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In 1983, Coates conducted a survey that ranked the side-effects perceived by patients receiving chemotherapy in the order of their severity. Vomiting and nausea were found to be the two most distressing side-effects. They have an impact on quality of life and compliance with treatment. The development of 5HT3 antagonists has been a major step forward in the prevention and treatment of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting. Presently, these antiemetics are routinely used as concomitant therapy in emetogenic chemotherapy regimens. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of 5HT3 antagonists on patient perceptions of the side-effects of chemotherapy. Coates' survey was replicated in patients who received 5HT3 antagonists for acute nausea and vomiting resulting from emetogenic chemotherapy. Patients received the survey to identify those physical and non-physical side-effects that they attributed to chemotherapy and were asked to rank the five most distressing side-effects. Of the 197 patients who consented to take part in the study, 181 were evaluable. Nausea, hair loss and vomiting were described as the three most distressing side-effects of chemotherapy. Eighty per cent of all the patients actually experienced nausea and 57% experienced vomiting. Hair loss appeared to be more distressing to women (P < 0.001) but, in other aspects, gender, age and marital status did not influence the ranking of the three most distressing side-effects. Constipation was ranked as 6th and was not identified as a distressing side-effect in 1983. Nausea and vomiting remain to be the first and third most distressing side-effects of chemotherapy, even though the incidence and severity of acute nausea and vomiting are now significantly reduced.
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Join Celebrate Atlanta as we team up with Relay for Life -Ruach for the Happy 100th Birthday Party for ACS and to celebrate the announcement of the 2013 Relay for Life -Ruach Atlanta which will take place on October 13 from 1 pm to 9 pm at the Roswell Area Park in Roswell.
Come out on April 18, 2013 at Temple Kol Emeth and enjoy cake and refreshments. While enjoying cake and refreshments, you will be able to learn how to participate or volunteer in the 2013 Relay for Life (October 13, 2013).
Congratulations Lisa. I appreciate you bringing attention to these events to Celebrate Atlanta members. In this case, the timing against Alive After Five was unfortunate but these things can't be helped. Celebrate Atlanta will continue to support Relay for Life and while I hope members enjoy themselves at events benefiting Relay for Life, underlying the fun events, a cause that will touch most of us in our life is supported.
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Jamaica Stock Exchange Listed As The Top Performer of 2015
By The Jamaica Gleaner Extra NA – December 31 2015 – January 6, 2016
A MID THE middling returns of the world's best known indexes – foreign acquisitions, stronger investor safeguards and a rebounding economy helped the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) surge more than 80 percent in 2015, reported Bloomberg News, a run that has impressed analysts globally.
"I think it reflects a very good development and certainly should provide impetus for capital raising by companies, and, hopefully, will prompt other companies to list on the stock market over time," said Finance Minister Peter Phillips.
Chief Executive Officer of the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica Dennis Chung was upbeat. "It is positive as it means that investors are seeing confidence in the prospects of Jamaican companies, which have been undervalued for a while when you look at the book value," he said.
Bloomberg's headline on Thursday December 24: "It's Jammin': Jamaica's tiny stock market conquers world in 2015", sounded like music to the ears.
Finance minister since January 2012, Phillips has also marshalled Jamaica's economy to the passing of 10 consecutive International Monetary Fund (IMF) tests, with an 11th round the corner.
He told The Gleaner that this should provide an alternative source for capital injections into companies and the productive base of the country even more. Bloomberg noted that "amid the middling returns of the world's best-known indexes' foreign acquisitions, stronger investor safeguards and a rebounding economy helped the Jamaica Stock Exchange surge more than 80 per cent in 2015".
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The Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) Board of Directors and myself invite you to meet and deliberate with the best industry executives! The JSE once again brings together world class leaders from different countries who generously impart their
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OUR Now Accepting Bids for Electricity from Renewable Energy Based
Jamaica's National Energy Policy 2009–2030 has identified fuel diversification and the development of the country's renewable energy sources as two of its main objectives. Section 4(3) of the OUR Act, provides that in the performance of its function, the OUR shall undertake such measures as it considers necessary or desirable to (among other things) encourage the development and use of indigenous resources. Renewable energy would be considered one such.
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Applications Now Open For The 2016 GraceKennedy Jamaican Birthright Programme
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The programme started in 2004-2008 and was relaunched successfully this year. "The programme this year was a huge success. Our 2015 Birthright interns had an unforgettable and rewarding experience," said Executive Director of the GraceKennedy Foundation, Caroline Mahfood, who has oversight for the project. She continued, "With the help of our partners Sandals, Digicel and the Jamaica Tourist Board, the interns not only experienced the professional aspect of Jamaica but also the rich cultural heritage, from cuisine to music, sports and more. They really got the chance to get up close and personal with Jamaica."
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Visual acuity of prosthetic vision was examined under virtual reality simulation. Prosthetic vision was simulated by first filtering an image using circular mean filters or Gaussian smoothing filters of different cut-off frequencies. Pixel values at 100 fixed sites of the filtered image were taken, sampling either with a regular rectangular or hexagonal matrix. Each pixel value was transformed into a Gaussian intensity profile centered at the corresponding position at which the sample was taken to simulate the evoked visual effect of an electric stimulation. Visual acuity scores of three subjects, each completing two sets of results, were recorded across different filtering schemes, cut-off frequencies and sampling matrices. The best mean score recorded was 1.55 logMAR, with the worst being 1.70 logMAR. The difference was mostly attributed to filter cut-off frequency. Differences between filtering schemes were insignificant. Results also showed emerging trends demonstrating differences between rectangular and hexagonal sampling matrices.
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Pharmacyclics reported that the international Phase III randomized, multicenter, open-label clinical trial, RESONATE™ (PCYC-1112), of ibrutinib versus ofatumumab for patients with relapsed or refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia or small lymphocytic lymphoma (CLL/SLL) has enrolled its fifth patient. The enrollment of the fifth patient has subsequently triggered a $50-million milestone payment obligation from Janssen Biotech (Janssen), one of the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson.
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Many Christians no longer view marriage as a lifelong commitment, says Mary Hasson, director of the Catholic Women's Forum at the Ethics & Public Policy Center in Washington D.C., who agrees with Pope Francis' assertion that couples often fail to understand the sacred vows they are making to each other.
"It's individual consumerism applied to sexuality — what I want, when I want it, and only for as long as I want it," said Hasson, who has over a decade of experience in marriage preparation work for the Catholic Church, to The Christian Post. "It's meaningful only from a 'what's in it for me' perspective. Relationships often take on the same quality — they are vehicles for personal fulfillment (however defined) and, like an old car, they can be traded or dumped when the repair costs get too high or a new model appears on the scene."
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Pope Francis has warned that a global emptiness and insecurity is gripping the world, saying people need Jesus Christ more than ever before.
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A report on the life and legacy of Muhammad Ali and his relationship with faith and Christianity claims that Western portrayals of Jesus Christ as white was among the reasons Ali was drawn to Islam.
Catholic News Service reported Monday that Ali, born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr., came from a Christian household, with his father a Methodist and his mother a Baptist. As Ali grew in prominence due to his boxing championships, he also became a vocal civil rights spokesperson, and converted to Islam in 1964.
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Pope Francis issued an edict Saturday on the protection of minors and vulnerable adults, which says bishops and other senior officials of the Catholic Church who fail to take action against paedophile priests can be removed from office.
"The Church, like a loving mother, loves all her children, but treats and protects with special affection the smallest and most helpless," the papal decree says, according to AFP. "It is a task which Christ Himself entrusted to the entire Christian community as a whole."
The edict contributes to existing norms in place with regard to abuse cases, according to Catholic News Agency, which said the text has two main features, that a bishop can be guilty of lacking in diligence even in the absence of "grave moral culpability on his part" and that "it is sufficient for the lack of diligence to be grave" for a bishop to be removed from office" in cases pertaining to the abuse of minors and vulnerable adults. more >>


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We were at the Kite Beach Hotel this past August and really enjoyed our stay. Staff was very friendly, starting from Janina, who was great not only in accomodating us at the hotel (and helped with a room change which suited our kiting equipment needs better), but with Cabarete info at 360°. She gave us hints on anything and everything, which made us feel right at home!
The hotel is fantastic especially for kiters of course, as it is right ON the spot, but it is very nice to stay overall. Rooms are nice and clean, and there is a new building if you prefer more modern accomodation.
Cabarete is about a 20min walk on the beach or 10min scooter ride, which is quick and easy (there are always taxi scooters outside the hotel and the ride only costs a couple of euros).
We would love to go back and stay at the KBH!
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WEEKEND EXCURSION; Every Town Is One for the Books
By PETER HELLMAN
Published: March 13, 1998
The phone rang at 8:55 on a wintry morning at the Merriams, whose 18th-century home in the hills above the village of Conway, in northwestern Massachusetts, doubles as a bed and breakfast. It was Mary Merriam on the line. As my wife and I lingered over an extra cup of coffee, served by her husband, Robert, she'd hurried into town to teach a quilting class. Mary wanted to alert us to a flock of wild turkeys down the road, a sight sure to delight a pair of Upper West Siders.
Nature, however, wasn't on our itinerary. While this charming pocket of the state, known as the Pioneer Valley, may be wild turkey country, as well as the approach to Vermont ski country, it's also used-book country. Our three-day visit was dedicated to browsing and buying amid the valley's rich and collegial network of bookshops and private dealers. More members of the Massachusetts and Rhode Island Antiquarian Booksellers (36) are to be found in this area than in bookish Greater Boston (25).
Some keep regular hours, while others open by appointment. All are within a half-hour's pleasant drive of Northampton, the valley's lively epicenter.
It was only a few steps, in fact, to our first stop of the morning: Robert L. Merriam's pine-sided, peak-roofed shop with a sign in front that simply says, ''BOOKS.'' His inventory of 10,000 volumes leans to American history and culture. Mr. Merriam's particular passion -- almost all the booksellers in the valley do have one -- is for collecting miniature volumes dedicated to stories providing ''moral instruction,'' which were popular in the mid-19th century. Before we left Mr. Merriam's shop, he showed us a slipcased set of tiny moral fables that he'd written and published himself.
Just down the country road from the Merriams, in another pairing of home and shop, is Southpaw Books. The surprising specialty of the proprietor, Eugene Povirk, in this rural and crusty New England venue, is social reform, labor, women's and Afro-American studies.
Just inside the shop's door, beside a stairway narrowed by piled books, was a newly acquired stack of 80 bound volumes (1935-1963) of The Daily Worker, voice of the American Communist Party. Anyone wishing to revisit the day-by-day furies of the McCarthy Era need only open a few of these volumes from the 50's. Each volume, containing three months of the newspaper, is priced at $80. Mr. Povirk also offers a trove of old fliers, handbills and posters: what dealers call ''ephemera.'' For $50, you can own a petition, circa 1926, issued in Boston by the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee in its vain attempt to stop the execution of the two anarchists.
South Deerfield
Graceful New England towns dot the Pioneer Valley, but drab South Deerfield, east of Conway and nestled under Mount Sugarloaf, is not one of them. Its library has no great architectural ambition, as Conway's does; it has no main street lined with old, wide-lawned homes, as can be found in neighboring Whately or Sunderland. But South Deerfield does have two recently arrived used-book sellers. The newest is six-month-old Meetinghouse Books.
''I've always had a neighborhood bookstore, and this is an extension of it,'' said the proprietor, Judith Tingley, whose last shop was in a Boston suburb.
Ms. Tingley and her husband and partner, Ken Haverly, had been ''trolling around'' the valley for a new place when they found this simple, white building on North Main Street, erected in 1850 as a chapel. Later, it became a Grange hall, then a Masonic temple. Slowly, Ms. Tingley and Mr. Haverly are filling the arch-roofed chapel with books, ''carefully chosen and reasonably priced,'' the shop's business card promises. A handsome edition of P. T. Barnum's memoirs, published in 1873, costs $20. A very different memoir, Gottfreid Leske's ''I Was a Nazi Flier'' (1941), is $3.
South Deerfield's former firehouse on Sugarloaf Street, put up for auction two years ago, is now Schoen Books. It specializes in Judaica, the Holocaust, psychoanalysis and books in German and French. The proprietor, Ken Schoen, is a burly, former social worker whose book collecting hobby got the best of him.
Among 15,000 items on the firehouse floor is a rare copy of a mimeographed Hebrew-English dictionary of philosophical and metaphysical terms, compiled in 1940 by Abraham Joshua Heschel, then a young theologian already marked for brilliance only months after his arrival at Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati. For a recent refugee from Nazi Europe, this document was a tour de force. Signed by Heschel, it's priced at $125.
Mr. Schoen pointed out that most items cost less than that. He picked up a 1940 copy of ''This Is Israel'' by I. F. Stone, a journalist not known in later life for pro-Israel sympathy. It is illustrated with photographs by, among others, Robert Capa. Mr. Schoen has several copies, at $15 each.
Mr. Schoen lives on the second floor of the firehouse with his wife, Jane Trigere, director of the Hatikva Holocaust Center in Springfield, and their two children. Though the shop doesn't keep regular hours, Mr. Schoen encourages visitors. ''Call me and ask what's for lunch,'' he says. ''Come and schmooze. Just remember, we aren't open on the Sabbath.''


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As apprehension numbers fell, home values skyrocketed. In 2001, an outlet mall opened right along the border. It now counts Brooks Brothers, Polo Ralph Lauren and Coach as tenants.
More than manpower helped to shut down the path into San Diego. An 18-foot-high steel mesh fence extending roughly 14 miles from the Pacific Ocean was completed in 2009, with razor wire topping about half of it. A dirt road traversing an area known as "Smugglers Gulch," which border agents had to navigate slowly, was transformed into a flatter, all-weather artery at a cost of $57 million.
This past year the Border Patrol's San Diego sector, which covers 60 miles of land border, made fewer arrests than in any year since 1968. Agents averaged 11 arrests each, a change that marvels veterans. Agents today may even pursue just one crosser over several shifts.
"I'm not going to say it's impossible, but it's a lot more difficult to cross the border here," said agency spokesman Steven Pitts.
After Gatekeeper, smugglers tried new tactics. They pelted agents with rocks, hoping to create an opening for a mad dash when other agents rushed to help. Or one group would jump the fence to draw agents' attention long enough for another to try its luck.
Now, other threats have emerged. U.S. authorities identified 210 human and drug smuggling attempts at sea during FY2012, up from 45 four years earlier. A Coast Guardsman died in December when a suspected smuggling vessel struck him.
And nearly all of more than 70 drug smuggling tunnels found along the border since October 2008 have been discovered in the clay-like soil of San Diego and Tijuana, some complete with hydraulic lifts and rail cars. They've produced some of the largest marijuana seizures in U.S. history.
Still, few attempt to cross what was once the nation's busiest corridor for illegal immigration. As he waited for breakfast at a Tijuana migrant shelter, Jose de Jesus Scott nodded toward a roommate who did. He was caught within seconds and badly injured his legs jumping the fence.
Scott, who crossed the border with relative ease until 2006, said he and a cousin tried a three-day mountain trek to San Diego in January and were caught twice. Scott, 31, was tempted to return to his wife and two young daughters near Guadalajara. But, with deep roots in suburban Los Angeles and cooking jobs that pay up to $1,200 a week, he will likely try the same route a third time.
"You need a lot of smarts and a lot of luck," he said. "Mostly luck.
"It's a new world."
EL PASO, Texas: Steel bars still up; crossings and crime down
Burglar bars still protect many a home in the Chihuahuita neighborhood near downtown El Paso, a reminder of a time when immigrant crossers would break in looking for food or trying to duck the Border Patrol. Carmen Silva recalls those days. At 90, she tells of migrants hiding under cars and in backyards. Now, she says: "Nobody comes through anymore."
Patricia Rayjosa has lived in the same neighborhood as Silva for the past 18 years. Once, she said, migrants crossed 30, 40, 50 at a time to overwhelm agents standing watch. Others swam across the Rio Grande or waded north on tire tubes.
"One morning, as I went out to feed my dogs, I found ... wire cutters. I didn't see them but I could tell they went across my backyard," said Rayjosa, 53. But she agrees with Silva's assessment. Now, "It's not easy to cross."
In the early 1990s, El Paso ran second to San Diego in the number of illegal immigrants coming north. Then, in 1993, the Border Patrol launched "Operation Hold the Line," the first of a series of enforcement actions intended to gain "operational control" of the Southwest border.
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OUCH!!! Shorties are having their way with this one. This POS will see 23 soon!!!
these negative posts are the shorts trying to get you to sell so they can cover thier positions
REUTERS reported .06 per share AH, and just recently CORRECTED to .09 per share. Wtf? I thought Reuters was reliable.Anyway, still down AH...Bwahahahaha!!!


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Definición de collaboration en inglés:
1The action of working with someone to produce or create something: he wrote on art and architecture in collaboration with John Betjeman
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- At the same time, the Mongolian Polo Association was formed in collaboration with the government.
- It enables students to use e-mail to conduct research, share information and work in collaboration with others.
- During the course of the year, the volunteers will be working in collaboration with the park to educate the public on cleaner habits.
1.1Something produced or created by collaboration: his recent opera was a collaboration with Lessing
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- He is also looking forward to the release of his first record, a collaboration with The Divine Comedy.
- The album has some amazing Santana Band songs and some tight collaborations with guest artists that you will surely hear on your favorite radio stations this summer.
- Part of the urban myth surrounding her is that the songs she says she wrote were collaborations, and the songs she says were collaborations were nothing to do with her.
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- Progressives who play that game should be exposed for what they are, namely class collaborationists and allies of bloodspilling empire-extending capitalists.
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SCO Executives Dumping Stock
SCO Executives Dumping Stock
by , 11:00 AM EDT, August 13th, 2003
According to an article in the Salt Lake Tribune, SCO Group executives have dumped nearly 120,000 shares of stock since initially filing the lawsuit against IBM earlier this year. Robert Bench, the company's chief financial officer, began the trend four days after the lawsuit was filed, ending a streak of over a year of no insider stock sales. Since then, over $1.2 million worth of stock has been sold by executives. From the Salt Lake Tribune:
"Insider sales picking up is a negative sign," said Richard Campagna, who helps manage $750 million as director of research for Cleveland-based Shaker Investments. Shaker, which owns no shares of SCO, has stakes in computer-related companies including Flextronics International.
SCO spokesman Blake Stowell declined to comment on the share sales. The company will comment on the sales when it announces fiscal third-quarter results Thursday, he said. The company has a market value of about $120 million and had 13.7 million shares outstanding at the end of April.
Last week, IBM filed a counterclaim against SCO, denying the allegations and accusing SCO of infringing its patents. IBM's Linux customers include Unilever NV, the world's largest maker of food and soap, and VeriSign, which registers Web addresses. Bench has sold 17,151 shares in three separate sales since March 10, reducing his holdings to 228,043 shares, according to the Washington Service and regulatory filings. Vice President Michael Wilson sold his entire stake of 12,000 shares between July 14 and July 18, the Washington Service said.
You can read the full article at the Salt Lake Tribune's Web site.
The Mac Observer Spin:There is an upside to this: It's now obvious that not even SCO executives think that this lawsuit has a chance of succeeding. Instead, they are bailing out, like rats from a sinking ship.
Speaking of sinking ships, this company apparently has the subtlety of a floundering cruise ship after a hit and run with an iceberg. As time goes on, this whole thing is sounding more like a "pump and dump" scam, where executives pump up the price of a stock, only to dump it all when the value of the company peaks, leaving investors high and dry. With any luck, The SCO Group will be paid a visit by the SEC soon.
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Megan Boyle, formerly the SEEAL Coordinator, has also joined the Community Foundation staff as Manager of Administration and is in charge of gifts and deposits, the scholarship program, and office management responsibilities. She will continue to be the contact for SEEAL as well.
Pamela Evans, CPA, has joined the Community Foundation as Director of Finance and Administration. Pam most recently has been an associate with ML Nunes and Associates. From 2010-2014 she was Director of Finance for the Schwartz Center for Children. Her previous non-profit work included the YWCA of York PA and the Audubon Society. She currently serves as a member of the Finance Committee for the Women's Fund.
Nancy Harding joined the Community Foundation in 2005 as Communications Director. She brings to this position nearly 15 years of experience in nonprofit communications and development, along with seven years as a daily newspaper reporter. Nancy worked for The New Bedford Standard-Times from 1983-89, then made the switch to the nonprofit world. She spent nearly 10 years as Communications Director for the United Way of Greater New Bedford. followed by four years as regional Development Manager for the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
Lauren Maher Patrick joined the Community Foundation in March 2012 as Program Officer. Lauren brings 20 years of experience in grantmaking and program management to the position. She was most recently employed as Program Officer for Northern California Grantmakers (NCG) in San Francisco, where she managed the collaborative philanthropy of over 30 private, community and corporate foundations, including two nonprofit loan funds and a network of corporate grantmakers. Prior to working for NCG, Lauren worked for the Rockefeller Foundation for eight years. She then managed grantmaking in Rwanda, South Africa, and Zimbabwe as Senior Program Officer for the Firelight Foundation. Her focus on global health, in particular reproductive health and water, has brought her on a dozen trips for field work throughout sub-Saharan Africa. Lauren's most recent field work was in 2012 when she managed a water, sanitation, and hygiene education and data collection campaign in Kenya. Lauren earned her Masters of Public Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She serves on the Board of Directors for the MicroLoan Foundation USA, which supports microfinance and business training services for women in rural sub-Saharan Africa.
Valerie Bassett joined the Women's Fund in February 2014 as Executive Director. She has spent most of her career in public health policy, with a special interest in leadership development. Valerie began her career as a day care teacher and working for a battered women's sheltering organization. She went on to lead Intergovernmental Relations for the Boston Public Health Commission, was Director of Policy and Research at the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation, and served as executive director of the Massachusetts Public Health Association, an education and advocacy organization. For the past two years she's consulted, including locally with the South Coast Healthy Housing and Workplace Initiative, a project of Voices for a Healthy South Coast.
Traci Calabrese recently joined the Women's Fund as Development Officer. Growing up in New Bedford and Dartmouth, Traci graduated from University of Rhode Island Summa Cum Laude in 2000, and began working at the Development Office while still in school. Upon graduation, she decided that she would pursue non-profit development work as a career. Traci left our region for development positions at Lake Forest College in Illinois, and Convent of the Visitation School in Mendota, Minnesota. She then returned to the Boston area where she worked with several non-profit organizations in annual giving, major gifts and outreach.
Dez Savoy, Administrative & Marketing Officer for the Women's Fund, joined the Women's Fund in June 2014. Dez is instrumental in leading the Women's Fund to communicate with high impact to multiple audiences across platforms, including print, Facebook, Twitter, the website, and more. Dez is currently in school for pre-med studies with the ultimate goal to be a physician and assist the underserved communities of the Southcoast.
Candace Lee Heald has been Director of AHA! - New Bedford's 2nd Thursday FREE Art and Culture Night since 2007. Lee previously worked as Vice-President of Programs, Education and Exhibitions at the New Bedford Whaling Museum, where she oversaw educational and public programs, exhibitions and library functions as well as visitor services and volunteers. She received her Ph.D. from Lesley University, an MA in American History from the University of Delaware, and BA in American History from Brown University. Lee was one of the authors for the original AHA! grant, and served as Program and Steering Committee Chairs from 1999 until joining the staff.


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Sarah Ferguson is currently single.
Sarah, Duchess of York (Sarah Margaret; née Ferguson; born 15 October 1959) is a British writer, charity patron, public speaker, film producer and television personality. Popularly referred to as "Fergie", she is the former wife of Prince A...ndrew, Duke of York, the second son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. She is the younger daughter of Major Ronald Ferguson and Susan Barrantes (née Wright). Her children, Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie of York, are respectively seventh and eighth in line to succeed their grandmother as monarch of 16 independent Commonwealth realms.
Connect any celebrity with Sarah Ferguson to see how closely they are linked... romantically!
Podría ser que al fin volviera con su Andrew.
Sara está muy atractiva con ese vestido negro sentada sobre su cama blanca.
Bill wyman claims that he have a couple of dates with sarah.If this is true.You should print his picture up there.
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I have a function where I am calling CoCreateInstance. This function is called multiple times and it works, however one time the CoCreateInstance fails with the "Bad variable type" error. The thing is the parameters are always the same both when it succedes and when it fails. What could cause this to happen?
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I also had a function in my code calling CoCreateInstance(...). When one time it worked and another time it did not, without changing the code.
The CoInitialize function must be called prior to calling the CoCreateInstance function
This can often occurred when the COM object (or the proxy-stub) wasn't registered properly. You can check the registration of the COM object using the Oleview tool by trying to instantiate the object.
The Oleview.exe is included in Windows SDK, the location is typically at C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0\Bin.
If it is not there you can try installing Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows Server 2008: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=F26B1AA4-741A-433A-9BE5-FA919850BDBF&displaylang=en.
Note: it is not only for Windows 2008, it is just named after the recent Windows version and it supports Windows Server 2003; Windows Server 2008; Windows Vista; Windows XP.
For me, this was happening in different projects configuration, in Debug mode I caught the exception but in Release it did not appear.
I fixed this. The call was made from different threads. When the call succeded, it was called from the main thread. On fail, a different thread was the source and CoInitialize() wasn't called beforehand. Calling CoInitialize solved the problem.


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In python, how does one split a SHA256 hash into a 32bit prefixes? I'm working with Google's safebrowsing api, which requires that I compare 32bit prefixes between my own collection, and the collection the API sends to me. I understand how to pull the list from Google, and I understand how to form a collection of hashes from parsed URLs, however, I don't understand how I am to derive the first 32bits of each hash.
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The Party of PrincipleSmaller Government - Lower Taxes - More Freedom
from the Libertarian Party of Nebraska
August 2, 2010
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Libertarian Party Of Nebraska turns in 8,000 signatures
Signatures Gained from all Three Congressional Districts and 78 Counties
Expected to Put Libertarians Back on the Ballot in the Cornhusker State
LINCOLN – August 2, 2010—Libertarian Party of Nebraska (LPNE) State Chairman Gene Siadek issued the following statement:
August 2, 2010
Dear Friend of Liberty,
Last week it was reported that the Obama Administration wants to give the FBI power to force internet companies to reveal information about their users' internet activities: things like who they send email to, times and dates of emails, and maybe also information about their web browser activity.
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When ultra-right Republican Sharron Angle won the GOP primary in Nevada on June 8, a number of Tea Party types were crowing about it, and heralding her victory as a harbinger of things to come. Even some libertarians, who should know better, were proclaiming Angle's victory as "proof" that liberty lovers should work within the GOP to achieve Freedom in Our Time, or at least nudge us in that direction.
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RITA Award winning, New York Times bestselling author Maggie Shayne has published over 50 novels, including mini-series Wings in the Night (vampires), Secrets of Shadow Falls (suspense) and The Portal (witchcraft). A Wiccan High Priestess, tarot reader, advice columnist and former soap opera writer, Maggie lives in Cortland County, NY, with soulmate Lance and their furry family.--This text refers to an alternate Mass Market Paperback edition.
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We children were supposed to be asleep .
But we woke, as if in response to some silent summons. We crept to the entrances of our tents and wagons, drawn like moths to the snapping flames of the central fire and the dark, leaping shadows the strange woman cast as she danced.
There was no music. I knew there was none, but it seemed to me that music filled my head all the same as I peered around the painted flap and watched her. She whirled, scarves trailing like colorful ghosts in her wake, her hair, black as the night, yet gleaming blue in the fire's glow. She arched and twisted and spun round again. And then she stopped still, and her eyes, like shining bits of coal, fixed right on mine. Scarlet lips curved in a terrifying smile, and she crooked a finger at me.
I tried to swallow, but the lump of cold dread in my throat wouldn't let me. Licking my lips, I glanced sideways at the tents and painted wagons of my kin, and saw the other children of our band, peering out at her, just as I was. Some of my cousins were older than I, some younger. Most looked very much like me. Their olive skin smooth, their eyes very round and wide, too thickly fringed for the eyes of a boy, but lovely be yond words on little girls. Their hair was uncut, like mine, but clean and raven black.
We were Gypsies all, and proud. The dancing woman she was a Gypsy, too. I knew that at a glance. She was one of our own.
And crooking her finger at me still.
Dimitri, older than me by three years, gave me a superior look and whispered, "Go to her. I dare you!"
Only to prove myself braver than he, I stiffened my spine and stepped out of my mother's tent, my bare feet covering the cool ground by mere inches with each hesitant step. As I crept closer, the others, taking courage in mine, began to come out, too. Slowly we gathered round the beautiful stranger like sinners come to worship at the feet of a goddess. And as we did, her smile grew wider. She beckoned us closer, a finger to her lips, and then she sat down on a log near the fire.
"Who is she?" I whispered to Dimitri, for he had joined us now, too, ashamed of himself, I thought, not to have been leading us all from the start.
"Stupid, do you know nothing? She is our aunt." He shook his head disgustedly at me, then returned his enraptured gaze to the woman. "Her name is Sarafina," he said. "She comes sometimes though I suppose you are too young to recall her last visit. She's not supposed to be here, though. When the grown-ups find out, there will be trouble."
"Why?" I too was entranced by the mysterious stranger as she lowered herself to the log, spreading the layers of her colorful skirts around her, opening her arms to welcome the young ones who crowded closer to sit on the ground all around her. I sat closest of all, right at her feet. Never had I seen a woman so beautiful. But there was something else about her, as well. Something unearthly. Something frightening.
And there was the way her eyes kept meeting mine. There was a secret in that black gazea secret I could not quite see. Something shadowed, hidden.
"Why will there be trouble?" I whispered again.
"Because! She is outcast!"
My brows drew together. I was about to ask why, but then the womanmy aunt Sarafina, whom I had never seen before in my lifebegan to speak. And her voice was like a song. Mesmerizing, deep, beguiling.
"Come, little ones. Oh, how I've missed you." Her gaze swept the faces of the children, the look in her eyes almost painful to see, so intense was the emotion there. "But most of you do not remember me at all, do you?" Her smile faltered. "And you, little Dante. You are how old now?"
"Seven," I told her, my voice a mere whisper.
"Seven years," she replied with a heavy sigh. "I was here the day you were born, you know."
"No. I didn't know."
"No matter. Oh, children, I've so much to tell you. But first " She tugged open a drawstring sack that dangled from the sash round her waist, and from it she began to draw glorious things, which she handed around to one and all. Sweets and confections such as we had never tasted, wrapped in brightly colored paper. Shiny baubles on chains, and glittering stones of all kinds, carved into the shapes of animals and birds.
The one she gave to me was a stone of black onyx in the shape of a bat. I shivered when she placed the cold piece into my palm.
When the sack was empty and the children all quiet again, she began to speak. "I have seen so many things, little ones. Things you would not believe. I journeyed to the desert lands, and there I saw buildings as big as mountainsevery stone larger than an entire Gypsy wagon! Perfect and smooth they are, and pointed at the top." She used her hands to make the shape of these wonders in the air before us. "No one knows who built them, nor when. They have been there forever, some say. Others say they were built as monuments to ancient kings and that the bodies of those rulers still rest inside, along with treasures untold!" When our eyes widened, she nodded hard, making her raven curls dance and her earrings jangle. "I've been across the sea to the land below, where creatures with necks as tall as as that yew tree there, walk on stilt legs and nibble the young leaves from the tops of the trees. Yellow gold they are, and spotty! With sprouts atop their heads!"
I shook my head in disbelief. Surely she was spinning tales.
"Oh, Dante, it is true," she said. And her eyes held mine, her words for me alone, I was certain. "One day you will see these things, too. One day I will show them to you myself." Reaching down, she stroked a path through my hair and leaned close to me, whispering into my ear. "You are my very special boy, Dante. You and I share a bond more powerful even than the one you share with your own mother. Remember my words. I'll come back for you someday. When you need me, I will come."
I shivered and didn't know why.
Then I went stiff at the sound of the Grandmother's squawk. "Outcast!" she yelled, rushing from her tent and jabbing her fingers at Sarafina in the way that was said to ward off evil, the two middle fingers folded, forefinger and little one pointing straight out. She made a hissing sound when she did it, so I thought of a snake with a forked tongue snapping.
The children scattered. Sarafina rose slowly, the picture of grace, and I alone remained before her. Almost without thought, I got to my feet and turned to face the Grandmother. As if I wished to protect the lovely Sarafina. As if I could. My back was toward the woman now, and as her hands closed on my shoulders, I felt myself grow a full inch taller.
Then the Grandmother glared at me, and I thought I would shrink to the size of a sand flea.
"Can you not tolerate my presence even once every few years or so, Crone?" Sarafina asked. Her voice was no longer loving or soft or kind. It was deep and clear and menacing.
"You've no business here!" the Grandmother said.
"But I have," she replied. "You are my family. And like it or not, I am yours."
"You are nothing. You are cursed. Be gone!"
Chaos erupted around us as mothers, awakened by the noise, dashed out of their tents and wagons, gathered their children and hurried them back inside. They acted as if a killer wolf had appeared at our campfire, rather than an outcast aunt of rare beauty, bearing exotic gifts and amazing tales.
My mother came, too. As she rushed toward me I tucked the stone bat up into my sleeve. She stopped before she reached me and met Sarafina's eyes. "Please," was all she said.
There was a moment of silence as something passed between the two women. Some message, unspoken, that left my mother's eyes sad and welling with tears.
Sarafina bent down and pressed her cool lips to my cheek. "I'll see you again, Dante. Never doubt it. But for now, go on. Go to your mamma." She gave me a gentle shove and let go my shoulders.
I walked to my mother, nearly hating her for making me leave the mysterious Sarafina before I'd had a chance to learn her secrets. She gripped my arm tightly and ran to our tent so fast that she nearly dragged me off my feet. Inside, she closed the flap and cupped my face in her hands, falling to her knees before me. "Did she touch you?" she cried. "Did she mark you?"
"Sarafina would not hurt me, Mamma. She is my aunt. She is kind, and beautiful."
But my mother seemed not to hear my words. She tipped my head to one side and the other, pushing my hair aside and searching my skin. I tired of it soon enough and tugged myself free.
"You are never to go near her again, do you hear me, Dante? If you see her, you must come to me at once. Promise me!"
"But why, Mamma?"
Her hand came across my face so suddenly I would have fallen had she not been gripping my arm with the other. "Do not question me! Promise me, Dante. Swear it on your soul!"
I lowered my head, my cheek stinging, and muttered my agreement. "I promise." I was ashamed of the tears that burned in my eyes. They came more from shock than pain. My mother's hand rarely lashed out in anger. I didn't understand why it had tonight.
She knelt now, her hands on my shoulders, her worn face close to mine. "It's a promise you must keep, Dante. You endanger your soul if you break it. Mark me well." She drew a breath, sighed, and kissed the cheek she had so recently wounded. "Now, into bed with you." She was marginally calmer, her voice nearer its normal pitch.
I was far from calm. Something had stirred my blood to night. I crawled into my bed, pulled the covers over me and let the tiny, cold stone bat drop from my sleeve into my hand. I held it, rubbed its smooth surface with my thumb, beneath the blanket where my mother could not see. Mamma watched over me for a long moment, then blew out the lamp, and curled upnot upon her own bed, but on the floor beside mine, a worn blanket her only cushion.
In the silence, I rolled toward the side of the tent and thrust a forefinger through the tiny hole I had made in the fabric, so I could watch the grown-ups round the fire long after they had sent the children to bed. I tugged the hole a little wider in the darkness. And through that tiny hole, I watched and I listened as the Grandmother, the crone of the band, the eldest and most venerated woman of the family, faced off against the most vibrantly beautiful female I had ever seen in my life.
"Why do you torment us by coming back to our midst?" the Grandmother asked, as the dancing flames painted her leathery face in orange and brown, shadows and light.
"Why? You, my own sister, ask me why?"
"Sister, bah!" The Grandmother spat on the ground.
"You are no sister to me but a demon. Outcast! Cursed!"
I shook my head in wonder. What could Sarafina mean? Sister? She could no more be the old one's sister than than I could.
"Tell me why you come, demon! It is always the children you seek out when you return. It's for one of them, isn't it? Your wretched curse has been passed to one of them! Hasn't it? Hasn't it?"
Sarafina smiled very slowly, her face angelic and demonic all at once, and bathed in fireglow. "I come because you are all I have. I will always come back, old woman. Always. Long after you've gone to dust, I'll be coming back, bringing gifts to the little ones. Finding in their eyes and in their smiles the love and acceptance my own sister denies me. And there is nothing you can do to prevent it."
Before Sarafina turned away, she looked past the Grandmother and right into my eyes. As if she had known all along that I was there, watching her from the other side of that tiny hole in the tent. She could not have seen me. And yet, she must have. Her lips curved ever so slightly at the corners, and her mouth moved. Even though no sound emerged, I knew the word she whispered. Remember.
Then she turned, her skirts flying, and vanished into the night. I saw the trailing colors of her scarves like tails behind her for only an instant. Then the blackness of night closed in where she had been, and I saw her no more.
I lay down on my pillows, and I shivered in inexplicable dread.
It was me. My aunt had come for me. I knew it in my soul. What she wanted of me, I could not guess. How I knew it, this was a mystery. But I was certain to the core of me that she did have a reason for returning in the face of such hatred. And the reason was me.
Slowly, slowly, the smoke from the Gypsy campfire thinned. The light thrown by the flames dulled, and the heatso real she had sworn she could feel it on her facewent cold.
Morgan De Silva blinked out of the fantasy. She was not looking at a Gypsy campfire through the huge dark eyes of a small boy. She was sitting on the floor of a dusty attic, staring down at the time-yellowed pages of a handwritten journal, bound in leather covers so old they felt buttery-soft against her hands. The vision painted by the words that spiderwebbed across the aging pages had been vivid. It had been real. As real as if she'd been in that Gypsy camp in the distant past, instead of on the coast of Maine in the early spring of 1997.
Morgan turned the page slowly, eager to read on .
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God, I hate it when she does that. God, I wish she'd stop. God, what's going on here? It seemed like in every paragraph she had a "God, ...." phrase. On some pages, it literally *is* every paragraph, at least once. If you took out all of those "God," and just capitalized the first letter in the word after the comma, it would work just fine. Apparently every single character in her book thinks or talks like that, from the very old gypsy vampiress to the young private investigator chick. Highly, highly annoying.
Obviously, the phrasing made an impression upon me. It was bad enough that I read the end of the book to see if I really wanted to plod through that annoyance. I did finish the book eventually, but the book is easy to put down and quite predictable. I'm not impressed with this woman's writing style, but I may give her another chance because reviews seem to indicate her other books were better.
And another thing, I never understand why Shayne's vampires are so weak. Her vampire lore seems to say that all you have to do is stick one to make them bleed, and then wait for them to bleed to death. Dante seemed about to meet that fate on 3 or 4 occasions! If it's that easy to kill a vampire, what's the big deal about being one.
Anyway, if you want a good romantic vampire story, try Maggie Shayne's earlier books in the series, and skip this one!
Meanwhile, in White Plains, Maxine Stuart, a conspiracy theorist, stumbled on the secrets of DPI the night their headquarters was destroyed (this book is a sequel to Shayne's earlier Born in Twilight). After a vampire strikes, killing a woman, Maxine makes the connection between a vampire called Dante whose details are on a CD-Rom she stole and the Dante of Morgan de Silva's films. She and her close friend Lou, a police officer, realise that they need to speak to Morgan, and set off to find her, not realising that they're already one step behind a rogue DPI agent, Frank Stiles.
Meanwhile, Dante is alive and well, and he's after Morgan to find out how she found out his secrets and why she betrayed him. Instead, though, he finds himself drawn to her - she is, after all, one of the Chosen, and she's dying...
Like other reviewers, I didn't enjoy this book as much as others in Shayne's series.Read more ›
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I enjoyed this contemporary vampire romance. I thought the characters worked well together and I would recommend this novel. Read morePublished on March 11 2004 by Elizabeth
This was a very enjoyable book that had me hooked from the start.Published on May 2 2003 by Yvonne Heffner
I have read all of Maggie Shayne's Twilight books and this one was by far the best! If you haven't read any of Maggie Shayne's books you are missing out on absolutely stunning... Read morePublished on Jan. 17 2003 by Michelle Wilfahrt
It started off great and with a lot of promise. But soon the subplots came into play and I lost interest. Read morePublished on Oct. 28 2002 by Tracy Talley
Morgan Da Silva is a would be screenwriter, living in a house in Maine. She finds some old diaries of a man who thinks that he is a vampire and becomes obsessed as well as... Read morePublished on Oct. 20 2002 by Moe811
The beginning was a bit weak if a bit confusing with the author throwing in too many characters and plots. Read morePublished on Sept. 13 2002
I agree with the other reviewers who say there is no real charactor development and no actual romance. None of the charactors are particularly likeable or very interesting. Read morePublished on Sept. 3 2002
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Mini-reviews 59: Hearty Burgundy, white Burgundy, Aldi, Gascogne
Reviews of wines that don ?t need their own post, but are worth noting for one reason or another. Look for it on the final Friday of each month. This month, mini-reviews of four wines I really wanted to like, but didn't:
? Gallo Family Vineyards Hearty Burgundy NV ($9/1.5 liters, sample, 12%): The wine your parents and grandparents drank in college (in a 50th anniversary edition) is more modern in style these days, with more ripe black fruit. But it still tastes pretty much like it did then, which is surprising, and, for better or worse, epitomizes the concept of jug wine.
? Olivier Leflaive Bourgogne Blanc Les S tilles 2011 ($25, purchased, 12.5%): Disappointing white Burgundy from one of my favorite producers — more like what California chardonnay tastes like when winemakers say they've made "French-style" wine. Oak isn't integrated at all, though apple and pear fruit is evident.
? Sunshine Bay Sauvignon Blanc 2013: ($7, purchased, 13%): Aldi store brand is one-note, citrus-aggressive New Zealand white that's a step up from something like Monkey Bay but, oddly, not all that enjoyable when the bottle is empty.
? Globerati C tes de Gascogne ($6, purchased, 12%): Easily the worst made Gascon wine I've ever had — thin, lacking fruit, almost no terroir, and none of the white grapiness that makes Gascon wine so much fun. What was Globerati thinking?


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