growers, 21 wineries for whom wine production is their main occupation and twelve wineries for whom it is a sideline. The majority of the small independent growers belong to winegrowers' associations. The three biggest wine producers are the Saxony wine cooperative in Meissen with approx. 1,600 members, the Saxony state winery at Schloss Wackerbarth and the only quality-certified winery in Saxony, Schloss Proschwitz Prinz zur Lippe.
The character of the Saxony winegrowers is reflected in their wines – traditional but open to change. For many years, the growers have seen themselves as open, honest hosts, responsible for bringing both locals and tourists closer to Saxony wine. The famous laid-back attitude in Saxony not only benefits visitors, it also means the grapes are left in peace to mature. The least you can do is devote some of your time to sampling the results!
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When the lauded Pioneer Kuro plasmas went off-air in May, many mourned the loss of what was arguably one of the world's best HDTVs. With the launch of the Panasonic TC-P54V10 plasma, however, a worthy successor has apparently emerged.
This according to the guys at HDguru, who proclaimed the new $2,600 set was easily the "New King of HDTVs." In some cases, they said, the Panasonic was able to best the Kuro.
The V10 distinction carries with it the same NEO PDP panel as its cousins in the recently released G10 plasma line, but adds in a bevy of new software and hardware features, including three color modes, a thinner profile (1.1″ deep at top and 3.3″ middle), and a 96Hz refresh rate for 24Hz sources. The V10 line currently comes in 50 and 54-in. models, with larger 58 and 65-inchers due out in August.
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CRESTVIEW � Covenant Hospice is waiting to learn how much additional financial support its nursing, end-of-life care, bereavement and social services received following a Saturday fundraiser.
CRESTVIEW � Covenant Hospice is waiting to learn how much additional financial support its nursing, end-of-life care, bereavement and social services received following a Saturday fundraiser.
"Dance for Life" exceeded usual attendance, but hospice staffers were still waiting for the final tally of funds raised, as of press time, a spokesperson said.
A swirl of light, color and energy filled the Crestview High School Pearl Tyner Auditorium stage last weekend as "Dancing with the Stars" personalities Tony Dovolani and Chelsie Hightower joined local and regional dancers in the Crestview Fred Astaire Dance Studio's annual fundraiser for the hospice.
Nearly 350 people in the audience � a record for the hospice's annual dance event � watched demonstrations of traditional and high-energy moves.
"Last year's event raised $1,700 for Covenant Hospice," the service's development manager, Jenni Perkins, said. "The amount has grown every year it's been put on. With Chelsie and Tony being such big names, it drew more people this year. We completely sold out the VIP tickets."
"This is the biggest we've ever had," Fred Astaire studio co-owner and featured dancer David Col�n said.
During the first act, he danced with one of the studio's top former pupils, 12-year-old Madi Lopez, who returned to Crestview from her new home in Texas to perform at the showcase.
While the audience cheered Dovolani and Hightower's high-energy performances, two residents vying for the evening's top honor in the showcase's version of "Dancing with the Local Stars" likewise drew accolades.
Hospital administrator Alicia Booker, dancing with Col�n, and attorney Muncelle Mitchell, with professional dancer Aaron Stowell, wowed the audience with their performances.
The crowd soon translated cheers of approval into more funding for Covenant Hospice, putting their money where their mouths were as they voted for their favorite.
Raising close to $230 over Booker's $103, Mitchell took the title for her waltz-like performance, seemingly effortlessly sweeping the stage in a sky-blue gown.
Backstage after their performances, she and Booker said their performances were anything but effortless.
"I'm shaking like a leaf," Mitchell said. "But it was a fabulous experience. I am totally addicted to ballroom dancing right now."
"It was definitely something outside my comfort zone, but it was something I can easily get used to," Booker said. "Any anxiety we had was well worth the cause we were supporting."
Attendees said they enjoyed the spectacle.
"I am having so much fun," DeFuniak Springs resident Linda Whatley said. "I dance at the house in front of a mirror sometimes. My mother, when I was small, used to pull me up to dance. She said, 'If you're feeling blue, get up and dance.' She was my inspiration for coming...."
Crestview resident Kate Snow attended with her children, Lorelai, 10, and Sevryn, 14, and her mother, Carol Melcher, who was visiting from Michigan.
Snow said she has taken all three to her dance lessons.
"I didn't know I could dance," Sevryn said. "I like it, I guess."
"It's fun!" Melcher said. "Aaron was my instructor. He makes it so easy."
As Act 2 revved into gear with Dovolani and Hightower's spirited jitterbug to "Shout!," eight Crestview High Ballroom Dance Club members joined the backstage throng in preparation for their performance.
As sophomore Johnathan Berry, 15, and his friend, junior Adam Sieminski, 17, rehearsed their steps one more time before taking the stage, they agreed watching the pros cut the rug was a little intimidating.
"I've loved ballroom dancing from the start," Johnathan said. "It inspires me to see these guys (the professionals), but I also go, oh my gosh! I'm dancing on the same stage as them."
But with Crestview High alumnus Stowell counting off dance steps in a stage whisper from the stage-right wing, the guys and their partners pulled off their performance.
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Making decisions about restraints
The preferred choice is to use no restraints. A physical, chemical or environmental restraint should not be used as a substitute for safe and well-designed environments or for the proper care and management of a person with dementia.
One of the most successful strategies for dealing with difficult behaviours without using restraints is to use a problem-solving approach.
Problem-solving approach
- Identify the problem: Take a step back and objectively pinpoint the problem.
- Analyze the problem: Is the person trying to communicate something? What factors might be contributing to the person's reaction? What is happening and why? Could the person be reacting to something or someone in the environment?
- List possible strategies: Think of all the ways to possibly solve the problem.
- Choose a strategy: Weigh the pros and cons of each strategy. Select one.
- Take action: Put the chosen strategy into effect.
- Assess the results: Did the chosen strategy work? If not, why not? Should another strategy be tried
Sometimes the first strategy is not successful. Or it may work the first time, but not the next. Talking to other caregivers, a doctor or someone from the local Alzheimer Society may explain why the strategy was unsuccessful. They may have suggestions for other possible approaches.
When you are considering minimal restraints, carefully measure and monitor the positive and negative consequences for the person with the disease. When you do use restraints, make sure the physical and mental well-being of the person being restrained is not compromised.


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Our participation in Global Game Jam 2012 Uruguay
Uruguay decided to join the Global Game Jam 2012 (GGJ12) for the first time and we (as Gemserk) decided to join them.
The Global Game Jam is an event where all around the world people get together in different locations and split into teams in order to make games in 48 hours following a theme set by the organizers.
This year, the theme was this picture:
That image represents the Ouroboros which represents the perpetual cyclic renewal of life, the eternal return, and represents the cycle of life, death and rebirth, leading to immortality, as in the phoenix.
The Team
Our team was composed game by José Pedro Gioscia (The Artist), Washington Miranda (Programmer) and us (both Programmers). Hernán Gonzales Martinez from Tono Sound Production provided the music and sound effects for our game, he did the same thing for most of the other teams on our location.
The Game
The game was named Medusa - "La viborita multiloca", you play the game as a serpent on space and you move horizontally around a cave eating or being hit by other monsters. Whenever the monsters or the obstacles hit your body it breaks from that point. If the remaining part of your body is too short, you are weakened and can't eat monsters anymore. You die if you hit an obstacle or hit a monster while you are weakened.
The interesting part of the game is that after death comes rebirth. When you die, you revive at the start of the level with an echo of your past lives. They will help you in your journey eating the monsters in their path but they will leave parts of their bodies as new obstacles when they are injured.
Right now the game has no defined objective, it is more an experimental test of the mechanics and when you play you make your own objectives enjoying going through the random level and interacting with your past lives on the world.
Play the game online, or download a runnable jar to play it. Control the snake with the arrow keys.
Conclusions about the Global Game Jam
What went wrong
- Ironically even though the venue was in a building of the biggest ISP on Uruguay (Antel) the wifi sucked, it used a captive portal method of authentication and forced you to reauthenticate all the time, luckily we could steal the LAN connection from some unused PCs.
What went right
- We delivered a finished game
- We were able to meet and talk with lots of people that are working locally in the video games industry (Batoví, Powerful Robot, Belfry Games, Sebagames).
- We were finally able to get to talk a little with Pablo Realini from IronHide Game Studio makers of the awesome Kindom Rush, who confessed that he is the biggest fan of Gemserk 😉
- The whole organization and the people who coordinated the GGJ in Uruguay were awesome, the venue was really nice, we had food and drinks available (from the second best carbonated beverage and the second best big burger chain).
- Everyone on the jam was really nice, included our team members, there were no problems between the participants, and it was great meeting all of them.
- This was the first time we worked face to face with an artist.
- We had fun 🙂
Advice for other jams
- Take your time to refine your game idea, don't just start implementing right away, think a little about how will the gameplay work, what will the player do, how will he feel when playing, are the mechanics natural, how will you explain them, etc.
- A good way to split work between programmers is to make small prototypes of different parts of the game (in our case we started prototyping the snake behaviour while we were building the skeleton for the rest of the game)
- Try to rest, trying to stay up both nights of the event will be too much for your body to handle, and you will be tired and it will be difficult to concentrate, making you make lots of mistakes. In our case we went home to sleep on Friday night after we had defined the game idea, and we started Saturday morning well rested. Play the other games for the GGJ12 from Uruguay here.
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Epinglé (pinned) is an excellent trick-gag to do before doing the cigarette in the jacket.
Effect :
You ask a spectator if he can give to you his jacket..
While he is giving it to you, you say that his jacket is very beautiful and seems to be very expensive.
You are looking for the trademark but smile to your audience when you understand.
He didn't buy it ! He has stolen it. There is still the security tag on the back of the jacket !
You take away the tag and put it in your pocket before making the "cigarette in the jacket trick" !
Your spectator didn't buy the jacket so he will not be disagree..
A hole is made in the center of the jacket and the cigarette is clearly put inside ! The spectator will be afraid but it was just magic and you show that there is no more the hole and the cigarette neither !
You can give it back to his owner.
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OrthodoxWiki:Meta Reflections
This is the place for thinking about the project we're engaged in together at OrthodoxWiki.
Interesting discussion of the whole WikiPedia concept
Just ran across an interesting discussion of the whole WikiPedia concept started by an OpEd piece by one of its co-founders, Larry Sanger. Sanger's article and the ensuing discussion can be found here.
- Yep, that's interesting. It's definitely worth thinking through these things a little bit. Regarding the concerns brought up in that article, I suspect we have an advantage in that, even if this site takes off wonderfully, we will still be a small community limited in scope, with recognizable "experts" in church life. I think also the sysops/moderators should have a broad enough knowledge of Orthodox matters to be able to tell if something is really off base. Also, we can be stricter in dealing with trolls (although that can certainly be a challenge on an open site like this one). I'd love to hear more about your thoughts on this article with regard to OrthodoxWiki (and perhaps you'd want to login or otherwise identify yourself). Thanks, FrJohn 22:36, 20 Jan 2005 (CST)
- It occurs to me that, aside from what FrJohn says here (with which I thoroughly agree), the Orthodox Church is by its nature in some ways already prepared in terms of its phronema to embark on a project like OrthodoxWiki. The whole Church is the guardian of the truth, after all, and we are essentially trying to submit ourselves to the public proclamation of the Gospel, not become researchers in obscure academic fields. Thus, while there are certainly things that are good for specialists and experts to work on for OrthodoxWiki, the real meat of our content is something that we should already in many ways have a consensus on.
- The other thing that occurs to me is that it's unlikely that OrthodoxWiki would get infected with anti-elitism. The Orthodox Church is hierarchical, and respect and obedience toward authority are a standard, normal part of our Church life. --Rdr. Andrew 06:13, 21 Jan 2005 (CST)
- One problem with relying on "experts" is our experts are often already wearing too many hats. Some who qualify for that title have already participated and I hope, especially with time, many more will. Of course, the rest of us can happily draw from "experts" in our articles. I think it's great that anyone can contribute. And sometimes, folks who are not "experts" have a great deal more time to delve into the specifics or something, and the rest of us can benefit from that work and knowledge.
- I'm also excited by this OrthodoxWiki project because I think there are still so many things that are oral tradition in the Orthodox Church. I'm not saying that should change, except that by getting some of that down in an organized and written form, it will be accessible to so many more people. Mostly, I think this is for the good - especially when Church life is undergoing tremendous changes across the globe (due to globalization or whatever you want to call it) and there is also an influx of converts who are just learning the ropes. - FrJohn 15:08, 21 Jan 2005 (CST)
Knowledge Management / Communities of Practice
Over time, I think it would be great to broader the concerns introduced by the article above into a more general discussion of the nature, character, and potential of "communities of practice" within Orthodox Church life -- I mean especially the use of emerging technologies for collaborative efforts at knowledge management at the service of the Orthodox Church.
There are many resources on "communities of practice" and "knowledge management" available online and in print. A couple books I've found helpful and thought-provoking include Communities of Practice by Etienne Wengner (ISBN 1578513308) and The Knowledge Landscapes of Cyberspace by David Hakken (ISBN 0415945097).
I think it's a good time to think big and brainstorm about possibilities for the future, e.g. what effect might semantic technologies have on Orthodox KM? I'd love to hear other people's thoughts on this (here or at OrthodoxWeb Dev).


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Zooming through the air with remote-control flying toys can be a blast. High-tech toys let you race against friends and family to see who can reach the finish line first and win bragging rights. Look for a drone with a built-in camera to capture a bird's eye view of your neighborhood as you cruise, or check out options with cargo space to house your own devices. If you're looking forward to zipping around the backyard or the park, be sure to select an indoor/outdoor model designed to take on tricky wind currents. Just seeking indoor fun? A hover toy with the face of your favorite superhero can be a great choice.
When the mercury rises and you need to cool down on hot days, water-blasting shooting toys are a great way to make a splash. Grab a pump-action squirt gun to hose down your target with a powerful stream of water, or use a balloon launcher to make sure your opponent is soaked to the skin. Foam dart launchers provide all-season fun and can be used indoors as well - just be sure to clear away fragile objects! To encourage imaginative play, offer kids a bow or crossbow launcher that delivers accurate shots, or pick a shotgun-style toy that's fit to tame the Wild West. Find even more ways to have fun with a wide assortment of toys that will keep everyone entertained.


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German Ocean
The German Ocean is whit is nou mair aften kent as the North Se. It's a pairt o the Atlantic Ocean. The German Ocean lies atween Norrowey an Denmark tae the east, Scotland an Ingland tae the wast, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium an Fraunce tae the sooth.
The Skagerrak jynes the German Ocean tae the Baltic Sea. In the sooth, the German Ocean chynges intil the Inglis Chainel, a sea atween Ingland an Fraunce. This is cried the Straight o Dover an is gey busy wi ships an the Skagerrak is at an imaginarie line atween Lindesnes in Norrowey, an Hanstholm in Denmark. Tae the north, the German Ocean is open towards the Atlantic. The mairch atween the twa is an imaginarie line frae Northren Scotland, tae Shetland, an then on tae Ålesund in Norrowey. Accordin tae the Oslo-Paris Treaty o 1962 it is a bittie mair tae the wast an the north. The treaty puts it at 5° wast an 62° north. That is at the heicht o the Geirangerfjord in Norrowey.
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On average, the German Ocean haes a depth o nae mair nor 94 metres. Aboot 80 million fowk bide near the German Ocean, at maist 150 km awa fae the coast. Thegither wi the Inglis Channel tae the sooth, the soothren German Ocean is the maist busy body ae watter in the yird.
Rivers that drains intil the German OceanEedit
Weel-kent rivers that drains intil the German Ocean include the Tay (at Dundee), the Forth (at Embra), the Tyne (at Newcastle), the Elbe (at Cuxhaven), the Weser (at Bremerhaven), the Ems at Emden, the Rhine an Meuse (at Rotterdam), the Scheldt (at Flushing), the Thames, an the Humber (at Hull).
The Kiel Canal, ane o the yird's busiest artificial watterways, connects the German Ocean wi the Baltic Sea.
In the last ice age the German Ocean wis coverit bi muckle auries o ice cried glaciers. Aroond 20,000 year ago the ice meltit an the German Ocean wis made.
German Ocean ileEedit
In the 1960s geologists foond muckle auries o natural gas an ile unner the German Ocean. Maist o the ile fields are owned bi the Unitit Kinrick an Norrowey bit some are owned bi Denmark, the Netherlands an Germany. Drillin began in the 1980s an led tae a famous argument atween Ingland an Scotland aboot hou the sillar frae the ile should be spent.
Ainimal lifeEedit
Fowk hae been fishin in the German Ocean lang syne. Houaniver, soo mony fish are caught that the new fish might nae be able tae grow fast enough tae keep the fishery going.
Pirrs, pictarnies, tammie norries, razorbills, tarrocks an ither seabirds bide on the German Ocean coast. Mony coastal auries is protectit nature reserves.
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If the thought of doing taxes makes you break into a cold sweat, you're probably like many of us; fearful of making a mistake and having the IRS show up at your door. Tax forms can be complicated, but don't let the complexity scare you away from tax credits that are legally yours to claim. Tax deductions and credits aren't just for big companies and finance-savvy folks. Look over the list below; you might be surprised how many tax breaks — in the form of both credits and deductions — can be applied to your tax return.
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Most cash donations made to charity in the tax year can be claimed as an itemized deduction on your tax return, but many folks don't realize that non-cash contributions can be claimed as well. If you've donated to a charity or non-profit organization using your credit card, you can claim that donation. If you've donated material goods or services, be sure that you have a receipt from the charity stating the value of the goods or services you donated. You can claim that value as a charitable deduction.
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If you pay for child care regularly while you are at work, you may be eligible for a tax credit. The amount of care covered can be up to $6,000 for the care of two or more children, according to Kevin McCormally, the Editorial Director of Kiplinger.com. Be sure to keep clear records; paying your child care provider in cash while keeping no traceable record of the payment will make it extremely difficult to claim the amount on your tax return.
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If you have to make any home improvements, go with the energy efficient options. Consumers can claim 30 percent of the cost, up to $1,500, of energy efficient home improvement items, such as "energy-efficient windows, insulation, doors, roofs, and heating and cooling equipment in existing homes," according to the Department of Energy. So replace those doors and windows by the end of the year and get a break on your taxes.
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Another "green" tax break is for renewable energy additions made to your home. The Department of Energy includes "solar energy systems (including solar water heating and solar electric systems), small wind systems, geothermal heat pumps, and residential fuel cell and microturbine systems". Home owners can get a tax credit of up to 30 percent of the cost of these improvements. When you consider how much money this type of renewable energy will save you in lower electric bills over the years and combine that with the 30 percent tax credit, greening your home begins to look like a pretty smart move.
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Apr. 26, 2013 — A novel drug developed by Gilead Sciences and tested in an animal model at the Texas Biomedical Research Institute in San Antonio suppresses hepatitis B virus infection by stimulating the immune system and inducing loss of infected cells.
In a study conducted at Texas Biomed's Southwest National Primate Research Center, researchers found that the immune modulator GS-9620, which targets a receptor on immune cells, reduced both the virus levels and the number of infected liver cells in chimpanzees chronically infected with hepatitis B virus (HBV). Chimpanzees are the only species other than humans that can be infected by HBV. Therefore, the results from this study were critical in moving the drug forward to human clinical trials which are now in progress.
The new report, co-authored by scientists from Texas Biomed and Gilead Sciences, appears in the May issue of Gastroenterology. Gilead researchers had previously demonstrated that the same therapy could induce a cure of hepatitis infection in woodchucks that were chronically infected with a virus similar to human HBV.
"This is an important proof-of-concept study demonstrating that the therapy stimulates the immune system to suppress the virus and eliminate infected liver cells," said co-author Robert E. Lanford, Ph.D., of Texas Biomed. "One of the key observations was that the therapy continued to suppress virus levels for months after therapy was stopped.
The current therapy for HBV infection targets the virus and works very well at suppressing viral replication and delaying progression of liver disease, but it is a lifelong therapy that does not provide a cure.
"This GS-9620 therapy represents the first conceptually new treatment for HBV in more than a decade, and combining it with the existing antiviral therapy could be transformative in dealing with this disease," stated Lanford.
The Gilead drug binds a receptor called Toll-Like Receptor 7 that is present in immune cells. The receptor normally recognizes invading viruses and triggers the immune system to suppress viral replication by the innate immune response and kill infected cells by the adaptive immune response, thus orchestrating both arms of the immune system.
HBV damages the liver, leading to cirrhosis and liver cancer. Liver cancer is the fifth most common cancer worldwide and the third most common cause of cancer death. According to the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), up to 1.4 million Americans are chronically infected with HBV.
The World Health Organization estimates that two billion people have been infected with the hepatitis B virus, resulting in more than 240 million people with chronic infections and 620,000 deaths every year.
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Exploring opportunityJune 17th, 2016
A capacity crowd attends the first annual Vancouver Commodity Forum
by Greg Klein
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"There's excitement in the air," said Cambridge House International founder Joe Martin. That's the mood he senses as junior explorers emerge from the downturn. And certainly optimism was evident on June 14 as more than 450 people converged on the Vancouver Commodity Forum for an afternoon of expert talks amid a showcase of two dozen companies. Keynote speakers included Martin, Chris Berry of the Disruptive Discoveries Journal, Jon Hykawy of Stormcrow Capital, John Kaiser of Kaiser Research Online and Stephan Bogner of Rockstone Research.
Lithium, not surprisingly, stood out as a commodity of interest. While cautioning against over-enthusiasm for the exploration rush, Berry and Hykawy each affirmed the need for juniors to find new sources of the metal. Cobalt and scandium featured prominently too, as did other commodities including what Kaiser called "the weird metals"—lesser known stuff that's vital to our lives but threatened with security of supply.
Kaiser also noted he was addressing a crowd larger than his last PDAC audience, another indication that "we've turned the corner."
Attendees also met and mingled with company reps. Potential investors learned about a wide gamut of projects aspiring to meet a growing demand for necessities, conveniences and luxuries.
Presented by Zimtu Capital TSXV:ZC, the forum's success will make it an annual event, said company president Dave Hodge. Berry emceed the conference, holding the unenviable task of "making sure Dave stays well-behaved."
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Most companies were core holdings of Zimtu, a prospect generator that connects explorers with properties and also shares management, technical and financing expertise. Zimtu offers investors participation in a range of commodities and companies, including some at the pre-IPO stage.
After sampling high-grade lithium on its Hidden Lake project in the Northwest Territories earlier this month, 92 Resources TSXV:NTY plans to return in mid-July for a program of mapping, exposing spodumene-bearing pegmatite dykes, and channel sampling. The company closed the final tranche of a private placement totalling $318,836 in April. Hidden Lake's located near Highway 4, about 40 kilometres from Yellowknife and within the Yellowknife Pegmatite Belt.
With one of the Athabasca Basin's largest and most prospective exploration portfolios, ALX Uranium TSXV:AL has a number of projects competing for flagship status. Among them is Hook-Carter, which covers extensions of three known conductive trends, one of them hosting the sensational discoveries of Fission Uranium TSX:FCU and NexGen Energy TSXV:NXE. ALX's strategic partnership with Holystone Energy allows that company to invest up to $750,000 in ALX and retain the right to maintain its ownership level for three years. ALX closed a private placement first tranche of $255,000 last month, amid this year's busy news flow from a number of the company's active projects.
Arctic Star Exploration TSXV:ADD boasts one of northern Canada's largest 100%-held diamond exploration portfolios. Among the properties are the drill-ready Stein project in Nunavut and others in the Lac de Gras region that's the world's third-largest diamond producer by value. North Arrow Minerals TSXV:NAR holds an option to earn up to 55% of Arctic Star's Redemption property.
Aurvista Gold TSXV:AVA considers its Douay property one of Quebec's largest and last undeveloped gold projects. The Abitibi property has resources totalling 238,400 ounces of gold indicated and 2.75 million ounces inferred. Now, with $1.1 million raised last month, the company hopes to increase those numbers through a summer program including 4,000 metres of drilling. Douay's 2014 PEA used a 5% discount rate to forecast a post-tax NPV of $16.6 million and a post-tax IRR of 40%.
Looking for lithium in Nevada, Belmont Resources TSXV:BEA now has a geophysics crew en route to its Kibby Basin property, which the company believes could potentially host lithium-bearing brines in a similar geological setting to the Clayton Valley, about 65 kilometres south. Results from the gravity survey will help identify targets for direct push drilling and sampling.
A mineral perhaps overlooked in the effort to supply green technologies, zeolite has several environmental applications. Canadian Zeolite TSXV:CNZ holds two projects in southern British Columbia, Sun Group and Bromley Creek, the latter an active quarrying operation.
With a high-grade, near-surface rare earths deposit hosted in minerals that have proven processing, Commerce Resources TSXV:CCE takes its Ashram project in Quebec towards pre-feasibility. The relatively straightforward mineralogy contributes to steady progress in metallurgical studies. Commerce also holds southeastern B.C.'s Blue River tantalum-niobium deposit, which reached PEA in 2011 and a resource update in 2013.
Permitted for construction following a 2014 PEA, Copper North Mining's (TSXV:COL) Carmacks copper-gold-silver project now undergoes revised PEA studies. The agenda calls for improved economics by creating a new leach and development plan for the south-central Yukon property. In central B.C. the company holds the Thor exploration property, 20 kilometres south of the historic Kemess mine.
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CHICAGO, Oct. 10 (UPI) -- The Obama campaign said it was reviewing a "Sesame Street" call to pull an ad mocking Mitt Romney for saying Big Bird typifies useless U.S. government spending.
"The idea was to provoke a discussion and create a little viral activity, and we've done that," David Axelrod, President Barack Obama's senior campaign strategist, told The New York Times.
Sesame Workshop, formerly known as the Children's Television Workshop, said after the campaign ad started running Tuesday it wanted it off the air.
"Sesame Workshop is a non-partisan, non-profit organization and we do not endorse candidates or participate in political campaigns," the organization said in a statement. "We have approved no campaign ads, and as is our general practice, have requested that the ad be taken down."
The spot, which was airing on national cable and broadcast TV during comedy shows, mocks a pledge Romney, the Republican presidential nominee, made in last week's debate to cut funding for the Public Broadcasting Service, even though he said he liked the 8-foot-2 primrose-yellow Big Bird character from "Sesame Street."
"I love Big Bird," Romney said. "But I'm not going to keep on spending money on things to borrow money from China to pay for."
The 30-second spot suggests Romney is targeting children's programming rather than legitimate threats to the economy.
"Big, yellow, a menace to our economy -- Mitt Romney knows it's not Wall Street you have to worry about, it's Sesame Street," an announcer says above ominous music.
It ends by showing Big Bird sitting in a basket and the announcer saying, "Mitt Romney -- taking on our enemies, no matter where they nest."
Romney spokeswoman Amanda Henneberg said: "Four years ago, President Obama said that if you don't have a record to run on, 'you make a big election about small things.' With 23 million people struggling for work, incomes falling, and gas prices soaring, Americans deserve more from their president."
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Being a person that enjoyed solving math questions, I aimed to get full marks when I was doing my paper. My math teacher called out our names and told the class our marks if we scored more than 35 marks (The total marks in the test was 40). My palms turned clammy as the teacher continued to read out the names.
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Beautiful kill: UVA doc takes aim at deadliest cancer
Glioma is the most common and deadly kind of brain cancer. Each year, 10,000 Americans are diagnosed, and only half survive beyond a year. Only a quarter after two years. But research at the University of Virginia has led to the discovery of a toxic molecule which targets the disease and might also be used to target other cancers.
"The potential of this research is extremely high" said Dr. Benjamin "B.J." Purow at a recent fundraiser for his research.
Since 1997, the owners of Hamilton's at First & Main restaurant have held a fundraising dinner for the UVA Cancer Center, and the seven-course affair on March 6 raised $10,000 for Purow's research. The restaurant that night was a veritable brain trust, filled to capacity with doctors, researchers, grad students, cancer survivors, those who had lost loved ones to the disease, and those simply willing to pony up for a good cause.
"Cancer is immensely complex," said Purow, a physician in UVA's Neuro-Oncology Center, "and we have had to lift up the hood and look at the circuitry of cells."
Purow's research focuses on toxic microRNAs, a newly discovered molecule in cells that has the potential to target cancerous cells without damaging the normal ones. Purow earned a $375,000 grant in 2008 for his glioma work.
He explained that current cancer therapies suffer from a whack-a-mole problem, "in that you whack one thing, and another one comes up." The various cancer-fighting "cocktails" used are sometimes too toxic and damage too many normal cells along with the cancer cells, he said.
MicroRNAs were thought to be communication devices in cells, but it was found that they regulate protein in cells, and that some can boost cancer, while others can suppress cancer. The goal, said the doctor, is to find a single microRNA that attacks multiple cancer targets.
"Of the microRNAs we found, one of them, RNA 297, was extremely toxic and had never been studied," said Purow, who described using it for a "beautiful kill" on glioma cells.
Given the audience, Purow was quick to put a human face on his work.
"When I see the integrity and grace in patients as they fight this," he said, "words are just inadequate to describe it."
"B.J. is a star in a constellation of stars," said UVA's cancer center director, Michael Weber. "He's made remarkable discoveries."
"Cures are going to be elusive," Purow cautioned. "But so far, so good."
"We would like to be a model for the country," said Medical School dean Steven T. DeKosky, himself a four-year cancer survivor. "And the cancer center is a model."
"Our project is very much in its infancy," said Purow, "but an event like this can really make a difference, to provide seed money, to get the research started."
"People ask me why I keep doing this," said Hamilton's co-owner Kate Hamilton. "Well, it's because it's what I can do. I was never good at biology, couldn't bear to dissect a frog, but I can put on a meal and bring people together."Read more on: Benjamin Purowcanceruva medical center
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Of course we all want to see a cure for these horrible diseases, but the expense of the R&D to find the cure necessitates a huge cost for the drugs that finally are approved . A year ago I lost my best friend - in her early 60's - to brain cancer . For several years she had to take a pill that cost $500 dollars a day. Fortunately she had excellent health insurance that paid for this . But many are not so lucky .
Who will pay the cost ?
One other reality check . One half of all bankruptcies in this country are due to health care bills that individuals and families cannot pay.
If you are concerned about health care costs this NPR program is worth listening to . A timely subject with Obamacare in the news daily, and it's fate soon to be decided by the Supreme Court
" As Cancer Treatments Advance, So Do Costs "
I am a firm believer that your own government doesn't want to see a cure for cancer, and will do anything in their power to see that it is not made public if a cure is found.
Your first reaction is to assume ole Gasbag is drunk or on drugs. But think about what I said above. What dogs does the government have in this fight? First, social security. More people living longer would bankrupt the social secuirty system in as little as 2 to 3 years. Maybe sooner. The next issue is unemployment. Every cancer treatment center and research center nationwide would close. Hundreds of thousands people would be out of work overnight.
If a cure for cancer does come along, the cost of treatment and the drugs will be so expensive that only the privileged few will be able to afford it or get it. Much like a heart or lung transplant.
What's being done with all these large grants to research? The doctors and staff sit around playing test tube volleyball all day long while drawing large salaries off those large grants. How much did Purow pay himself out of his latest $375,000 grant as salary? Does anybody know? Does anybody care?
Cancer research is one of the biggest scams taking place in this country right now.
"Your first reaction is to assume ole Gasbag is drunk or on drugs." No my first reaction, as usual, is that Gasbag is clueless. Either that or one of our frequent conspiracy obsessed posters has attempted to hijack your handle.
No, it's me. Call me in about 30 years and tell me how much progress has been made towards a cure for cancer please. Hopefully, if all goes well, my number will be 1-800-INHEAVEN. Or there's a slight chance it might be 1-800-INHADES.
I used to be stupid too. I saw a show on The Discovery Channel one night, I placed no faith in it whatsoever at that time. It was about a man who had sewn up a promising cure for cancer. He was picked up by the CIA, deported, and told that he would be assassinated if he ever returned to the USA. I can't recall the man's name, and I to this day have no idea if the tale was true or not.
The frequent conspiracy obsessed posters who attempt to hijack my handle haven't had much to say lately. They finally realized people could tell when it was me talking, and when it wasn't me talking.
I doubt you are on drugs Gasman other than cholesterol lowering pills, or heart medicine.....I bet you ARE on Ho-Ho's and Ding-Dong's though. Perhaps you are also taking intravenous Sausage Gravy as well!
?, is that the best you have?
What exactly are some of the cholesterol lowering pills and heart medications out there? I wouldn't know one if it snuck up and bit me on the butt.
saywha?, looks like the Gasbag obsessed posters might be showing up again!
I'm with Gasbag regarding the sham that is "eternal cancer research." Cancer is an industry. You will never be provided a "cure." It keeps waaaay too many people employed, and the powers that be don't want a nation with millions of people who are living to be 100, 105, 110 years old. (which actually did used to be more common. When I was a teen at the turn of the 90s there were several spry post-100 year olds living in the nursing home I volunteered at.) Can you imagine how much that would cost to fund their social security, like Gasbag pointed out? So it's up to you to figure out what to do and not to do with your body to prevent cancer from developing, including what foods to eat, what supplements to take, and what behaviors and mindsets to not engage in. But the government will never provide people with some sort of magic pill or drip or zap to fix them of their cancer.
There's no way to get around cancer unless you're extremely lucky. Everything we pick up in the grocery store has chemicals of one sort or another in it. This is what's causing so much cancer nowadays.
Even your walking steaks and hamburgers (a/k/a cow) are fed things such as FORMALDEHYDE, LEAD AND STYRENE!!!!
All 4 of my grandparents owned and grew up on farms. They worked hard between daylight and sunset at growing their own crops, vegtables, beef and pork. They baked their own bread fresh daily. They ate country ham, eggs and bacon every morning. And they all lived into their 90's and died of old age and cancer free.
The old statement that there are more people living off cancer than dying from it is definitely true. This sounds like an example. With all the attempts and effort at innovative therapy for high grade glioma over the years it has only bought a few months of extra survival at best and at what financial cost and at what quality of life. The key to improved survival is definitely at the genetic level. More effort needs to be expended on determining why a few patients are long term survivors of this dreaded disease. No doubt that grants pay a significant portion of researchers salary after the dean and other hierarchy take their cut. There is nothing like an emotional devastating disease to get people to open their wallet particularly when it is personal. Case example the Couric cancer center at UVA.
And at least 49.9 million people wouldn't be able to afford these drugs -
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- The number of people who lacked health insurance last year climbed to 49.9 million, up from 49 million in 2009, the Census Bureau said Tuesday.
Nationwide, 16.3% of the population was uninsured last year, statistically unchanged from 2009.
I know a guy who just died after fighting cancer for about 5 to 6 years. His total bills for treatment and medication exceeded $1 million dollars. Unless his insurance paid more than the usual 80%, this left the family with $200,000+ in bills. How many people have or can afford secondary insurance to pick up the other 20%? Who in their right mind would burden their family with $200,000 in bills just to live 5 more years? But sadly enough it's a hard decision, a decision that most patients and family don't even think about until after the fact. And it's a decision that is not discussed with the patient and family because the cancer treatment centers and doctors want the business/money!
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Geez, someone announces a possible breakthrough in cancer treatment and most of you are all doom & gloom. You could suck the fun out of a 5 year old's birthday party.
As far as insurance paying the usual 80% goes . . . the insurance plans I've had over the past 20 years or so pay the 80%, but they also have annual and individual caps on payments that come from the employee. My annual family cap is now $3,000, which means in the case of the hypothetical million dollar bill, I would pay $3,000. This came in handy when my daughter was in an ICU for 2 weeks a few years ago, so yes, I know it really does work that way.
As far as burdening a family with $200K of expenses for another 5 years of life goes . . . I'm sorry you don't think your life is worth $40K a year. Maybe others have a different opinion of their lives and we should let them make that choice.
@ Carrboro Pete...Just the usual cast of naysayers and malcontents.
"You could suck the fun out of a 5 year old's birthday party."...hahaha! You are so right!
There is no conspiracy going on with cancer research, for crying out loud. It's a complex disease with many different types and sub-types. There will never be a "take this pill" cure all. I have lost people to cancer and I hope the work continues to cure it. There are people making a living off finding a cure...so what? We pay fire fighters and EMT's as well. Do we say that they are making a living off our misery?
I wish people would think a bit before blindly accepting conspiracy theories put forth by entertainment programs. Gasbag's idea requires that hundreds of thousands of doctors and researchers worldwide be co-operating in an evil plan to pretend to work while they let patients die early. It's an obvious impossibility.
KB, don't forget that the "evil plan" also requires all those doctors and researchers to work counter to their own interests by having them fail to develop profitable drugs.
Well Gasbag, the truth of the matter is if you are unable to pay for your treatments there are these things called Clinical Trials which are all over this world and you can sign up to be in one where you get your medicine for .... drumroll please....FREE! What a concept! And many times if they are not covered by your health insurance one can write the drug company that manufactures the drug and they will GIVE you the drugs for your treatment - they want survivors! Survivors will sell more of their drugs!
I had a relative die of bone marrow cancer in the 1950s - wasted away and atticted to morphine that didn't give them any relief by the time they died. Today, what are the odds that someone with bone marrow cancer may survive? Breast Cancer? There is hope. Do I think there will be a "cure" - nothing is 100% and we don't get out alive. I would like to see better odds at everything!
To think our Government (that isn't that farsighted and curtainly isn't that smart) would not want a cure for cancer? They don't care - but the Pharma Companies that control our political people just may.
@Gasbag - you do make me laugh!
When the $500 dollar a day drugs failed my friend with brain cancer entered a clinical trial, the experimental medication caused her to become so ill ( a form of torture I would never wish on anyone ) that she spent a week in the hospital and died several months later peacefully off all drugs accept morphine under the care of hospice.
I guess now wouldn't be a good time to discuss how Americans are being used as guinea pigs in all this cancer and medication research? Not to mention the countless animals being tortured during this research?
When they develop a major breakthrough in some promising cancer treatment or medication, they should pay the patient and family to use the family member as a guinea pig.
How else are we to know a drug is safe? Seriously - give me a good way to test drug compounds out there and test surgical implants and procedures other than the ways we are doing it which adhere to ICH Guidelines and International Guidelines.
I can name about 15 people I know who were diagnosed with various forms of cancer who did go on management drugs who lived the rest of their lives fully and it gave them time to put everything in order. Of those 15 - ALL of them about a month prior to their death felt like they had "beat cancer" and were thinking of their futures 10 years from then, only the last few weeks did they go downhill. Do you have any idea how cancer was prior to that? Lets just say this pain couldn't be managed, it spread throughout the body and ate the body alive.
Now, guinea pigs are not utilized as much as mice, rats and lambs Gasbag. I love animals too. My question to you are you a vegan? Well the lab animals are treated much better than how the US Slaughter Houses out there treat their cattle, sheep and chickens. I'm just sayin'.
There also have been many drugs through clinical trials that did and do give adverse reactions - severe ones that the patient will have to take other drugs until they get used to the study drug. One I know of will knock the industry on it's butt for one particular disease when it hits the market. It is now in third stage and forth stage trials (third time and forth time in human subjects).
And if you choice is death or going into a clinical trial where you will be maintained or helped? You are given full disclosure of what that study drug can do, will do and may do. Patients are monitored.
Let's just stop all clinical drug testing and let the drug companies release to the public with no trials? Or what is the other solution you have - no more drugs or treatments for patients? You have a choice when diagnosed. I frankly, would like a choice.
Well, gasbag, so where does 375K go? About half off the top goes to the university. If the good doctor wants an assistant to help him do his work that is about 45 K + fringes for who he hires. Say 55K. Per year. Say it is a 3 year grant. Do the math 187.5 + (3 x 55) = 352.5. The rest is for chemicals you need to do your experiments. So the good doctor isn't padding his wallet.
Also, you have to be a little less paranoid. See doctors get cancer too. They die of cancer all the time. Do you think they want to die? Do you think they have a secret recipe somewhere in the lab that they do not reveal, so they can keep getting grant money. Then they get cancer themselves and do not treat themselves with the secret recipe and choose to die instead. I mean, if you want to come up with a conspiracy theory, at least make it plausible.
And before I forget, good for you Dr. Purow! More power to you. I hope your research works and results in at least a partial treatment. There are alot of people whose life and happiness depend on your efforts.
No paranoia here, Anthony. I just believe cancer research is one of the biggest scams in the USA right now. We're getting a very small return on all the money being invested in it.
My main concern is allocation of health care dollars . Hard decisions need to be made . Do we spend billions on drugs and treatments that extend life for a minimal amount of time for a small % of people and carry high costs, or do we put our research dollars toward a looming public health crisis that is not getting the attention of these experimental treatments.
You can't do it all and where are our priorities ?
" Worried about an impending public health crisis, government officials are considering offering financial incentives to the pharmaceutical industry, like tax breaks and patent extensions, to spur the development of vitally needed antibiotics. ..... bacteria steadily become resistant to virtually all existing drugs at the same time that a considerable number of pharmaceutical giants have abandoned this field in search of more lucrative medicines."
No scam taking place. It's incredibly expensive to develop and test these new drugs, no matter what they treat. Some just have a larger target audience and are therefore easier to pay for.
Wait til we really start having to pay for the obesity crisis over running the country. The statistic I heard the other afternoon was that 79 million Americans are pre-diabetic...
My theory on diabetes is not the same as that of the medical profession. Sugar and obesity are not to blame as much as the medical profession thinks. It's the chemicals in almost everything we eat now. The natural process in our bodies is becoming unbalanced by all of these chemicals.
I'm sure the medical establishment is anxiously awaiting your paper on the subject.
@ Gasbag
That might be a big part of it, but I do think the sugar issue is the major factor at work. Think about how much sugar and sweeteners are put into our food nowadays. I've been paying attention, because since the late 90s I started seeking out products that don't contain sugar or especially corn syrup. And as time has gone on, products that used to not contain sugar (such as Newman's Own salad dressings and spaghetti sauces, to name one offhand major brand example) now contain one or the other. So I had to scratch Newman's Own from the list, and resorted to having to make my own salad dressing, because finding a sugar free brand that was what I was looking for in all regards was getting too difficult.
They put sugar and corn syrup and a host of other sweeteners in EVERYTHING nowadays. Even products that don't need it! Seriously.....why does pasta sauce need corn syrup?? They used to make it without, and trust me, it tastes better that way. Most people have no idea how much sugar/corn syrup/sweeteners they're consuming on a weekly basis. It's unreal. So yes, I think this absolutely is playing a part in the diabetic epidemic, though there certainly could be other factors at work.
And don't even get me started on Splenda, and artificial sweeteners that are toxic to the body. If you want to talk about chemicals adversely affecting the body.......! I think that is absolutely contributing to people getting cancer nowadays. So much crap everywhere, in everything....
Gasbag Self Ordained EXPERT...says what it does, does what it says.
Love ya, Gasbag! ;)
As far diabetes goes, the vast majority of it is absolutely caused by too much food and lack of exercise. Not mysterious chemicals. This has been proven in multiple studies by having diabetic subjects exercise and lose weight, and poof, most subject's symptoms improved dramatically. No conspiracy hiding this cure, you can have it for free. Worked for my mom, BTW.
And there may be an even better way to cure diabetes -and if we must prioritize treatment money this certainly should be high on the list along with developing new antibiotics.
"Gastric bypass surgery is great for curing type 2 diabetes. It works for up to 80 percent of patients. Now scientists are beginning to figure out why. And weight loss may be the least of it.
It turns out that bypass surgery dramatically reduces the amino acids circulating in the blood – in particular, a type called branched-chain amino acids, which make up 40 percent of these nutrients in our diet. "
Mr/Mrs/Miss saywha?, I am waiting on my $375,00 research grant before I start proving my theories are accurate and correct.
I saw a news story on the gastric bypass surgery the other day. The researchers talked as if it has proven successful in almost 100% of cases in curing diabetes. And usually within hours.... not days, weeks or months. It's a serious surgery, but I would certainly consider it if ever disagnosed with diabetes, and if they can guarantee no drastic weight loss in the long term.
I know quite a few people with type 2 Diabetes and don't know any who aren't fat.


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Lake Forest: Rory McIlroy's dwindling hopes of qualifying for next week's season-ending Tour Championship in Atlanta all but disappeared on Friday after he struggled once again at the BMW Championship.
The Northern Irish world number four, winner here last year during a storming finish to his 2012 campaign, battled to a six-over-par 77 to end the second round at Conway Farms Golf Club stone last in the elite field of 70.
Only 30 players will advance to the Tour Championship at East Lake after this week's FedExCup playoff event and McIlroy is now projected to wind up 53rd in the points standings, leaving him with a likely four-week break from competition.
"I'm just not scoring well," the 24-year-old told reporters after finishing a staggering 24 strokes off the pace at 13-over 155, having mixed two birdies with six bogeys and a double at the drivable par-four seventh.
"I missed it on the wrong side, I'm missing greens with wedges, and just don't have my scoring hat on. I feel like I'm hitting the ball pretty well, I'm just not scoring."
McIlroy had been encouraged by "glimpses" of good form in the first two playoff events but has since regressed after the PGA Tour took a week's break following the Deutsche Bank Championship.
"I didn't play any competitive golf, but you come back and you get a card in your hand again, it's a lot different just practising than being out there," said the mop-haired Northern Irishman, who had won two major titles by the age of 23.
"Just not scoring as well as I need to. I felt really good after the PGA (Championship). When I've actually had a little bit of pressure, that's when I've played my best, so that's a good sign.
"The bad sign is that I'm not in contention too much. It's frustrating, but I'm trying to stay as patient as I can."
McIlroy has endured a frustrating 2013 campaign after moving to the top of the world rankings last year and claiming the order of merit titles on both sides of the Atlantic.
In 15 starts on the PGA Tour this season, he has recorded just five top-10s, including a missed cut at the British Open in July.
"Everything sort of came easy last year," said McIlroy. "Now I'm working harder, hitting more balls, spending more time on the range because I'm searching for it (consistent form).
"And that's what's frustrating. But the fact that I'm working hard and I'm not really getting much out of it, if I can keep patient and keep working hard, I'm sure it'll turn around."
Asked how he tried to stay patient, McIlroy replied: "I'm 24. I've got a lot of time in this game still. I've got obviously a few tournaments left this year.
"I'm sort of looking forward to getting to December and drawing a line under the season and start fresh in '14."
As for next week's Tour Championship, that has already been inked out by McIlroy.
"No chance," he smiled. "Yeah, four weeks off. I'll take a little bit of time off and just get my head sharp a little bit, get refreshed and practise and get ready for the last sort of stint of the season.
"It's nice to get a few weeks off, a little bit of a rest and a bit of time to work on my game, and get ready for that Asian trip."


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COVER- Road warrior: But Warner would rather be seen as green
After winning $29.5 million in federal earmarks in 2005 for a highway intersection, the man who may soon be immortalized in Charlottesville with a road linking downtown to the northern suburbs tried to halt the speeds on American highways, a greening effort that turned out less sustainable than he has been.–editor
The recent greening of Senator John W. Warner was seeded more than a half-century ago in the scenic panhandle of northern Idaho.
The year was 1943, and the restless 16-year-old– temporarily thwarted in his zeal to join the battle against fascism– followed his father's urging to take a summer job out West, fighting fires with the U.S. Forest Service.
"I remember that experience to this day and the magnificent forests we worked in. They were pristine. The streams flowed, and we could drink out of 'em," the now nearly-retired lawmaker said last summer on the eve of a debate over climate security that he hoped would crown his three decades of Senate service.
Victory eluded him.
The landmark legislation, the Climate Security Act of 2008, aimed at slicing greenhouse-gas emissions by more than two-thirds by 2050, went down a half-dozen votes shy of the 60 needed to advance the bill.
But if anything, the setback only whetted the appetite of a Cold Warrior who now views global warming and energy independence as security issues on a par with terrorist threats and missile defenses.
Perhaps only experts can grasp the complex cap-and-trade formulas in the Act, co-sponsored by Republican Warner and independent Democrat Joe Lieberman of Connecticut. But weary vacationers, sleep-deprived truckers, or any 16-year-old with a driver's license and a hot date can understand the implications of Warner's encore act: a request for Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman to document the potential fuel savings from a 60-mph national speed limit.
"I'm quite probably going to try and garner support on both sides of the aisle and push forward with this legislation," he announced on the Senate floor in early July.
And that's not all. In mid-July, Warner introduced the Gas Conservation Bill, calling for Congress and the federal government to lower gas consumption by three percent over the next year. A month earlier, he and Virginia's junior senator, Democrat Jim Webb, sought congressional authorization for Virginia to explore and drill for natural gas– but not oil– off the state's coast. And Warner urged a return to nuclear energy as an alternative to fossil fuels.
Mixed as that package might seem to ardent environmentalists, for Warner the pieces are part of a whole– a comprehensive approach to an energy crisis. His urgency is driven by developments he finds too alarming to ignore, including one very personal revelation.
A couple of years back, a political event took him to Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, the site of his boyhood adventure.
"I asked the Forest Service if they would, as a courtesy to an old firefighter, take me up to the camps," Warner says. "I went up there with a veteran forester. I'll never forget this.
"The forests that I knew are just suffering terribly. So much disease in the trees, owing largely to beetles. And the reason for that is, we've had all these warm winters. Those trees are dying. The streams are virtually dried up. And I left there with– it was just a saddening experience because I remember those days and joy in the outdoors."
THE SECOND-LONGEST-SERVING U.S. senator in Virginia history could be excused if his final months in office were nothing more than a fest of accolades and memories. Few would argue that he's earned plenty of both.
It's been 30 years since Warner won a 4,721-vote squeaker after securing the nomination on the heels of a tragic airplane crash that claimed the life of the original 1978 GOP nominee, Richard "Dick" Obenshain. Since then, he's navigated the halls of power with a blend of earnest patriotism, devil-may-care independence, and theatrical flair.
Sometimes bemused, sometimes amused, and largely grateful, Virginia voters have responded by making Warner the state's most enduring politician of the modern political era. Three landslides plus one solid win separate a now-revered public figure from the days when the D-word (dilettante) and his marriage to actress Elizabeth Taylor overshadowed his congressional debut.
The crowded photo gallery in his reception room in the Russell Senate Office Building chronicles a savory life journey, seasoned with diligence and fun.
Here is the senator-to-be at age 3, already dapper in leggings and a fur-collared coat, the darling of his Washington, D.C., physician father and a mother who served in World War I. Both parents were Great War veterans who instilled in their son a lifelong reverence for country and hard work.
Over there is Warner as secretary of the Navy (1972-74) at one of his proudest moments, signing the May 1972 Incidents at Sea Executive Agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union. The document, still in effect, governs the movements of naval ships and aircraft in international sea lanes.
A picture of tall sailing ships entering the New York harbor on July 4, 1976, records his service as head of the nation's Bicentennial celebration. And a host of ship christenings and signed snapshots of military leaders, not to mention a dunking by the Navy football team after the Middies whipped Army in December 1973, attest to his love affair with the nation's military.
Here, too, are legions of political mementos: a 1984 Richmond News Leader front page proclaiming Warner "the Top Vote-Getter in Virginia"; former President George H.W. Bush, holding aloft Warner's arm at a picnic at Atoka, his former country estate; Nancy and Ronald Reagan, "with appreciation for showing us the beauty of Virginia and warmest friendship, Ron"; a Saturday Evening Post cover depicting Warner and then-wife Taylor as the subjects of Grant Wood's "American Gothic" painting. "Liz Tayor's Next Role: Senator's Wife," the cover teases.
Over the course of the years, Warner's chiseled jaw softens. Sporty bangs give way to a combed-back 'do. The sideburns transition from long and full (circa 1976) to top of the ear, and the thick hair evolves from salt-and-pepper to gray to silvery white.
What the office gallery cannot convey are the countless committee hearings, floor debates, and weighty votes that accompanied, and– in some cases, probably speeded– the aging. He's now 82.
Reliably conservative on a wide range of matters, Warner has nonetheless broken with Republican Party orthodoxy on enough hot-button issues to merit the disdain heaped upon him by some in the party's right flank.
From his 1987 litmus-test rejection of Robert Bork's nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court to his 2006 pre-election truth-telling on the dismal state of affairs in Iraq to his more recent worry that America's post-9/11 treatment of some foreign prisoners smacked of torture, Warner has repeatedly leveled courteous but pointed critiques at fellow Republicans.
His most blatant apostasy– recruiting an independent Republican to challenge Republican Oliver North in the 1994 U.S. Senate race against Democrat Chuck Robb– likely cost North the election.
So perhaps it should come as no surprise that Warner's promise– "I'm going to quietly step aside"– when he stood on the terrace of the Rotunda at the University of Virginia a little more than a year ago and announced his voluntary retirement has not quite turned out to be true.
Warner chose not to fade quietly into the sweet night of Senate retirement, but did his level best to go out with a bang.
"WE LIVE RATHER FRUGALLY," Warner says in a pre-retirement interview. "We have a modest-size house. We don't keep the air conditioner as low as we used to. We're big recyclers.
"I'm not saying we're covered head to toe with green paint," says the man who might soon have a road named for him. But, all in all, he says "we're very environmentally conscious."
Warner is describing life with his bride of five years, third wife Jeanne Vander Myde. Coincidentally, the December 2003 marriage roughly coincides with his awakening on global warming.
That year, when Senators John McCain and Lieberman orchestrated the first serious Senate attempt to rein in greenhouse gas emissions, Warner was still unconvinced. He joined 54 other senators in squelching the effort.
He has not only switched sides but also become a lead patron on an even more far-reaching effort to curb America's carbon footprint. The transformation, according to Warner, began in Idaho at Coeur d'Alene.
A born romantic stoked by James Fenimore Cooper's adventure stories, Warner found himself stunned by the blighting. Meanwhile, his worries about freakish, worldwide weather catastrophes mounted, as did a pesky sense that the Bush Administration's staunch refusal to link carbon emissions and climate change was costing America dearly.
"The United States, its leadership in the world today, by almost any objective analysis, has been badly tarnished for several reasons; and one of 'em is this inability to come to some objective position on global climate change to participate with the rest of the world," says Warner. He's relaxing– feet up, ankles crossed– in a worn, black leather recliner in his Senate office building on the eve of the Climate Security Act debate.
As a steward of American military might, the former chairman and then second-ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee saw international disdain for U.S. energy policies as a creeping poison, too toxic to be ignored. Historic conflicts linked to water and food shortages trouble him.
"The severity of the droughts in Africa alone have precipitated tremendous strife among people, and we're called to give aid," he says. While stopping short of blaming global warming for the disastrous typhoon in Burma, he finds the situation instructive: "It shows how when a large population is deprived of basic needs, our military is often called to help."
The Warner-Lieberman legislation offered a complex mix of mandatory reductions in greenhouse gases, emissions credits to be bought and sold by polluters, investments in new technologies, and so forth. As befits major legislation affecting the environment and impinging on corporate fortunes, the plan generated firestorms.
The Nature Conservancy termed its introduction "a watershed moment" and said passage "would represent the most significant investment in American conservation in our generation." Some other environmental groups thought otherwise.
"Dirty energy in the name of climate protection," one blogger fumed. Free-market forces cemented the defeat by warning of higher energy prices, lost jobs, and reduced gross national product.
Taking to the Senate floor last June, Warner interpreted the setback as a crucial milestone on the road to eventual victory. Significantly, he noted, unlike years past, no senator challenged the scientific underpinnings of the legislation. Even then, with presidential nominees-in-waiting from both parties favoring mandatory cuts in greenhouse emissions, it's only a matter of time, Warner contended, before some version of last year's legislation becomes law.
Warner says he has no regrets about devoting "basically a year of my career" to the effort, because "we're moving forward."
NO ONE WOULD CONFUSE WARNER with the zealous environmentalists he once described as "wonderful green people or mossy people." His support of drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and off the Virginia coast probably takes care of that.
His League of Conservation Voters rating for the first half of the 110th Congress– he sided with the organization on key votes 47 percent of the time– put him squarely in the middle of the Senate pack, although ahead of most Republicans. His rating is significantly better than in previous years.
He gets poorer ratings than some others– in part because he'd rather rely on an energy source in hand, nuclear, than renewables such as solar and wind that are still in the experimental bush.
"I don't know how big a question mark you can put," he says, when asked about Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens' plan to solve America's energy problems with wind power, "but mine's six feet tall."
What Warner has less of a problem with is asking Americans, and their leaders, to shoulder some of the burden of conserving energy.
"We've got to all pull together as a nation," he says, recalling the spirit of World War II.
If that means letting off on the gas pedal, so be it.
Last July, Warner proposed the possibility of returning to a 55 mph national speed limit, as established in 1974 during the Arab oil embargo and repealed in 1995. He cited studies showing that the reduction saved 167,000 barrels of oil a day, two percent of the nation's highway fuel consumption, while preventing 4,000 traffic deaths.
Later, after conversations with his race-car driver son– who hates the idea of the lowered limit, by the way– Warner adjusted the proposal to 60 mph to allow for technological improvements in auto motors.
He was waiting for updated information about the estimated savings before formally introducing legislation. The proposal triggered an outpouring of letters, half positive, half negative. As with other controversies he's stirred, Warner was undeterred. Ultimately, he realized it wouldn't fly, but until then, he vowed to charge forward.
"It's like a great ship," he says. "You go through typhoons now and then, but you keep your bow pointed straight into the wind, and you keep plowing ahead."
AFTER 30 YEARS AT SEA, Warner's great ship has now reached safe harbor. He smiles ruefully, fiddles with the eyeglasses in his right hand and adopts a chipper tone.
"Of course, it's been my life," he says. "I'll miss it. But it's like a lot of other things in life. There'll be a number of opportunities which will fill the void of the Senate, and I'll be very happy to pursue 'em."
Retirement will include gardening, for sure, and also painting.
"I got up this morning at 6:30 and I was out in my garden," he says. "I've got a beautiful rose garden. I've always liked nature and being close to the soil. Painting ... I'm doing the Christmas card, way ahead of time. ... I know exactly what it's going to be. I picked five of the most beautiful tulips that I had in my garden this year and photographed them over a series of several days and several lights."
Perhaps a memoir?
"Hell, hell, hell, no," he thunders. "All they want to hear about's the ladies."
And while it's too early to say what boards or commissions he might join– Senate ethics rules prohibit early consideration– it's doubtful that all Warner's military and foreign policy expertise will be let lie.
Ironically, perhaps, it's not the altered war plans, the improved living conditions for servicemen and-women, the mighty carriers, or weapons built that Warner cites as his proudest legislative achievement. That distinction goes to helping blow up– literally– the Embry Dam on the Rappahannock River in Fredericksburg.
The deconstruction in February 2004 removed the river's only man-made impediment to fish migration.
"Now the fish come from various parts of the oceans of the world and migrate, migrate all the way beyond Fredericksburg to the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountain," he says, "and I go down every year and watch 'em coming."
And that's his greatest legacy?
"That's it. That's it."
Spoken like a true Rachel Carson devotee. Perhaps John Warner is greener than he lets on, even a little mossy, after all.
A former staff writer for The Virginian-Pilot, Richmond resident Margaret Edds covered state government and politics before switching to editorial writing before retiring in 2007. She is the author of three books, including An Expendable Man: The Near-Execution of Earl Washington, Jr.; and she penned last year's feature story on "The Norfolk Four," which, like this one, first appeared in Style Weekly.
Warner speaks at the Richmond Marriott as fellow Republican George Allen loses his Senate seat in the November 2006 election.
Warner was the second-longest-serving senator in Virginia history. (#1 was Harry F. Byrd.)
After announcing his retirement in August 2007 in Charlottesville, Warner shakes hands.
Memorabilia surround Senator John Warner last summer in his first-floor office at the Russell Senate Office building.
Warner said he chose the Rotunda as the site of his retirement announcement because it was "hallowed ground," and because UVA Professor Larry Sabato, who watched the proceedings with former Virginia Governor Gerald L. Baliles, suggested it.
Warner quoted Thomas Jefferson upon his retirement: "There is a fullness of time when men should go and not occupy too long the ground to which others have the right to advance."


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Pete: "You're pretty optimistic. I'm 92."
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Great patient moments
Pete: "You're pretty optimistic. I'm 92."
20 comments:
- Allison said...
Haha! I would love to shake this guy's hand.
- May 15, 2012 at 7:19 AM
- Solitary Diner (Also Known as The Frugalish Physician) said...
Love it!
- May 15, 2012 at 7:50 AM
Great patient! When my grandmother was 96, she told the opthamalogist if she lived to 100, he could do her cataract surgery THEN. Of course, when she had a lumpectomy at 86, her question to the surgeon was "How long until I can have a drink?" He gave her a bottle of Dewar's at her post-op checkup.
- May 15, 2012 at 8:39 AM
Funeral. Cemetary.
stranger: who was it?
mourner: my husband.
stranger: how old was he?
mourner: 97
stranger: and whatchagonnado now?
mourner: going home
stranger: how old are you?
mourner: 88
stranger: is there any use going home?
- May 15, 2012 at 8:41 AM
- Mary said...
My grandmother died at 89. For the past 6 or 7 years she had been saying "No" when the cardio wanted to do valve replacement surgery. She rendered him speechless when she said, "I think I am too old for a grand opening."
I hope I am as witty as this generation if I reach that age!
- May 15, 2012 at 9:01 AM
- Packer said...
My mother who is 92, told me matter of factly that for some reason she just started to fall apart this last year. Then she laughed at the comedy of her comment.
- May 15, 2012 at 9:36 AM
- Dr. G said...
Love it! Wish I could meet this patient :)
- May 15, 2012 at 9:43 AM
hope someone gave Pete pie and a hug-
- May 15, 2012 at 9:45 AM
I love Pete!!
- May 15, 2012 at 10:58 AM
- ronstew said...
I like this Pete.
- May 15, 2012 at 11:28 AM
- Sharon said...
I identify with Pete.
At my age, a "life-time guarantee" is not as big a deal as it once was.
- May 15, 2012 at 12:10 PM
Gawd, he totally hates my comments, he hates me, he hates me. I'm tellin' you, he hates me.
- May 15, 2012 at 1:51 PM
- From the Mind of a Madman said...
With that kind of sense of humor... that guy has plenty of years worth of yelling at kids from his porch left!!
- May 15, 2012 at 2:24 PM
- The Angry Medic said...
"Anonymous said...
Gawd, he totally hates my comments, he hates me, he hates me. I'm tellin' you, he hates me."
Hoo boy. You have quite the groupie squad growing, Dr G.
You're totally turning into the new Dr Crippen.
- May 15, 2012 at 3:53 PM
- History Doc said...
Your patients are so much funnier than our patients.
- May 15, 2012 at 4:53 PM
we used to say- no lp records, no radial tires, do not start war and peace. recently had a lady with controlled metastatic cancer whom i told to come back in september. she sadly glared till i changed it to june.
- May 15, 2012 at 5:32 PM
- a.generic doc said...
Does he buy green bananas?
- May 15, 2012 at 8:02 PM
In my line of works it's "Don't buy the big bag of dog food."
- May 15, 2012 at 8:08 PM
- terri c said...
I love Pete also.
- June 2, 2012 at 8:47 PM
This reminds me of a not so great patient moment.
She is actually one of my favorite patients which made it all the worse. She was finished with the doctor and came to me to check out. She didn't have any special follow up orders so after some small talk I said "looks like you're good to go, he just wants to see you back in 4 months".
Her son, who has proven himself a total ass many times in the past, was standing directly beside her and said "That won't be necessary, you DO know she's 87 don't you?". I was so thoroughly disgusted I'm pretty sure my face literally turned red with anger and I am very proud of my self restraint in that I did not physically attack him. I looked over at this sweet old woman and she was just looking at the floor.
I then addressed her and asked if she wanted to arrange her next appointment and she shook her head no, still not looking up at anyone.
She hasn't been in to see us since then but I call to check on her when I can and the last time I did I'm happy to report that she was totally on point with everything... doing housework, preparing to receive guests, doing perfectly fine.
- June 26, 2012 at 7:25 PM