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A MetroWest lawmaker investigating the state agency that lost track of a missing Fitchburg boy said he was heartened Monday by steps Gov. Deval Patrick announced to improve the performance of the Department of Children and Families.
State Rep. David Linsky, D-Natick, said he appreciated a call he received from Patrick on Sunday and is encouraged by the governor's plans to reform the child protection agency.
"He's clearly taking this matter very seriously and I am heartened by that," said Linsky, chairman of the House Committee on Post Audit and Oversight. "We all have the same goal, which is to make sure that these tragedies never happen again."
Linsky is co-chairing the legislative hearings and probe into DCF following the disappearance of 5-year-old Jeremiah Oliver while he was under caseworker oversight.
Patrick on Monday said he wants to see "actionable" recommendations from the Child Welfare League of America on improving DCF's performance.
The governor met with the independent consultant conducting the review before he addressed the media about his goals for reforming the embattled agency.
Patrick seemed to acknowledge broader problems while saying "nothing can excuse" the actions of the social worker and her supervisors assigned to the Oliver family, who have been fired after allegedly failing to properly oversee the case.
"I think we have a great opportunity presented, ironically, by this terrible tragedy to rethink and reinvigorate the department and I want to assure the public that that is just what we intend to do," Patrick said.
Linsky's committee questioned DCF Commissioner Olga Roche, the state's child advocate and others during an initial hearing on the matter last week.
He said all the testimony "raised a lot more questions."
"We are concerned about the effectiveness, presently, of the department to protect and care for all of the children that are (under its) watch," Linsky said.
"Our focus," he said, "is on making sure that there are systems in place to ensure that every child is seen on a regular basis and that we can have complete confidence that DCF knows the whereabouts of every child and that no child can slip through the cracks."
Linsky said the committee plans to schedule a second hearing.
Patrick on Monday said the Child Welfare League of America will finish its review this spring, likely by April so there is time for legislative action if needed, and has been directed to provide periodic updates that will be released to the public starting next month.
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I absolutely love to cook runner beans this way. They take on fantastic flavor and go so well, when eaten hot, with roasted fish or white meat. They're also really good served cold as an antipasto. Please give them a try. To finish off this dish I'm going to use a great flavor enhancer called gremolata. The classic combination is garlic, lemon zest and at-leaf parsley, all chopped together really finely. It can be sprinkled over stews, broths, soups or pasta dishes at the last minute. It really brings a dish to life. You get the fragrance and sharpness of the lemon and the hum of the garlic.
Feed the runner beans through a bean cutter. If you don't have one, just run your peeler down each side of the bean to get rid of the stringy bits and then cut them into 1/2-inch pieces at an angle.
Your runner bean stew can be cooked in advance or started just before you cook the fish. Heat a large saucepan, big enough to hold all the ingredients, and add 2 tablespoons of olive oil plus the oil from the jar of anchovies. Chop 4 of the garlic cloves and fry them gently with the anchovies and dried chili until it all goes soft and the anchovies break down into a mush. Pour in the crushed tomatoes or tomato sauce and add the beans and the rosemary sprigs. Season and bring to the boil. Place a lid on the pan and simmer gently for 12 to 15 minutes, or until the beans are nicely cooked. If the sauce gets a little dry, add a splash of water and give the beans a stir.
Lay the monkfish pieces on a chopping board and slice them horizontally almost in half, so they open out like a book. Try to get them so you have an even thickness on both sides. Score the fish lightly and set aside.
To make the gremolata, finely chop the remaining clove of garlic with a pinch of salt. Next, finely chop the parsley and the lemon zest. Mix these with the garlic, give it all 1 last chop and put aside to sprinkle over at the end.
Heat a very large griddle pan or frying pan (or use 2 smaller ones). Season the fish well with salt and pepper and rub lightly with olive oil. Cook the fish for 2 minutes each side or until just cooked through (don't overcook).
Take the beans off the heat, taste and season them once again, if necessary. Remove the rosemary sprigs and add the lemon juice. Place a pile of beans on each plate and top with a piece of fish. Sprinkle over the basil leaves and gremolata. Or you could serve the whole lot on a big platter in the middle of the table - family service style!
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Near the close of Youngblood Hawke's debut album, "Wake Up," frontman Sam Martin sings, "You don't get a second chance to make the same mistakes."
Yet a second chance is exactly what Martin has been given.
Prior to forming the Los Angeles-based sextet, the singer and his bandmate Simon Katz spent six years grinding away in Iglu & Hartly, a California-by-way-of-Colorado rock band that scored a major label deal and briefly flirted with mainstream success before disintegrating in 2011. At the time, Martin, 29, considered giving up music altogether. Instead, he formed Youngblood with some close friends and set about recording "Wake Up," a triumphant, fist-pumping album filled with radio-ready anthems about overcoming life's many obstacles.
"I think we wrote these songs to make ourselves feel better," he said. "At the time we were feeling low, and we wrote these songs to try and get ourselves out of that mindset."
By phone, Martin discussed the lessons learned from his time in Iglu & Harty, the first time he heard Youngblood Hawke on the radio and the link between the band's breakout song "We Come Running" and Fun's "We Are Young."
What did you learn from your time in Iglu & Hartly that you've been able to apply to Youngblood Hawke?
I think the major thing that went wrong with [Iglu & Hartly] was just the relationships within the band. I think for a band to have longevity you need to have really strong, healthy relationships with everyone in the band. With Youngblood, we've been friends for years, and it really feels like a family. Simon and I both came from Iglu, and we didn't really have a voice in that band, so it was hard for us to make the music we wanted to make. We had to fit a certain mold, and this band has allowed us to break out and make the music closest to our hearts.
Did you have any qualms with signing to a major label a second time around?
There were certainly some nerves going into it. We were wide-eyed and young before. Now we're smarter and more careful. Everything we do has to have a purpose and be meaningful. And it has to come from us. It can't come from other people. We told the label what we wanted, and we felt we'd have the control over this project to get our vision out there. Our songs are radio songs, and they're maybe the best label to be with to get your stuff on the radio.
Do you remember the first time you actually heard your music on the radio?
Yeah. It was completely surreal. KROQ, our local station in Los Angeles, wrote us an email that said, "Congratulations! They picked up your song and we're playing it in 10 minutes!" We ran out to the car to hear it, and the station wasn't working so we had to drive up into the hills. Right when we got there it came on ... and it felt like all the hard work was starting to pay off.
You guys named the album "Wake Up," and there are songs titled "Sleepless Nights" and "Dreams." Were you having issues sleeping during the writing and recording process?
Absolutely! It was one of those things where we'd had good success with [Iglu & Hartly]. We had a top five hit in the U.K., and you get in this mindset, like, "It's going to last forever!" Then one day it crashes. We were sitting in our living room after taking this explosive ride, going, "What now?" It was scary because it took us six years to get that other band off the ground, and we didn't know if we wanted to do that again. We talked about going back to college and doing something else, but in the end we decided to just go for it. We were broke and didn't have anything, and there were plenty of sleepless nights. It was a stressful time, and there was a lot going on in our lives, but we just threw all of that into the music.
"We Come Running" features the West Los Angeles Children's Choir, which also appeared on Fun's "We Are Young." Is this merely the opening shot in an inevitable battle royal between the two bands?
[Laughs] I think that was just a coincidence. It was always our dream to have kids on a song, and it just really went with the message of that one, which is about not giving up and not letting obstacles get in your way. We thought children's voices would really help the message stick out because when you're a kid there's nothing in your way. You're going to be an astronaut, a doctor, a baseball player -- whatever you want to be. Kids don't set limits for themselves.
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Those stands look great!! Hasbro should have made some of those to begin with. They made stands for the 12" speeder bikes.
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Snape's death
He doesn't break the wand, and he talks to albus' painting. Also the scene from gringot's wasn't as awesome as I had imagined in the book. But maybe that's just the way it goes.
When I think of her I think of a potato w/ red hair.
Lupin's death for instance. In the books it was a huge slap in the face to have such an important character (As well as Moody, who is supposed to be the most powerful auror around) have off-screen deaths. They did the same thing with Fred in the movie...hell, I don't think they even mentioned which twin it was that died in the dialogue. It was basically just Harry looking over, going, "oh shit, they're dead" and then they move on.
The part where Ron opens the Chamber of Secrets using parseltongue...it didn't make sense in the book and having them actually show it to you just drives the point home that much clearer- parseltongue is supposed to be a magical language that nobody can learn to speak, and all of a sudden you can? And to add to the absurdity, it's freaking Ron, he shouldn't be bright enough to come up with an idea this smart. Okay, being a bit sarcastic with that last one, but still!One thing I am glad they removed though, was the Fiendfyre. It made no sense to me that Crabbe (Well, I guess in the movie it's Goyle), who was always a terrible student, all of sudden could conjure up magic that was so difficult that even Hermoine didn't dare to touch it- a simple solution that would've saved a ton of time in the first, incredibly boring camping section of the book had Hermoine bothered mentioning it, instead of wandering around like a bunch of idiots looking for Gryffindor's sword. It made more sense that if there was still that many Basilisk fangs hanging around, they would put them to use rather than just leaving the damn things in the Chamber.Also very glad they removed that awful part where Harry successfully uses Crucio on Carrow, because apparently someone spitting at McGonnagal pisses him off more than someone killing the only person living he considered family.Neville still doesn't get his showdown with Bellatrix, and many angry Nevillefans cried in anguish (Especially given that they bothered giving Neville that line in the fifth movie, "Better now that they're going to be avenged"). I think enough people have criticized the stupidity of Molly Weasley fighting Bellatrix that I don't need to elaborate on it.Still, none of that still has anything on the Elder Wand crap. First, how did Draco own the Elder Wand? They say you need to defeat...or kill, they can't seem to decide which one it is, but either way, it doesn't make sense for Draco to have taken the wand ownership from Dumbledore, because disarming hardly counts as defeating, otherwise tons and tons of people have been "defeated" in the past, and it just becomes a total confusing mess. But even if you buy that, Harry never disarmed Draco...he plucked the damn wands from his hand when he wasn't looking- there was no magic involved- besides, that was Draco's wand, and not the Elder wand, unless you're going to say that disarming someone means you also get to own every single wand that person has ever owned. Let's say you buy that- how the hell did Voldemort die? We've seen people use other peoples' wands all the time without any ill effect (Aside from it being "not as effective"), but apparently only in this case it causes Avada Kedavra to rebound and kill Voldemort. They don't even bother explaining this the least bit in the movie, because they knew it made no sense.Also the epilogue still sucks- you don't learn what happens to anybody, you just know they have a bunch of kids. What happened to Neville, Luna- did Harry ever achieve his dream of being an auror? None of these questions are answered.
Bellatrix vs Mrs. Weasley should have been more epic, some of the deaths should have been focused on more. Especially as more of a shock for those who didn't read the book.


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Dist. 211 candidates share concerns over financial uncertainty
From steady decreases in transportation funding to the possible shift of pension obligations onto school districts, educators are facing several financial unknowns.
The candidates seeking a seat on the Palatine-Schaumburg High School District 211 board have varying levels of confidence over how easily those additional costs can be absorbed, as well as different ideas on how to approach future budgets.
Incumbents Anna Klimkowicz, Robert LeFevre and Edward Yung and challengers Roman Golash and Mike Scharringhausen are competing for three open seats in the April 9 election.
LeFevre, the current board president, said the district has been preparing for uncertainties and spent the past five years restructuring and reducing debt and the debt-related tax burden on residents. He expects the district will end up paying an additional $8 million annually toward pensions.
The district's operating budget for 2012-13 is about $216 million.
LeFevre said about 85 percent of the budget is locally funded, making District 211 better positioned than others more dependent on the state. He expressed frustration over the delays and wants action taken soon so the district can move forward, but said the district will be fine.
"Just like any financial problem we have, we look at how to do things differently and find a way to maintain high quality education," LeFevre, a certified public accountant elected in 2005, said. "We adapt."
Klimkowicz, a family case manager and licensed professional counselor seeking her fifth, 4-year term, pointed to contract negotiations next year with the teachers union as key to keeping other expenses in check.
She said concessions need to be discussed and recommends the district use interest-based bargaining to reach a more conservative agreement than in the past, though she acknowledges the issue of salaries will be "sticky."
Klimkowicz, who said school boards should have more say in the legislators' proposals, doesn't want District 211 to make taxpayers pay for all of the state's shortfalls.
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Yung, an architect seeking his second term, said he would only support a tax increase if it's necessary to "maintain our level of a quality education in a safe, healthy environment."
He said a pressing financial concern for him is the number of appeals the district faces from commercial property owners. He supports putting resources into fighting them in court.
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Scharringhausen, a general manager at a wholesale fastener distribution company, agreed that District 211 is in a better position than most. He said there are no impending threats to programs.
"The district's reserve allows some flexibility to avoid having to make knee-jerk reactions when the state finally makes any decision," he said.
Scharringhausen, who said fiscal responsibility is his top priority, supports dipping into the district's healthy reserve fund to avoid raising taxes.
Golash, a retired U.S. Army colonel and current microbiologist who ran unsuccessfully for the board two years ago, predicts financial troubles ahead.
"At the rate we're going, it's really unsustainable," he said. "I see a gathering storm on the horizon."
Golash said lower tax levies, less lucrative employee contracts and a thorough assessment of what the district can afford are necessary to reduce the burden on taxpayers.
He also said many electives should be cut in favor of emphasizing English, math, science and American history, and believes that transition would help rein in costs and better prepare students.
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NC JUSTICE CENTER BRIEF: Tipping the Scales Toward Fair Wages - The $2.13 Subminimum Reduces the Value of Hard Work in the Food Service Industry
By Sabine Schoenbach
Policy Analyst, NC Justice Center
February 2012
The restaurant industry is growing in North Carolina. Despite job losses throughout the Great Recession and the economic recovery, food‐service occupations are projected to have one of the highest growth rates in North Carolina over the next ten years. The potential to achieve financial stability and upward economic mobility, however, remains slim for workers in the food industry. The occupations associated with food service are among the lowest‐paid in North Carolina and offer few employment benefits such as health insurance and paid sick days.
The 340,000 North Carolina workers who prepare and serve our food work for some of the state's lowest wages. The average hourly wage of a worker in food services is $9.66, which translates to only $20,100 per year. Pay scales vary from higher paid chefs and head cooks to the lowest paid fast food workers. Waiters and waitresses, who make up the largest group of tipped workers, fall definitively on the bottom end of this pay spectrum at an average hourly wage of $9.23 per hour


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Graphical Modeling Framework/Versions/GMF 2.1
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GMF 2.0 New and Noteworthy - Released: June 28, 2007
GMF 1.0 New and Noteworthy - Released: June 30, 2006
Export Big Diagrams to Images
Huge diagrams that fail to be exported to a single JPEG, JPG, GIF, PNG or BMP image (Bug 160386), now can be exported to a number of images that combined together will display the image of the whole diagram (or selected editparts). An HTML file is created to view the whole image. The HTML file essentially contains a table, each cell of which is occupied by the appropriate piece of diagram's image (i.e. by the image file corresponding to that particular piece of the diagram). GMF's UI for exporting diagrams to images has been added a checkbox "Export to HTML", which will trigger exporting the diagram as described above.
The result of exporting a huge Geoshape diagram to HTML with the HTML file opened looks as follows:
Label Enhancements in the GMF Runtime
There were a number of usability bugs with the WrapLabel implementation and the TextDirectEditManager. The TextCompartmentEditPart and its helper classes also made assumptions that the figure of a TextCompartmentEditPart was a WrapLabel, making it difficult for clients to use any other label figures.
A new WrappingLabel has been created that uses GEF's Flow Figure classes to perform that text wrapping. The TextCompartmentEditPart and its helper classes have been modified so that there is only a dependency on a new interface, ILabelDelegate, which a client could use with any figure for displaying the label. The TextDirectEditManager has been changed to fix a few bugs and work with an ILabelDelegate.
Existing GMF Runtime clients need not make any code changes to enjoy the benefits of the new WrappingLabel as the existing WrapLabel subclasses the new WrappingLabel. However, it would be wise to test all behavior with text on diagrams to ensure there are no regressions.
A document which discusses the design, gives an overview of the changes made, and provides documentation for the clients on how to use the new WrappingLabel is attached to the bugzilla: Bug 162932
Group/Ungroup Functionality in the GMF Runtime
The GMF Runtime now has the ability to group and ungroup shapes. Check out the GMF Runtime Logic and Geoshapes Examples to see the new functionality. It's under the Format menu when multiple shapes are selected. The group/ungroup actions are not contributed by default by the GMF Runtime. To learn how to adopt the group/ungroup in a GMF diagram, see the document attached to Bug 111892. Note at this point, the group/ungroup functionality has not yet been adopted by the GMF Code Generator.
Additional Snap to Grid Functionality in the GMF Runtime
The GMF Runtime has extended the use of snap to grid for two existing components.
Arrange All / Arrange Selection
Edit parts selected will now snap to grid at the end of the arrange session, if the snap to grid property is enabled. Bugzilla 119252 A screen shot of a resulting "arrange all" action with snap to grid on is shown below.
Connection Bend Points
Connection bend points will now snap to grid when being dragged by the user, if the snap to grid property is enabled. Bugzilla 194282 A screen shot of a bend point snapped to grid is shown below.


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I played Homie one time on a temp. set up at Hidden Valley. This was probably something like 8 years ago?It was a fairly long layout with some pretty fun shots. Had some woods along the perimeter. Maybe like a Rosedale / Blue Valley mix?


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Monday, June 4, 2007
Joe Alaskey voiced Sam's brief appearance in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" (1988), and various others have voiced him since Blanc's death a year later.
Still, Alaskey's is probably the best post-Blanc interpretation I've ever heard. Although this terrible Flash-animated cartoon is hardly a classic, you can hear Alaskey's Sam in action, and it's actually quite good! Also take a listen to Billy West's Elmer Fudd!
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- Michael J. Ruocco said...
I agree, Joe Alaskey is probably has the best Yosemite Sam interpretation I've heard. He does a pretty good Daffy & Sylvester, too.
Actually in this video, I don't think that Billy West is doing Elmer. It sounds more like Tom Kenny.
- June 5, 2007 at 1:02 PM
Everyone gets Sam wrong because they're under this impression that all Sam does is yell, all the time.
Freleng's and Blanc's Same did a heck of a lot more than jump around screaming "Great horny toads!" each time he appeared.
- June 5, 2007 at 9:04 PM
- PCUnfunny said...
Yes that is definetly Tom Kenny doing Sam,not Billy West. Sam is definetly a hard voice to do because he requires all the power in your vocal cords, Mel hated doing Sam. Joe Alaskey dose a good job in gerenalbut I find his Bugs and Daffy a bit too conservative, especially his Bugs.
- June 6, 2007 at 11:13 AM
- PCUnfunny said...
Sorry I meant that was Tom Kenny doing Fudd, not Sam.
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If you are an employee or family member of an employee who receives health benefits from a health plan provided through employment in the private sector, a Federal law, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), protects you. Among the protections, ERISA sets standards for administering these plans. Those standards require plans to give you important information about the plan and to have a fair process for handling benefit claims. Below are steps you should take to file a benefit claim and what to do if your claim is denied. It is especially important to know your rights under your plan and the law if your benefit claim is denied. 1. Obtain a copy of your Summary Plan Description (often referred to as an SPD) The first step you should take - even before you are ready to file a benefit claim - is to carefully read your plan's summary plan description. This is a document which your plan administrator must furnish to you after you join the plan. You can also request a copy from your plan administrator. The SPD gives you a detailed summary of your plan - how it works, what benefits it provides, and how they may be obtained (the process for filing your claim). The summary plan description is also required to describe your rights and protections under ERISA. 2. Filing a claim for benefits ERISA requires every plan to have procedures for filing a claim and to tell you what those procedures are. As noted above, this information must be included in the summary plan description. All plans have rules governing what benefits they offer and how to apply for them. For example, some plans may require you to file a claim (seek authorization) before you can receive medical treatment. Some plans may have special rules for urgent care. For other plans, you must submit a claim for reimbursement after receiving and paying for the care yourself. To avoid a delay in processing your claim or a denial of your claim, you should follow the steps outlined in your plan's summary plan description when filing your claim. If you cannot find the steps, or if you cannot understand them, you should consult your plan administrator or contact the Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) for help in understanding your rights. 3. Waiting for a decision on your claim Your plan's claims procedure should state the time within which the plan must provide you with a decision on your claim. Be sure to look for these in your SPD. When you submit a claim to your plan, note the date and keep track of the time as you wait for a decision. Some plans may have different time periods depending on the nature of the benefit claim - such as whether the claim is for urgent care and whether the claim is filed before medical care is received or after. Some plans' procedures allow the plan to extend the time period. Your plan's claims procedure should provide for the plan's notification to you of the plan's decision on your claim for benefits. If you do not get a response
from your plan within the specified time period, contact your plan administrator. 4. What to do if your claim is denied Your plan may deny a claim for many reasons. For example, you may not have met the plan's annual deductible; the requested treatment may be something the plan says is not covered or not medically necessary; or you may not have filed enough information for the plan administrator to process the claim. Look for the reason and other information provided in the notice of denial so that you can determine if you want to appeal the decision. When you are notified that your claim has been denied, your plan administrator also must tell you how to appeal your denied claim for a full and fair review. Your plan will specify the number of days you have to file your appeal and may provide for extensions of that time period. When appealing a benefit denial, be sure to include any additional information or evidence supporting your claim or required by your plan's procedure, and get it to the specified person and address within the permitted time period. 5. The review of your appeal Your plans' claims procedure should also specify the time period for the plan to make a decision on your appeal. Note the date when you submit your appeal and be aware of this waiting period. The waiting period for decisions on appeals may also be different depending upon the type of claim that was initially filed - such as whether it involves urgently needed care or whether the claim is filed before the medical care is provided or after. When the decision is made on your appeal, you must be notified of the decision. If your claim is denied, you must be told the reason and the plan rules upon which the decision was based in writing in a manner you can understand. If you do not receive notification of the decision within the waiting period provided for in your plan, you can assume your claim has been denied after it was reviewed. 6. What to do if your appeal is denied If you disagree with the final decision on your appeal or if your plan fails to make a timely decision, you have the right under ERISA to file suit in court to get your benefits. The plan's explanation of your denial should describe this right. You also may wish to get in touch with the Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration concerning your rights under ERISA. 7. Know your plan and your rights and responsibilities As noted above, it is important that you know your plan's claims process. If you fail to follow the plan's process, including meeting required deadlines, your ability to challenge the plan's decision in court could be affected. If your plan's procedures do not give you the rights provided for under ERISA, or if your plan fails to follow its procedures, you may have the right to bring an action in court to enforce your rights. For further information on your rights and responsibilities under ERISA, contact EBSA's toll-free publications request number at 1-866-444-EBSA (3272). You can view available publications on the EBSA Web site at www.dol.gov/ebsa. U.S. Department of Labor Employee Benefits Security Administration Revised August 2003


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Watchful Waiting (Surveillance) for Non-Hodgkin's LymphomaSkip to the navigation
Treatment Overview
Watchful waiting (surveillance) is a period in the treatment of some types of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) in which you are not having treatment. It does not mean that your doctors are giving up or refusing to give you treatment.
What To Expect After Treatment
During this time, you will:
- Receive periodic medical tests, including chest X-rays, CT scans, and blood tests, such as chemistry screens and complete blood counts (CBCs).
- See your doctor on a regular basis.
- Be told which symptoms to report to your doctor immediately.
Why It Is Done
Watchful waiting may be an option for you if:
- Your lymphoma is slow-growing (indolent or low-grade).
- Your lymphoma may be a kind that does not respond well to chemotherapy or radiation therapy in its current state.
- You are living comfortably and do not have significant symptoms from your lymphoma.
How Well It Works
Watchful waiting is often as effective as other treatments for some types of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL). Some people with slow-growing NHL may live a long time without symptoms.
There do not seem to be any risks involved in watchful waiting for some types of NHL when you are being watched closely by your doctor. If your lymphoma changes, other treatments such as chemotherapy or radiation therapy may be used to control your disease.
What To Think About
Watchful waiting may be a good option if your lymphoma is not the type that can be cured with standard therapy, you are not having troublesome symptoms, and standard therapy is not likely to prolong your life.
Watchful waiting ends when one of the following occurs:
- Symptoms develop.
- Lymphoma tumor size increases.
- Organs do not function normally.
Complete the special treatment information form (PDF) (What is a PDF document?) to help you understand this treatment.
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TACOMA, Wash. -- The flu season is peaking earlier than normal this season, and more deaths have been reported.
Snohomish County officials say a Bothell woman in her thirties died last Saturday, and health workers are now urging everyone to get a flu shot.
The H1N1 Swine Flu has returned, along with other strains. But, unlike the last outbreak a few years ago, health officials say there's no shortage of vaccine. Young adults take note.
"We've got an unusual return of the H1N1 pandemic virus," said Dr. Jeff Duchin of the Seattle- King Co Public Health Department, "which tends to slam our young working age adults and middle age adults a little bit harder than a typical flu season does."
King County has seen dozens of people hospitalized because of the flu this season. Pierce County has had at least 29 with 12 in Snohomish County.
Health professionals say it's not just a matter of preventing you from getting sick or missing school or work -- it's much more serious than that.
There have been as many as eight deaths already in the state of Washington. Five have been reported in King County, including three at Evergreen Hospital. The state health department also reports one in Thurston County and one each in Benton and Kittitas counties.
From Oregon comes word of the death of a little 5-year old boy, Ronan, on Christmas, even though he had received a shot against the flu.
"He collapsed right on the floor and turned blue on us," said the boy's mother, Colandra Burgess.
She believes antiviral medical her son could have been saved had doctors diagnosed the flu.
"It's horrible, because I miss my son," she said.
Dr. Duchin said the virus is going to be with us for the next couple of weeks to months and getting a shot now is not too late to have a big impact on your health.
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2014 chevrolet silverado-2500hd Model Overview
New for 2014
2014 Chevrolet Silverado HD pickups with the gasoline engine now get a 4.10 axle standard, increasing standard towing ratings by 4,500 pounds, all models have an optional spray-on bed liner, and the 2500 crew cab gets an available CNG bi-fuel system for the 6.0-liter V-8.
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The 2014 Chevrolet Silverado HD enters its fourth year since the 2011 redesign, which earned it the Motor Trend Truck of the Year title. The Silverado HD is available as the three-quarter ton 2500 or the one-ton 3500. Both trucks can be had in standard, extended, or crew cab, and have the option of rear- or four-wheel drive. The base engine is a 6.0-liter V-8 that makes 360 hp and 380 lb-ft. Optionally available is the 397 hp turbodiesel 6.6-liter V-8 that puts out 765 lb-ft. Both transmissions are paired with their own six-speed automatic (an Allison for the diesel, over the standard Hydra-Matic).
The 2014 Chevrolet Silverado HD lineup received between a two- and four-star overall safety rating from the NHTSA (out of a possible five stars): The regular cab 2500 received the lowest rating at two stars, and the crew cab 2500 with the optional side airbags received the highest at four stars. The 3500 has not been crash tested by the NHTSA, and none of the Silverado HD models have been evaluated by the IIHS.
What We Think
In 2011 Truck of the Year testing, the Silverado HD beat the competition despite the 2011 Ford F-Series Super Duty's power and towing capacity advantage. The Ford entries were much heavier, and the Silverado HD walked away with the victory because of a weight-to-power advantage in every test. During testing we noted, "the Silverados' cabins are quiet, comfortable, and attractive. The controls are easy to use and in quick reach of the driver's hands." Attractive was one editor's thought, but many also commented on how plain it was in comparison to the competition. But utility wins over aesthetics in this segment: "[The Silverado HD] is faster than the Super Duty whether gas- or diesel-powered. It provides a nicer ride, better handling, better on-road feel, and better observed fuel economy — all at as-tested prices that were lower than the Fords' by as much as $13,000. The trucks in this category may be expensive, but the Chevrolet heavy-duty line offers a value that's tough to ignore." Part of making the diesel emissions cleaner is the addition of diesel exhaust fluid (DEF) which is added under the hood. With a major update on the horizon for the 2015 Silverado HD, we suggest waiting for the new truck.
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- Quiet and comfortable interior
- Tow, haul, work: nothing is too much for it to handle
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Zac Efron Still Looking Hot Despite Being Attacked Last Week
Zac Efron leaves a restaurant wearing a tight blue t-shirt after having lunch with a mystery gal on Monday afternoon (March 31) in Hollywood.
The 26-year-old actor was seen earlier in the afternoon arriving at the restaurant wearing a Neil Young tour shirt. We sure love the tight tee look on Zac and hopes he always wears clothes that fit that way!
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With much to celebrate and lament, here's a look at the NFL halfway through the 2013 season.
Start out West with the league's two best divisions.
What Kansas City has achieved after going 2-14 and getting the top draft pick a season ago is remarkable and historic. Yes, the Chiefs' superb defense is carrying a mediocre offense, but to criticize anything Andy Reid and his staff have done in going 9-0 is misguided.
"We're not going to apologize for any wins," Chiefs quarterback Alex Smith said. "You keep your nose down, you do what you've been doing."
Denver (7-1) was expected to be dominant and, in stark contrast to KC, it has been on offense. Peyton Manning's record-tying seven-touchdown explosion in the opener — matched, incredibly, by Philadelphia's Nick Foles, on Sunday — put the league on notice when it comes to the capabilities of a healthy Manning and his minions. Even with coach John Fox now sidelined for a heart procedure, the Broncos will be formidable.
"I'm truly jealous of the weapons that Peyton gets to throw to," said his boss, Hall of Fame quarterback John Elway.
San Diego (4-4) and Oakland (3-5) have been more competitive than predicted.
Residing in the NFC West are the conference's top two teams thus far, the Seahawks and 49ers. All anyone needs to know about Seattle is how it responded after falling behind winless Tampa Bay 21-0 Sunday. Clearly, the Seahawks (7-1) weren't ready. Just as clearly, they were good enough and resourceful enough to rally.
And no team has a bigger home-field edge; Seattle has won 12 straight home games.
The 49ers (6-2), winners of five straight, are beginning to find the balance that got them to last season's Super Bowl.
Arizona (4-4) has shown marked improvement, particularly on defense, under first-year coach Bruce Arians, the 2012 Coach of the Year as an interim in Indianapolis.
Ah, Indianapolis. Its comeback Sunday night can, in part, be contributed to Texans coach Gary Kubiak's collapse at halftime, prompting his hospitalization and leaving Houston distracted and uninspired. Still, the Colts (6-2) are making a habit of such rallies and are beating the big boys, with wins over Seattle, San Francisco and Denver.
Individual kudos on offense go to Manning as he challenges all kinds of passing records; Philip Rivers for his revival in San Diego; Saints tight end Jimmy Graham, whose 10 TD receptions, built on speed, power and guile, make him a nearly unstoppable force; and wideouts Calvin Johnson, Wes Welker and A.J. Green. Plus some love for the behemoths in the trenches, who have stood out so far: the not-so-regular Joes, tackles Staley in San Francisco, Thomas in Cleveland; guards Evan Mathis in Philadelphia and Chris Myers in Houston; center Manny Ramirez in Denver; and all those fill-ins on Seattle's O-line.
On defense, we must recognize sackmasters Robert Mathis in Indianapolis, Mario Williams in Buffalo, Tamba Hali and Justin Houston in KC, Robert Quinn in St. Louis, and Mo Wilkerson with the Jets. The versatility of DE J.J. Watt of the Texans is matched by Hali and Houston and the work of their fellow linebackers Sean Lee in Dallas, NaVorro Bowman in San Francisco, Bobby Wagner in Seattle, Vontaze Burfict in Cincinnati and Luke Kuechly in Carolina.
Unquestionably the toughest job in today's wide-open, throw-it-all-over-the-lot NFL is cover cornerback and safety. Outstanding so far have been Joe Haden in Cleveland, Richard Sherman and Earl Thomas in Seattle, Alterraun Verner in Tennessee, Antonio Cromartie with the Jets, Aqib Talib in New England, rookie Eric Reid in San Francisco, and Mike Mitchell in Carolina.
Start with 2012 playoff qualifiers who have flopped, several of them spectacularly: Atlanta, Houston and Minnesota. Maybe the Vikings wouldn't have made many Super Bowl lists, but the Falcons — so close last January — and Texans would have.
Now, they are in the mix for top-10 draft picks.
Baltimore was projected to take a step back from its Super Bowl form with so many defections on the field and leadership-wise. It's been more like a pratfall.
Pittsburgh's once-proud defense is, well, nothing to be proud of, a Steel Curtain torn asunder. The Giants lost their first six games — yet still are a quasi-contender (more below) — as Eli Manning turned into a turnover machine and the defense became a sieve.
Past top performers struggling this season range from Ravens QB Joe Flacco and New York's Manning to running backs Ray Rice in Baltimore and Rashard Mendenhall in Arizona to receivers Mike Wallace in Miami, Hakeem Nicks with the Giants and Dwayne Bowe in Kansas City.
Even Adrian Peterson, last season's MVP, has been mediocre, but he's surrounded by — what's worse than mediocre?
Saved this category for the 0-fers, the Buccaneers and Jaguars.
At least Jacksonville doesn't seem dysfunctional like its Florida neighbor, even with WR Justin Blackmon's recent suspension. It's simply a lack of talent throughout the roster plaguing the Jags.
As for the Bucs, they were seconds away from winning their opener before a ludicrous penalty handed the Jets a win. They were up by three touchdowns against Seattle in Game 8 and blew it. There is turmoil in Tampa, with coach Greg Schiano's job security virtually nonexistent.
The race is on for homeliest teams. First one to 16 losses, uh, wins.
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Jack Picone, born in Moree, New South Wales, is a internationally renowned photojournalist and documentary photographer based in Bangkok.
Picone covered eight wars in the 1990s, some several times over, including Armenia, Yugoslavia, Somalia, Rwanda, Palestine, Iraq, Liberia, Sudan, Angola and Soviet Central Asia.
Picone is credited as being part of a new wave of Australian photographers that matured in the 1990s, a group who not only reported on day-to-day events but the deeper social issues at hand. This is no more apparent than in Picone's more recent commitment to documenting the pandemic of HIV AIDS. His photographic practice is characterized by a non-intrusive and unhurried approach with his subjects, exemplified by his work in the remote Nuba Mountains, Sudan. Picone's ongoing documentary photography involves interacting freely with other people's lives, telling their story - first on a micro level, then providing a catalyst for communication between different cultures on a macro level.
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In a comment on the Church As Clubhouse thread, Sam M. makes this Evans-Manning-worthy observation:
[Quoting me:] "The great thing about being bound by a liturgy that's extremely resistant to change, as we Orthodox are, is you don't feel compelled to change it to suit you; rather, it changes you, at least if you're properly disposed."
It strikes me as interesting that your views on liturgy are so different than your views on "place." The liturgical things you mention above are what many people feel about "community." The schools are the schools. The jobs are the jobs. The food is the food. The books are the books.
My family (particularly the women) strikes me as very similar to the way you have described your sister. They intensely dislike church shopping, and they tend to view good cheese and world travel with equal skepticism. Prague? Who needs to go to Prague? Uncle Charlie is afraid to fly and Aunt Janet is broke so… vacation close to home so everybody can go together. Does the Catholic school offer the pedagogy that works for your kid? Who cares? It teaches the Beatitudes.
In other words, they say:
"The great thing about being bound by a community that's extremely resistant to change, as we locals are, is you don't feel compelled to change it to suit you; rather, it changes you, at least if you're properly disposed."
You don't eat the food you like, you like the food we eat. You don't find a job that fulfills you, you find fulfillment in the jobs available. You can't necessarily be with the one you love, unless she agrees to convert to Catholicism. If not, you love the one you're with.
Progress is possible, but in tiny bits and pieces, on the margins. Anything else is too disruptive, and best handled by the diocese or the chamber of commerce or the school board. You can volunteer or join the board to have your voice heard, but don't make a nuisance of yourself. The bishop said no more Latin mass, and he's the boss. Father Murphy agreed with him. That's how a new order happens. Not on a personal whim.
In short, the community has a sort of sacred liturgy, too, and heretics are treated as such. Cheap beer and jello molds are not low brow comestibles; they are heritage and culture, transconfigured.
Communion wafers are really awful as far as bread goes. Nobody talks about using an artisinal recipe, because nobody cares if it's good bread. It's not really supposed to be bread.
Thanks for that insight. I hadn't thought of it that way, and I think this is a fruitful way to look at this perennial issue.
I suppose the first thing that jumps out to me is the difference between what we see as absolutes, and what we see as relative (by "we," I mean Alt-Trads like myself, and Prole-Trads of the sort you describe). I see the liturgy as being a fixed pole around which the rest of us move. Because we are orthodox in liturgy (and, more broadly, in the basic teachings of the faith), we are free to be relativists in other things. I can make an argument why my brother should prefer to eat like I eat, and why my way of preparing food is superior to his, but ultimately, I don't care. I might find that his way of cooking jambalaya tastes better than mine, in which case I'll start cooking his way, or at least try it. I really do believe that chicken raised the old-fashioned way is aesthetically and morally preferable to factory-farmed chicken, but these are not Ultimate Concerns with me. Similarly, I don't care whether my brother prefers to vacation in Gulf Shores, or on the Amalfi Coast. All I want to know is, "Did you have a good time?" and "What did you eat?"
They see things differently, of course. Describing it as you have done, Sam, makes me see that they regard these everyday things — things I see as negotiable, according to one's own preferences, and as part of the pleasing variety of life — rather as the core of one's identity. The things that cannot be negotiable, because if they are negotiable, then our own identity, both individual and communal, is less stable than we thought.
Lex orandi, lex credendi. The law of prayer is the law of belief. By changing the liturgy, we inevitably change what we believe, and the way in which we believe it. I don't believe that liturgy can never change; obviously it has changed, even the ancient liturgy we Orthodox Christians use. I do believe it must be changed only for grave reasons, and then only gradually, and with consensus. That's because the liturgy tells us who we are, and how things are, at the most fundamental level. If a recipe for a traditional dish of my people is lost, that is significant, but only a relatively serious loss. To lose the liturgy is to become unmoored in a far more serious way.
Without question it is possible to have the liturgy but to remain unchanged by it, and aloof from it. I've met far too many fallen-away Orthodox who are in this camp. The liturgy must not be the object of worship, any more than Holy Scripture; rather, both are the most reliable roadmaps to union with our Creator. In the same way you wouldn't muck around with your map if you were lost in the deep dark woods and trying to find your way out, you shouldn't muck around with the liturgy or the Bible. When you change things, even a little bit, you run the risk of losing your way. Our way. The way of generations yet to be born.
Anyway, on the liturgical front, that ship has sailed a long time ago in non-Orthodox Christian cultures.
To return to your point, Sam, I think you accurately (and helpfully) describe these everyday practices as a kind of liturgy, and deviants from them as heretics. I think the Prole-Trads are absolutizing the relative, and relativizing (or at least risking relativizing) the absolute. One question that arises from this is: how do we define "traditional"? Is tradition what the community has decided to do? Yes, by definition. But if the community decides — actively or passively — to alter that tradition, when does the heresy become orthodoxy?
An example: If Jane makes biscuits according to her great-grandmother's recipe, as opposed to using boxed mix (as her grandmother did) or buying frozen pre-made biscuits (as her mother did), is she recovering tradition, or defying it? I would say she's recovering tradition, but I bet her grandmother and mother would not look at her act as something neutral ("Well, I guess Jane just prefers them that way") or positive ("Isn't it great that Jane is willing to put in the effort to cook biscuits like folks did in the old days?"), but rather as something threatening: "What, the way we did it wasn't good enough for Jane?"
The problem with this is that people mix up their own personal insecurities into the maintenance of community tradition. Maybe Jane's mother feels that her daughter's choice to cook biscuits the old-fashioned way represents a judgment on the way she made biscuits — and this can get tangled up in all kinds of messy guilt feelings and resentments, projected onto the situation. Maybe all Jane really wanted to do was eat what she regarded as a better biscuit, but the old-fashioned biscuit acts as a kind of sacrament of her family's pathology.
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New members add integrated DSP functionality to PrimeXsys Platforms
CAMBRIDGE, UK – Apr. 14, 2003 – ARM [(LSE:ARM);(Nasdaq:ARMHY)], the industry's leading provider of 16/32-bit embedded RISC microprocessor solutions, today announced that LSI Logic and ParthusCeva have joined the ARM® PrimeXsys™ Community Program. As members of the Program, these two leading Digital Signal Processor (DSP) Intellectual Property (IP) companies will interface their leading-edge DSP cores with ARM PrimeXsys Platforms.
DSP technology is now a well-established, fundamental and independent processor technology. It can be found at the heart of a wide range of digital electronics devices, from portable audio players through mobile phones to set-top boxes, and is often employed in conjunction with microprocessor cores such as those designed by ARM. However, because of the increasing use of DSPs alongside microprocessor cores, issues surrounding integration of DSPs with microprocessors has now become an important design consideration.
Developers of ARM microprocessor core-based devices wishing to integrate DSP IP cores into their solutions can now gain access to pre-integrated, pre-validated DSP hardware and software IP through the PrimeXsys Platform, resulting in faster time-to-market, reduced development cost and risk, and reusability.
"DSP core technology is an important part of many applications, such as the intensive data processing requirements of mobile phones and networking system-on-chips (SoC). It is vital that we provide our development community with the best solutions possible to integrate the ARM cores and DSP cores together on one piece of silicon, through a platform approach," said Matt Byatt, DSP program manager, ARM. "LSI Logic and ParthusCeva are widely recognized as leaders in their fields and will contribute valuable IP and expertise to the PrimeXsys Community. The addition of these two companies will benefit the Community by helping to address the significant issues associated with integrating multi-core SoCs."
"The ARM PrimeXsys Platform is a significant step forward in enabling multiprocessor SoC designs," said Tuan Dao, vice president, DSP Products Division, LSI Logic. "LSI Logic brings its world-class ZSP signal processing technology to the PrimeXsys Community, built on decades of SoC and ASIC leadership in a broad range of applications including consumer, communication and storage products."
"It is encouraging to see companies such as ARM delivering solutions such as the PrimeXsys Platform, which enables silicon designers to bring their products to market quickly," said Sean Mitchell, VP Strategic Marketing, ParthusCeva. "Combining ParthusCeva IP into the PrimeXsys Platform will result in a powerful package that will bring increased benefits by enabling system designers to accelerate the time-to-market for combined DSP and microprocessor designs."
About ARM
ARM is the industry's leading provider of 16/32-bit embedded RISC microprocessor solutions. The company licenses its high-performance, low-cost, power-efficient RISC processors, peripherals, and system-on-chip designs to leading international electronics companies. ARM also provides comprehensive support required in developing a complete system. ARM's microprocessor cores are rapidly becoming a volume RISC standard in such markets as portable communications, handheld computing, multimedia, digital consumer and embedded solutions. More information on ARM is available at http://www.arm.com.
ARM is a registered trademark of ARM Limited. PrimeXsys is a trademark of ARM Limited. All other brands or product names are the property of their respective holders. "ARM" is used to represent ARM Holdings plc (LSE: ARM and Nasdaq: ARMHY); its operating company ARM Limited; and the regional subsidiaries ARM INC.; ARM KK; ARM Korea Ltd.; ARM Taiwan; ARM France SAS; and ARM Consulting (Shanghai) Co. Ltd.


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Interested in any feedback/gotta-dos on this itinerary. Will be joined by friends in Galway (who can't afford to take off the full three weeks).
Starts in late March through mid-May
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Day 6-8: Dingle
Day 9-11: Galway
Day 12-13: Clones (Linda is an Irish Lace fan)
Day 14: Belfast
Day 15: Glasgow area, or possibly Oban
Day 16-18: Speyside (Aberlour, Craigellachie, Dufftown, etc.)
Day 19-22: Edinburgh
Will be using a mid-size car for the first week, swapping out in Galway for a mini-van (to handle the extra two people plus luggage load), dropping it in Belfast, taking ferry to Cairnryan where we pick up another minivan for the final week.
Have our tasting sights set on Guinness Storehouse and Jameson's center in Dublin, Middleton, Kilbeggan, Bushmills, Auchentoshan or Oban, Glenlivet, Glenmorangie, Glenfiddich, Balvenie, Edradour.
For general sightseeing, the current 'transit day driving' hitlist includes: Glendalough, Avoca (Linda is into fabric arts), Rock of Cashel, Cliffs of Moher, The Burren, Giants' Causeway, Antrim Glens, Loch Lomond, Glencoe, Loch Ness.
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The Save Our Community (SOC) organization of Southport hosted its annual student recognition program at Friendship Baptist Church on June 29.
Norman Jones, master of ceremonies, opened the program by asking the audience to sing "Lift Every Voice and Sing." Jessica White of St. James AMEZ Church read Psalm 23. Emma Myles of First Baptist Church prayed. Kyerra Kinsey of Friendship Baptist Church gave the welcome. Regina White of Brown's Chapel AMEZ Church reviewed the five objectives of the SOC organization.
Editor's note: This is the first in a series of stories about Brunswick County Schools' recent national accreditation process and report.
BOLIVIA—A national accreditation team has cited the Brunswick County Board of Education for "interference" in school and administrative matters in a report released this week.
Team members from AdvancED conducted their assessments in Brunswick County between April 1 and April 4. They scored Brunswick County Schools in seven categories.
Southport Christian School announces honor roll
Southport Christian School has announced its fourth quarter and school year honor rolls:
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Fourth quarter A/B honor roll: Elizabeth Anderson, Logan FitzHugh, Noah Harrell, Cora Jones.
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School year A/B honor roll: Elizabeth Anderson, Logan FitzHugh, Christian Haggblom, Noah Harrell, Cora Jones.
ATMC has presented $2,000 scholarships to four high school seniors in Brunswick and Columbus counties. Awards were presented to Tanner Duncan, William Edwards, Christine Guseman and Ashley Roberts.
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BOLIVIA—Members of the Brunswick County Board of Education will review findings from a recent Advance Ed accreditation process at an upcoming retreat in July.
Jessica Swencki, spokeswoman for Brunswick County Schools, said school staff received a final, written report from Advance Ed on Tuesday, June 26.
Board of education members received an oral report from an Advance Ed representative at a special called meeting in April, but Swencki said the upcoming retreat would provide a thorough review of all written findings.
Riegert named to dean's list
Emma Riegert of Oak Island was named to the spring 2012 dean's list at the University of Charleston. The dean's list recognizes full-time students who earn a grade point average of 3.5 or higher.
The University of Charleston is a small, private college with about 1,400 students from 31 states and 26 countries.
It offers 24 undergraduate majors, master's programs in business and physician assistant studies, and a doctorate in pharmacy.
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For a long time, I totally ignored the Power Rankings. They didn't mean anything. I didn't care if the Astros were ranked in relation to the Orioles. Today I got curious. So when I checked out Hardball Talk's weekly Power Rankings, I was taken aback:
Dodgers (17)/Astros (19):
The mood among Dodgers fans is impossibly grim right now. The mood among Astros fans is pretty damn good. Easy to forget, then, that the Dodgers are almost certain to play much better than they are right now next year and the Astros to play much worse.
Now I'm just going to set back and let you go. Starting...now.
Monday, September 13, 2010
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This is asinine, Astros almost are guaranteed to play at least as well, if not better next season. With a few key additions this is a dangerous team within two seasons.
- September 13, 2010 at 1:57 PM
Can see the logic, the Dodgers do have more talent man-for-man and a true #1 starter in the making (Kershaw)....However, their talent has been unproductive and next year Mattingly will likely be a rookie manager, trying to control the many Dodger divas that Torre couldn't reach...that and the scrambled ownership picture could lead to another season of underachievement in LA.....
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In 2009, marketing partners Eli Lilly and Daichii Sankyo were preparing to launch their new blood thinner Effient (prasugrel) which appeared to have greater efficacy than the market leader Plavix, the world's second best selling product, sold by Bristol-Myers Squibb and Sanofi. EvaluatePharma predicted "Effient's sales would reach $1.42B by 2014 and be the biggest growth driver at Eli Lilly over the next seven years." Lilly and Daichii Sankyo were preparing a traditional blockbuster-style launch.
When Effient was approved by the FDA in July, 2009, the die was cast. BMS had effectively pre-positioned its rival Effient as a niche product with bleeding concerns, thus undermining its launch. Effient achieved less than one-tenth of its projected $400 million first year U.S. sales. A Pink Sheet analysis of consensus forecast projections for 13 U.S. products launched in 2009-10 revealed that Effient represented the year's single biggest launch failure.
What's the message here? Pre-positioning of Effient by its rival BMS underscores how dramatically pharmaceutical product positioning has changed over the past 15 years. Marketing professionals must adopt radically different positioning approaches.
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This evolutionary industry transition paralleled a larger market transition to a digital world dominated by the Internet and other information technologies. This new digital environment is characterized by shorter attention spans; faster, shorter, and more concise information bites ("i-bites"); and accelerated uptake and repetition of digital reports and communications. These two transitions in turn accelerated the development of a new pharma stakeholder ecosystem – beyond the traditional triad of physicians, patients, and payers – which holds increasing power over the access, utilization, and perception of pharmaceutical products. Pharma marketers now must position their products across a myriad of influencers, including powerful Pre-Launch constituents.
To win in this new Pharma 2.0 world, pharma professionals need to transform how they position their products in four i-Bite ways:
1 Sooner — Be first sooner: Too often, pharma companies and their ad agencies are conducting product positioning research or waiting for Phase III clinical data to "finalize" their positioning just prior to product approval. Unfortunately, this belated Pharma 1.0 approach ultimately fails in the Pharma 2.0. As the BMS pre-positioning of Effient demonstrated, it is critical for the launch company to be the first to position their own product.
Advertising gurus Al Ries and Jack Trout defined "positioning" as "something you do to the mind of potential customers." They have emphasized that being first is the easiest, fastest, and longest-lasting way to get into a person's mind. Therefore, it is essential for the launch company to create the first impression with prioritized stakeholders during the Pre-Launch Phase. Consequently, companies must start much earlier creating their product positioning and be willing to base it on relatively incomplete market or clinical research information.
2 Simpler — Be i-bite concise: Many pharmaceutical professionals confuse lengthy "product positioning statements" with true product positioning. A product positioning statement is a series of phrases or sentences that articulate the drug's unique selling proposition, typically including the brand name, product category, target customers, key benefit, and primary competitive differentiation. It should be used only for an agency to develop advertising or a communications strategy.
For example, Gilead Sciences positioned their new HIV agent Stribild with one word during the product's Pre-Launch Phase. The company cleverly used the generic name "Quad" to position their four-drug, single-tablet regimen consisting of elvitegravir, cobicistat, emtricitabine and tenofovir. The company had previously shaped the market to believe that more HIV drugs combined into a single pill was better, and had commercialized double ("Truvada") and triple ("Atriplia") fixed-dosed regimen agents. Most key stakeholders, including opinion leaders, analysts, and the media were regularly using the term "Quad" prior to launch.
3 Better - Create a better product perception: Gilead's one-word positioning helped create the perception that Quad was more efficacious since it combined four agents with different mechanisms of action, including the first single tablet, once-daily drug containing an integrase inhibitor. Gilead had already been effective in convincing doctors and patients of the advantages of what it called "single tablet regimens" (STR's): one tablet, once-daily administration to improve adherence and clinical outcomes. This single-tablet regimen represented the ultimate simplification of anti-retroviral treatment.
In the highly competitive Pharma 2.0 world, it is increasingly difficult to create true product differentiation, especially early in the Pre-Launch Phase. Consequently, companies have to create a uniquely advantageous, positive perception which can be further developed over time with appropriate supporting clinical data, marketing communications, and promotional messaging. While there are many ways to position products historically, the most effective approach in the pharmaceutical industry has been based on superior efficacy. However, as the BMS counter-positioning of Effient showed, sometimes even better efficacy can be twisted to create a negative product perception.
4 Clearer – Clarify and consistently communicate your positioning: Throughout the Pre-Launch period, Gilead ensured that its internal and external stakeholders clearly and consistently communicated its Quad/Stribild positioning. Following the positive FDA Advisory Committee Hearing in May 2012, Gilead's HIV therapeutics chief Dr. Andrew Cheng stated in a corporate press release: "With new government guidelines recommending that people diagnosed with HIV begin treatment early, it is important that we continue to simplify and improve HIV therapy. The Quad is the latest example of Gilead's ongoing efforts to develop highly effective and well tolerated single tablet regimens for people living with HIV." Following the FDA's approval of Stribild, Dr. Edward Cox, director of the FDA's Office of Antimicrobial Products, said in a news release, "Through continued research and drug development, treatment for those infected with HIV has evolved from multi-pill regimens to single-pill regimens. New combination HIV drugs like Stribild help simplify treatment regimens." This drum-beat, repetitive product positioning was very similar to BMS's ad nauseam communications to counter-position rival Effient as a "niche product" with "bleeding concerns."
Many pharma companies struggle trying to communicate a myriad of supporting messages, typically tailored to multiple types of stakeholder segments. In contrast, the most effective Pharma 2.0 competitors focus on doing it sooner than rival firms and utilizing consistent simple language to communicate a better product positioning.
Stan Bernard is President at Bernard Associates, LLC. He can be reached at [email protected]


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Jumping back a bit, I thought I'd also post a bit of code for those still using good old ASP and/or ADO. This is a function writen in VBScript that works much in the same way as the GetRows() method of an ADO recordset -- it returns the entire contents of the recordset in a 2-dimensional array. The difference with this one, of course, is that it will also do a pivot for you.
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As promised, here's a sample ASP report from Northwind using my ASP Report Class (http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/jeffs/posts/526.aspx).
Hopefully, everyone will agree that the script is very easy to write and read and much shorter. All grouping (for both headers and footers), subtotals and running totals are completely taken care of by using the class, and it is giving you recordset functionality (movenext and EOF and column reference by name) using the speedy GetRows() method under the hood.
For this to work, you must have the class saved as "ReportClass.asp" in the same folder as this script (notice the include).
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Well folks, we had a great week around our flats, here in Cedar Key.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) is offering a free hunter safety Internet-completion course in Levy County.
Jan and Maurice Hendrix, of Cedar Key, took this photo of their grandson, Mathew Reilly, age 12, with his first-caught red fish - that he caught off their dock - all 20 ? inches of it.
Preliminary estimates of visitors to Florida, from April to June, released by VISIT FLORIDA®, show an increase of 6.9 percent from the same period in 2010. In addition, 5.6 million pleasure trips were taken by Florida residents in-state during the second quarter.
Many innovative people are seeking new ways to make additional money for their families in this struggling economy. One option, to generate some extra cash, is to cook that highly prized, old family recipe at home and sell it to the public.
One of the most difficult tasks an entrepreneur has is pricing their products. Pricing is one of those things that requires experience and experimentation. Set prices too high, and revenues fall. Set them too low, and though revenues increase, profits plummet.
The Levy County Soil and Water Conservation District is happy to announce the winners of the 2011 poster contest. This year the theme was "Forest for People, More than you can Imagine."
County budget time is my least favorite time of year.
Question: M.T., of Horseshoe Beach, writes, "I was stopped by a police officer the other night because I had kind of drifted through a stop sign. He said I didn't come to a complete stop. He smelled alcohol on my breath and asked me to step out of the car and perform some field sobriety tests.
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Chris Paul led seven players in double figures with 23 points, Eric Bledsoe scored 15 and the Los Angeles Clippers beat the Memphis Grizzlies 112-91 on Saturday while getting just one dunk in their playoff opener.
Chauncey Billups had 14 points, and Caron Butler and Jamal Crawford had 13 apiece on a night when Blake Griffin was held to 10 points and five rebounds before fouling out with 3:32 left as Lob City was grounded.
Reserve Jerryd Bayless led the Grizzlies with 19 points, Marc Gasol had 16 points and four fouls, and Zach Randolph had 13 points and four rebounds while playing with five fouls in the rematch of last year's first-round series, won by the Clippers in seven games. Bayless was one of four Grizzlies with four fouls.


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Unpredictable river flowing well for second year in a row
STOCKTON — The Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks will be stocking 250 rainbow trout in the South Fork Solomon River above Webster Reservoir on Jan. 28. Flows in the river have been adequate, so anglers will have the opportunity to fish for rainbow trout in a river setting above Webster Reservoir again this year. Only one site will be stocked this year; however, it has been extended to 1 mile upstream of the low water crossing and ½-mile downstream of the crossing. Last year, the site was only ½-mile upstream and ½- downstream of the low water crossing.
This site will likely be stocked again in February with another 250 fish, and 250 more will be added in March, depending upon flow and the amount of angler use and harvest. Stockings will likely occur during the middle part of each month.
Wading and drifting power bait and salmon eggs into holes and under habitat is a highly effective method for fishing river rainbow trout. Artificial lures such as spinners, small spoons, and flies also work well. Swimming spinners in current near woody habitat can provide exciting action. To use this method, cast a spinner downstream and work it into position under and around prime habitat, then hold it in place and let the current work the spinner blade. Fly fishing can be productive using flashy patterns in streamer-type flies.
The stretch of the South Fork Solomon River between the Damar Blacktop and Webster Reservoir is classified as a Type 2 trout water, meaning that from Oct. 15 through April 15, a trout permit is required of anglers fishing for or possessing trout, except that youth under 16 years of age may fish without a permit with a reduced daily creel limit of two trout, or they can keep five per day if they possess a permit. In addition, all residents 16 thru 64 years of age and nonresidents 16 and older must have a valid fishing license. Anglers fishing for and possessing only species other than trout in this stretch of river during trout season are not required to have a trout permit. All anglers may fish for and possess trout without a permit after April 15, but the five-fish creel limit still applies.
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