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ThyCa NEWS NOTES – May 2011
In This Issue:
- Finding Treatment Clinical Trials
- Learn from Experts at Free Workshop on June 11
- Pathologist To Speak on June 7
- Cancer Legal Rights Conference on June 24
- Dr. Myssiorek on Survey's Early Results, Importance, Future Impacts
- Salivary Gland and Surgery Surveys Need Your Input
- Where Can You Find Face-To-Face ThyCa Support Group Meetings?
- Tamra's Run for ThyCa
- Insurance Co-Pay Assistance Available
- Thank You To Our Guest Speakers in May 2011
- Conference Registration Opens; Hotel Room Reservations Open
- More Than 30 Conference Speakers Confirmed from 21 Major Centers
- Low-Iodine Recipe of the Month
- Follow ThyCa on Facebook and Twitter
- Guestbook Is Free
- Support the Rally for Research
- Join Us, Become a Member
- Every Day
- About ThyCa News Notes
Finding Treatment Clinical Trials
Clinical trials try to find better ways to prevent, diagnose, or treat cancer.
Treatment clinical trials are currently under way for new treatments for people whose advanced and aggressive thyroid cancers are not responding to currently available therapies.
Here are a few questions to ask:
- What is the purpose of the study?
- Why do researchers think the approach may be effective?
- Who will sponsor the study?
- Who has reviewed and approved the study?
- How are study results and safety of participants being checked?
Find more questions to ask, tips, and links to current clinical trials for thyroid cancer, in the Clinical Trials section of our web site.
Learn From Experts at Free Workshop on Saturday, June 11
Saturday, June 11, 2011, 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. Silver Spring, Maryland.
Mid-Atlantic Thyroid Cancer Survivors' Workshop. Sponsored by ThyCa: Thyroid Cancer Survivors' Association, Inc.
Speakers include:
- Andrew J. Bauer, M.D., COL MC USA, Endocrinologist, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD, and The Thyroid Center, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
- Kenneth D. Burman, M.D., Endocrinologist, Washington Hospital Center, DC
- Bruce Davidson, M.D., Otolaryngologist (Surgeon), Georgetown University Medical Center, DC
- Gary L. Francis, M.D., Ph.D., Endocrinologist, Virginia Commonwealth University, VA
- Jacqueline Jonklaas, M.D., Endocrinologist, Georgetown University Medical Center, DC
- Gigi Meinecke, D.M.D., F.A.G.D., Dentist, University of Maryland School of Dentistry, MD
- Janet Papirmeister, B.N, R.N, Cancer Patient Navigator, Shady Grove Adventist Hospital, MD; plus a panel on complementary approaches to well-being
- Douglas Van Nostrand, M.D., Nuclear Medicine Physician, Washington Hospital Center, DC
Walk-in attendees are welcome. Come for all or part of the day. Thyroid cancer survivors, their families, caregivers, and friends are invited to attend. Register either online in advance or onsite on the day of the workshop. Visit ThyCa's web site Conference/Workshops section for further details about the speakers, program, and directions.
Pathologist To Speak on June 7
On Tuesday, June 7, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Amir Kendy, M.D., Pathologist, will speak and answer questions at the meeting of the ThyCa Rockville, Maryland, Support Group. This event is free. Visitwww.thyca.org/sg/md_rockville/ for details.
Cancer Legal Rights Conference on June 24
Learn about your legal rights as a cancer patient at the free one-day conference in Chicago, Illinois, sponsored by the Cancer Legal Rights Center. More information is in ThyCa's Events Calendar and atcancerrightsconference.org.
Thyroid Cancer Patient Surveys
Importance, Early Results, Future Needs
By David Myssiorek, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Division of Head and Neck Surgery and Oncology, New York University Clinical Cancer Center; Professor of Otolaryngology; and ThyCa Medical Advisor
Some surprising information about the prevalence and duration of voice disorders after thyroidectomy has come from the survey of Thyroid Surgery and Voice Issues, posted last year by ThyCa: Thyroid Cancer Survivors' Association.
By April 2011, more than 5,800 people had responded to the voice issues survey. This is the largest patient response to any thyroid cancer survey ever. The survey has also brought to light issues regarding voice therapy and the effect that chronic voice disability has had on responders.
This surgery survey, as well as two other physician-authored surveys that ThyCa posted last year—on Radioactive Iodine (RAI) and the Salivary Glands and on Thyroid Cancer Patients' Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine—highlight the contributions that these surveys can make to physician knowledge, patient care, and doctor-patient relationships.
Overview of the Population Surveyed
The characteristics of the potential survey population is exemplified by the hundreds who came to 13th Annual Thyroid Cancer Survivors' Conference in Dallas, Texas, October 15-17, 2010. Numerous world-class experts in all aspects of thyroid cancer participated at this educational meeting. They spoke on topics ranging from diagnosis to treatment to aftercare and long-term surveillance. The conference attendees were a small portion of the more than 20,000 participants in ThyCa's online support groups and one-to-one support, all of whom are potential participants in the surveys.
First and foremost, these ThyCa constituents are all people affected by a thyroid cancer diagnosis, either as survivors themselves, or as caregivers/loved ones of the survivors. Most, but not all, of the thyroid cancers addressed by ThyCa are well differentiated and usually carry a lengthy survival.
Second, these ThyCa members regularly communicate by e-mail, implying an active and large population of more than 20,000 computer-savvy people. E-mail and website-based communication allow rapid dispersion of timely information, as well as rapid response.
Finally, the majority of thyroid cancer survivors have few post-treatment problems or multiple long-term problems ranging from oral dryness from RAI to vocal disorders from surgery. Most of the problems reported are issues of quality of life, rather than survival issues. Many of the problems can be successfully addressed. The minority of thyroid cancer survivors who have more complex post-treatment problems are an additional important constituency for medical professionals.
Significance of this Population – Who We Are
This is a large group of survivors, the great majority with long life expectancies, computer access, and solvable problems. Medical researchers should be able to generate valuable data regarding survival, quality of survival, and issues related to care delivery in this vocal, intelligent group. Because of ThyCa's membership base, and reach, if large numbers of members participate in informational surveys, you can change treatment policies, long-held notions about complications, and the doctor/patient relationship. Imagine a group of people able to alter the course of their welfare by speaking out about all of these issues.
Recent Surveys
Last year, ThyCa posted 3 physician-authored surveys that impacted most of its members. Participation in all of these surveys was voluntary; no payment or incentive was provided. The Vocal Issues survey was posted for over a year. By April 2011, more than 5,800 people had responded. As noted earlier, this is the largest-ever patient response to any thyroid cancer survey. The survey showed some surprising outcomes about the prevalence and duration of voice disorders in people after thyroidectomy. It also revealed issues regarding voice therapy and the effect chronic voice disability had on the responders.
This was very helpful information. Thank you to everyone who participated. While firm data on expected response rates from this type of survey are lacking, and 25% is a substantial response to a voluntary survey, a higher response can make the study more powerful and therefore more significant than it has already been.
How Surveys Can Benefit Patients and Professionals
ThyCa is a heterogeneous group consisting of several groups of people. These include people newly diagnosed, long-term patients free of disease or with stable disease, long-term patients with complications, and caregivers. They have issues that include radioactive iodine (RAI) and its impacts, voice issues, being alone in their journeys, non-response to available therapy, and others. In addition, some with no significant medical challenges of their own and some who are coping with significant challenges give support to other members.
Questionnaires about a specific topic would attract people affected by that topic. Naturally, a bias would occur if the only responders were the ones with problems. For example, if the normal speakers do not respond to the voice questionnaire, the data will reflect a very large percentage of ThyCa participants with impaired voices. The only way to diminish this bias is to increase the number of responders to the survey. If the only people responding to the RAI survey have poor outcomes, RAI would appear to be a bad treatment option; however, it is a good treatment option.
The importance of these surveys is manifold. First, the surveys can supply medical researchers with normalized data from patients across small and large centers, not simply patients from individual large academic centers. Second, if the medical literature states that there is a low percentage of dry mouth after RAI, but "our constituency claims otherwise, by using our questionnaire," ThyCa constituents could change the way in which patients and doctors interact in the future. Third, if vocal issues are more prevalent than currently suspected, then patients with weak indications for thyroid surgery could include the potential for vocal change in their decision-making. Similarly, if our membership determined by survey that vocal therapy was helpful; wouldn't more physicians tell their patients with vocal changes about it?
The point is that ThyCa-endorsed surveys give power to those who answer them. These surveys potentially could change doctor/patient relationships, improve the exchange of information, and better prepare patients for thyroid surgery, and they could help eliminate non-effective practices or add therapies to enhance post treatment quality of life. The more people who participate in these surveys, the louder our collective voice will be heard.
Salivary Gland and Surgery Surveys Need Your Input
Make your voice heard! Each survey takes just a few minutes to complete. The surveys are voluntary and anonymous.
Share your experience here:
- Salivary Gland and Radioactive Iodine Survey
- Surgery Survey
'Where Can You Find Face-To-Face ThyCa Support Group Meetings?
Find out whether there is a ThyCa Support Group near you, and attend meetings if you can. Face-to-face ThyCa Support Groups meet in dozens of communities. They are wonderful places to meet others in your community who are coping with thyroid cancer.
If you'd like information about starting a group in your community, contact the Support Group Team coordinators at firstname.lastname@example.com.
A special thank you and best wishes to Tamra Kaufman, for running for ThyCa on June 19, 2011, at the Vancouver USA Marathon and Half-Marathon. To learn more and find out how to support Tamra's Run, visit the Rally for Research page.
Insurance Co-Pay Assistance Available
Underinsured patients who need help with co-payments for medications for their cancer or chronic disease may find financial assistance from the nonprofit Patient Access Network Foundation. Starting in November 2010, this organization began providing co-payment assistance to underinsured patients with thyroid cancer. Qualified patients will be granted up to $1,500 per year to cover the cost of medications for diagnostics and treatment. The Foundation's site is also linked in ThyCa's Links list in the Support/Resources section.
Thank You To Our Guest Speakers in May 2011
- Free Seminar on May 21 hosted by ThyCa Silicon Valley Support Group in California, with John Sunwoo, M.D. FACS, Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine. Topic: Neck Dissections for Lymph Node Metastases and the Use of Nerve Monitoring During Thyroidectomies.
- ree Seminar hosted by ThyCa Charlotte Support Group in North Carolina, with Paul Downing, Exercise Physiologist at Strides to Strength, a cancer wellness and fatigue management program.
- Free Newfoundland and Labrador Thyroid Cancer Survivors' Workshop/Information Day on May 28 , hosted by ThyCa Newfoundland and Labrador Support Group. Featured topics and speakers.
- New Imaging Techniques for the Detection of Thyroid Cancer in Nuclear Medicine. Peter Hollett, M.D., FRCPC, Chief, Division of Nuclear Medicine
- New Guidelines From the American Thyroid Association – Individualized Treatment and Follow-up Using Staging and Prognostic Systems. Vikram Chandurkar, M.D., FRCPC, Assistant Professor, Division of Endocrinology
- Nutrition, Low Iodine Diet, & Thyroid Cancer. Gerri Anne Devereaux, Dietitian
- Roundtable: Challenges of Coping with Thyroid Cancer and Handling Full Time Work, Family Responsibilities, or Both. Joanie Bruce, Ida Marrie, & Grace Dean, Facilitators of ThyCa Newfoundland and Labrador Thyroid Cancer Support Group.
Conference Registration Opens; Hotel Room Reservations Open
You now can register online for the 14th International Thyroid Cancer Survivors' Conference in Los Angeles, California, on October 14 – 16, 2011.
Hotel Room Reservations are also open.
Click here for details and online forms.
More Than 30 Conference Speakers Confirmed from 21 Centers
We're excited to announce that 30 distinguished medical professionals are already confirmed for the 14th International Thyroid Cancer Survivors' Conference. As of May 1, we've confirmed professionals from these centers.
- Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
- Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
- City of Hope Cancer Center, Duarte, California
- Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio
- Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York City, New York
- New York University Clinical Cancer Center, New York City, New York
- Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, Ohio
- Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, California
- UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California
- UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center, San Diego, California
- Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland
- University of California, San Francisco, California
- University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois
- University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado
- University of Connecticut Health Center, Storrs, Connecticut
- University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
- University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
- VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, California
- USC Ambulatory Care Health Center, Los Angeles, California
- Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
More speakers are being confirmed. Visit www.thyca.org often for conference updates and details.
Low-Iodine Recipe of the Month
Contributed by Steve M. of Missouri
Salad Dressing and Ketchup Replacement
Very tasty, good for salads and fried potatoes
8 tablespoons vegetable oil
1 apple
1/4 cup distilled white vinegar
4 Tablespoons brown sugar
Measure ingredients into sauce pan and bring to boil then take off heat.
Steve writes: "New Thyroid Cancer patient; just had my first RAI Scan still on the diet. Thank you for the book."
Editor's Note: Thank you, Steve, for contributing your recipe. We will include your recipe in the next edition of ThyCa's FREE Downloadable Low-Iodine Cookbook.
Free and Downloadable
Download the 7th edition of the Low-Iodine Cookbook in English for free, with more than 340 favorite recipes from more than 150 generous volunteers.
The Cookbook is also available in Spanish and French.
Please remember, while you're welcome to download and print the entire free low-iodine cookbook, you can also print just the pages you need.
This free cookbook is a wonderful help when you're preparing to receive radioactive iodine for treatment or testing. All the recipes are favorites of some of our ThyCa volunteers, who are sharing them with everyone, to make the low-iodine diet easy and tasty. The recipes are also great for family meals and for potlucks, any time.
If you'd like to contribute your favorite recipe or tip, send it to email@example.com.
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Support the Rally for Research
Thanks to generous contributions and special fundraising events, ThyCa has awarded new thyroid cancer research grants every year starting in 2003. These grants support our goal of cures for all thyroid cancer and a future free of thyroid cancer. We will again award new research grants in 2011.
You're invited to help support the Rally for Research. For details about the Rally for Research, donation opportunities, special events, Quarters for a Cure, and information about ThyCa's past and future Research Grants, visit the Rally for Research page.
Help us sustain, strengthen, and extend our services. We invite you to become a member of ThyCa: Thyroid Cancer Survivors' Association, Inc.
Your membership dues will support ThyCa's efforts to reach and serve other survivors and their families around the world. Members receive our quarterly Membership Messenger newsletter.
Membership is open to everyone worldwide. You may become a 1-year ThyCa member ($25), 2-year member ($45), or lifetime member ($225). For our online Membership Form and our mailed Membership Form, go to our Membership page.
Every day, thousands of people with thyroid cancer, and their families, receive support, education, and hope from ThyCa: Thyroid Cancer Survivors' Association, Inc. Your generous support is what makes it possible to sustain, strengthen, and expand our services and outreach.
It only takes a minute to make a donation online in support of ThyCa's work (or you are welcome to donate by mail to ThyCa, P.O. Box 964, Chesterfield, MO 63006-0964), so click here to give.
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The information in this newsletter is intended for educational purposes only. It is not intended, nor should it be interpreted, as medical advice or directions of any kind. Readers are advised to consult their own medical doctor(s) for all matters involving their health and medical care.
Your suggestions for articles are welcome. The deadline for articles and news items is the first day of each month.
Thank you to our writing, editing, and proofreading team for this issue: Leah Guljord, David Myssiorek, M.D., Steve M., Pat Paillard, Barbara Status, Cherry Wunderlich, and Gary Bloom.
ThyCa: Thyroid Cancer Survivors' Association, Inc. is a national non- profit 501(c)(3) organization (tax ID #52-2169434) of thyroid cancer survivors, family members, and health care professionals. Contact us for free awareness materials and information about our free services and special events. E-mail to email@example.com, call toll-free at 1-877-588-7904, fax 1-630-604-6078, write PO Box 1102, Olney, MD 20830-1102.


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Pretty soon millions—tens of millions!—of suckers will own a pair of Apple EarPods. If you hated the old Apple buds because they sound terrible and don't fit, good news is that these are better. And they still come free with a device. The bad news is that they're still a pretty poor way to experience music.
What Is It?
The earbuds that come with the iPhone 5 and iPods. They also sell separately for $30.
Who's It For?
Everybody. Nobody. Your junk drawer, eventually.
Little white plastic dots with an ergonomic new bulb shape. The speaker pokes out of the side of the buds, which is supposed to improve sound quality.
Using It
The EarPods fit into the cartilage of your ear and nuzzle their way just into where you ear canal begins. They (still) constantly fall out.
The Best Part
Better sound than the old buds.
Tragic Flaw
Universal plastic buds will never ever fit properly.
This Is Weird...
We want to thank Apple for trying to improve the earbuds of choice for people who don't know better.
Test Notes
- Tested on my iPhone using, you know, the music on my iPhone.
- The old buds were a tinny, muddy mess. On the EarPods, the high end still sounds crispy, but at least there's some bass in the mix now.
- The new Pods also sound incrementally clearer than the buds. You'll hear more details.
- They still hurt your ears, physically.
- More than sound quality, what people really hated about the old buds was an improper fit. This made them basically unusable unless sitting perfectly still. Could we get a little rubber to help them stay in place? So much for music on the go.
- EarPods. Weird name, right? Ear. Pods. EarPods.
Should You Buy It?
To be fair, this is a freebie accessory. Other device makers don't bother to bundle products with quality accessories. so why should we expect Apple to? If you buy an iPhone 5 or iPod, you won't have a choice. You will involuntarily own them. That's fine—they're a fine backup pair, on par with that pair of Skullcandy buds someone left at your house one night.
But! We advise against purchasing individually packaged Apple EarPods from your neighborhood Apple Store. They're a little better than before, but they're still among the worst hardware Apple has ever made.
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For a simple way to tell if your hair is damaged, run a strand of hair through your fingers.
- If you can run your fingers along your hair strand smoothly then the light coating of sebum (the natural oil that covers all hair) is in check.
- If your hair feels rough or prickly, particularly on the ends, then all signs point to dryness and damage.
Natural Hair Damage
Natural hair damage is caused by a lack of moisture, which can happen if there isn't enough moisture in the cortex of your hair or if there isn't enough sebum coating your hair. This all causes your hair to dry out and can be brought about by:
- Aging.
- Genetics.
- Poor health.
- Poor diet.
- Hormonal imbalances.
While there isn't much you can do to avoid natural hair damage, using a hair care routine such as the one outlined in our article Daily Hair Care Routine in 6 Easy Steps and using hair treatments regularly will help with the condition of your hair.
Styling Hair Damage
Hair damage that we cause ourselves is unfortunately something that is unavoidable.
Simple everyday tasks such as washing your hair, brushing and even pulling your hair into an easy ponytail can all cause damage.
To minimize damage, always handle your hair as delicately as possible, be gentle when washing and brushing and use the best hair tools possible, such as a mild shampoo and a natural bristle brush on dry hair and a wide tooth comb on wet hair.
To reduce the level of damage that you cause to your hair you can also try the following tips:
- Keep in mind that spiky, heated rollers, metal combs and plastic hair brushes can all cause damage.
- Hair elastics made from rubber will tear your hair so it's best to use elastics that are covered in cloth.
- Wrapping thin foam rubber around your heated rollers will help to limit damage.
- Curling irons and hair straighteners can dry and even burn your hair (if used incorrectly). Use them sparingly and always with a heat protection product.
- The sun, seawater, chlorinated water, air conditioning and central heating will zap the moisture right out of your hair so use scarves and hats when out in the elements, a swimming cap when you're taking a dip, and moisture locking hair products if you spend most of your day in a room with air conditioning.
Chemical Hair Damage
Chemical hair damage is caused when hair is incorrectly or too-often colored with bleach and tints or chemically permed or straightened.
When the hair is overexposed to chemicals then portions of the hair shaft break down and become soft. This can leave you with hair that tangles easily and a hair color that looks brassy or even green.
While for most people it's not realistic to give up chemically treating your hair all together, you can limit the damage done by spacing out any processes with an 8 to 10 week gap and trying your best to see a professional hairdresser to have your hair colored, permed or straightened as they have proper training with the chemicals and will know how to apply them to your hair safely.
Being aware of what causes damage to your hair and handling your hair with as much care as possible will go a long way towards keeping any hair damage to a minimum and help you to avoid more damage in the future.
Keep these hair care points in mind and every once in a while declare a damage free day by going with your natural hair texture and giving hair products and styling tools a miss. Who knows? You might even like your hair au naturel and prefer wearing it that way all the time!


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We were less than impressed with Archos' last attempt to provide Android users with a hardware alternative to a touchscreen UI. Its Gen10 XS tablet packed a nifty keyboard/cover combo, but everything else was downhill from there. So maybe the company has learned from its mistakes and can deliver a solid handheld gaming experience with its just announced Android GamePad.
Hoping to squeeze its way into a dwindling market already dominated by Nintendo and Sony, the seven-inch GamePad will run Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich letting it take advantage of a set of built-in physical controls—including what looks to be a pair of analog joysticks, a pair of four-way directional pads, and a requisite set of shoulder buttons. Powered by a dual-core 1.5 GHz processor and a Mali 400mp quad-core GPU serving up graphics, the GamePad also packs an HDMI connection essentially turning it into a portable console. When it's available sometime in October with an expected price tag of less than $188 (€150) it will also have full access to the Google Play market and be compatible with hundreds of titles at launch—-although the quality of those games might pale in comparison to what you'd find on the PSP or 3DS. [Archos (PDF)]


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Foster, last season's rushing champion, tweaked his left hamstring in last night's 49ers-Texans preseason game. He hurt the same hamstring earlier in camp. He appreciates your concern about his semitendinosus, unless you are concerned simply because of your fantasy team.
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Yes, Arian, they're sick. They have fevers. And the only prescription is more all-purpose yards. Get to it.
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When I first got the idea back in 2008 that the women farmers like myself in central Senegal should join together to help one another succeed, I never would have guessed that five years later I would be sharing that story of success with the president of the United States.
On June 28, I found myself before President Barack Obama himself, explaining to him how bringing my producers' network together with others in the Kaolack region and receiving assistance from a USAID project, part of the Feed the Future initiative helped us help each other, leading to the formation of a federation of some 3,000 producers who last year produced and sold 13,000 tons of corn on 5,000 hectares of land to feed our families and plan for next season.
In our conversation, President Obama explained my story back to make sure he understood: "So you've got all these small farmers, and they all came together to better compete with big agribusiness."
"That's right," I told him. "We created a network in the villages and each network worked together as the Saloum Federation of Corn Producers."
I explained that our larger numbers afforded us better access to credit, with which our federation was able to access modern farm equipment, like the 12 tractors we have today. I pointed to a picture of the tractors on the display at the agricultural technology marketplace prepared for the president, and he asked me if I could drive a tractor myself.
"No, but I want to learn," I said, knowing he was teasing me. But I really am going to learn.
To meet President Obama was wonderful. He seemed very happy to hear how a U.S. Government project was helping me and the members of our network. He was also very happy to hear that we now have enough good-quality, locally-grown corn for our own consumption and enough left over to sell, and that we are improving the quality of our seeds and equipment for the next growing season.
We want to make all producers in south-central Senegal aware of how we are producing quality corn so that we can be competitive with imports, find business opportunities, and sell our products at good prices.
Going back to before I had ever heard of USAID or Feed the Future, I was planting two hectares of maize a year. With USAID's support, Feed the Future helped my little group access seasonal bank credit, with which we bought more seed and fertilizer than ever previously possible.
A year later, I planted 13 hectares and my income tripled. The 2011 harvest was a bad one, with a severe drought hitting our region hard. But the quality of the new seed was so good that despite the lack of rain, I still managed to increase my yield to 15 tons and earn close to $5,000 that year.
That money helped the federation qualify for a loan big enough to buy a brand-new tractor worth $35,000. The tractor has helped us prepare more than 350 hectares of land in our area. In 2012, my own cultivation grew to 18 hectares, including three hectares in new high-yielding hybrid varieties.
All this time our network was growing. In 2012, I was elected president of the new federation, which by then had 2,500 members. Now we can negotiate directly with banks, agro-dealers and buyers from the animal feed industry and today can speak for more than 3,000 corn farmers, both women and men, with the Senegalese government and the private sector with which we deal each day. This last season we produced nearly 4,500 tons, 3,000 of which was sold for a profit that will help us increase our yields still more next year.
Like the corn we cultivate, I feel the success of our federation can grow as high as our dreams. For a simple farmer from rural Senegal, to be successful enough to meet the American president shows that big dreams can come true after all.
Learn more about President Obama's trip to Africa and view an infographic of the agricultural technologies marketplace where Diayaté met Obama.
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It's happening in Buenos Aires. It's happening in Paris and in Athens. It's even happening at the World Bank headquarters.
The global economy is finally shifting away from the model that prevailed for the last three decades. Europeans are rejecting austerity. Latin Americans are nationalizing enterprises. The next head of the World Bank has actually done effective development work.
Maybe that long-heralded "end of the Washington consensus" is finally upon us.
After the near-collapse of the global financial system four years ago, obituary writers rushed to proclaim the death of the prevailing economic philosophy known as neo-liberalism. "Wall Street's financial meltdown marks the end of an era," wrote Michael Hudson and Jeffrey Sommers in Counterpunch at the end of 2008. "What has ended is the credibility of the Washington Consensus – open markets to foreign investors and tight money austerity programs (high interest rates and credit cutbacks) to 'cure' balance-of-payments deficits, domestic budget deficits and price inflation.
It was a tempting conclusion. Putting Wall Street and financial speculators at the center of the universe had generated an economic supernova, and everyone seemed to get the message. Everyone except Big Money, which never received the obituary notice. After some minor tweaking of Wall Street practices, some bailouts of enterprises deemed too big to fail, and the injection of some stimulus spending to arrest the free fall, Washington continued with business as usual. The Obama administration, like the Clinton administration before it, discovered the immense power of the bond market. The IMF and the World Bank, meanwhile, didn't fundamentally change their policies. And the European Union, led by tight-fisted Germany, continued to back austerity. All the major economic actors held to the old orthodoxy even though it flew in the face of common sense and common decency (though not in the face of the bottom line).
Wall Street's continued irrational exuberance, its lavishing of bonuses on its elite, and its pushback against even the most modest of regulations all suggest that the old Ptolemaic system – with Wall Street and the Washington Consensus still at the center of the universe – had not yet given way to a Copernican revolution that displaces these powerful institutions from their privileged position. Such revolutions, of course, are not made in a day. Remember: Ptolemy's system, with the earth at the center of all things, reigned for 1,300 years even as it grew inordinately complex to explain new astronomical observations. A century after the publication of the great Pole's theory of heliocentrism, Galileo still ran afoul of church authorities for his Copernican leanings. Orthodoxy dies hard.
As a first sally against the prevailing orthodoxy of neo-liberalism, today's economic Copernicans have taken aim at austerity. It's a fat target: belt-tightening, after all, is not only unpopular but unsound. Paul Krugman marshals the economic evidence in the latest New York Review of Books, concluding that the "chances of a real turn in policy, away from the austerity mania of the last few years and toward a renewed focus on job creation, are much better than conventional wisdom would have you believe."
Nowhere is that clearer than in Europe. There, the case for austerity, explains Washington Post columnist Harold Meyerson, "was that once governments began slashing their spending and deficits, markets would reward them by investing in their presumably more productive economies. But the reverse has happened. As Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain have cut their budgets, investors have grown less willing to buy their bonds. By plunging themselves deeper into recession, these nations have convinced investors not that they're fiscally virtuous but that they won't become economically viable for many more years."
French and Greek voters rejected austerity in the elections this weekend not because, as the U.S. media coverage implies, they are unruly children who refuse to swallow their medicine. Rather, they realize that austerity economics at this delicate moment could very well precipitate a double-dip recession (i.e.: a lot more pain). Moreover, they want the pain – and everyone knows that there will be pain – to be fairly shouldered. Francois Hollande, the new Socialist president in France, has called for a 75-percent tax rate on all earnings over $1.3 million. Now that's a Buffet tax!
Don't expect Hollande to appoint Occupy protestors to his cabinet. He "may not have a radical economic program sufficient to the task of reforming the French and European financial systems," writes Foreign Policy In Focus (FPIF) contributor Jeanne Kay in The End of Austerity in Europe, "but he diverges from Sarkozy in one key aspect: government spending. Against Sarkozy's line of austerity, Hollande proposes a more Keynesian plan of job creation in the public sector, indexing the minimum wage to GDP growth rather than just inflation, and public investment."
The left has woken from its collective stupor just in time, for Europe at the moment is very much up for grabs. The far right has also rejected austerity, and it has a much simpler platform: blame the immigrants. The National Front in France has injected its xenophobic virus into the very heart of France's center-right Union for a Popular Movement; the street thugs of Golden Dawn in Greece will enter parliament for the first time; Geert Wilders and his anti-Islamic chest-thumpers brought down the government in the Netherlands last month. Where the left has failed to provide a convincing alternative to austerity, the right has prospered.
Much rests on the shoulders of Hollande and the French Socialists. To them falls the responsibility of rebuilding a European left that returns the EU to its roots – a socialist market economy that grows together and preserves unity in diversity. To pull France out of its own doldrums, Hollande can't think small. He must go big and, through persuasion and arm-twisting, rewrite the rules of European economic revival. Rejecting austerity is only a first step.
The Europeans could learn something here from Latin America, particularly Argentina. In the late 1990s, having racked up a huge debt, Argentina faced the typical recommendations from the international financial institutions: cut the budget, privatize government firms, remove barriers to outside investment. But Buenos Aires said no. It defaulted on $100 billion-plus in loans.
According to the rules of the game, Argentina should have been thrown out on its ear and forever banned from playing in the global casino. But that didn't happen. Most creditors – 93 percent – eventually accepted the 35 cents on the dollar haircut that the government offered. Foreign investors, particularly from Brazil, continued to supply capital. Bargain-hungry tourists flocked to the country. Workers banded together to take over enterprises that owners had given up on (such as the Bauen Hotel in downtown Buenos Aires).
With a bit of luck – particularly the rise in price of soybeans, a key Argentine export — the country clawed its way back to economic health. Unemployment dropped from 25 percent in 2001 to below 8 percent in 2010. Social programs reduced the percentage of the population living beneath the poverty line from 51 to 13 percent (though it went up again in 2010). The recovery, like all recoveries, is tenuous, for it depends a good deal on the price of the commodities Argentina exports.
Which is why Argentina is going one step further to exert some control over the process. The government of Cristina Kirchner has nationalized Argentina Airlines as well as pension funds, and it has also instituted measures to slow capital flight from the country. Most recently, it nationalized a key oil company, YPF, taking back control of the firm from a Spanish company that had a majority stake. "A poll conducted by Poliarguia Consultores published in the Argentine newspaper La Nacion," writes FPIF contributor Melissa Moskowitz in Annotate This: EU Response to Argentina's Nationalization, "indicated that 62 percent of Argentines support President Cristina Kirchner's plans to nationalize YPF. President Kirchner's decision to promote and defend nationalization reflects growing opinion that the company has 'not invested enough' in Argentina 'to cope with growing international demand.'"
Argentina is by no means the only country in the region to roll back the privatization mania. The Brazilian government increased its control over the oil company Petrobras a couple years ago. In Bolivia, the government of Evo Morales recently renationalized the electricity grid, which had also been in Spanish hands. This move comes after the nationalization of hydroelectric facilities and telecommunications. Venezuela, under Hugo Chavez, has made enlarging the state sector a populist rallying cry. And Ecuador has followed suit with laws to allow the government to seize oil and gas companies that don't comply with national regulations.
Despite this new trend in Latin America, foreign investors have been flocking to the region. In 2011, the region saw a 31-percent increase in foreign capital. But here's the underlying reason for the nationalizations. According to a recent UN report, "FDI revenue transferred back to the countries of origin has increased from US$20 billion per year between 1998 and 2003 to US$84 billion between 2008 and 2010 per year." Sound familiar? Back in 1973, Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano wrote, "Latin America is the region of open veins. Everything, from the discovery until our times, has always been transmuted into European – or later United States – capital, and as such has accumulated in distant centers of power." Latin American leaders are, with these nationalizations, attempting to stem the blood loss.
Perhaps they will get some help from an unusual quarter – the World Bank. The new head Jim Yong Kim is a health professional, not a free-trader like Robert Zoellick or a neocon like Paul Wolfowitz. One person can't change an institution. But there are plenty of people at the World Bank who are waiting for this new kind of leadership. The 2000/2001 World Development Report, prepared by a team led by Ravi Kanbur and Nora Lustig, was an extraordinary effort based on interviews with more than 60,000 poor people in 60 countries. Alas, the Bank subsequently returned to its more traditional top-down approach. But Jim Kim's is much more grassroots-oriented. Perhaps the World Bank under his leadership can help shift the locus of attention from facilitating financial speculation to empowering the poor.
A backlash against austerity in Europe, a move toward greater state control in Latin America, a change in leadership at the World Bank: this might seem slender evidence for a Copernican revolution in economics. The evidence for overturning orthodoxy might even have seemed stronger in 1999, when the Asian financial crisis prompted New Perspectives Quarterly to ask economists Laura Tyson, Jeffrey Sachs, and others whether the Washington consensus was truly at an end (they saw greater "market pluralism" emerging). Moreover, a number of leaders like Barack Obama are styling themselves as Tyco Brahe, the Danish astronomer who attempted to combine both Ptolemy and Copernicus into an untenable geo-heliocentric system. These modern-day Brahes want to preserve the Washington consensus with only a few modifications.
As the world lurches from one economic crisis to another, and with the even larger crisis of global warming looming above it all, one thing is certain: there is no longer any consensus in Washington over what to do. Neo-liberalism survives, but more out of inertia than conviction. Meanwhile, out there in the world, the economic Copernicans are busy reconstructing the order of things.
Battling over Bases
The United States announced last week that it will withdraw thousands of U.S. Marines from Okinawa, finally fulfilling to a limited extent a promise made by Bill Clinton to reduce the U.S. military footprint on the island.
"The transfer of the Marines has considerable support on Okinawa and Japan more generally," I write in an Inter Press Service article. "It has, however, generated concerns in the U.S. Congress, particularly over costs. At the end of 2011, Congress removed all the funding connected to the Guam transfer in the 2012 military spending bill, pending completion of an independent review. Key critics of the process of Pacific realignment – including John McCain, Carl Levin and Jim Webb – remain sceptical of the latest agreement since the review has not yet been completed. Also sceptical are anti-base activists in the places where the Marine presence will increase."
Meanwhile, FPIF contributor Peter Certo looks at two new documentaries about U.S. military bases. "Scattered across the globe, far from the staid conference rooms and policy salons of Washington, are some of the world's premier experts on U.S. militarism," he writes in The Accidental Experts. "But they are neither the warzone refugees who have most borne its brunt nor the polished think tank professionals who increasingly populate the developing world's capitals. Rather, they are the people who dwell in the shadows of the estimated 1,000 U.S. military bases speckling the planet."
Averting War with Iran?
The first round of negotiations with Iran has raised hopes for a timely resolution of the ongoing conflict. "The Baghdad talks in late May are the last chance to reverse the torrent of sanctions slated to kick in around June, potentially driving energy markets into a tailspin and discouraging Iran from any kind of substantive compromise," writes FPIF contributor Richard Javad Heydarian in Iran: Why This Time Is Different. "Unless key obstacles are overcome in the coming weeks, we are headed for a rough set of talks in Baghdad.
An international war crimes court in the Netherlands recently found former Liberian President Charles Taylor guilty of 11 charges. As FPIF co-director Emira Woods writes in The Strange Case of Charles Taylor, the convicted "is a man of many firsts. He's the first head of state to have escaped from a medium-security prison in the United States. He was the first sitting head of state to face charges of international crimes against humanity since the Nuremberg trials. Now, he's the first head of state since World War II to have been convicted of war crimes by an international tribunal."
Our FPIF pick this week is Learning from the Octopus, marine ecologist Rafe Sagarin's look at natural models of security. "His new book's conclusion: we can learn from nature about being more secure by being more adaptable," writes FPIF contributor Yunping Chen. "Nature, after 3.5 billion years of dealing with risk, is an experienced teacher."
Finally, in our FPIF blog, we have contributions on missile defense, Sarkozy's Gaddafi connection, and the growing rift in Israel over Iran policy.


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MetroPCS, T-Mobile Merger Awaits Shareholder Vote
A pending merger of MetroPCS Communications (NYSE:PCS) and T-Mobile now awaits a shareholder vote next month, as the wireless carriers said on Thursday they have received all regulatory approvals.
The U.S. Committee on Foreign Investment concluded its review of the deal after determining there are no unresolved national-security issues.
T-Mobile's parent company is German telecommunications company Deutsche Telekom. The merger, which received approval from U.S. regulators last week, would create a publicly traded company. Deutsche Telekom would hold a 74% stake.
The final hurdle is MetroPCS shareholder approval. Shareholders will vote on the deal at an April 12 meeting. If they vote in favor, the merger is expected to close shortly after the meeting, the companies said Thursday.
Also on Thursday, P. Schoenfeld Asset Management, a MetroPCS shareholder that has been critical of the deal, released 14 "critical questions" related to the proposed deal. It is seeking answers before next month's meeting.
P. Schoenfeld Asset Management and hedge fund Paulson & Co. have argued that the new company will have too much debt and will be unable to compete with rival carriers.
Shares of MetroPCS were trading down five cents to $10.52 midday Thursday.


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Osi Umenyiora moves to reserve role in Atlanta
When defensive end Osi Umenyiora would have one of his periodic episodes of venting his frustrations with the Giants, his chief complaints were a salary he felt was below his productivity and the lack of a starting job.
Umenyiora signed a two-year, $8.5 million contract with the Falcons in the offseason and moved right into a starting role, leaving Umenyiora with little to complain about when the season got underway. Things have changed as the season unfolded, however, and the 4-10 Falcons have decided to bring Umenyiora off the bench with Jonathan Massaquoi taking Umenyiora's place in the starting lineup.
Defensive coordinator Mike Nolan explained the move as one to keep Umenyiora as fresh as possible and pointed to Umenyiora's play against Washington in Week 15 as a sign that things are working pretty well.
"I thought he did an outstanding job in the game when he did go in," Nolan said, via Vaughn McClure of ESPN.com. "He was fresher. He was better prepared for the third down because of that. You know, when you play every down, it can wear on you. Whatever's best for them to perform at the highest level is what you want to do, and I think that did help him perform at a high level. I mean, he got the only sack we had in the game. It was a sack-fumble as a matter of fact, and we a got a touchdown out of it … the offense did."
Nolan also credited Umenyiora, who has 7.5 sacks this year, with being a strong leader for the team's younger players, but the outcome of the Falcons season makes him less than a sure thing to return next year. He's set to make $3.5 million and count $4.75 million against the cap, which is hardly unmanageable but still may be more than the Falcons want to pay for veteran leadership on third downs as they try to put together a team that gets them back to the playoffs.


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Archive of shows is here (right click and 'Save target as...' or click on the link and it will open in a new browser window to play): http://matrixfilesradio.com/shows/14Jun ... e-2014.mp3
First I go over the golden nuggets for the 7th June.
Part three of my interview with Eric is then continued and completed.
I also briefly mention what it was I forgot about when talking with Eric about Fear and the news. This should be another informative show and I look forward to having Eric on the show again.
By all means feel free to call in and take part in the discussion. If you have any questions I will do my best to answer them.
A note for next week: On next week's show, 21st June, we will have a new guest on who will talk about HitchHikers (those who have no bodies and latch on to yours without you knowing it). She has a vast amount of knowledge in this area compared to me so for those who tune in they will gain knowledge and understanding beyond what anyone else has which is important to know for living in today's world.
Nuggets of Gold - for 14th June
- The Art of Deception by those who govern was already being actively pursued via mass media in the early 1920's.
- All Politicians are criminals or 'at the effect of / beholden to' the criminals in government. (This is not a generality, unfortunately, as it can be found by doing research on all members that each member of congress and the senate are aware of the Act of 1871 that converted the republic into a corporate entity which is treason and gave the country over to the bankers - European and more specifically England [Rothschild]), royalty [the Queen of England] and ultimately the Vatican.)
- The primary area of deception is religion.
- The 29th March show is a good show to start with - which deals with the deception in Christianity. But it is a good idea to start from the beginning (8th March) as I start out with a foundation and then each week build on it.
- The justice system is opposite to what you think it is. It extracts misery, pain, suffering and ultimately your money and maybe even your life from you.
- Chlorine Dioxide has been around for over 100 years in the food industry as a disinfectant and can also be used to eradicate cancer and many other diseases.
- Cancer cannot survive in a high pH (alkaline) environment.
- Cancer has been dealt with over 100 years ago.
- Thermography is a 100% safe alternative to mammographies and is extremely effective at discovering them.
- Pass on good info to others.
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The Al Fahd eight-wheeled armoured vehicle is the first armoured vehicle designed and built in Saudi Arabia
The Al Fahd armoured vehicle has been developed by the Abdallah Al Faris Company for Heavy Industries, which is based in Saudi Arabia at Damman, just north of Dharan near the coast of the Persian Gulf.
The Al Fahd is the first armoured vehicle designed and built in Saudi Arabia and entered production of 100 vehicles for the Saudi Arabian National Guard in 1998. It is an 8 wheeled armoured vehicle. The vehicle is available in two variants: the AF-40-8-1 Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC) and the AF-40-8-2 Armoured Fighting and Reconnaissance Vehicle (AFRV).
Al Fahd AF-40-80-2 armoured fighting and reconnaissance vehicle
The armoured fighting vehicle accommodates a crew of four. The vehicle can be equipped with a turret for the installation of 105mm low recoil weapons on the AFRV, and 40mm weapons on the personnel carrier. The driver's station is equipped with a suite of day and night vision periscopes. Day and night vision scopes can also be fitted to the crew stations.
Deutz air-cooled engine
The Al Fahd is equipped with a twelve-cylinder 550hp Deutz air-cooled engine. A water-cooled engine is an available option. The vehicle has a ZF 6WG-200 powered gearbox by Zahnradfabrik Passau GmbH. The unit is of layshaft design with hydraulically actuated multi-plate clutches engaging the gears, and a hydrodynamic torque converter as the starting device.
For use on prepared roads, only the middle four wheels are powered and steered, and the maximum speed is 90km/h. 550l of diesel fuel are carried, giving a maximum range of 600km.
The chassis, engine, transmission, suspension and levelling system are designed to provide a high level of performance for crossing rough and variable terrain. For travelling across rough terrain, the drive and powered steering are applied to all eight wheels. The vehicle's levelling system operates in both manual and automatic mode. The vehicle is able to negotiate slopes up to 80%, side slopes to 55% and natural and engineered trenches to 2,500mm and 2,000mm.
The vehicle's suspension system is a combined nitrogen gas spring and hydraulic damping system. For weapon firing, a series of valves on the nitrogen gas system is closed to provide a firmer hydraulic suspension system. Once the main weapons are discharged the nitrogen gas system is reinstated into the vehicle suspension system and the vehicle is ready to proceed across the rough battlefield terrain.
An hydraulic amphibious system is available as an option. The maximum amphibious speed is 8km/h. The hull is water-sealed and airtight.
Construction of the hull incorporates high alloy single steel sheets with layers of multi-Kevlar material for extra protection against anti-personnel ammunition. Air-conditioning together with nuclear, chemical and biological filtering are fitted as standard. A manual fire fighting system is fitted with an automatic system as an option.
Al Fahd AF-40-8-1 armoured personnel carrier
The Armoured Personnel Carrier variant, model AF-40-8-1, has the capacity to carry 11 equipped troops plus the driver. The position of the engine in the APC is at the front instead of the rear of the vehicle. A large ramp door (which is not fitted on the fighting vehicle variant) at the rear gives access to the troop compartment.
The APC can be equipped with a turret for weapons up to 40mm calibre, and also an optional number of firing ports can be installed.
The fuel capacity of the two vehicles is the same. The smaller engine, the Deutz 10 cylinder, 400hp engine, combined with a lower operating empty weight and combat payload, gives a 800km cruising range, which is 200km further than that of the fighting vehicle.


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What if lights on your street knew when to stay on longer and when to switch off? What if you could easily check online how much energy street lights are using and which ones need repair? What if your city had full control over its lighting, setting schedules and dimming levels on demand? What if it had access to elaborate data visualization and analytics, to make better decisions?
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Medically reviewed by David A. Williams, MD
Gene therapy is a way of treating or preventing disease by altering the genetic instructions within an individual's cells. Genes are responsible for virtually every aspect of cell life: they hold the code for proteins that enable cells to grow, function, and divide. When a gene is defective, it can give rise to proteins that are unable to do their job. When a gene is missing, or is overactive, important bodily functions may be impaired. The goal of gene therapy is to correct such problems by fixing them at the source.
Gene therapy can involve replacing abnormal or absent genes with healthy ones that enable cells to produce useful proteins. It also can involve changing the way genes are regulated, so that under- or overactive genes operate properly. Finally, gene therapy can be used to express entirely foreign genes in cells that alter their function and/or survival.
A variety of efforts are underway to apply gene therapy to cancer treatment. Most are in early, exploratory stages, where they're being studied in the laboratory or in clinical research trials. One approach, however, known as CAR T-cell therapy, has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for use as a therapy in certain groups of patients and is expected to receive additional approvals in the near future.
Research in gene therapy for cancer is currently focused in multiple areas, including genetically engineered viruses that directly kill cancer cells, gene transfer to alter the abnormal functioning of cancer cells, and immunotherapy (which includes CAR T-cell therapy), which helps the immune system better find and kill tumor cells.
Learn more about immunotherapy from the Center for Immuno-Oncology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
Genetically Engineered Viruses
This approach uses specially modified viruses (called oncolytic viruses) that target and destroy cancer cells while leaving normal cells unharmed. The viruses, engineered to contain certain genes, are designed to infect cancer cells and, once inside, to produce proteins that cause the cells to die.
In animal studies, such viruses have achieved promising results in a variety of cancers, including colon, bladder, and osteosarcoma (a form of bone cancer). One of the challenges in adapting this approach for human patients is that most people have antibodies to several of the types of viruses used in the animal studies. As a result, the immune system is often able to clear the viral agent before it has had a chance to infect cancer cells. Researchers have responded by using other types of viruses for trials in humans.
In trials using a type of virus known as adenovirus, viral therapy has shown encouraging results against several types of cancers, including squamous cell cancers of the head and neck, and is being tested as a preventive treatment for precancerous oral tissue. Trials involving modified forms of herpes simplex virus have been conducted in patients with malignant glioma (a form of brain cancer) and colorectal cancer that has spread to the liver.
Gene Transfer
In gene transfer, researchers introduce a foreign gene directly into cancer cells or into surrounding tissue. The goal is that the newly inserted gene will cause the cancer cells to die or prevent cancer cells and surrounding tissue from funneling blood to tumors, depriving them of nutrients they need for survival. While this approach has a great deal of promise, it presents scientists with several obstacles as well, including "gene silencing," in which the implanted genes fail to switch on. In animal studies, gene transfer techniques achieved positive results in treating prostate, lung, and pancreatic tumors.
Various approaches to gene transfer have been tested in clinical trials. These trials have involved cancers including squamous cell cancer of the head and neck, liver, ovaries, prostate, bladder, and other organs.
CAR T-cell therapy, which seeks to enhance the natural cancer-fighting ability of patients' own T cells, is one type of immunotherapy. A sample of a patient's T cells is collected and mixed with viruses carrying several specific genes. The viruses deliver these genes to the T cells' nuclei, where they're incorporated into the cells' DNA. The genes cause the T cells to express a special protein called a chimeric antigen receptor, or CAR, on their surface. The CAR directs the T cell to the tumor cell using a specific "address," and the CAR T cell is then equipped to rapidly destroy the cancer cell. When the cells, now called CAR T cells, are infused into the patient, they seek out tumor cells and then proliferate to generate many more cancer-killing cells.
In clinical trials, CAR T-cell therapy has achieved dramatic results in some children and adults with leukemia or lymphoma. However, the success of this approach is associated with severe side effects in some individuals. Last year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved one CAR T-cell therapy as standard treatment for children with ALL and a second for adults with advanced lymphomas. Trials for patients with certain types of solid tumors are beginning to open.
Another form of immunotherapy involving gene therapy is cancer vaccines. This approach involves collecting tumor cells from a patient and engineering them with genes that cause them to be more conspicuous to the immune system. The altered cells are then re-infused into the patient along with an immune-stimulating compound. The patient's immune system launches a vigorous attack not only on the newly-infused cancer cells but also on similar cells throughout the body.


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After 10 weeks working out with Kim, I am stronger than I've ever been and I have muscle definition where I never knew I had muscles. Most importantly, there's no pain during or after the workouts."
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text: 29 OCTOBER 2012 - MAYO, PATTANI, THAILAND: A resident stands outside of his room at the Bukit Kong home in Mayo, Pattani. He said he is a survivor of the Tak Bai incident in which the Thai army killed more than 80 people protesting against the government. He said he didn't remember his name or how he came to be at the home. The home opened 27 years ago as a ponoh school, or traditional Islamic school, in the Mayo district of Pattani. Shortly after it opened, people asked the headmaster to look after individuals with mental illness. The headmaster took them in and soon the school was a home for the mentally ill. Thailand has limited mental health facilities and most are in Bangkok, more than 1,100 kilometers (650 miles) away. The founder died suddenly in 2006 and now his widow, Nuriah Jeteh, struggles to keep the home open. Facilities are crude by western standards but the people who live here have nowhere else to go. Some were brought here by family, others dropped off by the military or police. The home relies on donations and gets no official government support, although soldiers occasionally drop off food. Now there are only six patients, three of whom are kept chained in their rooms. Jeteh says she relies on traditional Muslim prayers, holy water and herbal medicines to treat the residents. Western style drugs are not available and they don't have a medic on staff. PHOTO BY JACK KURTZAdd to Lightbox Download


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In the last decade of the 20th century, as the Soviet Empire disintegrated, so, too, did that prison house of nations, the USSR.
Out of the decomposing carcass came Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Moldova, all in Europe; Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan in the Caucasus; and Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan in Central Asia.
Transnistria then broke free of Moldova, and Abkhazia and South Ossetia fought free of Georgia.
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Yugoslavia dissolved far more violently into the nations of Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Macedonia and Kosovo.
The Slovaks seceded from Czechoslovakia. Yet a Europe that plunged straight to war after the last breakup of Czechoslovakia in 1938 and 1939 this time only yawned. Let them go, all agreed.
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The spirit of secession, the desire of peoples to sever ties to nations to which they have belonged for generations, sometimes for centuries, and to seek out their own kind, is a spreading phenomenon.
Scotland is moving toward a referendum on independence from England, three centuries after the Acts of Union. Catalonia pushes to be free of Madrid. Milanese and Venetians see themselves as a European people apart from Sicilians, Neapolitans and Romans.
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Dutch-speaking Flanders wants to cut loose of French-speaking Wallonia in Belgium. Francophone Quebec, with immigrants from Asia and the Third World tilting the balance in favor of union, appears to have lost its historic moment to secede from Canada.
What are the forces pulling nations apart? Ethnicity, culture, history and language – but now also economics. And separatist and secessionist movements are cropping up here in the United States.
While many red state Americans are moving away from blue state America, seeking kindred souls among whom to live, those who love where they live but not those who rule them are seeking to secede.
The five counties of western Maryland – Garrett, Allegany, Washington, Frederick and Carroll, which have more in common with West Virginia and wish to be rid of Baltimore and free of Annapolis, are talking secession.
The issues driving secession in Maryland are gun control, high taxes, energy policy, homosexual marriage and immigration.
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Scott Strzelczyk, who lives in the town of Windsor in Carroll County and leads the Western Maryland Initiative, argues: "If you have a long list of grievances, and it's been going on for decades, and you can't get it resolved, ultimately [secession] is what you have to do."
And there is precedent. Four of our 50 states – Maine, Vermont, Kentucky, West Virginia – were born out of other states.
Ten northern counties of Colorado are this November holding non-binding referenda to prepare a future secession from Denver and the creation of America's 51st state.
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Nine of the 10 Colorado counties talking secession and a new state, writes Reid Wilson of the Washington Post – Cheyenne, Kit Carson, Logan, Morgan, Phillips, Sedgwick, Washington, Weld and Yuma – all gave more than 62 percent of their votes to Mitt Romney. Five of these 10 counties gave Romney more than 75 percent of their vote.
Their issues with the Denver legislature: A new gun control law that triggered a voter recall of two Democratic state senators, state restrictions on oil exploration and the Colorado legislature's party-line vote in support of gay marriage.
Scott Strzelczyk of the Western Maryland Initiative talks about seceding from the rest of the state.
In California, which many have long believed should be split in two, the northern counties of Modoc and Siskiyou on the Oregon border are talking secession – and then union in a new state called Jefferson.
"California is essentially ungovernable in its present size," says Mark Baird of the Jefferson Declaration Committee. Baird hopes to attract a dozen counties to join together before petitioning the state to secede.
Like the western Maryland and northern Colorado counties, the northern California counties are conservative, small town, rural and have little in common with San Francisco or Los Angeles, or Sacramento, where Republicans hold not one statewide office and are outnumbered better than 2-1 in both houses of the state legislature.
Folks on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, bordered by Wisconsin and the Great Lakes, which is connected to lower Michigan by a bridge, have long dreamed of a separate state called Superior. The UP has little in common with Lansing and nothing with Detroit.
While the folks in western Maryland, northern Colorado, northern California and on the Upper Peninsula might be described as red state secessionists, in Vermont the secessionists seem of the populist left. The Montpelier Manifesto of the Second Vermont Republic concludes:
"Citizens, lend your names to this manifesto and join in the honorable task of rejecting the immoral, corrupt, decaying, dying, failing American Empire and seeking its rapid and peaceful dissolution before it takes us all down with it."
This sort of intemperate language may be found in Thomas Jefferson's indictment of George III. If America does not get its fiscal house in order, and another Great Recession hits or our elites dragoon us into another imperial war, we will likely hear more of such talk.


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This Matter of Cellaring
I have had many inquiries lately as to the availability of cellaring equipment and or building one. Building one is not as hard as it might seem, and you just might have the equipment required at your home. I found a room in the house (closet, pantry etc.) that I could spare (a friend cut… read more »


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Hosted by the Jewish Whisky Company and Single Cask Nation, the first annual charitable Whisky Jewbilee is fast approaching!!
For those unable to attend WhiskyFest NYC this year (due to it landing on Shabbat), this is your chance to taste some of Scotland, Ireland, and America's finest whiskies.
Kosher catering by Ari White of Gemstone Catering, food under Star-K.
Click this link for more information and to buy tickets.
This charitable whisky event engagement is limited to 250 attendees and is your chance to taste some fantastic whiskies (as shown below):
Distilleries and brands at the event, while not limited to, are listed below:
- Arran
- Balcones
- BenRiach
- Benromach
- Catoctin Creek
- Chieftain's Range
- Corsair
- FEW Spirits
- GlenDronach
- Glenrothes
- Gordon MacPhail
- Highland Park
- High West
- Hirsch Selection
- Hudson Real American Whiskeys
- Kilchoman
- Koval
- Old Potrero
- Single Cask Nation
- Slieve Foy
- Smokehead
- Smooth Ambler
- …plus more to be announced!!
The pouring list is still being developed, however, here is a preliminary list of whiskies:
10 years old
14 years old
Balcones True Blue Whisky
Balcones Single Malt
Balcones Brimstone Smoked Whisky
The BenRiach
10 years old
12 years old
16 years old
20 years old
Dark Rum Cask
PX Cask
**Alistair Walker is scheduled to be at the Whisky Jewbilee!
Catoctin Creek
Roundstone Rye
Mosby's Spirit
Watershed Gin
Chieftain's Range
Craigellachie 21 years old
Glen Keith 17 years old
Corsair Wry Moon Unaged Rye Whiskey
Corsair Triple Smoke
FEW Spirits
FEW Rye Whiskey
FEW Bourbon Whiskey
"Special cask selections"
12 years old
15 years old
18 years old
33 years old
**Alistair Walker is scheduled to be at the Whisky Jewbilee!
The Glenrothes
Select Reserve
Alba Reserve
1995 Vintage
1988 Vintage
Editors Cask
…maybe others
**Ronnie Cox is scheduled to be at the Whisky Jewbilee!
Gordon and MacPhail
Benromach 10 years old
Benromach 30 years old
Highland Park 24 years old
Old Pulteney 21 years old
Scapa 11 years old
Tormore 15 years old
Highland Park
Highland Park 12 years old
Highland Park 15 years old
Highland Park 18 years old
Highland Park 30 years old
High West
Double Rye
Rendezvous Rye
Son of Bourye
Campfire Whiskey
Silver Whiskey – Western Oat
American Prairie Reserve Bourbon
"Something special"
Hirsch and Slieve Foy
Hirsch Small Batch Reserve
Slieve Foy Irish 8 years old Single Malt
Hudson Real American Whiskeys
New York Corn Whiskey
Baby Bourbon
Four Grain Bourbon
Hudson Single Malt
Manhattan Rye Whiskey
Half Moon Orchard Gin
Jewish Whisky Company's Single Cask Nation™
Arran 12 years old
Kilchoman 4 years old
BenRiach Heavily Peated 17 years old
Machir Bay
100% Islay (2nd Edition)
Koval Raksi Millet
Koval Midwest Wheat
Koval Rye Chicago
Lion's Pride Rye
Lion's Pride Dark Rye
Lion's Pride Dark Millet
Lion's Pride 47th Ward
Koval Rose Hip liqueur
Koval Chrysanthemum Honey liqueur
Koval Ginger liqueur
Koval Coffee liqueur
Koval Jasmin liqueur
Old Potrero
Old Potrero 18th Cetury Rye
Old Potrero Straight Rye
Smooth Ambler
Smooth Ambler Yearling
Smooth Ambler Bourbon
Smooth Ambler Rye
This is a charitable event with a portion of the evening's proceeds being donated to charity.


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Mass. State Police Dissolve 2 Units
The commander of the Massachusetts State Police has disbanded the department's drug diversion unit and auto theft strike force and redeployed those troopers and resources to what he considers more critical assignments.
Col. Timothy Alben says the dissolution of the two squads at the end of December allowed him to shift 25 troopers to the Massachusetts Turnpike and Logan International Airport, both areas where police vacancies have gone unfilled and more forces were needed.
He tells The Boston Globe it will also help him reduce a $3 million deficit in this year's budget because their salaries will come from the highway and airport budgets.
Alben says he has to be diligent with taxpayer money.
Critics of the move say tackling prescription drug abuse should be a priority.
This program aired on January 7, 2013. The audio for this program is not available.


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White House Photographs
President John F. Kennedy (seated at desk) hands a pen to Navajo Tribal Council Chairman, Paul Jones, after signing a bill to authorize the Navajo Indian Irrigation and San Juan-Chama Reclamation Projects. Standing (L-R): Representative Walter Rogers (Texas); unidentified; Representative Wayne N. Aspinall (Colorado); unidentified (in back); Representative Joseph M. Montoya (New Mexico); unidentified (in back, mostly hidden); Representative Thomas G. Morris (New Mexico); Secretary of the Interior, Stewart Udall; Senator Clinton P. Anderson (New Mexico); Chairman Jones; Navajo Tribal Council Executive Secretary, J. Maurice McCabe (in back, partially hidden); and Senator Dennis Chávez (New Mexico). Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C. [Photograph by Harold Sellers]


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wisconsin appears to be a state chock full of weirdos. like these kids who try to dig up a dead chick to have sex with her corpse....and there is that whole jeffrey dahmer episode...
then theres this freak:
"Looking at those teacher salary numbers in West Bend made me sick. $60,000 for a part time job were you 'work' maybe 5 hours per day and sit in the teachers lounge and smoke the rest of the time. Thanks God we won on the referendum. But whining here doesn't stop the problem. We've got to get in back of the kids who have had enough of lazy, no good teachers and are fighting back. Kids like Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold members of the Young Republicans club at Columbine. They knew how to deal with the overpaid teacher union thugs. One shot at a time! Too bad the liberals rip them; they were heroes and should be remembered that way."first of all this comment doesnt even make any sense. nevertheless, it "scared" someone enough -- probably a teacher with a guilty conscience, to call the cops.
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Decorative legs, like this tall Nouveau Cabinet Post, add weight, support and furniture quality to a variety of designs.


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Apple received Chinese regulatory approval for an iPad device last week, signaling that the company plans on bringing its newest tablet to the country, even as it faces a continuing legal battle over the iPad trademark.
The iPad device was granted the China Compulsory Certification by the China Quality Certification Center according to the regulator's website. The certification is a mandatory stamp necessary for Apple to sell the device in the country.
In China, Apple has historically launched its hottest new products weeks to months after they go on sale in the U.S. While the company has yet to announce when it will launch its newest version of the iPad in the country, unauthorized Chinese Apple vendors have managed to smuggle in their own product and sell them for higher prices.
Apple's iPad sales, however, are already facing Chinese regulatory scrutiny because of an ongoing legal dispute over who owns the iPad trademark name in the country.
Chinese firm Proview claims to have actual ownership of the trademarks since 2001, and denies ever selling them to Apple. The company has filed lawsuits and dozens of complaints with authorities demanding all iPad sales be stopped because of trademark infringement. A higher court in Guangzhou, China, is currently deliberating the case.
3G versions of Apple's iPad will still need Chinese regulatory approval for a network access permit, according to experts. But even with the approval, Chinese authorities could still decide to intervene, given the ongoing trademark dispute, said Sun Peilin, an analyst with Beijing-based research firm Analysys International.
Pin-Chen Tang, an analyst with research firm Canalys, however, noted that iPads are still being sold through official channels in China. He expects Apple to face no additional approval in gaining permission to sell its latest iPad in the country.
Apple's iPad dominated China's tablet market at the end of the fourth quarter, with a 69.3 percent share, according to research firm Canalys.


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The purpose of this post is to share an early observation from the open access article processing charges research I'm working on with colleagues. In brief, the purpose of this post is to suggest whether it might be counter-productive to look for a specific open access article processing fee for each journal using this approach, as for example the proposed new DOAJ form for publishers does.
It appears that there is a common misperception that each publisher or journal using this particular business model (a minority of open access journals) has a specific figure for the OA APC. The more data I gather about this approach the more evident it becomes that this overarching business model includes at least several different business models, and that a variety of discounts based on such factors as ability to pay, memberships, contributions to the journal, to name a few, are the norm rather than the exception.
For example, BioMedCentral is an example of an open access publisher with relatively open, stable, transparent open access article processing charges, readily downable from here. But even in this most straightforward case, the list fees are listed in three different currencies, and the actual fee for an individual author will depend on such variables as whether the author's institution has a membership, whether the author is eligible for a fee waiver or a discount based on one or more membership types, whether the author is registered for Current Clinical Trials (details on some of the discounts are available here) etc.
The Directory of Open Access Journals has two categories for publications charges: "has publication charges" and "conditional". The wide variety of models suggest to me that perhaps all of these journals actually belong in the latter, conditional category.
Why does this matter? As useful as it is to have a specific figure for budgeting purposes, pushing publishers to select a given amount seems likely to discourage experiments which could have such impacts as lowering overall costs or improving the efficiency of scholarship in the future.
For example, scholarly societies might want to experiment with lower publication costs for society memberships to see if this is a way of maintaining membership revenue with open access the society traditionally enjoyed when journals were funded through subscriptions. This kind of experimentation is not consistent with setting a specific fee.
This post is part of the Open Access Article Processing Charges series.


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Brown-Bag Challenge: Hot Food Containers
We're teaming up with fellow food bloggers to host a Brown-Bag Challenge, a month-long initiative to eat consciously and save money by packing a lunch each weekday instead of eating out. Join us here and share what you're eating on Facebook and Twitter with the hashtag #brownbag.
A few weeks ago, we brought you a list of the latest and greatest lunchboxes so those of you participating in the Brown-Bag Challenge could bring your lunch to work in style. But with the arrival of cool fall temperatures, soups and hot dishes are going to start making appearances. We've got the best in hot food containers so you can plan for warm meals with no worries.
Bringing fresh vegetables to work just got easier thanks to the Aladdin Collapsible Steamer Set (above). No need to reheat soggy veggies when you can steam fresh ones at work instead. Just add three tablespoons of water and your raw vegetables microwave for three minutes and viola you've got a fresh, delicious lunch. Clean-up is just as easy: wash, collapse and store.
This classic Thermos Stainless Food Jar is portable, compact and vacuum insulated to keep lunch at its proper hot temperature. As an added bonus, it comes with a spoon and has an extra wide mouth to make serving a breeze.
This insulated, 12-ounce container from Fit Fresh is perfect for bringing soup, mac n' cheese and other hot foods to work. Dry storage in the bottom allows you to keep food separate, and a built-in spoon fits snug in the lid. If that doesn't make you happy, the bright color combinations will.
For those worried about portion control, fret no longer. The Curves Hot and Cold Combo Thermos comes with two separate containers that strap together in one compact carrier. Keep your utensils in a perfect pocket that's attached to the thermos strap.
Keep food hot for hours on end with the Hot and Cold Insulated Food Container. The inside bowl is stainless steel, while the rest of the container is made with food-grade insulation. The top twists shut for a secure seal, and the handles make carrying easier than ever.
How do you transport hot food from home?