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Every spring, thousands of Bay Area runners dress up in colorful, often outlandish, costumes for the rollicking Bay to Breakers footrace across San Francisco. Usually, everybody goes home with a good laugh -- but not this year.
Stephen Martin, a 31-year-old runner from Santa Clara, died Friday from injuries he suffered in an attack shortly after he and his friends, dressed as troll dolls, had posed for photographs with another group on race day, May 20, in Golden Gate Park. The San Francisco Police Department posted the photos Monday on its website in the hopes someone could identify the suspect or members of the group Martin had met.
What began as a friendly photo opportunity apparently turned into a tragic killing that may remind the Bay Area of another attack following a sporting event. That was the vicious assault on Giants baseball fan Bryan Stow in March 2011 outside Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. The beating by two men left Stow gravely disabled, but he survived. Martin's attacker reportedly acted more quickly and threw all of one punch, but it was enough to send Martin crashing fatally onto hard pavement at one of the most beautiful public parks in the world.
Police spokesman Sgt. Michael Andraychak said Martin and his friends were "interacting socially" in Golden Gate Park after the race with a group of about 12 men and women, some of them wearing 49ers football team jerseys. One woman wore an orange tutu.
At some point, Andraychak said, an "altercation over a cellphone" broke out between members of the two groups. Martin was standing with a friend when a man from the other group came from his side and punched him. Police did not know if the other group had participated in the race.
The attack happened shortly before 5 p.m. in the park's Sharon Meadow hours after most of the 50,000 runners and walkers had covered the 12-kilometer course and far away from the finish line and the official post-race celebration area. The race started next to San Francisco Bay and ended near Ocean Beach.
Police said Martin's head hit the ground, knocking him out. He never regained consciousness at San Francisco General Hospital. His family said in a statement that he suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and deeper brain damage two weeks later. Doctors advised the family that he was brain-dead, and the family elected to take him off life support Friday morning.
Three weeks later, San Francisco police are still looking for the attacker as Martin's friends plead for more witnesses to come forward. They are turning to social media for help.
Martin's friends have created the Facebook page, "Were you at Bay to Breakers? We need your help!!!" to encourage people who may have seen Martin attacked.
The website www.sanfranciscopolice.org has two photographs of Martin's group with members of the other group that may, or may not, have included his attacker. Martin and his friends had run dressed as troll dolls with sunglasses. He's pictured in a bright green wig.
On his personal Facebook page, Martin indicated he studied at UC Santa Barbara and is from Tehachapi.
"Stephen was a powerhouse of a guy," Erik Sundquist, a colleague of Martin's, wrote on a Facebook page. "He was the kind of guy when we walked into a room, he lit it up with his presence."
Martin owned a business based out of San Jose, SMA California, on Camden Avenue, which provides consulting work for homeowners associations.
"In a short period of time, he created a product and service that superseded everything else out there," Sundquist wrote.
Donations for funeral and hospital expenses are being accepted and can be mailed to 2059 Camden Drive, No. 151, San Jose, CA 95124.
San Francisco police are urging anyone who may have witnessed the incident or taken pictures in the area of Sharon Meadow near the Sharon Art Studio and tennis courts to see the photos posted at www.sanfranciscopolice.org, or contact them anonymously at 415-575-4444 or text-a-tip to TIP411 and include "SFPD" in the subject line.
Contact Mark Gomez at 408-920-5869. Follow him at Twitte.com/markmgomez.

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Published on May 21st, 2012 | by Christian Cawley
An Unearthly Child/100,000 BC
So, back to the beginning. Remarkably, after 7 years of Kasterborous, this is the first time that anyone has reviewed the very first episode, the one that started it all off back on November 23rd 1963, and the three following episodes that comprise 100,000 BC.
To commemorate next year's 50th anniversary of Doctor Who, we're reviewing every episode from the beginning to 1989, thereby presenting on Kasterborous a complete set of reviews. But there is a slight twist: rather than regurgitate the opinions of fans as somehow formed in the 1980s as definitive, we're taking a fresh look at these adventures…
The foggy alleyway and the Dixon of Dock Green-style wandering constable are well-known at the introduction of An Unearthly Child, the very first Doctor Who episode, and as familiar as they are these elements are also in place to underline both the unknown, isolated nature of the Doctor and Susan's life, and even act as a metaphor for travelling through the unknown in a police box.
These two aspects also serve to position the opening episode as a powerful piece of drama that soon fades away into an aimless run-around with some cavemen… in conventional Whovian wisdom, in any case. Fortunately the truth is – as always – far, far more interesting: all four episodes are marvellous!
From the domestic beginnings in a school room scenario that predates Grange Hill or Waterloo Road the story quickly establishes that Susan Foreman (Carole Ann Ford) with her foreknowledge of decimalization, difficulty with basic maths and prodigious ability with complex numerical challenges is a bit of an oddball. It is true that Ford's clipped tones help with this – she is truly like no other teenager you have ever seen – but the real icing on the cake is her "grooving" to John Smith and the Common Men on a small transistor radio.
What is so important to this story (and indeed the entire first season) is the relationship between teachers Ian Chesterton (William Russell) and Barbara Wright (Jacqueline Hill). They're clearly fond of each other in that stuffy, BBC manner of the 1960s, but here you see them thrown together – literally at times – into the early throes of a romance. Before they get to that, however, their plan to deal with Susan's oddness and "address administration issue" is to travel to the location out of hours and find out what's going on. Teachers in real life rare seem as vocational as those on TV…
If you haven't already seen the opening episode then you're missing out on an example of 1960s television drama at its finest. The episode's quality cannot be overstated enough, and it is more than the Anthony Coburn's (and the committee's) dialogue that brings events to life. Waris Hussein draws fine performances from the stars, presents each new scene in a fascinating and interesting new way and even encourages the use of realistic, overlapping dialogue. As you know, few conversations in real life follow the A, B, A, B, C, B, A pattern of exchanges between three people; we're always speaking over each other and interrupting, something that is rarely seen on screen.
Soon, the Doctor is introduced. At this stage, he is an unknown quantity; there is a sense of mystery and suspicion about his behaviour – but he remains ever engaging and interesting. Even when contemplating the euthanasia of the injured Za (Derek Newark, who will later turn up in Season 7′s Inferno) to hasten their failed return to the TARDIS in episode 3 (Forest of Fear) William Hartnell proves that he is absolutely perfect casting.
He is the Doctor.
This is the blueprint performance, the tetchiness and impatience, the moments of inspired genius in the face of adversity and the relieved return to the TARDIS. It's all here in a performance from which every successive actor has drawn key elements. You can spot them very easily once you've spent a few minutes in the First Doctor's company. Yes, he is sinister in some ways, but with the charm that Hartnell imbues in the role you never actually want Ian and Barbara to get away from him – Ian might represent the youth and the muscle, but the Doctor is the one that the viewer wants to learn more about.
He is beguiling.
There are plenty of twists and turns in 100,000 BC, as many as you might expect in a four-part classic series story. None of it feels forced, however – there is little padding, and events are driven by the characters, mostly the conflict between the two would be tribe leaders. Even the journeys through the forest are tight and well-paced, and the fight scene in the cave in part four (The Firemaker) is beautifully executed at Ealing studios and presented as a filmed insert.
As highlights go, there are probably three in this serial: the entire first episode, the cliffhanger to The Forest of Fear (the third episode, in which the travellers have made it almost back to the TARDIS only to be ambushed – the camera zoom on Kal is fantastic) and the moment in The Firemaker in which the Doctor proves Kal's murder of the Old Woman. This is frankly brilliant stuff!
It's probably likely that all of those other reviews of this story feel lopsided in favour of the opening episode because of its sheer strength in setting up the concept of Doctor Who so well, something that is only really successfully copied in Rose. This shouldn't detract from the fact that the entire story is one that stands up as an enticing and intriguing introduction to the show. Yes, it's a story about cavemen but contrary to the reputation formed in the 1980s it isn't all "ugs" and a quest for fire. This is an arms race, a struggle between Za and the newcomer Kal (Jeremy Young) and the formation of a communal society rather than a patriarch-led one.
Scheduled at teatime on a Saturday night for young children to gain an understanding of science and history, this is clearly highbrow stuff. The performances of a few of the tribe might leave something to be desired but on the whole this is a group of actors who are playing a people frightened of a coming (mini?) ice age and desperate for survival – hence the quest for fire, which Ian eventually shares with them.
Set against a backdrop of 1963 with assassinations, the nuclear arms race, the narrowly averted conflict of the Cuban missile crisis and the Cold War, some of the metaphors are pretty blatant. Political killings of old women and the attempt to steal the "technology" of fire mirror real world events of the time. It is easy to forget – albeit fascinating – that Doctor Who viewers were living under the almost constant threat of a nuclear war between the west and the Eastern Bloc countries of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union (Russia).
We should be relieved that Kal never got his hands on the secret of fire, lest war break out. The consequences of yet another conflict, just 18 years after World War II, the horror of it turning nuclear were too much for anyone to consider.
Which brings us nicely to The Daleks…
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Excellent review! I never got into the rest of the first serial after the initial episode, partly because it is so damned incredible, imprinting so much of the lore of the show right from the get-go. I'm still blown away by the fact that 50 years ago, Ian told us that the TARDIS was alive, and that we got to see that borne out so beautifully in "The Doctor's Wife." But not just that…the alien nature of Susan and the Doctor, the role of the companions, the idea that the traveling wouldn't be under much control, the first mention of the chamelion circuit being stuck as a police box, that wonderful theme tune… it's all there from the beginning.
That first adventure really did have everything and served as a template for the new series when it came back. It also featured that magnificent original control room with the ceiling design piece. And I'm not sure if anyone really took notice…but in the very first episode, Hartnells' wide open eyes, his dialogue, his verbal fencing with Ian, is very similar to Tom Baker with his mannerisms. He could have passed for Tom's father or uncle. Keep that in mind upon further screenings.
Ian and Barbara's humanity contrasting with Susan and the Doctor's attitudes and actions were eerie. The entire adventure was a magnificent start to an amazing series.
I really enjoyed An Unearthly Child. I think those who bashed it forgot that the serial was so good it started a series that still continues today! Incredible stuff.
Hartnell's often overlooked too, and yet he's fantastic. Such a good Doctor – and the chemistry of that first TARDIS team works brilliantly. William would certanly be proud of Doctor Who's success.
And great review, Christian.
I've always thought this story *as a whole* is one of the best. And it's unremittingly grim after the TARDIS lands in Stone Age times (or at least we assume that's where it lands, as it's never made clear – very bold for the first story in a series that they couldn't have known would be a surefire success.
The characters of the 'cavemen' are nicely shaded – they're capable of craftiness in their primitive way and there's some nice dialogue to convey the way they see the world, particularly with regard to the importance of fire to their survival. A confident triumph, first time round!
I meant the 'grimness' was bold rather than the lack of a clear location/time – forgot the closing bracket!
I keep wondering why the Doctor never goes back to check on Susan…or even gives her much visible thought, really. Then I remember that, from his perspective, she left him over 500 years ago! It's amazing he remembered Sarah Jane, for that matter, as she was a couple hundred years in his rear view mirror. Timey wimey…
I will agree that the opening episode is done to perfection, which Probably has a lot to do that these scenes were written and performed twice, once for the pilot and once for the transmitted version.
Nice touch with the blatant nod at the Cold War.
This does give me an idea of what you expect from the other writers in this review series though.
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I think Ian and Barbara are two of the best companions on the series history. They work together so well and in this story they get across the fear and danger of the unknown so well, whilst at the same time being 'so human', Barbara especially when wanting to help the injured Za.
I'm not such a fan of Susan and don't think she was written very well in most of her stories but Hartnell shines from the word go.
I've recently started watching/listening to the series in transmission order(have reached The Macra Terror)and I still think An Unearthly Child stands up well against more modern stories. It had a big job to do in terms of launching the show and the characters and whilst it isn't the greatest story in the show's history in terms of plot it introduces the characters and concept of the TARDIS really well.


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In 2013, I had the chance to venture outside of Montreal more than once. In April, I had the wonderful chance to visit the states of New Jersey and New York for the very first time. Now, at the end of the month of May, the city of Boston and its surrounding area were next on the radar.
I make it no secret that I am a high school teacher. This year, I actually used that to my advantage when posting new content on this site. When I heard that my school was planning a trip to Boston, I made sure that I was one of the adults accompanying the students to that city. Despite how I feel about the city, it was an opportunity that I wasn't going to pass up.
The trip was going to last two days in all, with the majority of the time being spent on the road, since Boston is at least 6-7 hours away by bus. Our departure time was on May 23 at an early 7 a.m. For most of the 40 students being accompanied on this trip, this time was foreign. At this time, we were introduced to the bus driver and guide who were the unlucky souls who would have to put up with us for the next 41 hours.
A bus trip isn't fun, but one must find entertainment for such a venture. While the students were busy watching movies like The Hobbit and 17 Again, I decided that catching up on the season premiere of Masterchef was more important. I also used this time to watch a few episodes of a new show called Burger Land with George Motz, who happens to be the burger guru of the United States.
Our first stop to have lunch was in Littleton, New Hampshire. Normally, I would seek out a fitting place to feature, but there was literally nothing outside fast food options. There was this place across the street from where we stopped, but it didn't look open. Plus, I wasn't about to dodge speeding cars. So, I dined at Subways while others went towards a Burger King and a 5 dollar buffet lunch at Pizza Hut.
After over 7 hours on the road, we finally arrived in Charlestown, Massachusetts. The anchor is symbolic, in a way, because we now have landed in a new place. For a lot of us, just the chance to walk around was a nice change, though waking up the sleeping students wasn't fun.
The first stop on our trip was at the U.S.S. Constitution Museum. While the museum itself wasn't so notable to write about, the security process was more noteworthy. This museum is still a military installation, so security measures were taken to make sure everyone was safe. It was probably the highlight of my trip when I was asked to remove my belt, leaving me to hold up my pants.
Along the way, I took some pictures out of sheer interest and because I found some things peculiar. I'll admit that I couldn't take very many pictures because I had a supervisory role to take, but I did get a chance to take a few. This was the one of the first ones I got to take in Charlestown on Bunker Hill Street at the corner of Monument of the United National Market. I think the reason is obvious as to why I took the picture.
Before we headed off to our next destination in the heart of Boston proper, we took a moment to stop by Bunker Hill. It is an impressive monument where a picture doesn't do it justice.
On our way to Boston, we got to see a bunch of things in the window and the TD Garden was one of the them. This was the closest I ever got to the arena. Mind you, being a fan of the Montreal Canadiens, it was probably best that I was this far from it. But, my students weren't as reserved as I was. They were carrying a Habs flag all around downtown Boston. Luckily, no one was harmed.
This was the next item of my wandering attention. While the door was a warning, we never at any time felt unsafe in the city of Boston. Say what you want about the recent events, our trip demonstrated that Boston is a safe place and a city to visit.
Our next stop was the Boston Tea Party Museum. This bench was situated nearby and I felt the need to take a picture of it. It must be noted that telling students to move away from it wasn't easy.
The actual museum itself is a recent attraction and addition to the city of Boston. At the start, you get this card which gives you your role for the visit. Then, after attending a rousing town council meeting, you're taken to the boat where you get to throw tea into the water. Since the tea packages were tied to a rope, we got that chance to do it over and over again. I also took the chance to note how the performer at the boat looked a lot like Peter Griffin of Family Guy fame. We ended the visit with a nice stroll through the innovative museum and finally, with a visit to the gift shop where money was spent.
At the beginning of our Boston Tea Party trek, feathers were given to us to mask our identities. After we were done, one student thought it was fitting to adorn this statue with one of those feathers. If you think that was rebellious, it was better than taunting the passing cars with a Habs flag.
After we were done with the museum, we set off on foot to Quincy Market, not before making a few more Habs references in the streets. Quincy Market is an expansive area in Boston and the perfect place to let 40 teenage students loose. If only none of them came back, it would be perfect. I'm only kidding, of course. At this point, I was allowed to venture off to have my supper, which as you know, consisted of Burger 195 at Anthem.
When the burger disappeared, I had about 30 minutes left to walk around and make sure that no damage was done to Quincy Market. This was the moment where I saw our guide with a large ice cream cone. I wasn't going to have ice cream, but I quickly changed my mind when I saw just how much ice cream there was.
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Located inside the central marketplace, which resembles a food court, you have to make sure you're at one of the extremities to find this ice cream place. So, as you resist the temptations of all those other various types of cuisine, you'll eventually find the ice cream.
The thing that I learned by looking at the ice cream cone that our guide had was the fact that it was expensive. I wasn't thrilled with that fact, but you only live once, I guess. The choices that you have are vast and that's a good thing.
When I arrived, there was only one person working the counter. At first, it looked like there was nobody there, so that gave me enough time to really think this through. When it came time for things to proceed, the transaction was simple. It was also interesting because there was a tip container collecting money for students, which I found rather interesting.
Chocolate Ice Cream
There's not much to say about a simple chocolate ice cream. I was really happy that it was in see-through container that was large enough to make sure nothing was dripping out. The chocolate ice cream, though expensive, was satisfying.
With ice cream in hand, I set off to do what any good teacher would do in a moment like this, walk around an eat it. Along the way, I didn't see very many of our 40 students. So, I took this time to look around and see the sights.
What I did see was the Boston mindset and their stores that sell Christmas things in late spring. I'll let that one sink in a bit for those who are hoping for Christmas in July. Luckily, when I arrived back to our meeting point, all of our students made it back on time without any major incidents. We were off to our hotel and our last day in Boston.
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Make the most of your move to the cloud!Posted: August 26th, 2013 by Stephanie Brummer
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Press Release issue by Global Research Partners
Johannesburg, South Africa, 26 Aug 2013
Cloud computing is changing the way businesses and individuals access technology. As broadband availability increases and data costs come down, the expansion and adoption of the cloud as an integral part of information services delivery will continue to be one of the most important developments in the evolution of the ICT market. Much has already been said, and much more will continue to be aired, over the coming weeks and months regarding this topic, and undoubtedly, it will bring many benefits; however, many organisations move to the cloud without being aware of all the options available to them, and as a result, miss out on even greater opportunities.
"Many companies that move to the cloud are not making the most of the potential benefits that the cloud can offer," commented Edge Bisset, CEO of CyberLogic, "because simply moving existing systems onto the cloud only has operational benefits and is not in itself a game changer. Generic off-the-shelf cloud offerings can therefore only offer limited value.
"However, a customised cloud implementation can go beyond those operational benefits and can have real strategic advantages," continued Bisset. "A customised cloud solution allows the company to mine existing data, to present it to clients and partners in new ways – in the any format – and with appropriate security in place. It also creates new touch points and communication channels with clients and partners that enable the company to tighten the relationships with its customers and suppliers. In this way, a tailored cloud solution can enable the company to:
* generate new revenue streams;
* add extra value to clients by giving them easy access to data they had to manually request before;
* automate manual functions;
* allow clients to 'self-service', thereby reducing the internal workload;
* extend the available service hours to a 24/7 basis, thus allowing clients to access their data or transact at any time; and,
* differentiate itself in the market.
These are the real and strategic benefits, which add value far beyond just duplicating the existing systems in the cloud.
"Not surprisingly, this requires a tailored approach, ie one that is customised to the client's requirements; it's not about buying a cloud 'product', but about understanding ways in which cloud technology can be applied to extract hidden value within the company," concluded Bisset. "Very often, clients don't realise the value of the data they have at their disposal. A solid understanding of cloud technology, along with an insight into the company's business model and data sources, is the key to unlocking this hidden value. To achieve that, it's important to have a specialist partner with experience in the design, implementation and management of private and hybrid cloud models. It is also important that the cloud strategy is driven by business, along with IT; ie it is not an 'IT' project, but a business project with IT as a key enabler. The cloud partner needs to clearly understand that, and be able to participate in that process accordingly. That is what CyberLogic is all about."
For further information, please contact CyberLogic at tel. (021) 425 4200 or via www.cyberlogic.co.za
Ramadaan 2013 – the challenge completed!Posted: July 24th, 2013 by Stephanie Brummer
As those who have read our previous blog post will know, we recently challenged our non-Muslim staff to fast for a week, in accordance with the guidelines of Ramadaan. In this way, we'll come to appreciate what it's like for those who do undertake such a fast! So, while Ramadaan will only come to an end on the 8th or 9th of August with the sighting of the new moon, the challenge at CyberLogic ended this weekend.
The staff members participating in the challenge had to make many changes in their daily routine. Most had to get up earlier in the morning in order to make sure they ate a nutritious breakfast before sunrise – a breakfast which would give them strength to face the long day. Most of them commented, however, that the most difficult was going the whole day without water. When asked if they were eating more in the evening to make up for the lack of food in the day they remarked that they had, in fact, eaten less at dinnertime than normal and our resident sweet-tooth said he is no longer craving his candy.
Even the staff not fasting benefited from the experience as they now have a better understanding of how challenging it can be to fast, as well as being more aware of their own vices such as coffee!
Herbex responded to our encouragement and took up the challenge themselves. We competed to see which company would have the highest number of employees completing the week – and the losing company would pay a 'penalty' of R2000 to the Happy Child Foundation, on top of the donations made by the company for each staff member who completed the week.
At the end of the week Cyberlogic won the battle with five employees completing the challenge. Meanwhile, Herbex had two employees who completed the challenge. This equates to a massive R9000.00 donation to the Happy Child Foundation which, will help to supply more than 1800 Happy Bars to hungry children!
Thank you to all who participated last week – you have helped to make a big difference in the lives of many little people!
We wish all our Muslim friends a blessed Eid-Al-Fitr next month.
Ramadaan 2013Posted: July 15th, 2013 by Stephanie Brummer
The month-long fast of Ramadaan began on 10th July for our Muslim staff and it has had the rest of the CyberLogic team wondering – what is the significance of Ramadaan and how does it work?
The rules of Ramadaan are fairly straightforward: for one month all practicing, able-bodied Muslims over the age of 12 are not allowed to eat or drink from sunrise to sunset. They also should not participate in "sensual pleasures" such as smoking, sex or even listening to music during those hours.
Ramadaan is intended to be a time where you are "in a pure state – in terms of thought, speech and action". Aside from the spiritual element there are apparently many health benefits to periodic fasting. These include detoxification, resting the digestive system, correcting high blood pressure and an increased awareness of eating habits.
In the spirit of solidarity with our Muslim friends, and in order to become better and healthier human beings, some of the non-Muslim CyberLogic staff have decided to challenge themselves by joining in the fast for the week of the 15th to the 19th July. No doubt this will be illuminating experience for the participating team members – many of whom struggle to go for longer than an hour or two without coffee, never mind food or water!
For every employee who fasts for the week, CyberLogic will make a donation to the Happy Child Foundation. This will go toward helping those who often go without and hopefully put some smiles on a few little faces.
We encourage any other businesses or individuals to join with us in this challenge – a small donation of R150 is enough to provide one child with a "Happy Bar" every day for a whole month! For more information on the Happy Bar, visit the Happy Child Foundation.


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Short-selling conspiracy documentary of the day
Oh yes: there's now a documentary, featuring a lot of talking heads wearing bluetooth headsets, all about people who bought stock in Sirius XM because it was going up and then lost money because it went down. Of course, it wasn't their fault. Blame instead the evil short sellers! And do be sure to give the filmmakers $15.99 for their DVD. If they sell enough of these things, they might be able to recoup their losses!
Isn't Sirius XM one of the most shorted stocks in the market? That's what the movie said. I thought it was well done. I did not know how short selling worked before hearing the Sirius XM story.
It seems from the trailer that this movie is more about the fact that today's "prosumer" investor can't read balance sheet information than it is about short sellers. I had a bunch of friends buy the stock because of Mel Karmazin and Howard Stern's involvement. However when I looked at the cash flows, marketing dollars required to grow the subscribers and the debt load it was clear that this was a horrible *equity* investment. The idea that this company was taken down by short sellers is ludicrous. It was taken down by an overbearing capital structure. I'm sure the outrageous amounts they spent on content development didn't help either.
I hope you watch the entire movie
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Report: Cancer Guidelines Do Not Fully Meet IOM Standards
Authors question criteria for best quality of care (June 12)
In an age when evidence-based care is increasingly important, how trustworthy are current clinical practice guidelines?
Researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center looked at 169 clinical practice guidelines for lung, breast, prostate, and colorectal cancers and found that none of the guidelines fully met standards set in 2011 by the Institute of Medicine (IOM). Of eight criteria, the guidelines on average met fewer than three.
"None of the current guidelines we looked at met all of the standards, but some of these are really good guidelines. It begs the question: How pragmatic are the Institute of Medicine standards? In some ways, are these standards too strict?" says lead author Sandra Wong, MD, MS.
The IOM standards for clinical practice guidelines were developed to ensure that guidelines truly reflect the best quality of care. The standards cover eight criteria, including disclosing conflicts of interest, using systematic reviews of the literature, seeking external review, and updating recommendations regularly.
In the new study, published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, researchers reviewed clinical practice guidelines that covered recommendations for screening, diagnosis, treatment, or follow-up care.
On average, the guidelines met 2.75 of eight major criteria and 8.24 of 20 sub-criteria. The most common gaps were in managing conflicts of interest and in including patients or other lay people in the process.
"The IOM was trying to define what you need to have trustworthy guidelines. But if a group does not include a forum for public comment on the guidelines, does that make the guideline less trustworthy? Is that as important as whether they incorporate a systematic review of the literature? One consideration is that perhaps all standards should not be weighted the same across the board," Wong says.
She also suggests creating a balance between ideal standards and what is practical to ensure that guidelines can be put in place in a timely manner. Some guidelines already take more than a year to create.
Source: University of Michigan; June 12, 2013.
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I made this cake for my daughter's baby shower and everyone just loved it. I used the chocolate marshmallow icing as the filling and then I iced the cake with just a chocolate buttercream icing. Yes, this is a sweet, rich cake but a crowd pleaser. I followed the cake part of the recipe exactly as written and I wouldn't change a thing. I will be making this cake again for special occasions!
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Gooey chunks of candy bar really do take this cake recipe to realms above. Melted candy bars are stirred into the batter, and some are coarsely chopped and sprinkled over the top.
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- Garnishes: chopped frozen fun-size chocolate-coated caramel and creamy nougat bars, candy corn
- Melt candy bars and butter in a heavy saucepan over low heat about 5 minutes, stirring until smooth. Set aside.
- Beat sugar and shortening at medium speed with an electric mixer about 3 minutes or until well blended. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating just until blended after each addition.
- Combine flour and salt. Stir together buttermilk and baking soda. Gradually add flour mixture to sugar mixture, alternately with buttermilk mixture, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Beat at low speed just until blended after each addition. Stir in melted candy bar mixture and vanilla. Spoon batter into 3 greased and floured 9-inch cakepans.
- Bake at 350° for 30 minutes or until a wooden pick comes out clean. Cool in pans on a wire rack 10 minutes; remove cakes from pans, and let cool completely on wire rack. Spread half of Chocolate-Marshmallow Frosting evenly between cake layers. Spread remaining frosting evenly over top and sides of cake. Garnish, if desired.
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The absence of fullback Anthony Sherman also has been a factor. Sherman has missed most of the past two games with an ankle injury. Reagan Maui'a was signed and has done a decent job, but Sherman, a rookie, had developed into a solid blocker.
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These are fabulous recipes from Modern Indian cookbook , written by my new friend and famous chef, Hari Nayak. If you are new to Indian cooking, this is absolutely the perfect book to start with. The recipes are simple, elegant and uses ingredients you can find in most supermarkets.
serves 6
1 (3-inch) piece peeled fresh ginger, grated on microplane grater
1/2 cup coarsely chopped fresh mint leaves
1/2 cup fresh lime juice (about 6 limes)
6 cups sparking water or club soda
1/2 cup sugar
Pinch of salt
Pinch of freshly ground black pepper
In a blender, blend together all the ingredients, except ice. Strain and serve over lots of ice. You can also add gin or vodka too!
Yes, this is the same yogurt sundae from November. Remember when I slept with Rocco?
My favorite source for saffron is a company called Saffron.com, where you'll find a better quality of the spice at least 10 times cheaper than at your local market. You can judge the quality of the saffron by just looking at it. Pure saffron is red and only includes the style. If you see any yellow or orange on the thread, then you're paying for the stigma which is colorless, tasteless and aromaless. Get the good stuff, as you are only using a pinch of the spice.
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4 cups plain yogurt
1/4 cup honey
1/4 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon ground cardamom
1/2 pomegranate
2 kiwis
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Line a large sieve or colander with cheesecloth. Place colander over a bowl. Place yogurt in colander to drain for 2-3 hours in the refrigerator. Discard the water (or whey.) Turn the yogurt into a bowl and mix in the honey, nutmeg and cardamom. Lightly toast the saffron strands in a small dry skillet over medium heat, until brittle. Let saffron cool on plate and with your fingers, finely crush the strands. Cut kiwi into small pieces and remove the seeds from the pomegranate. Layer yogurt, fruit and saffron in dessert cups.
Here are the photos that led up to the money shot. I'm still not happy with these photos, but take a look. And !@(*$&!$! what's going on with the soggy, mushy colors??? They look perfectly vibrant to me loaded from my computer, but then it gets to the web and BAM! the photos look drunk. I'm using same monitor to view both. argh.
I can't imagine how scary it is to face potential health issues with children- even when it turns out that they are okay, the not-knowing can be just as bad! I hope it turns out well for all of you.
My husband rarely lashes out (that's usually my job), but boy, oh boy, has he turned brooding into a fine art! It's good to see that it's been resolved.
And oh, that cooler is well-timed…here in San Diego, we're dry and in the 80s and 90s this weekend! I'm making it tonight. I love your blog!
Sorry about Andrew's MRI. I'm assuming he had to be sedated – often the thing you are most worried about. Well, that and whatever horrible thing they are looking for. Really, its just a good time all around.
We've been through those kind of things a few times ourselves. Often, you don't feel much better even when the "horrible thing" isn't found. It rips away that nice protective layer you keep over your life – nothing bad can happen to the kids. Having that illusion destroyed moves you into a very scary world. It takes some time to recover. Anyway, just know that you don't owe anyone here the story, but that we are pulling for your family.
Funny you should link anger and cooking. When I get really angry, I bake. Just the other day, I was angry at a coworker for being a selfish uncollegial negative ion producing be-atch and was about to verbally erupt in her face. Fortunately, I was able to go home and bake a batch of crispy golden flax,oatmeal & dark chocolate chunk Karma Cookies. I rewarded all my other colleagues with a big batch of Karma Cookies and felt so much better. The selfish one just happened to get none! :p
Awww, you bet I'll share it with you. I'll agree with your side of the argument, too and nod knowingly, and then beam and clap when you tell me you've made up (and I'm glad you did!). This looks so wonderful. I love ginger, lime and mint, and I have lots of mint growing in my garden, so thanks for this delightful recipe which I'll enjoy one hot night very soon.
Both look so refreshing!
I am so relieved to know that there is someone else who also finds her kitchen to be a safe haven….. there is always something to knead, bash, chop, cut etc..
As for the drink…simply beautiful!
Wow I could use some of that dirnk right now in this heat! And that yogurt, omy it looks perfect!
YUM! That looks so refreshing and tasty.
I was raised in a family that when my dad got angry, we got the silent treatment. I learned to handle real anger silently, or with c-c-cold reason. Now I'm married to a good 'ole southern redneck, and after thew first few fights, the old early training just wasn't satisfying. So now if he makes me really angry, we TALK it out as long as it takes me to get over it. Heaven! After the first few rounds of that – and I am a gadfly about making him discuss it – he learned pretty quick to kiss and make up pronto to get out of a prolonged discussion. We may shout over the little stuff that passes after a moment, but for the really big stuff it's the dreaded discussion. I feel better, and he gets tortured by having to TALK about what/why it happened and why it made me mad. ;-D A win/win for me.
Bwahahahahahahaaaa………..Much healthier.
I'm waiting for the perfect hot summer day to make this.
Hello Jaden,
I LOVE your blog!
I love the recipes and the humor in your writing. Thank you for the inspiring food photography tips as well!
Just a question to clarify about saffron… I thought the red part is the "stigma" (the part we want) and the yellow part is the "style" (which we don't want). You had it in reverse in your post.
Not that it really matters, I guess… as long as we know what color we want!
Thank you again!
How about the outdoor keylogger cameras etc. Monday's Supreme Court argument, however, have since been approached by NYPD officers who were trying to do an end run" around the law. New types of keylogger, except when its use has been controversial, such as 'pan-tilt-zoom' cameras, are also approaching the Libyan coast. 8, 2013, 12:21pm UTCYep, the drive to win at all costs is exactly how this is justified.


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Arizona's Luke Air Force Base gets F-35 mission
The Department of Defense has chosen Luke Air Force Base in Glendale for the new pilot training center for the F-35 fighter jets, city officials announced Wednesday.
Agencies increase proportion of Hispanics in workforce
Hispanics accounted for more than eight in 100 civilian federal employees in 2011. The minority group also made gains in the Senior Executive Service and represented the third largest ethnic group in the federal government.
VIDEO: Blind NIH employees form own resource-sharing group
The 3 Blind Mice started with three blind employees at NIH and has now grown to nearly 50. The group aims to increase awareness about blindness and low vision.
State's lack of middle managers risks diplomacy
The State Department has a gap in its work force. It has too few experienced, mid-level career foreign service employees. It's the result of several factors...and it's a serious problem.
It's a bird, it's a plane ... Nope, it's a bird
The long-predicted retirement tsunami may or may not be out there. But if you are even thinking about retiring, you should assume the worst and protect yourself with a financial life-jacket That, or prepare for a long time underwater, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says.
Services hit recruiting goals
All four active services and the six reserve components met or exceeded their recruiting goals through the third quarter of fiscal 2012, according to recently released Defense Department data.
How managers can salvage training during tight budgets
One of the first victims of the budget axe is often professional training, says Linda Petersen, a former longtime Office of Personnel Management official now with Graduate School USA. Petersen, who joined In Depth with Francis Rose said too often training, which carries long-term benefits is not viewed as being part of an agency's strategic vision.
Employee performance management
Members of the CHCO council, the National Council on Federal Labor-Management Relations and the Federal Managers Association will talk about how to improve performance management.
July 20, 2012
Pathways Program and Telework
John Palguta, vice president of Policy at the Partnership for Public Service talks about efforts to bring in young workers to the federal government, and whether telework is a viable option for some federal employees.
July 13, 2012(Encore presentation August 3, 2012)
DoD leads the way in student loan repayment program
DoD attracts and retains more employees through an increased involvement in the student loan repayment program.


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The sun came out after the storm and one of Rutland's favorite sandwich shops Gill's Delicatessen reopened, serving up grinders to customers coming in from the bitter cold. But the deli made some adjustments.
"One girl that lives in Benson couldn't make it in, and you know, just the roads were just nasty," said Kathy Gilligan Phillips of Gill's Delicatessen.
Gill's closed at 3 p.m. Thursday due to the conditions, losing out on its normally busy dinner shift. And the restaurant's Friday morning to-do list got a bit longer.
"We need to get shoveled out and cleaned up, and you know our parking lot and sidewalks and stuff all need to be cleared and for the safety of our customers," Gilligan Phillips said.
Rutland's Open Door Mission is also working overtime. The homeless shelter is in emergency mode. It's now accepting anyone in need of shelter, even though there are no beds available. They are also serving only hot meals and have changed their usual policy to allow those who are hungry to take food to go.
Travel remains tricky across Vermont. An SUV crashed on Oakland Station Road in Georgia. Police say the driver lost control on the slick road, rolled the vehicle on its side, and then slid roof-first into a utility pole. Two people were hospitalized.
"Salting is not working right now obviously, because it's too cold. There's still a lot of icy patches out there. Intersections are particularly slippery," Rutland City Police Lt. Kevin Geno said.
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"You're gonna come across icy patches on any roadway, especially where the sun doesn't get to the road," Geno said.
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"We'd like to get home," Inbund said. "I had to cancel two days of work. And we have a memorial service on Sunday we can't go to. So, it's frustrating. But safety is the most important thing."
Vermonters who have braved these storms before say it comes with the territory.
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The House supplemental budget bill adds $7 million from the General Fund to the SCORE grant program to promote recycling. The Senate supplemental budget shifts only $700,000 to the grant program. Negotiators between the chambers will start working on a compromise supplemental budget this week.
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Tim Brownell, of Eureka Recycling, threw his support behind the increased SCORE funding saying, "Waste is preventable, not inevitable."
Brownell said the legislation is important because it sets the state's first goals toward recycling organic materials. Brownell told Fox 9 News that 1 million tons of organics are thrown away into Minnesota's waste stream each year.
It's also big business. Paul Gardner, of Recycling Reinvented, said recycling supports 15,000 manufacturing jobs in Minnesota and has a $8.5 billion dollar economic impact.
The SCORE grant program was started nearly 25 years ago during the Perpich administration. The program taxes garbage collection to establish recycling programs; however, Hennepin County Commissioner Peter McLaughlin, who was in the legislature when the program was started, said the money is deposited into the General Fund and not all of it goes back into recycling. To date, SCORE grants have provided approximately $14 million a year for recycling programs even though it now collects more than $70 million in assessments.
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Connecticut's insurance companies are busy building profits or shooting for turnarounds this year, but a multitude of investigations looms over the industry here and across the nation.
Many of the probes kicked off last year with New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer tackling bid-rigging and concealed commissions. The investigations, however, have grown more tentacles and are expected to embroil insurers and brokers through 2005 - and probably beyond.
"It's definitely a cloud," said Robert P. Hartwig, senior vice president and chief economist for the industry-backed Insurance Information Institute. "The headline shock is over with," he said, but "within the industry there's this constant sense of foreboding."
Local insurers including Aetna, CIGNA, The Hartford, St. Paul Travelers and The Phoenix Cos. have received subpoenas from Spitzer and Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, or both. At least 42 states have launched some type of inquiry into the industry.
In addition, the Securities and Exchange Commission has been investigating matters related to mutual funds and annuities at such companies as The Hartford and Phoenix.
In his bid-rigging lawsuit against broker Marsh McLennan Cos. in October, Spitzer alleged that the California and Florida offices of The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. provided bogus bids at Marsh's request. The Hartford has fired two employees for failing to fully cooperate with Spitzer's investigation.
Like other insurers, The Hartford conducted an internal investigation of its practices, but as of mid-February was not ready to declare it complete or discuss conclusions.
Following Marsh's $850 million restitution settlement with Spitzer, more settlements with companies are expected. And more insurance industry arrests are possible on top of the nine guilty pleas that Spitzer's office had extracted from executives by mid-February.
Insurers are also worried about new disclosure requirements that will be adopted because of industry investigations of bonus commissions. Debate continues over how much should be disclosed to insurance buyers about agent and broker compensation.
The industry fears that it will face varying rules from state to state, with each set of rules subject to courts' interpretations. "It likely opens up a legal quagmire," Hartwig said.
At the very least, Hartwig said, "This will be very expensive and very time-consuming." And, because of paperwork, "It will result in a lot more trees being killed."
For consumers and buyers of commercial policies, though, "At the end of the day, fundamentally there will not be a significant shift in how insurance is purchased in America," Hartwig predicted.
Spitzer isn't the only focus this year for insurers in Connecticut and other states. The industry, for instance, is celebrating federal reforms, just passed by Congress, to rein in class action litigation, which insurers say adds to the cost of coverage.
Proposed curbs on medical malpractice awards are also back in the spotlight. And insurers hope to rekindle plans for a federally legislated trust fund that would handle a mountain of asbestos claims.
Also, companies such as The Hartford and St. Paul Travelers and trade groups are pushing Congress again for renewal of a federal backstop for terrorism claims because the legislation will otherwise expire at the end of this year. Hartwig predicts that if the backstop isn't renewed, insurers late this year will pull back from insuring workers' compensation claims for large businesses in major cities.
On the home front, Connecticut's insurers face their own challenges this year, and some, including Travelers Life & Annuity and CIGNA, will lay off employees.
Travelers Life & Annuity and ConnectiCare are being sold. CIGNA Corp. and The Phoenix Cos. Inc. are striving for turnarounds. And the "other" Travelers - The St. Paul Travelers Cos. - is trying to recover from a bumpy merger.
Travelers Life & Annuity and other Citigroup insurance operations in Hartford are being sold to New York-based MetLife Inc. for $11.5 billion in stock and cash. The affected operations employ about 2,000 people in Hartford, including about 150 full-time consultants. MetLife expects to cut local jobs but it isn't saying yet how many.
St. Paul Travelers is still making job cuts stemming from the merger of Travelers Property Casualty Corp. with The St. Paul Cos. on April 1, 2004, but it won't say what the total number of layoffs will be.
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WASHINGTON — Democrats are trying once again to advance legislation that would give some young illegal immigrants a chance to live legally in the U.S.
Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois plans to file a new DREAM Act bill on Wednesday. In the House, Rep. Howard Berman of California plans to file similar legislation.
Generally, to qualify the young immigrants must have a high school diploma or the equivalent and have spent two years in college or the military. They must have been under 16 when they arrived in the U.S.
At least one Republican, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of Florida, is co-sponsoring the House bill.
The bill filings would follow a speech Tuesday in Texas on immigration by President Barack Obama.
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|In this research brief, the author argues for the adoption of the term "illegalized immigrant" to draw attention to the systematic process that renders people "illegal" rather than blaming illegalized immigrants for the situation in which they are placed.
|Posted on: July 31, 2013
|Worker Health and Safety Awareness in 4 Steps
|Ontario. Ministry of Labour
|Worker Health and Safety Awareness in 4 Steps is a component of a suite of products that has been developed by the Ministry of Labour to meet its commitment for mandatory health and safety awareness training in the workplace.
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|How to Communicate: Strategic Communication on Migration and Integration
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|This manual presents some basic principles on developing strategic communications for NGOs working on migration issues. It emphasizes the need to integrate communications as a core element and as part of the mission of any organization working on these issues.
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|International Migration Outlook 2013
|Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
|This publication provides an analysis of recent developments in migration movements and policies in OECD countries and two analytical chapters, covering the fiscal impact of immigration in OECD countries and the discrimination against immigrants.
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"A" Company of the 4th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers (9th Brigade, 3rd Division) on 22 August, 1914, resting in the square at Mons, Belgium, the day before the Battle of Mons. Minutes after this photo was taken the company moved into position at Nimy on the bank of the Mons-Condé Canal.
Two British pack mules carrying shells struggle through the mud near Ypres on the Western Front. 1 August 1917
Three Irish Guardsmen wearing German body-armour, examining a captured German machine-gun. Pilckem.
Battle of Pilckem Ridge 31 July - 2 August : stretcher bearers struggle in mud up to their knees to carry a wounded man to safety near Boesinghe on 1 August. The look of agonised desperation on the men's faces has made this image a favourite choice to indicate the appalling conditions on the Western Front.
British 12-inch Mark I Howitzer on railway mounting, being prepared for action; 89th Siege Battery, R.G.A., Dickebusch. 14 June 1916
France: Picardie, Somme, Lihons Area. Photograph taken in the morning, during the Australian advance towards Lihons, showing members of the [Australian] 6th Battalion resting in an old trench. The Battalion had sustained very heavy casualties in the attack upon the Crepy Wood position, and this little group, found themselves without officers and in charge of the staff-sergeant on top of the bank, who is making a check roll call. 10 August 1918
Warfusee-Abancourt, France. Lieutenant Rupert Frederick Arding Downes MC addressing his Platoon from B Company, 29th Battalion, Australian Army, during a rest near the villages of Warfusee and Lamotte before the advance onto Harbonnieres, the battalion's second objective. The background is obscured by the smoke of heavy shellfire. 8 August 1918
Taken near Hooge, a photo of the first attack on Bellewaarde Farm by the Liverpool Scottish, 6 am, 16 June 1915.
As part of the preparations for the Battle of the Somme, the British 18th (Eastern) Division launches a gas attack against German trenches in front of Montauban on the Somme, June 1916. At the top of the picture is Bernafay Wood. Montauban village is near the top-left. The road running diagonally across the photo from Montauban to the bottom-right connects to the village of Carnoy, behind the British front-line.
8-inch howitzers of the 39th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery conducting a shoot in the Fricourt-Mametz Valley, August 1916, during the Battle of the Somme.
A support company of the Tyneside Irish Brigade advancing from the Tara-Usna Line opposite La Boisselle on 1 July, 1916, the first day on the Somme.
David Douglas Duncan - Marine Capt. Francis "Ike" Fenton ponders his fate and the fate of his men after being told that his company is nearly out of ammunition, Korea, August 1950.
British troops, believed to be the 2nd Battalion, Gordon Highlanders (20th Brigade, British 7th Division) crossing no man's land near Mametz on 1 July 1916, the first day of the Battle of the Somme. White areas are chalk excavated from trenches.
A photo of the French village of Pozières taken 28 August 1916 during the Battle of the Somme. The photo is taken from south of the Albert-Bapaume road looking north through the remains of the back gardens. The remains of an Australian trench are in the immediate foreground. The German concrete strongpoint, known as "Gibraltar", is visible on the horizon to the right.


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