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Let's take a trip back in time. The year: 1986 — the last and only year the US was allowed to host UCI World Cycling Championships since 1893. You're about to find out why.
In the mid-1980s I was a columnist for the greatest cycling magazine ever, Bicycle Guide. They sent me to cover the Worlds in Colorado, and the following is my report. Consider it a little taste of what to expect next year when, for better or worse, the Worlds return!
That's right, in 2015 the World Cycling Championships road race is scheduled for Richmond, Virginia — a state with hurricanes, tornadoes, hazardous seismic activity, toxic waterways, 31 Superfund sites, doctors in tents instead of modern clinics, a governor convicted of 11 felony corruption counts, and police who tried to force a teenager to have an erection to prove they saw it in private emails they spied on illegally. Yup, Virginia is for lovers. And, uh, racing.
originally published in Bicycle Guide, January/February 1987
Text and Photos Copyright ©1987, ©2014 SYDNEY SCHUSTER
Colorado Springs, America's largest small town, wasn't quite ready for the Worlds. After all, who else would sic police dogs on the World Pursuit Champion and ask you not to ride your bike in their hotel rooms?
I'm no good with small towns. I need large quantities of food at odd hours, department stores open 'til 9, all-night newsstands, winos who wipe your windshield because gas stations won't, and 24-hour greaserias serving rotgut coffee. I'm a New Yorker. Bite me.
In the pantheon of small towns that should be avoided, Colorado Springs may be America's largest. Its population, mostly somnambulant, consists of 375,000 tropes who seemed utterly unaware they were hosting a major international sports event.
Upward of 100,000 bikies had been making World Championships-related reservations since the previous January, but by August the Springoids remained staunchly oblivious even as cycling interests mainlined $10 million into the local economy. Few area businesses benefitting from this windfall reciprocated by donating primes to the Wheat Thins Mayor's Cup street races, pretty much the only recreational entertainment available (and organized by David Pelletier, a savvy non-USCF East Coaster, natch). Because, you know, … duh.
Me, I saw the planets lining up upon my arrival at my fancy B&B, which was more like a dorm in hell. The headmistress saw our bikes and demanded to know — wait for it — if we intended to ride them in our room. Huh?!
I tried to imagine her scenarios: The next track session is three hours away and every restaurant in town is closed (yes, that happened): "Honey, I'm bored. Let's ride bikes around the room!" Or I've just met some interesting people who also shlepped bicycles along, like the Italian team (that happened, too): "Hey, let's have some fun riding bikes around my room!"
Soon the headmistress found out I was press, which resulted in surveillance of my "gourmet breakfast" plate. Her "inn" publishes and sells a collection of its "special recipes" (too special to actually waste on guests, apparently; I was never served any). My leftovers (ie, everything — hippie moderne crap!) elicited a stern lecture from the management, who considered that a smart way to avoid bad publicity.
I have to tell you, this grub nouvelle was everywhere, like acid rain. And they couldn't even get that right. Hungry bikers turned militant as they searched in vain for bacon and eggs and burgers, and starved altogether from 3 to 5 pm and after 9, when Colorado Springs rolls up its streets — even when 100,000 tourists blow into town, dying to burn $10 million.
The city has exactly one diner (which I discovered on my way out of town) and barely enough late-night eateries to count on one hand. These establishments are distinguished by religious graffiti in the restrooms and menus featuring airbrushed, highly idealized photos of food-like matter. The pictures came in handy when the Japanese team (whose English was better than ours) failed at verbal communication with the waitresses, who eventually took orders by pictures. That is, after they finally stopped laughing and got up off the floor.
Basic math
Ever notice how the ratio of small brains to small towns is in direct inverse proportion? I went sightseeing by bike and a local passed me in a tricked-out RV, yelling "Go Germany!" The jersey I wore was yellow, with my New York City club's name on it. The Germans wear silver ones (East), or white (West). With German words, usually. Go figure.
I was luckier on my ride than others. Another hayseed drove his car over Olympic track star Shaun Wallace, and the police sicked an attack dog on world pursuit champion Tony Doyle. (Said Doyle after winning the pursuit gold with the teeth marks still visible on his calf, "I've got three legs he could have bitten. I'm glad he chose the one he did.")
The Russians rode their bikes over to K-mart and were orgying inside when some hoods swiped their rides parked outside. Their bikes were recovered only because sharp-eyed neighbors noticed the $2,000 custom Colnagos with Cyrillic decals parked beside the Carrillo's trash. [$2000 was a LOT of money in 1986. — ss] Sensing something not quite right about that, they called the cops, who clearly need all the help they can get. They never did find the $25,600 worth of equipment stolen from Campagnolo's service truck.
Colorado Springs — a national treasure
No, really. Where else would contractors build bleachers to seat 8,000 by balancing them on little piles of sticks and sand? Where else would an elite international audience be expected to sing "Home on the Range"? Where else can you spend $100 on dinner and get food poisoning? (The Broadmoor, y'all — plan accordingly.) Where else would the Soviets end up in the Satellite Motel?
It's somehow fitting that the United States Cycling Federation* is HQed in Colorado Springs. As small-time as small-town operations get, the USCF was unfortunately the organizer of this event, and mired in provincialism to the bitter end. First they blew a deal for network TV coverage. Then they let sponsors paint advertising directly onto the brand-new, state-of-the-art track surface at the US Olympic Training Center, on which many racers subsequently slipped and crashed. They mounted signs on all the velodrome's rails, blocking most paying folks' view. They recruited redneck road marshals who'd never seen a bike race before, much less hoards of hardcore bike racing fans, with whom they interacted like the Berlin border patrol. There were a lot of fights.
Judging by how late the town got the event memo, I'm guessing the USCF dropped the ball on publicity, too.
The one thing that was micromanaged was the press. The Federation demanded that we send in passport pics for mandatory photo IDs, which the Federation immediately lost. Then the USCF generously reshot them, thoughtfully providing a broken laminating machine to seal the magic passes. I call them magic because, although they looked alike, women's prohibited them from bringing anyone inside the press area, while men's allowed access by their entire families plus their analysts, stockbrokers, refreshment dealers, Akita trainers, et al.
A night out in paradise
Every convention has its party scene and this Worlds was no different. The only thing was, utterly no entertainment was provided for athletes or press, so improvisation was necessary. The trick was finding a decent location for a party.
One nightclub deejay proudly informed me, "I'm from Iowa, and we're at the same level musically as New York." Sure. Whatever. He demonstrated by spinning up a stupefying disco cacophony of stuff listened to in New York by people who wear vinyl pants and shower caps.
I pounded the buckaroo meat beat until I struck gold. Everyone else seemed to have found it first — including the hardhats, food designers, RV fans, waitresses, merchants, graffitists, thieves — even the deejay from the other club was there. One townie flew at me out of nowhere, shrieking that I better dare not take the empty barstool that was obviously hers because she'd left her wallet on it while she was gone. Like, to reserve it. I am not making this up.
The track events had just concluded and the biciclisti were there, too, boogying with a vengeance. The crème de la crème of sports proceeded to rout the scum de la scum of Colorado Springs. By midnight the townies had retreated in disgust.
Closing time came and went (too many receipts to skim). The morals squad came and went (not enough paddy wagons). Into the wee hours the bikies danced on the tables, danced on the chairs, danced on the bars. Had there been rafters, they'd have swung from them. No big deal, our clueless bartender assured us. "It's always like this on Ladies' Night."
The next day I called it quits. A simpatico native asked to beam up with me.
"The people who live here think the UCI championships are an annual local event," he told me, incredulous. "They're already talking about next year."
Call it a hunch, but I'll bet it's a cold day in hell before Colorado Springs hosts another Worlds. And that's just fine with me.
Text and Photos Copyright ©2014 SYDNEY SCHUSTER – All Rights Reserved
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Saturday, July 9, 2011
Cow Appreciation Day!!
Chick Fil A is one of our favorite places to eat, but because it is a bit high (and we can get a more healthy meal for just about the same price) it's rare we eat there. A family my size, it costs about $30 or more to feed us. So when a neighbor told the kids if you dress like a cow you get to eat for free. We decided to join the other brave folks and become cows for the evening too. We didn't have any cow costumes and time was lacking. So I just used what we had around the house. If I had more of a notice I would have made really cool cow costumes from fabric, but since this was on the fly (like, I threw it all together in an hour!), construction paper would have to do!
The girls were easy! Kathryn wore this outfit for her ballet recital and I thought it looked like a cow, so this was perfect. Jemima I used a pillowcase dress that Kathryn used for a beach pageant years ago. I just added black spots to the back and the chick fil a sign to the front and walla!
Liam love being a cow! He mooed the whole way there, the whole way through the meal, and the whole way back. He was really upset when I took his ears off and asked me if he could be a cow tomorrow! :)
Jesse is my silly kid. :-D He lives for being silly. However he wanted to be a baseball cow, so we added to his hat! (we did the same for Ryan!) He mooed for the picture. He had spots all up and down his back and legs.
Poor Jonah, he got stuck dressing like a cow, and he is too little to enjoy free food! Next year little man! The funniest thing is, we are probably on some random stranger's facebook page now. They were going through the drive through, saw us walking in and stopped their call and took our pictures with their cell phones. Sure, laugh it up people, we ate for FREE! :-D And the kids had a great time. Kathryn says we are the greatest because we dressed up too, most parents only dressed the kids. Not us, we aren't too proud to look silly for a free meal!
Two of them are mooing, can you tell which two?
My adorable "HERD" :-D It was a lot of fun!!! Next year, I'll be sure to get real cow costumes. Ryan needs one with udders! HAHA!
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The best mistake of his life? Being chained to her desk is not how copywriter Melissa D'Cruz envisaged spending the night before her first major awards ceremony. No Cinderella moment for this award nominee - instead she's facing a night of deadlines! But Melissa is determined to get to the event, she just has to work out how. New boss Samir Razdan catches Melissa burning the midnight oil and offers to drive her to Goa himself. But the minute they set off Samir knows he's in trouble - because being this close to Melissa is already driving him crazy and they've got twelve torturous hours of temptation ahead!
Reading Shoma Narayanan is always a delight! Her stories make your jump, roll over, melt, laugh, blush and rejoice, with her characters. Twelve Hours Of Temptation has a very attractive cover, one of the best I have seen in the Indian Mills & Boon collection.
Twelve Hours Of Temptation is about our award winning, ad girl Mellisa D'cruz, a Goan in Bombay. She is feisty, she is fun. And she is ferociously loyal to her boss, the man who gave her every reason to be loyal to him. Now, Brian, her boss, is selling the ad agency and Mel is not at all happy. In walks new boss, Samir Razdan, successful, charming, and dangerously good looking.
While both are sort of attracted to each other, nothing happens for a while. Until, Samir gives Mel a lift in his car, while they go to attend an award function in Goa. Too close together, for hours at an end, both realize that strings in the heart they never knew existed were pulled. Things develop between them in Goa, and here we are introduced to Mel's family and her past.
Situations are what we can easily relate to and so are the people. Mel's struggle with her family, Samir and Mel trying to adjust the new changes in their lives, Samir realising how much he loves her but Mel is already gone from his life and no where to be found - every incident has been written in such a smart manner.
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Beneath my aloof exterior, I always find it in my heart to thank the people whom at different stages in my life I had once been really close to. I feel that way because I could no longer last having conversations with old friends in the present. Some friends are all about themselves and when they decide it's my turn to share stories, I cannot escape the thought that they still think they're talking to the same naïve 16- or 20-year-old they used to know. It's not cute and it's far from flattering.
In some others I would experience another pet peeve – every time I run into them in a local shop they'd ask the same question as if on autopilot, Why haven't I decided to settle down? They've equated smart girls with higher chances of getting a presentable partner. It's like predicting that all who graduated at the top of the class would have easy access to the throne at the club of the affluent. My old friends and acquaintances unconsciously find ways for me to deliberately avoid them.
Word goes around quick in a smaller world like where I live in. I would subsequently hear updates from friends of friends of friends. When it all gets awkward face to face, I resort to a quirky way to stay updated. We are all responsible for information we publish online. I once did this recently out of the blue with a friend's Instagram account. Easy peasy when the account is set to public.
Although I couldn't stand chatting with her online for the reason that we've lost touch, have grown apart, and took different spiritual life paths, I felt happy for the positive turns her life has taken for the past few years. She deserves all of it and Saturn has rewarded her perseverance. I don't always agree with how a pious Christian like her ascribes her success (because, really, it's all a combobulation of stuff they deem inexplicable but which has already been revealed in the blueprint they carry at birth). Ay, there's the rub.
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SMOOTH VIEWS: Get beach-confident with these tips on cellulite control (photo credit: iStock)
THOUSANDS OF people have cellulite, but most don't know how to get rid of it. No person is safe – men, women, big or small, we all have the potential to get it.
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With bikini season fast-approaching, Chantelle Kimberley has looked at some of the best treatments available to help banish cellulite blues and create a feeling of body confidence.
Body brushing
BRUSH-UP ON BEAUTY: A body brush should be easily found on your local High Street (photo credit: She Makes Magic)
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This 50 minute-long treatment is essentially a massage for the thighs and stomach. The treatment starts with a body brush to boost circulation and exfoliate the skin. The next step is to do a whole leg massage that focuses on the thighs, using what they call 'hacking and pummelling' motions to break down fatty tissue. The back of the body is worked on first, followed by the front. A fennel mask is applied, which stays on for 10 minutes while massaging the stomach and the colon to detoxify the body and flush out bacteria. After that the mask is peeled off the skin and wiped down with hot mitts before applying a firming cream to finish. This treatment is meant to help with water retention, reduction of cellulite, and detoxification, aiming to break down fatty deposits. It is more of an invigorating and stimulating massage than a relaxing one.
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Cayenne pepper is known to have fat-burning properties and has the ability to naturally heat-up the body, increase blood circulation and boost metabolism. It also helps get rid of bad skin cells and replace them with strong, new healthy cells. Regular doses of cayenne pepper will help eliminate toxins from the body and reduce the appearance of cellulite. This easy-to-make drink will give you a healthy dose of cayenne pepper:
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• Squeeze the juice of one lemon into a glass of warm water and mix it well
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Not only is this a great scrub, the properties in coffee tighten the skin helping to reduce cellulite. The caffeine in coffee helps to stimulate blood and lymph fl ow, thus diminishing the appearance of cellulite. For results use two to three times a week. You will notice an improvement in your skin's texture after two weeks.
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GET MOVING: Exercise works wonders for combatting cellulite
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The Child Trust Fund (CTF) is a savings account for children. The account, set up on their behalf, is owned by the child and cannot be touched until the child is 18 years of age. This can give children a valuable kick-start to their adult life. Having some money behind you when you are 18 can be a valuable asset, ensuring the child has the best possible chance to succeed in their chosen path.
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Alicia Keys paid tribute to black radio pioneer Hal Jackson on Thursday (31May12) as she addressed mourners at his funeral in Harlem, New York.
Friends and family gathered at Riverside Church to pay their respects to the iconic DJ, who passed away last week (23May12) at the age of 97, and Keys was among the speakers at the service.
She told attendees, "I'm sorry for our loss, but I'm grateful for his life."
The R&B superstar revealed Jackson had been the very first DJ to play her debut single Fallin' on the radio and she was ecstatic when it happened: "I wanted the whole neighborhood to hear it. This was my song on the radio, and Hal Jackson played it first."
The memorial service also featured a tribute by civil rights leader-turned-political pundit Reverend Al Sharpton and performances by singers Valerie Simpson, Melba Moore and Alyson Williams.


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Thank you for taking the time to read this i would really aprecciate your point of view!
Ive just finished 12 weeks n i cant complaing i went from 5in NBPEL x4.5in MEG? to 6.300in BPEL 4.9 MEG i aint got much fat pad i aint fat at all
My most current routine was
-15-20min warm up
-10min strech
-10min wet jelq
-2-3min V-jelq
I know i have good gains but i was wondering wats ur point of view n i would really apreciate to see wat u guys recomend wit ur experiense
Should i countinue the same? Should i increase time ?
Should i add more lenght or girth exercises, to have 70% lenght workouts n 30%girth workout?(watever that means im after lenght rite now)
Should i do only lenght exercises? Should i even do both n maybe consider to work on girth aswell?,like add the big Al excueces sound pretty good...
Should i concider hanging or clamping?
Please, i would really apreciate any recommendation from ur point of view so i can decide wat would b best ..?....im currently taking a break
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I would reccomend that you stick with what's working for you and also at the same time using better spelling would help to make reading your posts a bit easier. Text talk is really hard to read for some of us.
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Exactly what he said.Going an inch and 1/2 deeper than before
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Keep going with your routine until it doesn't work anymore.
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Ok im sorry about my spelling im just really used to it , i dont even try to do so ,i grew up learning english more from friends than from school lol, ill keep that in mind,
thank you guys for your feedback aswell
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i forgot to mention i tried to go from 2days ON 1day OFF to 3daysON 1dayOFF and my penis responded pretty well...can maybe increasing streching a couple minutes aswell should be better?? Im also going to measure every month to keep track of my growth
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Adobe has finally updated Photoshop CS6 and Illustrator CS6 to play nice with Apple's Retina Macbook Pro models, six months after the Cupertino-based company launched the screen tech in San Francisco.
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The update, which will appeal to creative types using the new MacBook pro range from Apple, joins Lightroom 4.3 in going Retina but still leaves some other Adobe software in the "blurry" past, so to speak.
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With only one week to go until our Sherlock Holmes exhibition opens to the public, we wanted to take a closer inspection at our trailer to reveal a few hidden clues as to what visitors might expect… you saw, but did you observe?
0.02: Did you spot this image from an 1872 John Anderson painting of Westminster Bridge, Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey seen from the River?
Completed in 1870, the Houses of Parliament instantly became an iconic landmark which is now recognised around the world. Although Conan Doyle himself only lived in London for a short while before moving out to the suburbs, Sherlock has an encyclopaedic knowledge of the capital – 'he muttered the names as the cab rattled through squares and in and out by tortuous by-streets' (The Sign of Four).
0.03 Did you see the phrenology head?
Now discredited as pseudo-sciences, the belief that looks reflected personality took the form of phrenology and anthropometry in the 19th century. With his slim nose, tall forehead and piercing eyes, Holmes' determination and powers of observation are revealed. In The Hound of the Baskervilles Holmes's skull surprises Dr Mortimer who remarks, 'I had hardly expected so dolichocephalic a skull or such well-marked supra-orbital development'.
0.13/0.27: Did you spot the pipe or the syringe?
In the 1880s cocaine and morphine were unregulated and Holmes's recreational use would have been seen as bohemian rather than illegal. A somewhat unconventional character, he keeps odd hours, plays his violin through the night and smokes a pipe before breakfast. His 'old and oily clay pipe… was to him as a counsellor' ('A Case of Identity') and he measures a problem's complexity by the number of pipes needed to be smoked. Watson calls him a 'self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco' ('The Five Orange Pips').
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Holmes is a code-breaker and delights in cracking complicated cyphers. Puzzles, mysteries and cryptograms are his stimulant. But once a crime is solved, he craves more. In an age awash with written information, codes – so often short and compact – found their way into newspaper advertisements, telegraph messages and even books.
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Hefferon: Lacrosse offers thrilling alternative to baseball (Feb. 21)
Jack Hefferon | Monday, February 20, 2012
As the weather has turned warm-ish and the sun has begun making cameo appearances in the South Bend sky, there have been at least three columns in this fine paper celebrating that, finally and gloriously, it's baseball season once again.
I'd like to challenge that.
While pitchers and catchers reporting is the traditional mark of baseball's return from the offseason, I don't know if we can qualify this as its true arrival. Spring training, when all thirty clubs flee the cold weather for the warmer diamonds of Florida and Arizona, is an over-celebrated date, helping to break the monotony of February sports and giving talk radio another source of material. We won't see these teams back up north until the calendar says April and the thermometer says 50, at least.
In the meantime though, there is a sport that has cut its hibernation short and braved the cold.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to lacrosse season.
Lacrosse is a sport that has yet to establish a place in America's consciousness, which is ironic considering it is America's first sport. It's been played in this country for nearly a millennium, or about 700 years longer than "America's pastime." In addition, it's the fastest growing sport over the past decade at both the high school and collegiate levels. Unfortunately, none of that has translated into anything more than fringe popularity for the sport.
A short pitch for the sport: It's like hockey played in the air, with transition play and set offenses resembling something like basketball. It has physical play that can appeal to any football fan, but is more likely to result in bruised arms than concussions, which is why it's exploding at the youth level as well.
Games only last about two hours and average a total of around 20 goals, which is plenty of scoring, but few enough to make each score worthy of a celebration.
The sport has dipped into the professional ranks with Major League Lacrosse, founded in 1998. The fledgling league has maintained a steady presence of six teams, with several failed expansions and folded teams dotting its history.
However, it holds a television deal with ESPN and plans once again to expand next year.
But as professional lacrosse flounders along, the college game has thrived for a number of years. The sport maintains a strong following on the east coast, and the Final Four on Memorial Day weekend has consistently drawn well over 100,000 fans, second only to men's basketball in attendance.
And with new programs springing up every year, college lacrosse can only grow from there.
And for the average Notre Dame student, access to a high level of lacrosse can be found right on campus. Both the men's and women's teams braved 30-degree weather last weekend to upset top-10 opponents at Arlotta Stadium, and they'll be back out there this weekend. The men boast one of the nation's best defenses, and the women's high-powered offense has already gotten off to a record-setting start, posting 17 goals against No. 6 Stanford.
So do yourself a favor and make the walk over to a game this weekend, however chilly it may be. Take a spot on the mound that runs right next to the field and experience a sport that you might not hear about every day.


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Matt Damon will not be using a toilet until the entire world has access to clean water.
Damon, co-founder of water.org, a site dedicated to raising awareness and funding for clean water throughout the world, staged a press conference today. He announced that he will not be going to the bathroom until sanitation was available to everyone to a room full of "journalists" with familiar faces like YouTube star ShayCarl and Winston from New Girl (Lamorne Morris).
Damon cites the 2.5 billion people who do not have access to clean water, stating that he will not relieve himself until those people receive relief. "More people have access to cell phones than clean water," Damon proclaims. "Just join me, and say no to toilets. Say yes to clean water and sanitation for all."
Teaming up with YouTube favorites, he hopes the video campaign will go viral, urging supporters of the cause to donate $25 to water.org's campaign. The actor has popped up in clips that ShayCarl, Wheezy Waiter, Live Prude Girls, and Lisbug have created to add their voice to the cause. Damon will appear in the future on Smosh, Epic Lloyd, Stan Lee, and John Elerick's channels.
In the interview with Milana Vayntrub and Stevie Nelson of Live Prude Girls, Damon said that the number of people who die each year from water related causes is comparable to the population of Los Angeles.
"Notice he didn't say Boston," Nelson said.
"Matt Damon hates Los Angeles," Vayntrub whispered. "Is it because Ben Affleck lives in L.A.?"
"I hate my friends too," Nelson stated.
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Medicine Without Doctors
The first part of Nozuko Mavuka's story is nothing unusual in sub-Saharan Africa. A young woman comes down with aches and diarrhea, and her strong limbs wither into twigs. As she grows too weak to gather firewood for her family, she makes her way to a provincial hospital, where she is promptly diagnosed with tuberculosis and AIDS. Six weeks of treatment will cure the TB, a medical officer explains, but there is little to be done for her HIV infection. It is destroying her immune system and will soon take her life. Mavuka becomes a pariah as word of her condition gets around the community. Reviled by her parents and ridiculed by her neighbors, she flees with her children to a shack in the weeds beyond the village, where she settles down to die.
In the usual version of this tragedy, the young mother perishes at 35, leaving her kids to beg or steal. But Mavuka's story doesn't end that way. While waiting to die last year, she started visiting a two-room clinic in Mpoza, a scruffy village near her home in South Africa's rural Eastern Cape. Health activists were setting up support groups for HIV-positive villagers, and Medecins sans Frontieres (also known as MSF or Doctors Without Borders) was spearheading a plan to bring lifesaving AIDS drugs to a dozen villages around the impoverished Lusikisiki district. Mavuka could hardly swallow water by the time she got her first dose of anti-HIV medicine in late January. But when I met her at the same clinic in May, I couldn't tell she had ever been sick. The clinic itself felt more like a social club than a medical facility. Patients from the surrounding hills had packed the place for an afternoon meeting, and their spirits and voices were soaring. As they stomped and clapped and sang about hope and survival, Mavuka thumbed through her treatment diary to show me how faithfully she'd taken the medicine and how much it had done for her. Her weight had shot from 104 pounds to 124, and her energy was high. "I feel strong," she said, eyes beaming. "I can fetch water, wash clothes--everything. My sons are glad to see me well again. My parents no longer shun me. I would like to find a job."
It would be rash to call Nozuko Mavuka the new face of AIDS in Africa. The disease killed more than 2 million people on the continent last year, and it could kill 20 million more by the end of the decade. The treatments that have made HIV survivable in wealthier parts of the world still reach fewer than 2 percent of the Africans who need them. Yet mass salvation is no longer a fool's dream. The cost of antiretroviral (ARV) drugs has fallen by 98 percent in the past few years, with the result that a life can be saved for less than a dollar a day. The Bush administration and the Geneva-based Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria are financing large international treatment initiatives, and the World Health Organization is orchestrating a global effort to get 3 million people onto ARVs by the end of 2005--an ambition on the scale of smallpox eradication. What will it take to make this hope a reality? Raising more money and buying more drugs are only first steps. The greater challenge is to mobilize millions of people to seek out testing and treatment, and to build health systems capable of delivering it. Those systems don't exist at the moment, and they won't be built in a year. But as I discovered on a recent journey through southern Africa, there's more than one way to get medicine to people who need it. This crisis may require a whole new approach--a grass-roots effort led not by doctors in high-tech hospitals but by nurses and peasants on bicycles.
Until recently, mainstream health experts despaired at the thought of treating AIDS in Africa. The drugs seemed too costly, the regimens too hard to manage. Unlike meningitis or malaria, which can be cured with a short course of strong medicine, HIV stays with you. A three-drug cocktail can suppress the virus and protect the immune system--but only if you take the medicine on schedule, every day, for life. Used haphazardly, the drugs foster less treatable strains of HIV, which can then spread. Strict adherence is a challenge even in rich countries, the experts reasoned, and it might prove impossible in poor ones. In light of the dangers, prevention seemed a more appropriate strategy.
Caregivers working on the front lines resented the idea that anyone should die for having the wrong address. So they set out to prove that treatment could work in tough settings, and by 2001 they'd succeeded. In a project led by Dr. Paul Farmer of Harvard, two physicians and a small army of community outreach workers introduced ARVs into 60 villages near the Haitian town of Cange. Around the same time, MSF teamed up with South Africa's Treatment Action Campaign to make the drugs available in an urban slum called Khayelitsha. The upstarts simplified the drug regimens and dialed back on lab tests, and most of the patients were monitored by nurses or outreach workers instead of physicians. But none of this made treatment less effective. The cocktails worked as well in the slums as they did in San Francisco--and the patients were often more steadfast than Americans about taking their pills. The obstacle to treatment was not a lack of infrastructure, the activists proclaimed. It was a lack of political will.
The climate has changed since then. Yesterday's unacceptable risk is today's moral imperative, and the world's highest-ranking health authorities are pushing hard to realize it. "We still believe in prevention," the WHO's director-general, Dr. Jong-wook Lee, told me during an interview in Geneva this spring. "But 25 million HIV-positive Africans are facing certain death. If we fail to help them, it can't be because we didn't try." Since Lee took office last year, staffers in the agency's HIV/AIDS department have worked at a furious pace to devise a global treatment strategy and help besieged countries design programs that the Global Fund will pay for. Proposals are rolling in, and the fund is responding favorably. Grants approved so far could finance treatment for 1.6 million people over the next five years.
The trouble is, few of the countries winning those grants are ready to absorb them. Their health systems have withered under austerity plans imposed by foreign creditors. Doctors and nurses have left in droves to take private-sector jobs or work in wealthier countries. And those left behind are overwhelmed and exhausted. While traveling in Zambia, I visited Lusaka's University Teaching Hospital, the 1,600-bed facility at the forefront of the country's two-year-old treatment program. Dr. Peter Mwaba, the hospital's stout, vigorous chief of medicine, detailed the country's strategy for treating 100,000 people (50 times the current number) by the end of next year. Yet his own facility was half abandoned. In 1990 the hospital had 42 nurses for every shift. Today it has 24--and the patients are sicker. "I've been here for 30 years," Violet Nsemiwe, the hospital's grandmotherly head nurse, confided as we walked the dim corridors. "It has never been this bad."
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In an ideal world, the clock would stop while countries in this predicament trained tens of thousands of health professionals, quintupled their salaries and dispatched them to underserved areas. But the clock is ticking at a rate of 56,000 deaths a week, so the WHO is embracing a different approach--one rooted in the populism of Cange and Khayelitsha. "AIDS care, as we practice it in the North, is about elite specialists using costly tests to monitor individual patients," says Dr. Charles Gilks, the English physician coordinating the WHO's "3 by 5" treatment initiative. "I've done that and it's great. But it's irrelevant in a place like Uganda, where there is one physician for every 18,000 people and that physician is busy at the moment. If we're going to make a difference in Africa, we've got to simplify the regimens and expand the pool of people who can administer them."
That's precisely the agenda that activists are pursuing in Lusikisiki, the remote South African district where Nozuko Mavuka got her life back. When MSF and the Treatment Action Campaign launched their project there last year, the local hospital was performing the occasional HIV test but had little to offer people who were positive--a population that includes 30 percent of pregnant women. Lusikisiki is the poorest part of the poorest province in South Africa, but the activists used what they found--a struggling hospital and a dozen small day clinics--to start a movement. A small team led by Dr. Hermann Reuter, a veteran of the Khayelitsha project, set up a voluntary testing center at each site, organized support groups for positive people and emboldened them to stand up to stigma. Before long, people like Mavuka were donning HIV-POSITIVE T shirts, singing about the virtue of condoms and quizzing each other on the difference between a nucleoside-analogue reverse transcriptase inhibitor and a non-nucleoside-analogue reverse transcriptase inhibitor.
By the time the first drugs arrived last fall, people in the support groups were poised not to receive treatment but to claim it. They shared an almost religious commitment to adherence, and some had become counselors and pharmacy assistants. Twenty-eight-year-old Akona Siziwe was as sick as Mavuka when she joined a support group in Lusikisiki last year. Weary of her husband's incessant criticism (he didn't like the way she limped), she had packed up her 7-year-old son and her HIV-positive toddler and gone home to die with her mom. But her health returned quickly when she started treatment in December, and she went to work as a community organizer. She now runs workshops and counsels patients in three villages. "What's a good CD4 count?" she asks. "The nurses don't have time to explain, but people want to know. When I share information that can help them, they're grateful and happy and full of praise. I can't even sleep because they are knocking on my door! They want testing and treatment tonight!"
The Lusikisiki project has only two nurses and two full-time doctors, but it was treating 255 patients when I visited in May, and people from the villages were flocking to the clinics as the good news spread. Many of them show up expecting a quick test and a jar of pills, but as the program's head nurse, Nozie Ntuli, likes to say, "Giving out pills is the final step in the process." First the patient has to join a support group and get treated for secondary infections such as thrush and TB. A counselor then conducts a home study to make sure the person is ready for a long-term commitment. When the supports are all in place, the counselor takes the patient's case to a community-based selection committee. And everyone shares the joy when a patient succeeds. "I see people transformed every day," Ntuli says. "It is a new dispensation."
This isn't the first time village volunteers have launched a successful health initiative. "Home-based care" is a tradition throughout southern Africa, and a cornerstone of countless successful programs. In rural Malawi, minimally trained community volunteers manage everything from pregnancy to cholera. They work with TB patients to ensure adherence, and they supply vitamins, aspirin and antibiotics to people living with HIV/AIDS. When Malawi's Health Ministry starts distributing antiretrovirals through a national program this fall, the volunteers will help administer those, too.
They'll play an especially important role in Thyolo, a desperately poor district surrounded by tall mountains and jade green tea plantations. Roughly 50,000 of Thyolo's half-million residents are HIV-positive, and 8,000 have reached advanced stages of illness. When I visited Thyolo this spring, MSF was treating several hundred of them at the local district hospital, a converted colonial-era country club run by nurses and clinical officers (non-M.D.s with four years of training). But the hospital was in no position to handle thousands more, even if the government provided the drugs. Its two-person AIDS staff was struggling just to keep up with the MSF program. Many of the untreated patients lived too far away to trek in for routine visits anyway.
Dr. Roger Teck, a fiftyish Belgian physician who runs MSF's Thyolo program, described the predicament during a bumpy jeep ride from the hospital to the outlying village of Kapichi, where 20 volunteers were waiting for us in a freshly painted one-room community center. Some were as young as 20, others as old as 70. After an hour of prayers and introductions and soulful choral chants, the group's leader, 49-year-old Kingsley Mathado, peppered us with facts about the 30 villages in his area (3,000 people living with HIV, 500 in need of treatment) and described the volunteers' program for supporting them. When the government drugs reach Thyolo district hospital, the patients will still have to walk a half day to queue up for an exam and an initial two-week supply. They'll also have to return for their first few refills so that a nurse or doctor can see how they're responding. But the volunteers will take over as soon as patients are stable, refilling prescriptions from a village-based pharmacy and charting adherence and side effects.
Could this strategy work on a grand scale? Lay health workers are already a mainstay of large-scale TB initiatives, and the Malawian government has assigned them a big role in AIDS treatment as well. The country's nascent ARV program uses a regimen simple enough for anyone to administer after a week of intensive training (three generic drugs in one pill--no substitutions). Physicians from Malawi's Ministry of Health are now traveling the country to conduct training courses for lay health workers. The first drugs should arrive in the fall. "We've taken a radical leap to ensure real access," says Dr. William Aldis, the WHO's Malawi representative and one of the plan's many architects. "We're either going to win a Nobel Prize or get shot."
Malawi's challenge is to foster the kind of engagement that has made treatment so effective in places like Cange, Khayelitsha and Lusikisiki. If 25 years of HIV/AIDS has taught us anything, it's that grass-roots involvement is critical. "One set of characteristics runs through nearly all of the success stories," the London-based Panos Institute concludes in a 2003 report on the pandemic: "ownership, participation and a politicized civil society." No one denies the need for trained experts to manage programs and handle medical emergencies. But people from affected communities are often better than experts at raising awareness, shattering stigmas and motivating people to take charge of their health. Reuter, the Lusikisiki project's director, recalls an experiment in which doctors teamed up with activists to extend a hospital-based ARV program into community clinics in the Cape Town slum of Gugulethu, where access would be easier and peer counselors could play a bigger role. The ghetto-based patients achieved 93 percent adherence during the first year. The hospital's program had never topped 63 percent a rate Reuter dismisses as "American-style adherence."
With access to treatment, millions of dying people could soon recover as dramatically as Nozuko Mavuka did in Mpoza--and their salvation could revive farms, schools and economies as well as families. But there are hazards, too, and drug resistance isn't the only one. Successful ARV therapy expands the pool of infected people simply by keeping people alive. Unless the survivors can reduce transmission, the epidemic will grow until the demand for treatment is unmanageable. "We can't focus blindly on treatment," Teck mused as our jeep lurched away from Kapichi. "If we don't reduce the infection rate, we're going to end up in a nightmare situation." The patients and counselors in the clinics I visited weren't singing and stomping only about pills. They were celebrating a shared commitment to ending what is already a nightmare. The rest of the world needs to lock arms with them.


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In a statement to Huffington Post Celebrity, Carrey responded to McCarthy's remarks, saying: "I will always do what I believe is in the best interest of Evan's well-being. It's unfortunate that Evan's privacy is not being considered. I love Evan very much and will miss him always."
Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carrey parted ways two years ago but at least one person is still hung up over their relationship: McCarthy's son, Evan. In a candid and emotional interview with Howard Stern Monday, McCarthy claims that Carrey refuses to see her son -- despite her making several efforts to reach out to Carrey. She also said that Evan, who suffers from autism, misses Carrey "almost weekly." The result is therapy sessions for the 10-year-old boy, whose biological father, John Mallory Asher (McCarthy's ex-husband), reportedly has little interaction with him.
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The former Playboy cover girl, 39, and comedian, 50, split in April 2010 after dating for more than five years. "I'm so grateful for the years Jim and I shared together," McCarthy said about their breakup at the time. "I will continue to be in his daughter's life and will always keep Jim as a leading man in my heart."
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Don't Stay if You Want To Sleep. My wife and I were taking our daughter to college. We stayed here b/c it was close to the college. All night long there was screaming and partying up and down the hall. Repeated calls to the front desk were useless. And they charge you $25.00 to park . Stay in the suburbs and drive into center city. The prices are better and you get a good night's sleep.
Nothing to write home about. You'd think that for the prices they charge, the Sheraton City Center would be a great place to stay but we were not pleased. After a room rate shocked us frequent travelers (but which we couldn't avoid because we were exhibitors at a conference in the hotel), we were hounded by extra fees for everything. Receiving a piece of mail, $10. A refrigerator in the room, $20. Bottled water in the room must have been golden - Poland Springs water was $4.95. Parking in the hotel $25 a day. Internet $9.95 per day per computer. The staff was often very helpful but most of them waited expectantly for the big tip when they did even the smallest task. Food in the hotel was outrageously expensive and we heard it wasn't very good from the folks who ate it...we were glad to have brought some of our own food. The room was clean but sparsely furnished. I was glad we'd brought an extra camp chair for our exhibit space so we had a chair to sit in other than at the desk!


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Mostakell Releases Halawella for Preorders before the Official Release
Exclusively Streaming on 6 Arabic Radio Channels and already Skyrocketing Online
Mostakell Releases Halawella for Preorders before the Official Release
Mostakell has announced that Halawella is now available for preorders through iTunes and Amazon before the official release on 17th of September. The music label also struck agreements with Arabic radio stations and websites to play several of the songs of the new album; its release sponsored by Al-Akhbar & Assafir Lebanese Newspapers Halawella is a new album featuring the cooperation between the Egyptian independent artist Maryam Saleh and the Lebanese composer Zeid Hamdan.
According to the agreement between Mostakell and 6 Arabic radio channels, music fans will be able to listen exclusively to the album before its official release through Jordanian Radio Albalad 92.4 FM, Lebanese Radio Orient 94.3 FM and Sawt El Shaab 103.7 FM and the online streaming on Sound of Sakia, Radio Arddi and Teshweesh. The album can be preordered from iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/halawella/id1018262815 or through Amazon http://amazon.com/dp/B00WT5K98C/ref=cm_sw_su_dp. Halawella will also be available exclusively to Anghami app subscribers on Thursday, the 10th of September.
Filfan.com will stream Ghaba exclusively on Friday, 11September and Cairoscene users will have the chance to listen to the full album for two days starting Tuesday, the 15th of September and alyric video of Youyou will be posted on the same date of the official release. The song titled Halawella will be available for free download to Mostakell profile followers on Bey2ollak mobile application.
In addition to that, Mostakell will be releasing free album designsalong with The Weekend weekly magazine, and will offer a costumed t-shirts collection based on the album's lyrics that can be ordered through the Mostakell website, with cash payment available in Egypt & delivery worldwide http://mostakell.com/collections/halawella
The new album, Halawella, comprises 10 songs; half of which are inspired by the oeuvre of the salient duo Sheikh Imam and Ahmed Fouad Negm as Maryam used to sing. The new album will include remixes of these songs by Zeid, in addition to some of Maryam's songs.
Halawella, is the fruitful result of Maryam and Zeid's successful tours since 2010 in Cairo, Beirut, and Tunisia, in addition to their international tours in London, Rome, Amsterdam, and others where Zeid Hamdan's remixes are very well-received.
Mariam Saleh is a unique and charismatic underground music icon. She was greatly inflected by psychedelic music and Sayyed Darwish songs, as well as Sheikh Imam who was a close friend of her father and whom she still considers to be a personal inspiration. Her career began at childhood by working wither her father Saleh Saad in the Seradek theater group. In 2002, she formed the Passport cover band which perfomed Sheikh Imam and Sayed Darwish songs. In 2007, she joined Barka band which also covered Sheikh Imam songs, in addition to songs by Ahmed Fouad Negm, Abdelrahman Mansour, Naguib Sorour, and many young poets. Mariam released her debut album in 2012 titled "Ana Mesh Baghany" (orisuced by Iqa'a in 2012) which garnered a lot of attention by swerving from the usual musical mold. Mariam created an independent and unique performance space for herself which is easily distinguished from the prevailing norms.
Zeid Hamdan is a well-known Lebanese composer and producer in the alternative music scene since the 90's. He was dubbed "the godfather of Lebanese underground music" due to his continuous support of Lebanese and Arab bands mixing between diverse types of Arab and international music, such as Kazamada, Zeid and the Wings, Katibeh 5, the New Government, and Soap Kills; a band which originally was formed in 1997 and became a pioneering indie band in the Arab world. By collaborating with them, Zeid mixed electronic music with classic Arabic music, in addition to singing along with the band member Yasmine Hamdan, whose stardom was catapulted after joining the band. CNN network selected Zeid Hamdan as one of the 8 most influential figures in Lebanese culture.


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Welcome to the Maribyrnong Sports Academy web-site. I trust that your tour of the site is both informative and interesting and conveys the excitement, pride and vision connected to this unique sports specialist school and education environment at government, community, sports industry and school levels.
While the physical facilities of the Sports Academy are impressive even by international standards, the strength of our Sports Academy lies in its holistic approach to each student's academic, athletic and personal development. The Sports Academy is now home to more than 500 student athletes who compete in nearly 30 sports at a regional level or higher in the community. More than 170 of these student athletes are members of Victorian or Australian sports teams already.
A team of passionate, highly committed professionals, working together in an integrated manner, deliver the core elements of Sports Academy program. It is exciting to see the collaborative efforts of teachers, parents, coaches, mentors , fitness professionals, sports scientists, physiotherapists, sports psychologists, dieticians and athlete well-being and leadership consultants all contributing to assist young people achieve their goals in school, sport and life. Our visitors often comment on the tangible, vibrant and engaging culture they experience the instant they enter the Sports Academy.
The established "athlete friendly" culture at the college facilitates the delivery of a flexible curriculum to assist the achievement of student goals through tailored flexible learning plans and academic pathways. We are extremely proud of the level of partnerships that this education and sports initiative has generated - the Victorian Institute of Sport, Victoria University, Western Bulldogs and numerous State and National Sporting Organisations have joined forces with the Victorian Government and the Department of Education to help Maribyrnong College realise the vision of Victoria's first government sports school. The expertise and credibility that these partnerships provide are invaluable in attracting young people to the programs offered.
While many schools in Australia have developed specialist sport programs from within their own resources, the Maribyrnong Sports Academy initiative has attracted significant state government investment for 'state of the art' facilities and program staffing. It is truly a project of state significance that now includes over $16 M of iconic indoor and outdoor sports facilities which provide an outstanding training and competition environment for all students at the college. The College is now entering another exciting building phase with the construction of the new VCE classrooms and Administration building due to commence in 2016 along with the new entrance to the precinct of Gordon St. The latest building initiatives will transform Maribyrnong College into a 'cutting edge' academic and sporting precinct.
Students are already travelling large distances to access the programs on offer at Maribyrnong College and the Maribyrnong Sports Academy, including many students and families who have relocated from country Victoria or interstate and others who travel across Melbourne to come here. We value the commitment and investment they have made in their future. We are also delighted with their efforts to integrate into college life and contribute to our high performance culture in academic and sporting pursuits. We recognise the strong contribution that our parents play in the development of the student's academic, sporting and personal skills. The staff and I look forward to playing our role in the partnership as we share the journey of these young athletes towards their goals and dreams.
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WASHINGTON, DC (PRWEB) February 27, 2013
Genomics will be at the forefront of the 3rd annual CanLiv Research Symposium, a free event sponsored by the CanLiv Foundation. CanLiv is a nonprofit committed to advancing knowledge, education, research and treatments of rare hepatobiliary cancer (cancers of the bile ducts, gallbladder and liver). Oncology researchers, doctors, patient advocates, foundation experts and others are invited to attend the Friday, April 5 event at ASAE Center for Association Leadership in Washington, D.C.
Dr. Daniel Heller, former Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Clinical Oncology and Emeritus Professor of Medicine at Abramson Cancer Center, will moderate the Symposium.
Sessions for 2013 include:
- Update on CanLiv Accomplishments by Lewis Roberts, MB, ChB, PhD; Mayo Clinic
- Hepatobiliary Cancers – What is the Unmet Global Need?
- The Clinical Landscape by Melanie Thomas, MD MS; Hollings Cancer Center, Medical University of South Carolina
- The Scientific Need: How Well are These Tumors Characterized to Inform New Drug Development?
- Bile Duct and Gallbladder Cancer by Greg Gores, MD; Mayo Clinic
- Hepatocellular Carcinoma by Jack Wands, MD; Brown University Medical School
- Lessons from Project Achilles: How to Tackle Functional Characterization of Hepatobiliary Cancers William Hahn, MD, PhD; Harvard Medical School/Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
- Expression Versus Activity: Interpreting Tumor Profiling Data by Ramesh Ramanathan, MD; University of Arizona/TGen
- Understanding Genomic Sequencing: What Makes a Target "Druggable"? by Peter Smith, PhD; H3 Biomedicine Inc./TransPoc
- Tissue is the Issue: Overview of Models for Drug Discovery in Hepatobiliary Cancers by Lewis Roberts, MB, ChB, PhD; Mayo Clinic
- Putting Patients at the Center of Patient-Based Drug Discovery: Who, What, How?
- The Big "C" Catalyzing Collaborative Consortia: Can They Work?
- The Way Forward: Putting Ideas into an Action Plan by Daniel Haller, M.D. and Lewis Roberts, MS, ChB, PhD; Mayo Clinic
Additionally, there will be two moderated roundtable discussions:
- What are the Best Tools to Characterize Hepatobiliary Cancers? Genomics-Driven Clinical Trials in Hepatobiliary Cancers: Dream or Reality? Features Jack Wands, MD; Xin Chen, PhD; Greg Gores, MD; Daniel VT Catenacci, MD; Kaoru Kiguchi, MD, PhD
- Define Major Knowledge Gaps, Priorities for Future Research featuring William Hahn, MD, PhD; Ramesh Ramanathan, MD; Lewis Roberts, MB, ChB, PhD; Peter Smith, PhD
Participation in the CanLiv Research Symposium is free. Donations are encouraged. Anyone who cannot attend may view the conference via live streaming on Friday, April 5 from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m. at CanLiv.org/symposium.
"CanLiv has grown tremendously since the last symposium," said Dr. Melanie Thomas, President of CanLiv and Associate Director of Clinical Investigations at Hollings Cancer Center, Medical University of South Carolina. "The formation of the CanLiv International Hepatobiliary Cancer Research Consortium will be detailed at this year's event. We hope to continue to expand the Consortium's reach to enhance collaboration around the globe"
Cancers of the bile duct, gallbladder and liver are often referred to as "orphan" tumors because they have few effective treatment options, there is little public awareness, and very little research funding. Hepatobiliary cancers are relatively uncommon in developed countries, but are major public health problems in much of Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and parts of South America. CanLiv addresses this gap between current and predicted patient needs and available nonsurgical treatment options.
About CanLiv:
The CanLiv Foundation was created by a group of cancer researchers on several continents who were all struck by the absence of knowledge and shared insights related to hepatobiliary cancers (liver, gallbladder and bile ducts). Since 2007, the organization has formalized a program of research and information sharing, created a patient-focused website and online community with educational materials and more, and brought attention to cancers that affect millions of patients worldwide.


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If you want for your property rental company to be successful, you need to adapt to the new era of communications and marketing. If you don't do it, your competitors will be better than you. As a result, you could lose many potential clients, which would hurt your bottom line. You should focus using digital marketing strategies, as it can attract a lot of potential customers, as well as increase your profits. If you own a property rental management company and know nothing about this business solution, you should consider attending digital marketing workshops.
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Google Health came on the scene back in 2008 with ambitious plans to revolutionize the way health records are stored and transferred. Patients could log on to the system and upload their personal records, consolidating them into centralized health profile that was easily accessible. Building and promoting Google Health was a huge undertaking. Unfortunately, it fell short of Google's plans and expectations.
In a recent blog post, Google announced it would be pulling the plug on Google Health and that they'd be shutting down the platform completely by January, 2011. Aaron Brown, Senior Product Manager for Google Health, expressed his disappointment, admitting that, "Google Health is not having the broad impact we had hoped it would."
So what does this mean for electronic health records? Where do we go from here?
To answer that question, we need to look at the primary reason for Google Health's failure – a lack of early adopters. The platform simply didn't grow at the pace they'd expected. However, this doesn't mean it wasn't being utilized, and it doesn't mean other platforms won't succeed.
Industry analysts and experts are quick to acknowledge that personal health records, unlike some other health industry innovations, are driven by individual motivation and effort. Simply having the platform isn't enough. You have to have individuals willing to log on, input their data, and use the platform for its intended purpose. While Google struggled getting early adopters, the trend is clear: the government, hospitals, doctors and patients are all slowly warming up to the idea of electronic records. Each year, electronic health record platforms are growing. Each year, new applications – like the OnPatient iPad app – are being developed that further digitize the healthcare process. While Google's failure was disappointing, there's no question that electronic health records are going to become adopted on a large scale – it's just a matter of time.


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