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The Necessity of Symbols is now ready to order from the Amazon E Store at $5.99
and will then be listed on Amazon in a week or so.
The Kindle edition will be available within 24 hrs. at $3.99. I'm making it available at a special Kindle Matchbook price of $1.99 when you also purchase the paperback.
Even though it's poetry, you should find it approachable. As usual, strict Christians balk at the sensuality of my work, and those with allergies to spirituality in any form balk at the spiritual core.
Here's the Foreword:
Foreword: What Body?
You still believe the body is a temple for the spirit? Then read Thomas Ramey Watson and be delighted and appalled with him! The Necessity of Symbols plays again and again on the sacredness of the bodythe body in love, the body in ecstasy of spirit and memory, even the body of Christ in communion.
Like the forgotten troubadours, the poet gives a credible poetic ground that loving the beloveds body is close to loving God, or at least appreciating the universe. Knot Intrinsicate celebrates a womans power:
I am seventeen
you, soft-voiced Guenevere.
But a Russian doll,
you held inside Mary,
hawk of Catholicism,
and Cleopatra,
salad of the crescent world:
eatenundonewhole again.
In a long poem that summarizes loss of job, loss of wife, loss of environment (Colorado), the poet holds psalms and songs in memory step by step of the way, shoring up the many threats to his spiritual life (A Book of Hours):
My mind
stayed on echoes:
whether one eats
God's words,
or wakes
within them
does upheaval
always follow?
In the poem, Holy Communion, the poet does not scruple to equate the host with two lovers, who, as the poem progresses are separated, however, with the finite limits between them implicitly contrasted to Gods infinite love: Broken from you, / I am set on a shelf. However, the lover remains an inspiration:
past the fragrance of ankles and thighs,
lingering on chest and neck, to pause
on tiny moles like cinnamon
sprinkled about your mouth
that explored with words, and tongue,
and smile, then to those eyes,
brown as buttered crust on fresh-baked bread;
still I hear your voice, yeasty, low.
These are fine points of a book with a broad sweeppoems about family, poems contrasting the poets native Denver with the signal cultural meccas of Europe, poems most often of joy. The range is admirable and the poems intricate and dedicated to spiritual growth, with creation the touchstone where reality is tested and embodied.
Alan Naslund, author of Silk Weather
The Kindle version of The Necessity of Symbols is now available on Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/Necessity-Sym...sity+of+Symbols
Hey, you who like detective work. One of the poems in the collection is about my having breakfast with Vanessa Redgrave some times ago. Can you figure out which one it is? There are clues in the text.
Yesterday I had the pleasure of talking with Tom Martino on his radio show "The Troubleshooter." We ended up talking for some time about my book Baltho, the Dog Who Owned a Man. He was very interested and gracious in knowing more about me, about the book, and about my ongoing experiences with the dog first known to me as Baltho. As as result, Amazon.com sales of the book really shot up last night, both in paper and on Kindle. I had been pretty worried because my rank among paper backs had dropped the lowest it's ever been, over 2 million. And the Kindle had dropped to 933,000. The paper back and Kindle ranks last night were just under 100,000. Great news. Thanks Tom!
Don't forget the Amazon.com Matchbook special now: You can get a Kindle for $2.99 if you also buy the paperback.
Today is Melchior's first birthday. I recall vividly how I was walking along the big lake on Sunday, 11 of November, of last year, when I heard Hattie's voice announce, "I'm born."
We were expecting her to be born later in the week. I PMd the breeder Deb Ridley, who said he'd been born on Saturday and was indeed "an unexpected color," just as she'd told me she'd be so I'd know her from her littermates, who were black and silver--and was indeed a male.
Hattie had told me she wanted to be called Melchior this time. The inner voice I'd been hearing soon switched from that of a mature female to that of an eager young boy.
Here's Melchior with his cat Noir, who, Hattie told me had been Figgy/Figaro during the life as Baltho.
I just uploaded Melchior's birthday pictures on my FB page, which is public, so everyone can view them. https://www.facebook.com/thomas.watson.790
I just got some copies of my new book, The Necessity of Symbols. http://www.amazon.com/Necessity-Sym...sity+of+symbols
You can buy them directly from me and I'll sign them, just as with Baltho, the Dog Who Owned a Man. I'll get Pay Pal button up on my site for it ASAP. I'll make you a special deal if you buy two or more books. They'll make sweet little Christmas and Holiday presents. I'm thinking of offering 2 signed books for $10 plus $3 S & H. I'll do more if you want more than 2. Just write and let me know.
I'm even thinking about bringing out before Christmas my most mystical book of poems about a series of soul travel and soul retrieval experiences that lasted well over a year. I just found it and realized how lovely so many of the poems are--and how intriguing the tale.
Here are two poems from this collection:
Here's are two of my favorite poems from this collection:
Like Orpheus,
I would descend
to where you weep,
from all who would pursue
and pluck you
the finest flower
of earth's meadows.
In songs brilliance
you'd bud again.
Like Christ,
Id search
the darkest realms
for just your soul.
Finding its light
alloyed by baser metals,
flickering and cobalt,
we'd tune our wings,
making every turn and lifting his.
I come to fields
with bachelor's buttons
among the golds and greens
and hesitate,
hoping for a glimpse of you
your voice,
your eyes
so deep,
so blue.
Artesian Waters
but perhaps you chose this body
not so that you'd not be alone
but that all might see
that physical attraction
is not sufficient.
You've slept so long
that you weep when I tell you
what you've revealed
in dream,
when all the eyes of being
open like peonies,
their nectar
having drawn healing,
like the helping ant, near.
Your sadness reaches
like your hand
clutched in you for a moment,
I perceive that you've arched
into the doorway:
no longer alone,
your deep beauty has drawn me
through space and time
in a curved line.
Clenched in your belly
like a stillborn child
lies your sorrow.
At first thinking it my own,
I recognized the pain as yours:
the notes greener
and more reedy.
Today I heard your joy,
welling like sweet water
that you'd dowsed
but lost,
years ago.
here, in the still, small voice,
the point
of all that is
and was and will be,
the word still bubbles still
still, Come.
I now have on my website information about my new poetry book, The Necessity of Symbols, along with Pay Pal buttons so you can buy signed and inscribed copies directly from me. You are also welcome to send me a money order or personal check.
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«At a party, I stood next to a bald guy with a beard who didn't say anything. I noticed a nearby couple put their heads together and whisper while pointing at me. They were smiling so I went over and inquired if I could help them in any way.
"No, not at all," said the woman, "but listen, isn't that Sir Salman Rushdie who stood next to you just now? We're such fans." The man nodded.
I was in a strange mood that night. I felt unappreciated, not just by everyone, but by the universe itself. I felt shat upon by fate. In any book that I opened I saw only the flaws, and I thought every published writer was a total jerk to be successful while I wrote brilliantly but remained undiscovered and unpublished.»
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Mass of Christian Burial will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at St. Mary's Catholic Church, 412 10th St., Moline. Visitation is from 4 to 7 p.m. on Tuesday at Esterdahl Mortuary & Crematory, 6601 38th Ave., Moline, with a rosary at 4 p.m. Entombment is at St. Mary's Mausoleum, East Moline.
Laverne was born Dec. 7, 1914, in Riverside, Iowa, the daughter of Joseph and Viola (Kueneman) Waldschmidt. She married Valerian Schnoebelen. He preceded her in death on Oct. 16, 1982.
Laverne was a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church, where she was in the Altar & Rosary Society. She enjoyed reading, baking and playing euchre and rummy. Laverne was a loving grandmother and friend to everyone.
Survivors include her children, Alvin (Donna) Schnoebelen, Garald (Kay) Schnoebelen, Paulette (Earl) Ferries, Linda Williams and Michael (Karen) Schnoebelen; 13 grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband; daughter, Donna Sersion; sons-in-law, Ralph Sersion and Danny Williams; granddaughter, Jody Lutze; and grandson, Dennis Rodgers.
Special thanks to the staff at Rosewood Care Center. Many of you went out of your way to make her last days special.
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Jolley, 6-4, 250, was acquired by the Jets on April 24, 2005 for the Jets 26th pick in the first round and a seventh round pick. In return, the Jets got Jolley and the Raiders second round and two sixth round picks. With the picks, the Jets drafted CB Justin Miller, RB Cedric Houston and TE Joel Dreesen. The team was openly questioned for the Jolley move being that Virginia TE Heath Miller was available in the draft and is now an emerging star in the NFL.
Jolley was nothing short than a disappointment for the Jets catching only 29 passes for 324 yards and 1 TD last season. He was also a liability in the running game by being a poor run blocker.
The team also announced they have acquired tight end Sean Ryan, from the Dallas Cowboys for an undisclosed draft pick, and claimed wide receiver Sloan Thomas off of waivers from Tennessee.
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Thomas, 6-1, 203, was waived by the Titans on August 29, 2006, after playing in one game in 2005 for Tennessee, recording two special teams tackles. The University of Texas product was originally drafted by the Houston Texans in the seventh-round of the 2004 NFL Draft. He finished his college career with 88 receptions for 1,362 yards (15.5 avg.) and 12 touchdowns. His 88 catches rank 10th on the school's career-record list and his 12 scoring grabs are tied for seventh.


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A changing of the guard: From Kelly to Bratton, redux
New Yorkers who have been around long enough may feel like they're experiencing deja vu in the coming weeks.
The city's "new" police commissioner is not so new: Bill Bratton served as the NYPD's top cop from 1994 to 1996.
In addition, the city has even seen this same transition before, when Bill Bratton took over the NYPD from Ray Kelly in 1994 after Kelly served in that post for two years under Mayor David Dinkins.
Len Levitt, in his blog NYPDConfidential, noted how the last time the city saw this changing of the guard, Kelly was leaving with a reputation for being a proponent — even a pioneer — of community policing in minority communities.
Kelly had made recruitment in minority communities a cornerstone of his tenure as commissioner under Dinkins, working to diversify a police force that was 11 percent black in a city with more than double that proportion of black residents.
Ed Mullins, president of the Sergeants Benevolent Association, said there were "incidents when [Kelly] would just come right out and support the community over the cops."
Then Mayor Rudy Giuliani and his appointed commissioner, Bill Bratton, came in and, according to Levitt's blog, "ignored Kelly's many accomplishments, and ridiculed community policing as 'social work.'" Bratton and Giuliani placed a premium on cutting crime, targeting even the lowest offenders as part of their broken windows approach to policing. They also emphasized a need to restructure and reform a department plagued with corruption.
This election is seeing a backwards version of that transition: Kelly is leaving as the hardline commissioner obsessed — successfully so — with bringing crime rates down to record lows, and Bratton is coming in with promises of more community engagement, more outreach and addressing issues like traffic deaths and at-risk youth. At a recent press appearance after a meeting with community leaders, Bratton framed these promises as a departure from a "city that has been so focused on crime reduction and terrorism prevention."
It isn't true, however, that crime only started to decline under Bratton. The drop in crime began with Kelly the first time around: In 1990, right in the middle of Mayor David Dinkins' tenure, murders were at a historic high of 2,254. When Kelly left in 1994, crime data showed 1,927 murders for the previous year.
This time around, Kelly is leaving the city with an all-time record low of 333 murders, as of Dec. 29.
A former police reporter who covered the NYPD under Bratton said he and Giuliani were not inclined to let Kelly get credit for much at all. When data emerged that reflected well on Kelly's ability to bring crime down, they released it in a Friday afternoon "news dump" — "which, of course, was a great time to bury things," the reporter said.
Bratton's relationship with the media has mixed reviews.
He has a reputation for seeming to seek out attention. Some attribute the souring of his and Giuliani's relationship to that proclivity — Giuliani disliked how much credit Bratton was getting for the city's safety.
Levitt said Bratton will bring greater transparency and more "collegial" relationships with other agencies, and even with the press.
Levitt, a longtime thorn in Kelly's side, said that while "Kelly can only have relationships with reporters who agree with him, Bratton is much more accepting."
"He can take criticism better," Levitt said.
But the reporter who covered Bratton's NYPD had a similar criticism of Bratton: Certain reporters would get shut out, whether at the direction of City Hall or Bratton himself.
"But there was no doubt that the guy had and probably still has a big ego and he loved the limelight," the reporter added.
Some law enforcement officials who know Bratton well agree with Levitt, however.
"I think he gets an unfair rep for the way he works with the media," said Al O'Leary, president of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association. He worked under Bratton when Bratton was heading up the Transit Police. "It's been misinterpreted as being a function of ego and it's not."
Rather, O'Leary said, Bratton's relationship with the media was strategic.
"In my very close working experience with him, he used the media to inform, in our case, transit police officers, and in the case of when he was police commissioner, police officers, of what he was trying to get accomplished and what he expected of them," O'Leary explained.
O'Leary said memos can often go unread.
"But one story in a tabloid and your entire force sees it," he said. "I think that was misinterpreted as a function of ego when in truth he communicates with the people he's trying to inspire through the media."
The reporter who had covered the NYPD under Bratton agreed with that assessment in part. When Bratton first took over as police commissioner, he went to work restructuring and "re-engineering" the police department.
"If you talk to him, he'll tell you that it was part of the re-engineering and all of that," the reporter said.
In fact, in a possible example of such use of the media, the same newspaper reported an almost identical memo this time and last time.
The memo, revealed a couple of weeks ago and 20 years ago by the New York Daily News, demands resumes from high-ranking NYPD personnel. De Blasio spokeswoman Lis Smith told the News the request "is a standard procedure practiced by Commissioner Bratton."
"He has used it in every department he's gone into as a way to evaluate the department as a whole and to get to know the people he will be working with," she said.
When asked after a post-Christmas NYPD graduation ceremony if there were specific people he felt should get to keep their positions, Kelly replied tersely, "I'm not going to comment on that."
But according to the former NYPD reporter, Kelly was not pleased when Bratton did this the first time around.
"The first thing Bratton did was he kind of fired the top Kelly guys in the department," the reporter said. "Fired them, forced them to retire, whatever."
The reporter credited it as "kind of a smart move if you want to reorganize an organization," as Bratton was attempting to, but said it added to the perception of trying to deny Kelly credit for any substantive progress.
This time, after 12 years in his post, the progress the 47-year veteran of the force has made can't be denied.
And some of that progress has continued from the work he began at the very start of his first stint as commissioner.
"The department is more diverse than ever," said Louis Turco, an active-duty lieutenant and the president of the Lieutenants Benevolent Association. "I see my promotees and my union being more diverse than it's ever been."
This is something Kelly pointed to as an element of his legacy of which he is most proud.
"This is the most diverse city in the world and we now have the most diverse police department in the world," Kelly said after presiding over an NYPD graduation ceremony with the mayor recently.
Kelly said the graduation ceremony reminded him of his own graduation from the department 47 years prior.
"It was a great career choice for me," he said almost wistfully. "I've never regretted it."
Kelly held nearly every rank in the department, until making it up to Two-Star Chief and being promoted directly to First Deputy Commissioner in 1990.
Eugene O'Donnell, who said he has advised de Blasio on public safety issues, agreed that the city has made great strides under Kelly.
"There's still work to be done, but there's no doubt there's been a miracle," O'Donnell said.
O'Donnell was an officer under Kelly at the 71st precinct in Crown Heights, Brooklyn when Kelly was a captain in the early 1980s. O'Donnell described his former boss as a "singular leader" of "the highest integrity."
"He was a great leader then and he's a great leader now," O'Donnell said.
O'Donnell said cops used to call Kelly "commissioner" even back then.
"It was obvious to us that he was going to be at the top of the organization," he said. "There was nowhere for Ray Kelly to go but the highest ranks of the organization."
Other retired law enforcement have been quoted suggesting Kelly did not spend enough time on the street to really have a sense of what it's like for cops on the ground. But O'Donnell disputed published reports alleging resentment towards Kelly for his fairly meteoric rise through the ranks.
He said that as a captain, Kelly had no problem "putting his hands in the mix and backing us up in the field."
"He has an uncanny memory for people's names," O'Donnell said. "He seemed to know every single member of the department. He had an encyclopedic knowledge of the job and the people on the job."
O'Donnell pointed out Kelly's "unique connection" to terrorism: He was the police commissioner during the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, and earned national notoriety for his handling of the subsequent investigation, even being offered (but turning down) the position of FBI director.
"The chilling thing is," O'Donnell said, "they promised to come back."
That vow, and the ultimately successful return, would necessarily have bolstered Kelly's vigilance. Kelly has in his second run as commissioner been sometimes criticized for going too far with surveillance in the name of counterterrorism. His anti-terrorism efforts have also been behind unprecedented technological advances in the NYPD.
"If he's a little bit of a zealot on this, well, he should be," O'Donnell said. "These guys tried to take the building down in '93 and they failed, and then they came back."
"That's a narrative you can never ignore," O'Donnell added. "That was a momentously horrific execution of a plan."
Kelly repeated twice after the recent graduation ceremony that he had no regrets, speaking warmly of a career he said was perfect for him.
Just a few months ago, when asked what the hardest part of being a cop is, Kelly paused, seeming to struggle for an answer.
"You know, I love it," he said finally. "So I don't see it being a hard — you know, I was a police officer. So I don't see it — I never saw it as being hard or challenging. It's either in your blood or it isn't. I can't think of too many things that are hard. There's excitement, there's an element of danger but that's just the reality of it."
That was at a benefit dinner for the windows and children of cops and firefighters killed in the line of duty. Though he grew increasingly defensive as his legacy seemed to come under greater scrutiny in final weeks of his tenure, his love for the police force never seemed to waver. He would tout statistics and poll numbers and be dismissive of complaints he said were enlarged by media reports, political campaigns and lawsuits. But at the same time, he maintained the job was "just a wonderful opportunity" for him and his family.
As for Bratton, Kelly was able to muster some kind words with just a few days left to go.
"Bill Bratton's very experienced," Kelly said after the graduation ceremony. "I'm sure he'll do a good job."
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DIY: Save big on laundry detergent
You'd never think of washing your clothes without detergent, or making your own. Maybe it's time you did.
When it comes to laundry detergent, Americans pay plenty for a never-ending cascade of hyperbole: "New!" (No, it's not.) "Improved!" (How do you improve soap?) "Ultra!" (Ultra?)
The latest twist is to sell us less product at a higher price with "ultra-new" concentrated detergents. Gee, that certainly sounds thrifty.
Well, here's a dirty secret that the suds salespeople don't want you to know: Some people get OK results with no detergent at all. And others save 90% of the cost of store-bought by making it themselves.
Check out news story we just did, then meet me on the other side for more.
Is detergent necessary?
The blog Funny about Money decided to forgo detergent completely as part of an experiment. Here's a quote:
"By and large, all of the freshly washed clothing came out with an odor: It smelled of clean water!"
You might be surprised to learn that, while clothing has been around in some form for hundreds of thousands of years, laundry detergent is relatively new. And yet, ancient people were still able to get their clothing clean. How?
As it turns out, the main ingredient other than water is agitation. Ancient people used rocks and rivers, but your modern washing machine can clean lightly soiled clothes by just pushing them around in water. In other words, you can get away without using detergent at all.
But if the idea of using nothing more than water to wash your gym socks sounds a little scuzzy, that's cool. Make your own detergent. It's not hard.
A quick search online will show you that there's no shortage of homemade laundry soap recipes. Here's one we found that seems to work pretty well. You'll need:
- 4 cups of water.
- 1/3 bar of cheap soap, grated.
- 1/2 cup washing soda (not baking soda).
- 1/2 cup of Borax (20 Mule Team).
- 5-gallon bucket for mixing.
- 3 gallons of water.
First, mix the grated soap in a saucepan with 4 cups of water, and heat on low until the soap is completely dissolved. Add hot water/soap mixture to 3 gallons of water in the 5-gallon bucket, stir in the washing soda and Borax, and continue stirring until thickened.
Let the mix sit for 24 hours, and voila! Homemade laundry detergent.
There are lots of other recipes online. A great, detailed article and recipe can be found at The Simple Dollar.
We also have a video of the process we described above on our Web site. Of course, we wouldn't just post a recipe without trying it out first. I made and washed several loads of clothes with the homemade detergent. I couldn't tell the difference between store-bought and homemade.
Total cost per load? In the neighborhood of 2 cents. Store- bought detergent, depending on what you buy and where you buy it, can cost about 20 cents per load -- 10 times more.
So, there are at least two alternatives to the agitation of paying a bunch of money for laundry detergent: Ditch it altogether and use nothing more than water in your washer, or save 90% by making your own laundry detergent.
But here's a final idea for those who don't intend to do either of the above: If you're going to stick with store-bought, try using less. Since doing this story, I've just been filling the bottom of the measuring cup. Guess what? No difference in smell or cleanliness that I can detect. Go figure!
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OSHKOSH, WI (WTAQ) - Oshkosh police say they need the public's help in locating a missing and endangered woman.
37-year-old Julie McCauley, who is cognitively disabled, was last seen by a family member Tuesday. McCauley was last heard from Thursday at 7 a.m. when she contacted work in Oshkosh by phone and said she wouldn't be coming in.
Police say according to Julie's cell phone records, she may have been in the area of Hillwind Road in Plymouth on Thursday.
She's described as 5'7", 215 pounds with green eyes and brown hair.
Anyone who knows of Julie's whereabouts should contact the Oshkosh Police Department at (920) 236-5700 or call your local police department.


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1. Pack a smart carry-on. Pack a change of clothes, medicine, eyeglasses, toiletries and anything else you cannot live without in a carry-on in the event your luggage is lost or delayed.
2. Reduce wrinkling. Pack clothes in tissue paper and place in plastic bags.
3. Save space by rolling clothes rather than folding them. This also can decrease your chances of wrinkling.
4. Be realistic. Pack only what you need and leave the rest at home for another time. Those who travel frequently say to lay out everything you want to pack but then only pack half of it.
5. Pack extra underwear. This is the only time you can break the less is more rule.
6. Pack a couple of plastic bags. They don't take up much space and are useful for separating wet or dirty clothing.
7. Pack toiletries in a plastic bag. Air pressure changes may cause breaks or leaking. Also keep in mind that bag handlers are not known for being gentle with your bags.
8. Think comfort. Take comfortable clothes that are easy to clean and care for. Pack comfortable shoes and only those that you have worn before. Traveling is not the time to break in new shoes.
9. Always pack a small umbrella – just in case.
10. Consider packing an empty lightweight and expandable bag. This will come in handy for purchases when it comes time to pack up and return home.
11. If traveling with a companion, exchange at least one outfit to pack in one another's bag. This will come in handy if one bag is lost or delayed.
12. Choose lightweight luggage and bags with wheels. You never know how far you will have to carry your bags once you arrive at your destination.
13. Make a list of all items in checked bags. If your luggage is lost you will have an easier time making a claim.
14. Use luggage tags on all bags – carry on and checked – with your name and contact information.
15. Mark your bags with something unique (a red ribbon, a fun sticker). This will make it easier for you to identify and more difficult for someone else to mistake as theirs. This will also come in handy if you lose your bags and need to describe them to an agent.
16. Don't leave your packing to the last minute. Packing in advance reduces your chances of forgetting items and allows you time to purchase those you still need.
17. Have fun! Packing should not be stressful. Consider it the first leg of your journey!
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From Banjul to Bangalore, from Porto Alegre to Pretoria, tech-savvy do-gooders collaborated with subject-matter experts in a wide variety of fields to build software applications for the benefit of their local communities and the world. Random Hacks of Kindness hackers came from diverse backgrounds: in addition to computer programmers, RHoK events included designers, project managers, PR and marketing professionals, UI/UX specialists, GIS mappers, and many more people volunteering their professional skills for a good cause.
Events around the world started off with anticipation high as participants followed other global locations via Ustream and Twitter and shared videos of RHoK introductions in other locations. Many events began with a Friday night meet-up and problem brainstorming session where experts and hackers began building out concepts to respond to proposed problem definitions. The experts proposing problems for RHoK Global included, among others, Oxfam, UN OCHA, Doctors Without Borders, the World Bank, InSTEDD, Ushahidi, Fragile Oasis, as well as numerous challenges posed by local, municipal and national government agencies.
Numerous hackers collaborated across RHoK locations, helping teams in other cities build their hacks. Some of those collaborations included:
- Hackers at RHoK Bogota, experienced in building the ATAOLI shelter management system from RHoK #3, gave input to team Sheltr in Philadelphia, which built a hack that lets Philadelphia homeless shelters publish the number of beds they have available in real time.
- Hackers in Montreal and Toronto worked together on WaterVoices, an app begun at the WaterHackathon RHoK Community Event in October that uses SMS to allow First Nations to alert officials to water quality issues.
- RHoK Milwaukee and RHoK Portland hackers collaborated on a hack allowing bicycle commuters to log their commutes.
- Teams at RHoK Austin, RHoK Philadelphia and RHoK San Francisco worked together on Hack2Unify, building an online collaboration platform for people and organizations working to change the world. The distributed Hack2Unify team already has plans to continue work on the hack and is talking to various potential collaborators about follow-up.
- By searching the RHoK problem sets, two teams in Portland and Boston were linked together on similar solutions for disaster awareness, SAARAA and Coordinate, to reduce duplicated efforts and increase capability for users.
- Participants and RHoK San Francisco, RHoK Toronto and RHoK Montreal all joined in a global Samoa Cyclone Simulation to support the building of the Samoan disaster preparedness system.
- A problem proposed at RHoK Manchester related to supporting farmers through seed-saving was picked up by RHoK Trento and resulted in the Seed Swap App.
RHoK Pretoria
RHoK Global was full of inspiring moments, fruitful collaborations, disruptive innovations and interesting anecdotes. Reports will be flowing in from around the world for many days to come. Here are just a few highlights from the weekend:
- In addition to the winning Sheltr hack at RHoK Philadelphia, which already has interest from the City's Office of Supportive Housing, participants also built a Climate Data Aggregator tool for the World Bank, a mobile app for finding truth in campaign ads, a web tool helping voters prepare the identification they need to vote, and a Reddit-style add on to Philadelphia's Change by Us civic action tool. RHoK Philly followed their event with an immediate debrief, and already has a follow-up meetup planned for January. Read more in this blog post and check out the follow-up article from sponsor TechnicallyPhilly.
- The winning hack at RHoK in San Francisco was Drop2Drink, an application that mapped San Francisco's emergency drinking hydrants and other water sources. RHoKSF participants field-tested the Drop2Drink hack by heading out to pin QR codes on SF emergency drinking water hydrants, and it was all caught on video. San Francisco's RHoK also recognized other great apps including Tin Can, a program that allows people with non-smartphones to access smartphone functionality through a phone call; D2020 a game building tool and hackathon campaign to help people build games ot change the world; and BlindSpot an app-in-development to assist teachers in improving their classroom effectiveness. Read more about RHoK San Francisco here.
RHoK San Francisco
- RHoK Bangalore participants built hacks focusing on access to jobs for unskilled workers and already has sponsors interested in incubating and fostering the development of all winning hacks. A RHoK Bangalore team also made a field trip to present RHoK to Apple Founder Steve Wozniak and get him to sign a T-shirt.
RHoK Bangalore
- RHoK Tel Aviv resulted in two projects focusing on accessibility issues: Appcessible targets web users with low vision or reading difficulties and Know Ahead supports the creation of a database of accessible locations within a city. Tel Aviv's third project, Addictaid, helps out hapless Facebook addicts while simultaneously supporting good causes! Read RHoK Tel Aviv's blog post here.
- RHoK had events in two U.K. cities this past weekend. RHoK Oxford was sponsored by Oxfam at the White October offices and included projects like a Fair Trade finder, a real world "like" button for campaigning and advocacy and a data visualization map for projects of the International Aid Transparency Initiative.
RHoK Oxford
- RHoK London was convened by MyBnk and focused on building apps relating to financial illiteracy and financial exclusion among U.K. youth. Resulting hacks included Pound Around the World, an online game teaching kids purchasing power parity (PPP) by educating them on the value of a pound in different parts of the world.
- RHoK Trento teams (including a team working remotely from Maputo, Mozambique) worked on 9 different problems, from the Seed Swap App pitched at RHoK Manchester, to the Happy Bird Mobile App (begun at October's WaterHackathon RHoK Community Event in Tel Aviv) to projects like Peer learning & peer networking for pineapple farmers, Smart urban planning, Assessing (and aggregating) beehive health, Disease / Sickness Reporting System (DSRS), Improving public transportation reliability to encourage people reduce their carbon footprint and Lost and Found. Read more about RHoK Trento in their blog post.
RHoK Trento
- RHoK NYC was co-located with a Farm Bill Hackathon happening the same weekend, and a RHoK team ended up winning prize in the Farm Bill competition as well. A team from RHoK NYC was also working on the Google Person Finder project and managed to fix three bugs in the first day of the hackathon.
- RHoK Manchester built a hack proposed by New Hampshire public radio for monitoring extreme weather events. NHPR not only contributed a challenge to RHoK, they also interviewed RHoK Manchester's organizer from Small Dog Electronics live on radio last week. Read RHoK Manchester's blog post here.
- The first RHoK event in Princeton, NJ resulted in 5 great projects including an app to test and treat patients remotely, a mobile phone-powered PA system, rainfall data vizualization, text based job networking in Kenya and a tag to raise awareness about the sources of retail products. Read more in RHoK Princeton's blog post here.
- RHoK Banjul, in The Gambia built tools for tracking weather changes, like Improved Weather Data Collection & Transmission, which transmits data from weather monitoring stations nationwide to the National Meteorology Department via SMS, and Implement Humidity Slide Functionality with Software which updates Gambia's outdated Humidity Slide Rule software to calculate dew point temperature, vapor pressure and relative humidity. Gambia's leading microfinance institution, GAWFA, also participated in RHoK Banjul, supporting the creating of Management of Microfinance Records, a tool to increase accuracy and analysis of microloan data. Read more about RHoK Gambia in their blog post.
- RHoK Warsaw, RHoK's first event in Poland, was a great success. Projects focused on widely varied themes from support for cancer patients, access to food coorperatives and transparency in government to bike path infrastructure, animal adoption, youth activism and air pollution. Read more in RHoK Warsaw's blog post here.
RHoK Warsaw
- RHoK Berlin's third RHoK event rallied a strong RHoK community in that city with over 60 people participating and exciting projects built, including Broken Lifts, a website providing mobility-impaired Berliners with information about subway stops made inaccessible by non-working elevators, and Offlike, "a like button for the real world" design to increase communities' engagement in local problems.
RHoK Berlin
- Participants at the first Austin, Texas RHoK event got encouragement from NASA astronaut and Fragile Oasis founder Ron Garan, onsite to pitch and hack on a problem definition of his own. RHoK Austin teams also worked on hacks with both global and local relevance including: The Ready Global App allowing Williamson County users can opt-in to receive push notifications of significant events or impending emergencies in the area; Sahana Eden, an Open Source framework to build applications for Emergency Management; Community Technology Resource Map, a project mapping existing technology resources in a common database to make it easier for users to find services; Let's Give Millions of People a Voice Who Currently Can't Speak, an open-source AAC product that allows users to add their own photographs and symbols and Tracking Student Success, which gives administrators of Breakthrough Austin (a college preparation program for low-income students who will be the first in their families to graduate from college) a tool to collect and analyze data on the students' progress. Read RHoK Austin's blog post here.
- About 45 people participated in the first RHoK Portland event last weekend, working on 14 different projects ranging from low-cost water purity tech sensors, tracking of cell phone and wifi strengths in disaster-damaged areas and camp survey mapping through GPS, to citizen engagement with legislators and an Open211 social services directory. Read more about RHoK Portland and catch some video from the event here.
- Toronto's third RHoK event was the most successful yet, with continued progress made on the WaterVoices project from WaterHackathon Toronto (in collaboration with RHoK Montreal) as well as apps relating to safer biking, wound triage, crowdsourced language resources, open data and building development. Read more about RHoK Toronto here.
- The RHoK Montreal's first event was won by the aptly-named Bacteria Detecto-Droid Team for an Android app that will allow users to run a photo of bacteria plates through an image recognition software to provide easy and low-cost water monitoring, particularly in developing countries. Montreal's other projects included peer learning and networking for pineapple farmers in Sri Lanka, security alerts for humanitarian workers in Haiti, crowdsourcing the development of underserved language resources and First Nation access to water and sanitation in Canada. Hear more about Montreal's projects in their YouTube updates here.
- Milwaukee's first RHoK event resulted in 7 different projects including 3 data visualization projects with a water focus: a visualization of H2OScore's water usage data, a dashboard visualizing data from Watech of America's complex water sensor equipment and visualizations of data published by the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewage District. Other Milwaukee projects ranged from assessing behive health and crowdsourcing crisis events to bicycle commute mapping and a virtual simulation of aquaponics. Read more in Milwaukee's blog post here.
- In Bogota, hackers not only collaborated with a Philadelphia team on shelter management, they also worked on a project to improve critical simulation exercises for teams learning about humanitarian response.
- At RHoK Boston, in addition to the winning Coordinate hack, which allows emergency response officials to plot hazards in an accurate and structured manner, the ATC 20 Mobile Application for Sahana and Localization Tools for e-Learning Modules (Numbers and Data Fluency) project also won recognition from the judges.
- RHoK's first event in Belgium had a participant traveling from as far away as Paris to propose a problem and enlist hackers to work on Sigmah, a Humanitarian Project Management Open Source Software. A Belgian NGO Tumbador worked with a team to build a system that will assist them and other NGOs in event management, and another attendee built out the concept of the Osimov Project, a system to synthesize numerous input streams of information into concrete problem definitions.
RHoK Belgium
Thank you to all the dedicated hackers, experts and organizers who came out to spend the weekend volunteering their time to make the world a better place. The next step is to get these hacks out into the world where they can start making a difference. We look forward to following the action and sharing updates here in the weeks to come.


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Katherine Wilson, a convert and Rhode Island resident who works with female victims of violence and sexual assault, said the media, by focusing on Russell's faith, missed a chance to speak about domestic violence. She believes Muslim women converts are perceived negatively because some people see their choice of faith as a knock against their own decisions.
"I believe this is partially due to white privilege in that there is not an understanding why an 'all-American girl' would give up her privilege-assumed, carefree lifestyle," said Wilson. "I think it bothers people that an 'all-American woman' would walk away from what they think is a great life, which is a stereotype within itself."
While such stereotypes still annoy these women, many say they have grown tired of having to explain their decisions to convert. Which doesn't mean they aren't trying to change minds.
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Inhaled Corticosteroids for Long-Term Control of Asthma
Combinations of an inhaled corticosteroid and a long-acting beta2-agonist:
These medicines are used in a metered-dose or dry powder inhaler. Inhalers may be used differently, depending on the medicine used. Always read the directions to be sure you or your child is using the inhaler correctly.
How It Works
All forms of corticosteroids reduce inflammation in the airways that carry air to the lungs (bronchial tubes) and decrease the mucus made by the bronchial tubes. This makes it easier to breathe.
Inhaled corticosteroids treat inflammation in the airway, and only very small amounts of the medicine are absorbed into the body. So these medicines don't tend to cause the serious side effects, such as weakening of the bones, that corticosteroids can cause when taken in liquid, pill, or injection form (systemic corticosteroids).
Why It Is Used
Inhaled corticosteroids are the preferred treatment for long-term control of mild persistent, moderate persistent, or severe persistent asthma symptoms in children, teens, and adults. They help control narrowing and inflammation in the bronchial tubes. In general, they are part of daily asthma treatment and are used every day.
Different types of medicines are often used together in the treatment of asthma. For example, inhaled corticosteroids are often used together with long-acting beta2-agonists for persistent asthma. Medicine treatment for asthma depends on a person's age, his or her type of asthma, and how well the treatment is controlling asthma symptoms.
Your doctor will work with you to help find the number and dose of medicines that work best.
How Well It Works
According to the United States National Asthma Education and Prevention Program (NAEPP), inhaled corticosteroids are the preferred long-term treatment for asthma.1 If the inhaled corticosteroid does not control asthma symptoms well enough, other medicines, such as a long-lasting beta2-agonist or leukotriene pathway modifier, may be used.
Inhaled corticosteroids are the most powerful and most effective medicine for long-term control of asthma in most people. When taken consistently, they improve lung function, improve symptoms, and reduce asthma attacks and admissions to the hospital for asthma.1
Side Effects
All medicines have side effects. But many people don't feel the side effects, or they are able to deal with them. Ask your pharmacist about the side effects of each medicine you take. Side effects are also listed in the information that comes with your medicine.
Here are some important things to think about:
Side effects of inhaled corticosteroids are uncommon at the usual dose. Side effects (many of which occur only with high doses) may include:
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has reported that salmeterol may make an asthma attack worse and may increase the risk of death. If your or your child's wheezing gets worse after taking this medicine (Advair Diskus), call your doctor right away.
To minimize or prevent side effects of corticosteroids, the person with asthma should:
See Drug Reference for a full list of side effects. (Drug Reference is not available in all systems.)
What To Think About
Most doctors recommend that everyone who uses a metered-dose inhaler (MDI) also use a spacer, which is attached to the MDI. A spacer may deliver the medicine to the lungs better than an inhaler alone. And for many people a spacer is easier to use than an MDI alone. Using a spacer with inhaled corticosteroids can help reduce their side effects and result in less use of oral corticosteroids.
Taking medicine
Medicine is one of the many tools your doctor has to treat a health problem. Taking medicine as your doctor suggests will improve your health and may prevent future problems. If you don't take your medicines properly, you may be putting your health (and perhaps your life) at risk.
There are many reasons why people have trouble taking their medicine. But in most cases, there is something you can do. For suggestions on how to work around common problems, see the topic Taking Medicines as Prescribed.
Advice for women
If you are pregnant, breast-feeding, or planning to get pregnant, do not use any medicines unless your doctor tells you to. Some medicines can harm your baby. This includes prescription and over-the-counter medicines, vitamins, herbs, and supplements. And make sure that all your doctors know that you are pregnant, breast-feeding, or planning to get pregnant.
It is not known whether inhaled fluticasone, flunisolide, beclomethasone, or triamcinolone may be harmful to the fetus of a pregnant woman with asthma. Budesonide is not expected to harm a fetus. A review of the animal and human studies on the effects of asthma medicines taken during pregnancy found few risks to the woman or her fetus. It is safer for a pregnant woman with asthma to be treated with asthma medicines than for her to have asthma symptoms and asthma attacks.2 Poor control of asthma is a greater risk to the fetus than asthma medicines are.2 If you are or get pregnant, talk with your doctor but do not immediately stop using your asthma medicine.
It is not known whether inhaled fluticasone, flunisolide, beclomethasone, triamcinolone, or budesonide passes into breast milk. Talk to your doctor if you have asthma and are breast-feeding a baby.
Concerns for children
There has been some worry that children who use inhaled corticosteroids may not grow as tall as other children. In the studies done so far, there was a very small difference in height and growth in children using inhaled corticosteroids compared to children not using them. When these children stopped using inhaled corticosteroids, their growth increased. It is expected that even though using inhaled corticosteroids may slow growth at first, children will still grow to a normal height.3 But no study has gone on long enough for experts to be sure. The difference in height is very small, and this effect is rare. Children who use inhaled corticosteroids should have their height checked once or twice a year.
One study noted that children who use inhaled corticosteroids do not have an increased risk for broken bones (fractures) compared to those who are not using the medicine.4
Try to avoid giving your child an inhaled medicine when he or she is crying, because not as much medicine is delivered to the lungs.
Follow-up care is a key part of your treatment and safety. Be sure to make and go to all appointments, and call your doctor if you are having problems. It's also a good idea to know your test results and keep a list of the medicines you take.
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Good Question: Eco-Friendly Sandwich Bags?
Here's a good question from Ayse, who is looking for a better way to pack her sandwiches.
Are there any eco-friendly sandwich bags out there? I was thinking something along the lines of the biobags that I use to collect compost in my kitchen.
As much as I would like to try to reuse my Ziploc sandwich bags, a smear of yesterday's avocado does not look very appetizing on today's sandwich. And nothing hold a messy sandwich together like a good baggie. If you think about it, this baggie would only have to remain waterproof for about 5 hours until lunch time and then it can start biodegrading right away!
Ayse, yes, there are some better plastic baggie options out there, but first we're going to redirect your question and give you some alternatives. We like baggies too, but when it comes to sandwiches, there are plenty of options.
• First of all, have you considered a washable, reusable container? You could use a plastic container or even a glass box with a lid, if you want to avoid plastic. Here's an Aladdin Lunchbox that is especially good for sandwiches.
• Secondly, did you know that you can wrap sandwiches very securely in wax paper or freezer paper? Here's a great tutorial at Tipnut on wrapping meat securely. It can also be applied to sandwiches. The Drugstore Wrap, at Tipnut.
• Wax paper is compostable, so even if you don't want to wrap your sandwiches, you could also just use wax paper bags, like these: Natural Value Unbleached Wax Paper Bags. You can also put a waxed paper bag inside of a plastic bag to make it more airtight and to let you reuse the plastic bag more easily.
• You can also buy reusable, machine-washable wraps for sandwiches, like this lined Wrap-N-Mat (also available at Whole Foods), or these oilcloth wraps at Etsy. Also check out these Kootsacs.
For better plastic alternatives, try cellulose bags:
• Cellulose Bags at Green Home. These can be recycled with other paper products and are not made of petroleum, and the biodegrade in 30-90 days.
And finally: did you know that Ziploc plastic bags are actually recyclable at some recycling centers? Check your local recycling guidelines to see if they accept plastic number 4. This is not very common in city recycling programs, but Lime.com says that Whole Foods, Wal-Mart, and Wegman's Food Marts will also accept plastic bags for recycling.
Related: Gallery: 9 Cool Lunch Boxes and Bags
(Images: Lime.com; UnMaskIt; Etsy seller RickRackQueen)
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Thanks for the list. I didn't know that wax paper is compostable. Although I take my sandwiches in reusable plastic containers, I (guiltily) use plastic bags for my typical raw lunch veggies. I like the possibility of using the wax paper bags for the veggies, nestled inside a plastic bag to guard against leakage. I can give the wax bags to a friend for composting.
I also like the reusable sandwich sized tuperware thingy. I have some great soy based, unbleached wax paper that I recommend highly btw.
I'd love to find those wax paper bags!
Pixie, I use a small square reusable plastic container for my raw veggies and it keeps 'em nice and fresh till lunch (sometimes a drop a few water droplets over them so they don't get too dry). No leaks (just using gladware) and a good spot for some ranch dip if I am feeling not-so-good ;)
STLcolleen - thanks. I've tried using plastic containers for the veggies, but I start packing too much weight into my bag, so I always seem to revert to the ziplocks. I'm on foot/public transportation, so I try to reduce that element as much as possible. As light as they are, it adds up.
thanks for the list! Of course I've tried to put my sandwiches is tupperware, but the way my husband piles on the ingredients, they never stay together! Maybe I can put a frilly toothpick through like they do at delis, hmmmm... (i'd have to make my own frillies out of wax paper, of course!)
I will definitely give the wax paper wrapping/baggie a try! Yay for composting!
Am I the only one that reuses zip-lock bags? I just wash them with dish soap and let them dry in the rack. I haven't had to buy more in over a year!
kfolks, I did this for years and finally couldn't take it anymore. It's become a speed and convenience thing. Just an excuse, I guess. I do plenty of other green things, but this currently isn't one.
I had no idea I could throw in sandwich bags with grocery bags at the recycling box at the grocery store!
nice list! i am a fan of anything wax-paper since it is compostable!
in spain, where i'm from, everyone wraps sandwiches in aluminum foil. it does a good job of keeping the sandwich tightly packed. i don't pack sandwiches for lunch but just going with one of the ideas in the post, the aluminum foil could be lined w/ wax paper, and re-used multiple times prior to recycling...
I got a set of 4 bags (2 small, 2 medium) from Plum Creek Mercantile at Etsy (http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=6070468).
I love them, I use at least two every day for a sandwich and fruit (berries usually). They seem really durable and you can rinse them between uses or just throw them in the washer. Highly recommended.
I use Ikea's stackable square storage containers--they have a glass lid, lined with silicone. I used to worry that they'd come open, but I throw them in a big bag and they have never opened up. I think container store sells some, too.
I was looking for truely eco-friendly sandwich and snack bags and ended up making my own. The ones that I found were kind of hard to clean or contained vinyl. So I designed ones that are easy to clean and made with 100% organic cotton. I have sandwich wraps, snack bags and drawstring bags to carry snacks or lunches. I'll be adding new products in the coming months. If you have ideas for something you'd like to see, I'd love to hear from you. www.ecolunchgear.com
I just posted and am new to this, I messed up the link to get to my site easier for eco sandwich and snack bags. http://www.ecolunchgear.com


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The Anderson County Sheriff's Office confirms an overturned 18-wheeler is currently blocking traffic on a busy East Texas highway.
The crash happened early Friday morning on Highway 155 South, just south of Frankston.
Dispatchers say the overturned truck is currently blocking the roadway, with traffic down to lane on each side. They advise motorists to avoid the area if at all possible.
It's not clear at this time how the truck overturned, or if any other vehicles were involved. There have been no reports of any injuries at this time.
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Animal is the debut studio album from American recording artist Kesha.
The album was executive produced by Dr. Luke and includes collaborations with producers Max Martin and Benny Blanco.
Kesha's breakthrough came in early 2009 after singing chorus vocals on Flo Rida's number one single "Right Round", although she wasn't credited for this.
The album debuted at the top of the album charts in the United States and Canada with three U.S. Billboard Hot 100 debuts accompanying the album's release, including second single "Blah Blah Blah" which debuted at number seven, as a result of massive digital sales.
Kesha - Animal Album Track listing
1. "Your Love Is My Drug" - 3:06
2. "Tik Tok" - 3:19
3. "Take It Off" - 3:35
4. "Kiss n Tell" - 3:27
5. "Stephen" - 3:32
6. "Blah Blah Blah" (featuring 3OH!3) - 2:52
7. "Hungover" - 3:52
8. "Party at a Rich Dude's House" - 2:55
9. "Backstabber" - 3:06
10. "Blind" - 3:17
12. "Dancing with Tears in My Eyes" - 3:29
13. "Boots & Boys" - 2:56
14. "Animal" - 3:57
International bonus track
UK & Ireland bonus tracks
16. "Dirty Picture Part 2″ (featuring Taio Cruz) - 3:40
The lead single, "Tik Tok", reached the top of the charts in ten countries as well as reaching the top ten in many others. It reached number one in nine countries and set the record for the most digital downloads in a week by a female artist and the total weekly Top 40 Mainstream airplay records in the US. The song also became the longest running number one debut single by a female artist since 1977. The song has had TV placements in the Project Runway promo spots, Melrose Place and So You Think Can Dance.
Album Information
Released January 5, 2010 (US, Canada), February 1, 2010 (2010-02-01) (UK)
Recorded 2009
Genre Pop, electropop, dance
Length 46:18
Label RCA
Producer Dr. Luke, Ammo, Benny Blanco, David Gamson, Greg Kurstin, Max Martin, Tom Neville, Shellback


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Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation (MMRF) Recognizes Outstanding Partners in Academia and Industry
Prestigious Awards Recognize Innovation, Acceleration, and Collaboration
Norwalk, CT — January 22, 2013
The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation (MMRF) today announced that it has awarded Washington University in St. Louis with the MMRF Innovator Award, a team of researchers from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute with the MMRF Accelerator Award, and Millennium: The Takeda Oncology Company with the MMRF Collaborator Award. This is the first year the Foundation has presented these distinguished awards.
"The recipients of these prestigious MMRF Awards—Washington University, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Millennium: The Takeda Oncology Company—have each demonstrated extraordinary vision and a dedication to transforming multiple myeloma research and drug development to improve outcomes for patients," said Kathy Giusti, Founder and CEO of the MMRF and a multiple myeloma patient. "We are proud to have partnered with them for so many years and extend our sincere gratitude for their incredible commitment to our efforts."
MMRF Innovator Award
The MMRF Innovator Award recognizes Washington University in St. Louis for its extraordinary commitment to innovation as a means to improve outcomes for multiple myeloma patients. Washington University was selected for its leadership in the landmark MMRF Clinical Outcomes in Multiple Myeloma to Personal Assessment of Genetic Profile (CoMMpassSM) study. As the first academic institution to join the CoMMpass study, Washington University's early and committed engagement, particularly its willingness to forego rights to potential inventions and to agree to place data generated from the study into the public domain, prompted other institutions to join the study. Washington University has since remained a highly committed partner both in the speed with which it opened and began enrolling patients on CoMMpass, as well as the high-level institutional support it has secured.
MMRF Accelerator Award
The MMRF Accelerator Award recognizes Drs. Anderson, Richardson, Munshi, Laubach, Ghobrial and Schlossman and project manager Dianne Warren at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute for their outstanding efforts and exceptional contributions to the rapid completion of clinical trials supported through the Multiple Myeloma Research Consortium (MMRC), the clinical trials network of the MMRF. Since the inception of the MMRC in 2004, Dana-Farber has consistently led by example with the highest level of enrollment to MMRC-supported clinical trials. In 2012 alone, Dana-Farber contributed to nine MMRC-supported clinical trials by enrolling 47 patients, exceeding any other MMRC Member Institution.
MMRF Collaborator Award
The MMRF Collaborator Award recognizes Millennium: The Takeda Oncology Company for its outstanding commitment to collaboration as a means to advance the research and development of more effective treatments for patients with multiple myeloma. Nowhere was this more evident than Millennium's early and enthusiastic support of the MMRF CoMMpass study. As the first industry member to join the pre-competitive industry consortium, Millennium ensured that this landmark study lost no momentum in opening and motivated others to follow its lead. The company has also partnered with the MMRC to launch highly innovative clinical trials through the MMRC - four trials in 2012 alone and 22 trials overall.
About the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation (MMRF)
The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation (MMRF) was established in 1998 as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization by twin sisters Karen Andrews and Kathy Giusti, soon after Kathy's diagnosis with multiple myeloma. The mission of the MMRF is to relentlessly pursue innovative means that accelerate the development of next-generation multiple myeloma treatments to extend the lives of patients and lead to a cure. As the world's number-one private funder of multiple myeloma research, the MMRF has raised over $200 million since its inception and directs 90% of total budget to research and related programming. As a result, the MMRF has been awarded Charity Navigator's coveted four-star rating for nine consecutive years, the highest designation for outstanding fiscal responsibility and exceptional efficiency. For more information about the MMRF, please visit www.themmrf.org.
About the Multiple Myeloma Research Consortium (MMRC)
The Multiple Myeloma Research Consortium (MMRC) is a 509(a)3 non-profit organization that integrates leading academic institutions to accelerate drug development in multiple myeloma. It is led from MMRC offices in Norwalk, Conn., and comprises 16 member institutions: Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute, Baylor Charles A. Sammons Cancer Center at Dallas, City of Hope, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Emory University's Winship Cancer Institute, the John Theurer Cancer Center at Hackensack University Medical Center, Mayo Clinic, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Ohio State University, Sarah Cannon Research Institute, University Health Network (Princess Margaret Hospital), University of California-San Francisco, University of Chicago, University of Michigan, Virginia Cancer Specialists, and Washington University in St. Louis. The MMRC is the only consortium to join academic institutions through membership agreements, customized IT systems, and an integrated tissue bank. For more information, please visit www.themmrc.org.
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Harold Ahlsen, a former longtime resident of Amityville and graduate of Amityville Schools, died Oct. 21, 2013 at the Maine Veterans Home in Scarborough, Maine. He was 90 years old and a resident of Cape Elizabeth, Maine since 1956.
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21st Century Learning: Putting on Global Lenses
Kindergarten-12th, Social Studies, DPI
The course will examine local and global educational trends and enable teachers to recognize the in?uences of race, ethnicity, gender, religion, and other aspects of culture on a student's development, personality and school performance. It will also aid teachers in considering and incorporating different points of view in their instructional planning. Components of the training will assist teachers in providing evidence for Standards II, III, and IV of the Teacher Evaluation Tool.
Responsiveness to Instruction
Kindergarten-12th, Responsiveness to Instruction, DPI
Professional development is designed to prepare LEA and school teams on the basic foundation and implementation strategies of Responsiveness to Instruction (RtI). The training consists of a series of modules that cover the following topics: Problem-Solving; Functional Assessment; Instruction and Interventions in Reading, Math and Positive Behavior Support: School Presentations; Planning; and Resources.
Positive Behavior Support (PBIS)
Kindergarten-12th, Leadership, DPI
PBIS training provides systematic and individualized strategies for achieving important social and learning outcomes while preventing problem behavior with all students. Training is conducted with school teams that are representative of the staff at their home schools. By training school teams in the principles and practices of PBIS, schools are able to design a system for teaching and encouraging respectful & responsible behaviors, use data to support decision making and continuous improvement, and create an individualized total school climate that supports staff and student behavior and encourages family engagement. The team attends three two-day-each modules to learn the information needed to begin PBIS implementation at their school. They assign team roles, determine effective data management strategies and begin to build a repertoire of behavior management skills. The team determines how to integrate the use of research-based behavior strategies in their school setting to decrease negative behaviors while increasing positive behaviors and student achievement. For more information about training dates and locations, interested schools should contact the PBIS regional coordinator for their area listed on the linked page.
Archaelogy and North Carolina's First Peoples
Kindergarten-12th, Leadership, LEARN NC
This online course explores the science of archaeology and North Carolina's human past. Participants will be introduced to inquiry-based activities that can be adapted to meet their own teaching objectives. The course is open to educators of all subjects and grade levels.
Collaboration and Teaching in a Virtual World - Carolina Online Teacher Program
Kindergarten-12th, 21st Century Skills, LEARN NC
Whether they're assisting teammates in a tactical military battle in Halo or working together in the depths of a dungeon to slay a monster in World of Warcraft, our students are well-acquainted with collaboration in a virtual environment. In this course, you'll explore the online world known as Second Life, learning its communication systems, avatar creation, and how it can enhance student collaboration.
Designing a Virtual Field Trip
Kindergarten-12th, 21st Century Skills, LEARN NC
Use internet resources to design a �virtual field trip� for your students. You'll study strategies and resources to create effective and engaging learning experiences for your students that are aligned to state and national standards.
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Would you rather be an information producer, propagator, or consumer?
In my Bioelectricity class this week, we talked about the propagation of electrical signals in the body. We learned that sensory cells and neurons act like information "producers." As sensory cells in the eye, ear, nose, tongue and body generate the electric signals that stimulate neurons, "information" is produced by the body! This information is then transmitted in the form of action potentials (or "spikes") along myelinated axons which act as "information propagators" as they efficiently and rapidly distribute these signals. These signals may be received by the dendrites of other neurons which act as receivers, or "consumers" of the action potentials.
Learning this material has inspired me to ask: how can biology inspire us as we disseminate "ideas worth spreading?" or as we consider our roles as information producers, information propagators, or an information consumers? How can we best help propagate worthy and novel ideas?
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Anne StantonFeb 22 2012: Maybe biology is giving us the clue that information is holographic in nature. It is flowing in and out all the time, continually recreating complex systems like the physical body, social order, cyberspace. We are always both absorbing information and transmitting information without being aware of it. As we become more conscious or mindful of the true nature of information and ourselves, we hopefully will realise that every bit of information matters, even the bits we aren't consciously disseminating. For example, I am being happy and feeling connected to humanity as a whole right now, and so perhaps I am changing the hologram of human consciousness indirectly by adding some joy and unity to it....this makes every thought and feeling significant, whether or not it is written and sent over any material media like the internet.
Feb 24 2012: I think of the sum of all the information we are exposed to as being more 'quantum', rather than holographic. I realise that word is more apt to describe computers and particle theory these days, but to me, this word seems more appropriate. The separate roles of producer, propagator and consumer somehow don't do justice to the whole experience of living within our consciousness, ecpecially since we interract with the world on so many levels that we are unaware of.
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David Speer, longtime chairman and CEO of Illinois Tool Works Inc. and a member of the Deere & Co. board of directors, has died after a lengthy illness. He was 61. Mr. Speer was elected to the Deere & Co. board in 2008. He had been on medical leave from ITW since October and was replaced by E. Scott Santi as CEO and Robert Morrison as nonexecutive board chairman, the company said in a statement on Sunday. Mr. Speer joined the company in 1978 and held a number of sales, marketing and management positions. He was elected CEO in 2005 and became board chairman in 2006. In addition to his positions with ITW and Deere & Co., Mr. Speer was a trustee of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and on the board of the Northwestern University, Rush Medical Center, United Way of Chicago, the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, CEOs Against Cancer, Rockwell Automation, the Executives' Club of Chicago and Junior Achievement of Chicago. He is board chairman of the Museum of Science and Industry and the Economic Club of Chicago. He is also a member of The Commercial Club and the Business Council. Mr. Speer is a graduate of Iowa State University and the Kellogg School of Business at Northwestern University. He has two grown children and one grandson and lived in Winnetka with his wife Barbara. He is survived by his mother and six siblings, including Debbie Ruthhart, of Rock Island.


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The two faces of the Blackhawks franchise, Jonathan Toews and Patrick Kane combined for a double overtime goal to give Chicago a 4-3 victory. After eliminating last season's champion the Los Angeles Kings, the Blackhawks will compete for the Stanley Cup versus the Boston Bruins. If the saying you must beat the champ to be the champs is correct the Hawks are on their way to another Stanley Cup victory.
In Game 5 Blackhawk fans could not have asked for a much better start. The Hawks were all over the Kings and jumped out to a two goal lead in the opening six minutes. First Jonathan Quick let in a soft goal on a seemingly harmless long range shot by Duncan Keith. The puck found a tiny seam between Quick's pads at 3:42 of the first frame. Then the player of the game made a goal scorer's goal as Kane had Quick down and showed great patience with the puck. The Hawks then cruised to a two goal advantage and it looked like this game would be all but over soon.
Give the Kings high marks and it really should have come as no surprise they came out with a spirited effort to begin period two. Couple with the fact the Blackhawks didn't have the same focus or energy as they had in the opening 20 minutes which gave LA momentum.
It looked like Andrew Shaw got away with a charging penalty and Matt Greene later retaliated and was called for cross checking. Shaw took the punishment and the Hawks went to the power play.
It seemed as if the Blackhawks could have put a dagger into the Kings chances with a goal but just the opposite occurred. The Hawks power play was even worse than usual in Game 5 and LA ended up scoring a shorthanded goal to cut the lead in half. Corey Crawford didn't control a rebound and there were a few other errors on the play. All of which resulted in a shorthanded goal by Dwight King at 9:28 of the second frame.
The 22,237 at the United Center were deflated and the Blackhawks couldn't get the same effort back as the first period. Despite what some may think, the Hawks didn't lose a two goal lead in this game because they went into a defensive shell to start the second period.
They lost the lead because LA played with more energy as the Hawks were caught not moving their feet. The Kings were desperate and were winning battles that they lost to start the game. Players like Drew Doughty, Anze Kopitar and Jarret Stoll were engaged and made a difference. Quick, who started off rocky was better and Crawford looked to be fighting the puck a bit.
Early in the third period, Johnny Oduya was stopped by a Quick blocker save as the net looked to be wide open. If Oduya scored it would have been a 3-1 lead and the Hawks may have had a much easier night. Shortly after Quick's outstanding stop Bryan Bickell was whistled for a boarding penalty and trouble soon followed for the Blackhawks.
Anze Kopitar out-battled both Keith and Niklas Hjalmarsson and Crawford couldn't control a rebound. Kopitar made no mistake and put the puck behind Crawford to even the game at two with a power play goal.
The Hawks were in a real fight as Jeff Carter missed a prime chance to give the Kings the lead late in the period and that left the door open for more Kane heroics. Bickell was able to get the puck from Justin Williams who argued he was tripped behind the Kings net. Bickell delivered the puck to a wide open Kane who gave the Hawks a 3-2 lead at 16:08.
The drama wasn't over as Bickell iced a puck with about 15 seconds to go in the period. Stoll had been winning important faceoffs throughout the game and was on to face Toews. Stoll won the draw as the puck went back to the point and a Kopitar shot was tipped in by Mike Richards to send the game to overtime.
Richards had been out of the lineup since Game 1 with concussion like symptoms. After his deflection one had to wonder if the Kings were going to force a Game 6.
The way the Kings came out on the first overtime it appeared they were going to win the game. They were the better team as they outshot the Hawks 11-6 in the extra frame and had some good scoring chances. Crawford saved his best work for OT and was the main reason the series isn't going back to LA.
The very best teams can get away without playing complete games and still manage to win. That has occurred more than a couple of times in the post season, but it won't be the best recipe for success against the Bruins.
In the second OT period the Blackhawks came out aggressive and were able to push the pace. They were confident and that's why having a three games to one series lead helps a great deal. The Hawks were not afraid to make a mistake and in the end the Kings did just that.
The Kings were caught deep in the Hawks zone as Bickell was able to get the puck quickly to Toews. The Hawks captain led an odd man rush with Kane. Toews made a beautiful pass to Kane who one-timed a well-placde wrist shot past Quick and the Hawks became Western Conference champs.
A noticeable change in Game 5 was Dave Bolland had one of his best outings in a long time. Joel Quenneville went to Bolland's line to play against Carter as they were used in a shutdown role. Bolland and his crew played more minutes than the Shaw line and were effective.
The Bruins roll four lines and Bolland will need to bring his "A" game for the Hawks to have their best chance versus Boston. If Game 5 is any indication, he is back in form.
Blackhawks fans should be concerned about facing the Bruins but the same can be said for fans of Boston. The Bruins haven't faced a team all season like the Blackhawks and that includes their last opponent Pittsburgh.
I will be back on Tuesday to break down the series and it should be a great one.
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Based on my LMP (1-15-13) I'm 6w5d
I went to do an u/s two dad ago and all we saw was a sac, no baby. The doc said maybe its too early or the baby did attach. She didnt say "miscarriage" I don't think she wanted me to stress, but after doing research of my own, I kinda figure it 50/50. Basically a waiting game. I try not to think of it because my husband wants a baby so bad. I have two from my previous relationship. One boy 4yrs and one girl 6yrs, no complications during pregnancy.
The thought of going to the bathroom checking my self to see if I'm bleeding it the worse thing on my mind. How can I ease myself? I have seen many stories of a baby popping up a week or two later. I'm so nervous, anxious. Help!


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Twenty three numbered pages, staple set and in at least excellent condition. Early explanations of how and why to purchase the Day-Fan brand radio. Full of tips of a "New" technology called radio. Along with entertaining pictures and cartoons as well as informative drawings...
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Game of Radio playing cards. Very old game and I am not even sure if it is all here, nor do I have any concept of how to play it. On top of that it is not even in real good shape. Actually is a bit rough, but the old time graphics on the BENT cards are real neat. The box has neat graphics also but is faded and not very legible, AND has no ends so it is more like a sleeve inside a sleeve. There are a total of 48 cards consisting of four each of the following letters...