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Harlan Coben is one of my favorite suspense/thriller writers. He keeps you going, sort of like a roller coaster ride where, just when you think you are coasting and looking around at the view, you are suddenly jerked and swept into a hair-raising plunge that leaves you breathless. His writing is pure entertainment with drama that flows seamlessly from chapter to chapter. And with every book, Coben gets better and better.
Caught is the story of three people (and their families): Haley McWaid, a seventeen-year-old good girl and high school senior, who turns up missing one night; Dan Mercer, a social worker and coach of a fourth-grade basketball team; and Wendy Tynes, a TV news reporter who targets Dan and accuses him of being a sexual predator. People in the community soon begin to suspect Dan of taking Haley, and there are those who want to take the law into their own hands and "take care of" Dan before he comes to trial. As Wendy investigates the case, what she thinks is true becomes more elusive and soon she finds herself involved far more than she ever imagined. Many twists and turns in the plot pull the reader into a tense story of revenge, murder, and deceit that will keep you guessing until the very last page.
I like how Coben writes. I feel like he's in the room with me, telling me a story and making it sound so real. The characters are at times funny and even the antagonists are likeable in their own way. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes suspense. And I would urge you to read Coben's other novels as well. I have enjoyed every one of them.
(Caution: some hard language and innuendo.)
Here is a quote from Caught that I found to be quite profound and very true:
"Did tragedy cause fissures, open them wider - or did tragedy merely turn on the light so you could see the fissure that had always been there? Maybe we live in darkness, blinded by the smile and facade of goodness. Maybe tragedy just takes away the blinders."
I didn't realize that Harlan Coben was a theologian. :)
(Click on the links and/or the book image to learn more about the author and his books.)


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I am going through a lot right now. I won't lie, and I won't tell you it is easy or that I am "doing well" with it all. Some days are better than others. I have to remember God has a plan. I don't. He knows. I don't. I don't have answers. He does, even if he never provides them to me. He does.
These verses are my daily review right now.
Psalm 29:11
The LORD gives strength to his people; the LORD blesses his people with peace.
Psalm 105:4
look to the LORD and his strength
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Well, today we're doing a round of reshoots and pickups on "The Fleapit Three."
I'll be back later today or tomorrow with pictures and a review of "Hollywoodland" (It's worth seeing at least once).
Just in case you forgot, here's the rough teaser trailer from the film we're working on. (And by "we" I mean the Saturday Shorts guys.)
I have to say, it's been quite an entertaining process putting a film together with no budget and a one-day-a-week-for-18-weeks schedule. It's been a learning process and something fun to throw spare time into (not that there is ever much of that.) I mean, at the end of the day, we'll have a full-length feature film that we shot on weekends. That's how Sam Raimi did the first Evil Dead picture. I know that we aren't making a masterpiece or some piece of high art, but I do know that what we're making is funny and entertaining.
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Tuesday, 13 October 2009
Anyone for Anya?
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- CraftyC said...
Great mans card Jane, love the colours and fab papers!
- 13 October 2009 at 12:42
- Rosietoes said...
LOL Jane. I popped over to say thank you for the comment on my blog this morning to find out that we have both been busy with BG's Granola. :)
Love your card. and that image is really cute. :)
Edna x
- 13 October 2009 at 13:09
- Lil Daffodil said...
Hi Jane,
What a great man card. I love the papers and the image is so well done.
Fiona x
- 13 October 2009 at 15:40
- Renata said...
Great image ;) Cool boycard, perfect colours and great papers!
Love from AFA!
- 13 October 2009 at 19:11
- Cathy said...
Fab boys card Jane and I love the paper piecing. Those papers are fabulous too.
Cathy xx
- 13 October 2009 at 19:25
- Cheryl said...
fab boys card love the papers too love cheryl xxx
- 13 October 2009 at 23:25
- Gina said...
great male card Jane, I love the image (on my wish list) and the papers are perfect :)
Hugs Gina xxx
- 13 October 2009 at 23:31
- Beth said...
Ooh, these stamps are definitely on my wish list! I love the colours you've used for this card, perfect to give to a man!
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We got our old Sega Genesis out today, and after I messed with it a bit, the local demigoddess of electronica, that is my wife, fixed it. Now, I can play Gauntlet IV and Mortal Kombat and some other games.
Thanks to my brother-in-law for giving this to us.
Now, I have one more thing to waste time on. Hmmh.
Also, as the Ladyfaire was watching Sledgehammer, our too young to understand it, Gigglebox decided to get the remote. So he crawls over her, and back again, and back again as she keeps moving the uber-fascinating device. After an intermission, he decides to jump her, and take her on in a wrestling match as she moves back, he charges her while smiling gleefully. The Ladyfaire was startled but laughing as well. Its rather like having a puppy leap up on you with its forepaws in effect.
I wish I could have videotaped it, but then that is part of the purpose of this blog. To remember the good times.


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And as for the rest of the films...
The Island was a pleasant surprise. This is probably Bay's best film, and that's saying something. Bay would make a great second unit director, and he has been so in the past. Unfortunately, for him to really have the freedom to shoot the kind of action scenes he wants, he has to be given the reins to the whole project. To make him a second unit director on a film would result in a very schizophrenic and uneven picture as very few directors' sensibilities would gel with Bay's trademark style. This is the ultimate tragedy of Bay's career, but he doesn't seem too disappointed by it. The Island, pigeonholed by certain, more elitist critics, as a modern re-imagining of the movie Clonus (better known as Parts: The Clonus Horror), does its supposed source material justice and beyond. Clonus, sadly, was not a particularly well-made film (as evidenced in part by its inclusion in the Mystery Science Theater film library) and it hasn't aged very well, either. Clonus could barely keep up with the science at the time, let alone the era's science fiction. In fact, I'd read a book about cloning published several years before Clonus' production that handled the subject matter better. Bay's usual lack of attention to anything not involving crashes and explosions is absent here, as the performances (even the most one-dimensional of them) are on par with any drama with less than half as many action sequences. If you're not a fan of Bay, and you haven't seen The Island, it may just be the one that changes your mind from a total write-off of his work.
Hero was brilliant, put simply. It, along with House of Flying Daggers, came with consistent praise and recommendation to me by friends, co-workers, and anyone else in my acquaintance who's seen the film. I had virtually no preconceived notions about the film, having only seen a few trailers leading up to the film's release. I knew nothing of its plot, but was very happy that it employed my favorite narrative device: Multiple Perspectives. Hero is about an assassination plot, told from at least two distinct viewpoints and even then in a variety of different variations. Each variation on the climax's preceding events is marked throughout by a dominant color (Red, Blue, Yellow, Green, White). It sounds like a rather elementary way to tell the flashbacks apart, but it's very effective, and utterly beautiful. The only thing that honestly keeps me from taking a screen capture from nearly any frame of this film to use as my desktop wallpaper is is that it would mean taking down my current wallpaper, a publicity photo of actress Bai Ling (a little more on her later).
Able Edwards was... weird, but novel and certainly interesting. It's a low-budget vanity project combining two well-known figures, one fictional and one real: Citizen Kane and Walt Disney. In short, Able Edwards is about the clone of a deceased cartoonist-turned-business tycoon created to become head of a corporation operating on an orbital space station. The style is patterned after Orson Welles' classic almost to the letter, right down to the very typeface used for the film's title. Released in 2004, Able Edwards is probably the least-widely-known of the films that comprise the "Digital Backlot" cycle, accompanied by Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (featuring the lovely aforementioned Bai Ling) from the USA, Immortal from France (with a Slavic writer and director), and Casshan from Japan, among others. These films were all made using extensive amounts of digital backdrops and composites, to such an extent that few or no practical sets were built, with those that were serving more as references for the actors' benefit than the audiences' viewing pleasure.
I didn't say anything about Seed earlier because I'd only thought to include it at the last minute. This was the first Uwe Boll film I'd seen, and I had a little trouble actually watching it, but not because it's a bad film. Let me put it this way: Horror comes in three flavors which are Terrify, Horrify, and Gross-Out. Gross-Out's markings are pretty obvious, even if you've only heard of Hostel, Saw, or anything by Herschell Gordon Lewis. Horrify elements best described as "jump scares" the ones that play off your reflexes or get your adrenaline pumping (Alien, Jaws, any zombie film). Terrify is the hardest variety of horror to produce, and often the best results come from films outside what most people generally think of as belonging to the horror genre, as you don't have to be a horror movie to be a creepy movie (Jacob's Ladder, Flatliners, American Psycho). Seed is very much in the Gross-Out category, and that's by design, as Uwe Boll described the film in the accompanying commentary as "A horror movie for horror fans". Like I said, Seed is not a bad horror movie. Far from it, it's at least as competent at what it does as the Saw movies or anything from Rob Zombie. I just happen to prefer suspense to gore.
There are more Uwe Boll films on their way through the combined efforts of Netflix, and I'm actually looking forward to giving them a go. Sure, Boll gets a lot of flack for his work and certainly for some of his more harsh statements about certain filmmakers and most filmgoers, but I try not to listen to gossip. I'll judge for myself his abilities as a director, and so far, from what I've seen, his only real fault is some slightly iffy casting (Tara Reid and Ray Liotta chiefly), and that's hardly something to hold against a director.
Along with Boll's work, the other films on the way are the aforementioned entries in the Digital Backlot cycle, Immortal and Casshan. I plan on doing a sort of video retrospective of the cycle, this being essentially the 5th anniversary of each of those films.
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So... I called Todd several times today, and he didn't return any of my calls.
I finally reached him this afternoon, and guess who he was with? Yeah... well. That was almost to be expected. I could sense that's what happened.
We had it out on the phone. He got my messages, but didn't call because he thought I wouldn't answer the phone, and that "would've made me very angry." So, instead of calling me, someone who he's been with for 8 years, he decides to hunker down with Lynn instead. After all, she's much more fun to be around than an old time girlfriend, right?
He wouldn't really accept my breaking up with him. He thinks we should see a counselor to try to work things out.
I don't know... I see where he's coming from, and am willing to do it, but at this point, when his heart is already not on me and looking around at other people, well... that doesn't quite make things on the up and up.
I did get some good advice from a friend, though. She suggested that there be no dating and no contact with other people during our counseling period. If we're going to work on this, we need to work on this together, with no outside influences breaking the chain.
She has a good point. And honestly, in my present state of mind I don't know if I would've thought to make that a mandate.
I am going to, though.
I still think we're on the verge of breaking up. He doesn't see it from my point of view... he tries, but he can't. For almost eight years, he's never been truly happy with me. He says that I am not happy, either. And he's right, but that unhappiness has been relatively new. And I really do believe it has more to do with our living conditions than with him.
But maybe he's right... maybe it's something else. And in that case, a counselor would help me figure that out.
I take it he's still with Lynn, though, and that bugs me. It's almost like he's saying "Fuck, she's going to make me be monogomous for awhile longer, so I'll just nail this girl while I've got the chance."
Now I'm not saying that's what he's doing... it's what is going through my head. But I also don't doubt I'm that far off the mark.
Right this very minute, I can say that I wish I had never moved to Reno. I wish I had never given up everything that I had for this... for a man who is not happy with me, and may never be. For a man who is always kind of keeping his eye out for someone who might make him happier than I do. For a man who says he loves me, but when I'm in desperate need, would rather have coffee with some relative stranger than to call me.
The thing is, I'm scared. I have absolutely no one to turn to here in Reno. If I have to move out of Todd's house, I have absolutely nowhere to go. And, yes, I'm also scared of losing him, but a part of me believes that I lost him already.
What am I going to do?
More importantly, what is going to happen to us?
I wish I had a crystal ball for that.
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A stellar start by the American Ethanol Cat Can Do race team, at the Britehouse Superboat National Championship held in Clearwater, Florida, Sunday, October 2, had the Cat Crew smiling. "I hit the throttle and soon everyone was in my rearview mirror," said Throttleman Keith Holmes. "Ed Smith (Driver) found the fast groove around the first turn and off we went to the lead." The Cat, reaching straight away speed of almost 160 MPH, had a formable lead on a packed Unlimited class, leading a total of 9 out of 19 laps, on a chamber of commerce style Florida day, with a light chop and perfect offshore powerboat racing conditions.
While the start of the race was awesome, testing and the final outcome proved another story. "We had difficulties in testing Saturday, including blowing a drive and some other gremlins to debug," said Holmes. "The crew stayed on top of things and worked hard, into the evening, getting the bugs worked out, with support from Ignite American Ethanol's Technical Director, Dan Schwartzkopf as well as Mike D'Anniballe from Sterling Performance Engines "
"Miss Geico had a good start as well, giving us a good hard push into the first turn and down the back stretch, commented Holmes. "Our monster Twin Ethanol Sterling Performance Engines were strong and dialed in, and it looked like we had the set up to win." The Unlimited class field, including CMS 3, Wake Effects 03, Lucas Oil and CRC, held positions, for 9 laps, behind Cat Can Do. Miss Geico dropped out of the race early, with mechanical issues on lap 2.
Disappointment gripped the Cat Crew after lap 9, as mechanical gremlins took over. A broken driveshaft took the American Ethanol Cat out of contention, and the Cat Crew throttled-down just before the race's midpoint, leading to #3 CMS boat, taking the victory.
"We were very disappointed, but yet feel hopeful as we prepare for the World Championship," said Holmes. "The American Ethanol Cat has the power and speed to make Key West some very exciting races." The Superboat 36th Annual Key West World Championships will be held November 6-13.
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Bartenders Psychology:
Before you order a drink in public, you should read this!
Seven New York City bartenders were asked if they could predict personalities based on what the customer drinks. Though interviewed separately, they concurred on almost all counts.
The results for women:
Drink: Beer
Personality: Causal, low-maintenance; down to earth.
How a man should a approach her: Challenge her to a game of pool.
Drink: Blender Drinks
Personality: Flaky, whiny, annoying; a pain in the ass.
How a man should a approach her: Avoid her, unless you want to be her cabana boy.
Drink: Mixed Drinks
Personality: Older, more refined, high maintenance, has very picky taste; knows EXACTLY what she wants.
How a man should a approach her: You won't have to approach her. If she's interested, she'll send YOU a drink.
Drink: Wine (does not include White Zinfandel)
Personality: Conservative and classy; sophisticated yet giggles.
How a man should a approach her: Tell her you love to travel and spend quiet evenings with friends.
Drink: White Zinfandel
Personality: Easy; thinks she is classy and sophisticated, actually, she has NO clue.
How a man should a approach her: Make her feel smarter than she is...this should be an easy target.
Drink: Shots
Personality: Likes to hang with frat-boy pals and looking to get totally drunk ... and naked.
How a man should a approach her: Easiest hit in the joint. You have been blessed. Nothing to do but wait, however, be careful not to make her mad!
Drink: Tequila
No explanations required - everyone just KNOWS what happens there.
THEN, there is the MALE addendum ----
The deal with guys is, as always, very simple and clear cut.
Domestic Beer: He's poor and wants to get laid.
Imported Beer: He likes good beer and wants to get laid
Wine: He is hoping that the wine will give him a sophisticated image to help him get laid.
Whiskey: He doesn't give a damn about anything but getting laid.
Tequila: He's thinking he has a chance with the toothless waitress.
White Zinfandel: He's gay..
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Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Tumble and Twirl
Yesterday morning, I rode Annie. I decided to ride English for a change. Because I haven't ridden her for a while, I stayed in the arena. She was a complete fireball! She spooked at the barrels laying down at the end of the arena. She shied at birds flying past. She wheeled and danced. I warmed her up by walking (or trying to walk) for about 10 minutes and then I trotted and cantered her, reminding myself to keep my center of gravity, so she wouldn't unseat me with her wild outbursts. I tried to slow her down with half halts and circles, but she was so volatile. She was wound tighter than a pig's tail. I had to keep loosening my legs, because every time she'd act up, I'd grip to stay on. I trotted over poles and was pleased when she carefully lifted her legs over them. Slowly, she seemed to wind down and start to behave.
Lately, she doesn't seem to want to run around when I turn her loose so now I'm paying for it. I haven't ridden her for several weeks. Anyway, we rode for 40 minutes or so and then I slowed her to a walk to cool her down. I was very surprised when I suddenly realized that she had finally completely relaxed. Her head was low and her neck was stretched and she calmly walked without my constant reminders to walk and slow down. It was so nice! I decided to jog a bit more and she stayed calm! Hooray! I felt that ride ended much better than it started.
This afternoon, I took out Nadia. I saddled her up western, and we headed out. We rode along the highway, cars passing, and Nadia walked along, unfazed, until we could cross over to the big empty field for some trail riding. Right away, I got two different calls on my cell phone. Nadia just listened politely and walked on. I was thankful that she was so well behaved. I always enjoy her calm, but brisk, animated walk when we go out for rides.
At the far end of the field, we saw a mule and a horse, and she came to attention, prancing, with her head up. It occurred to me that if for any reason I fell off, back in this field, no one would know where I was. That is why I carry my phone with me. Nadia wanted to keep on prancing so I took her into a canter for about a half mile. Then, I slowed her down and circled back, trotting. The ground was soft but not muddy. After a long trot, she happily slowed to a walk and we headed back home. We crossed the highway and rode along the side for a while because of the barbed wire fencing. There is an easement of about 20 feet between the highway and the barbed wire fence where we could walk. We only needed to walk along the highway a couple hundred yards or so until we came to the side lane where we could turn off from the highway.
There were several cars coming so I wanted to turn off into the lane as quickly as possible. There was a small culvert by the road and to walk between the culvert and the barb wire, away from the cars, we had to go down the embankment. Just as we'd cleared the culvert and the barbed wire fence, Nadia suddenly slipped on the brushy slope. Her back leg went out from under her and she lay down. Somehow, I came off of her, up the hill, above her. I quickly stood up. She got up and her side was all black with mud. She seemed somewhat shaken, and I debated whether to walk her home or get back on. She seemed okay, although she stood with her back leg cocked. She didn't appear to be lame though, so I decided to mount up and we walked on home.
I have just finished feeding everyone and Nadia appears to be fine although she has mud patches on her hip, belly, and shoulder. I worry about her though; she is almost 26 years old.
This makes the third time I've fallen WITH a horse. This is the first time I wasn't hurt. I used to own a horse called The Riddler. He had a question mark blaze on his forehead. The first time I EVER rode him was in a halter with my husband holding the lead rope. He was unbroke, so we thought we could lead him around with me on his back. Well, I got a leg up, and he bolted, pulling the lead out of Scott's hand. He ran down the arena and we crashed into the fence. He landed on my leg. Have you ever seen a Nerf Football? If you cut it in half lengthwise and set it on the inside of your leg at your knee, that is what happened to my leg. Nothing was broken but I had a huge hematoma. My whole leg swelled and turned black. I couldn't bend my knee at all for 3 months. I recovered and realized that I had to train this horse to be ridden. That was one of the hardest "horse" things I ever had to do. I won't go into the training program right now, but he did get trained to saddle and my daughter and I both rode him.
A year later, I was riding Riddler, with a girlfriend on another of my horses, when Riddler tried to bolt. I pulled him up, on uneven ground, and he fell, on my other leg. Again, I was in agony. Again, nothing was broken but my leg turned black and blue. Again, it took 3 months to bend my knee. I could not blame Riddler because I tripped him up. But, I never felt safe on him again!
You just never know with horses! Nadia was a saint and Annie was a monster. Between them, I got my tumble and twirl!
Tumble and Twirl - song: Tumble and Twirl, artist: David Bowie, album: Tonight
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- Laughing Orca Ranch said...
WHEW!!! OH NO!! I'm glad I didn't see you fall from my bedroom window. I would have been a mess with worry!
I was reading your post and my heart was in my throat!
Fiona~aka~Val, I'm just SOOO relieved and thankful you and Nadia weren't hurt. How scary!!
Truly...It's not a matter of IF, but WHEN you fall off a horse.
Now remind me again why I want so badly to get back on my horse again.
- Wednesday, January 21, 2009 at 10:53:00 PM MST
- Nuzzling Muzzles said...
Argh! You lived through one of my worst fears three times. I hope to never have a horse fall on my leg. My other fear is getting my foot caught in the stirrup after a fall and being dragged. I actually ride with only my toes in the stirrup because of that fear. If I feel the stirrup in my arch, I think my foot is too far in. I'm looking into breakaway stirrups. I'm glad you fell on the uphill side and cleared your horse, and I'm glad your horse is okay too.
- Thursday, January 22, 2009 at 7:09:00 PM MST
- Andrea said...
What a crazy thing, I am glad you got off safely. I am glad you are alright. And I have had one horse fall on my. I think the saddle hurt my left knee. IT was weird, the horse's legs just came out from under her?? Really strange, good thing she was only 14 hands and maybe 800 lbs. I still have nerve damage to that knee, and that was about 6 years ago.
We are some crazy horse people are we not? And we do this over and over again.
And the Riddler, what a cute name, I would love to hear his "breaking" story!! :)
- Friday, January 23, 2009 at 9:31:00 PM MST
- Fantastyk Voyager said...
She slipped on the mud. It's hard to explain how we STILL have mud everywhere weeks after our last snow. New Mexico is high desert and is usually very dry. For an embankment to still be muddy is crazy!
- Saturday, January 24, 2009 at 6:40:00 AM MST


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Retinoblastoma: childhood eye cancer and future stem cell treatments
by Wideacademy - 08 January, 2018
- Childhood cancer
- Stem Cell Transplant
- Eye cancer
- Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells)
- Allogeneic
- Autologous
- Chemotherapy
What is Retinoblastoma?
Retinoblastoma is a rare form of eye cancer, usually affecting children under five. In Britain, approximately one child is diagnosed with the condition every week.
It is a cancer of the retina, the light-sensitive lining at the back of the eye, and develops when immature nerve cells, called retinoblasts, grow out of control and form a tumour.
Retinoblastoma has a very good survival rate if it is diagnosed early. In the UK, around 98 per cent of children will survive following treatment.
In most cases, the child is treated before the cancer spreads from the eye to the rest of the body. However, sometimes it can spread to the brain, lymphatic system or elsewhere.
The condition is caused by a mutation in the RB1 gene — which is either inherited from a child's parents (meaning the mutation exists in all the child's cells) or happens at random in just one cell.
Symptoms may include:
- a white reflection in the child's pupil that is evident in photos
- a squint
- a red, inflamed eye without pain
- poor vision
- a change to the colour in the iris
- lazy-eye
- a larger than normal eyeball
Tumours can appear on just one eye (when the RB1 mutation is random) or both eyes when it is inherited.
How can stem cells help?
Stem cell treatment is not a primary treatment for retinoblastoma.
However, stem cells are an option when the cancer has spread outside the child's eye and the cancer is unlikely to be cured by surgery, chemo or radiotherapy.
Having a stem cell transplant allows doctors to give the child higher doses of chemotherapy than could be given safely otherwise. This process is called a stem cell rescue, because it allows the bone marrow to rebuild itself again.
There are serious side effects to stem cell rescue and improving the success rate (in terms of patient survival) is an on-going area of study. A phase III trial by the Children's Oncology Group, which is expected to run until 2018, is looking into the side effects of chemotherapy combined with autologous (from the child's own body) stem cell transplant for patients with retinoblastoma.
How stem cells may help in future
Looking at the role stem cells play in the origin of retinoblastoma can reveal much about the disease and therefore potential ways to treat it.
The faulty gene RB1 is a tumour suppressor gene which controls the process of cells multiplying and specialising into a particular form or function, and the survival of cells.
Research indicates that the absence of RB1 in stem cells or progenitor cells can cause tumours to start growing. Progenitor cells are similar to stem cells but are not immortal and are more specific in their function.
A current study by St Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis is using human induced pluripotent stem cells to do this. The researchers will take skin and blood samples from children with the genetic form of retinoblastoma and use them to make induced pluripotent stem cells that are each deficient in the RB1 gene.
The aim is to see if these human RB1-deficient, induced pluripotent stem cells can create retinoblastoma in the laboratory. This will provide an opportunity to study the beginnings of retinoblastoma and how tumours begin to develop.
Research into exactly how RB1 controls stem cells to divide, self-renew or differentiate, could help scientists learn how to control these processes, and potentially prevent cancer development.
Another study by the St Jude Children's Research Hospital in collaboration with the Pediatric Cancer Genome Project, mapped the whole developmental process of retinoblastoma cells as they turn cancerous. It analysed how and why the gene was expressed (the process by which information from a gene is used in the synthesis of a functional gene) to see the effect gene expressions have to play in initiating retinoblastoma tumours.
The findings have narrowed down the window during which normal cells turn into tumour cells. This paves the way for further, more focused research into exactly how changes or malfunctions in epigenetics (inherited changes in gene function) cause cancer.
Once scientists crack the epigenetic code, i.e the specific changes in the organisation of the genes that guide each type of cell to differentiate, they will be closer to understanding how to treat the disease effectively.
A study funded by the Childhood Eye Cancer Trust, focused on the precise genetic markers of retinoblastoma. Researchers compared the gene expression in invasive tumours against those in non-invasive tumours, in children with retinoblastoma. By comparing the two they could better understand the steps after the mutation of RB1, that lead to the formation of tumours.
They looked at the DNA sequence of every active gene in the retinoblastoma cell lines they established and compared them to the sequence in normal genes, to identify which ones had mutated.
They identified 50 genes that are more expressed in the invasive form of tumours. These results will help us to assess risk for the spread of retinoblastoma and also help to identify new therapeutic targets.
Cancer Stem Cells
Cancer stem cells are a fascinating subset of stem cell biology that hold exciting promise for highly targeted treatment of cancer in the future. Cancer stem cells are rare, immortal cells within a tumour that self-renew and give rise to many cell types that make up a tumour. In this way, they act like stem cells and share other properties such as quiescence (when the cell is not dividing), proliferation and drug-resistance.
Understanding how cancer stem cells work and how they can be disabled makes them useful subjects for cancer research. If they behave in the same way as normal stem cells, it follows that scientists can harness what they know about normal stem cells, to identify and attack cancer stem cells and the malignant cells they produce.
If cancer stem cells are the primary force for cancer growth and metastasis (spread of cancer), then effective cancer treatments must attack them. If the cancer stem cell cannot be disabled, such as is often the case with chemotherapy, then the cancer can relapse. By targeting cancer stem cells only – and specifically – treatments will have fewer side effects, as the other normal cells will remain untouched.
Another study published in "Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications" in 2017 transformed malignant retinoblastoma cancer cells back into cancer stem cells through reprogramming technology. This new method provides the opportunity to study the beginnings of cancer and the epigenetics of cancer, as well as the area where the mechanisms of cancer and stem cell behaviour collide.


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My 'normally-posted-on-Fridays,but I'm late yet again" weekly surf of the web for news by, and about, Soldiers Angels (for the week that just ended 4/12/08)
We'll be going all over the World on this 'web surf', because,Hey, there are members of Soldiers Angels all over the world! :) ....and a lot of them had interesting posts last week :)
Starting out here in the US......
The Michigan Soldiers Angels post about an upcoming 'Hoe Down" on Angel Updates WYCD Hoe Down
View From the 8th Floor is helping to spread the word about the
2008 Face of America Bike Ride
Nice story about an Angel from WV Cabell County schools employee fulfills soldier's wish for Moss jersey
Soldiers Angels New York tells us about a fundraising walk Steps To Our Soldiers
Soldiers Angels Alabama had three posts I wanted to highlightNew clinic to treat Alabama vets with stress disorder and traumatic brain injury
What can $25,000 buy?
Welcome Home Alabama's Heroes!
Soldiers Angels Louisiana asked for help to Send cards to a fallen LA Hero's Family
and then Greta posted some more about Supporting the troops on her Kiss My Gumbo blog.
And now, we go to TN, where the Tennessee Soldiers Angels VA Team posted about TENNESSEE ANGEL OPPORTUNITIES
Soldiers Angels Texas had two posts honoring Fallen Texas Heroes:
and Nevada Soldiers VA Team had some great pictures of Rub-a-dub-dub back packs
Venturing out across the World.....
Soldiers Angels Germany F Troop deals final blow to building that set off IED
and Soldiers Angels Europe is looking for help Wounded TLC Looking for Angels
and friend Willie at A German-American Friendship Bracelet has a
Retrospect 2008 visits to Landstuhl
German Dinner at the Fisher House Landstuhl
That's the end of my belated 'surf',thanks for coming along for the ride!
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Robin van Persie said he was "humbled" after being unveiled as a Fenerbahce player in front of thousands of his new supporters in Istanbul.
Van Persie completed a £4.8million move from Manchester United to Fernabache on Saturday
He told supporters
: "I am humbled to see that so many great fans came today to greet me and to welcome me into your family.
"I will try to learn Turkish very fast because I think it is very important that you adapt to the country you are living in and I am now part of the Fenerbahce family so I will adapt to the country and to you.
"And I promise you one thing – I will do everything in my power to help Fenerbahce win many trophies to make you guys happy. Because I can only imagine, if I see today, how it would be if we win the league, what kind of party that will be. I hope I can share that with you guys.
"Let's do it together."


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I have been living in my neighborhood for more than 5 years but I have never ventured into this eatery cos I thought they sold only pizzas! Oh boy was I wrong, they have Spanish food which are so delicious!
Pernil (Roasted Pork Shoulders) with rice
Beef Tripe
Chicharrón - Fried Pork Belly with plantain and white rice
Stuffed Potato Balls (Rellenos de Papa) (Puerto Rican)


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1 large onion, finely diced
1 large carrot, grated or finely diced
1 large stick of celery, finely diced
1 large clove of garlic, crushed or finely diced
2 cans of chickpeas, keeping the liquid
200g kale, shredded
1 500ml pack of passata
500ml just boiled water
1 vegetable stock cube, crumbled
1 tbsp tomato paste
1 tsp cumin seeds
1/4 tsp hot chilli flakes
1 tbsp red wine vinegar
1 tbsp olive oil
Soften the onion, carrot, and celery in the olive oil in a casserole dish.
When softened (5 minutes or so) add the cumin seeds, garlic, and tomato paste. Stir around, and once you smell the garlic and cumin add the rest of the ingredients, and enough water to make a stewy consistency.
Cover, bring to the boil, then turn down to a simmer with the lid on for 30 minutes.
Season to taste and serve with couscous.
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Connecting to the DB Instance or DB Cluster
With IAM database authentication, you use an authentication token when you connect to your DB instance or DB cluster. An authentication token is a string of characters that you use instead of a password. Once you generate an authentication token, it's valid for 15 minutes before it expires. If you try to connect using an expired token, the connection request is denied.
Every authentication token must be accompanied by a valid signature, using AWS signature version 4. (For more information, see Signature Version 4 Signing Process in the AWS General Reference.) The AWS CLI and the AWS SDK for Java can automatically sign each token you create.
You can use an authentication token when you connect to Amazon RDS from another AWS service, such as AWS Lambda. By using a token, you can avoid placing a password in your code.
Alternatively, you can use the AWS SDK for Java to manually create and manually sign an authentication token.
Once you have a signed IAM authentication token, you can connect to an Amazon RDS
instance or Aurora DB cluster. Following, you can find out how to do this using either
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The Truth About Penny Lohan
Today I despise Dina Lohan.
Dina and I go way back to summer camp. 1985.
I was a counselor at an unspecified government facility and Dina Lohan was my counselee. Dina told me things I could never say, by law, if they hadn't taken away my f***king Psychology license. But, I can shout them now!
She made a move on me. She used my love of Sweet & Low and told me there was an even sweeter tasting artificial sweetener except this one you snort up your nose. She was right. I lost 8 lbs. that night, and if you don't know what "lbs." is you shouldn't be reading this blog. She seduced me, and we did "it" despite the fact that I was "bi" then, and that day the coin had flipped to "heads". I dealt with it in the most appropriate fashion I could. Medevial Armor.
We dated for a few days. Dina bitched and complained all 3 days of it! I couldn't take it. She was speaking so fast that I thought it was Portugese. I am fluent in Portugese, so I misunderstood a lot of what she was saying, but I did hear her say, "I'm pregnant."
I said "Kill it. I'm too young to be wasting my time on babies. For goodness sake, Dina, we did it because of the Meth, and that's not a way to force a man into having a child!"
She threw a sucker punch at me, but my bodyguard Tonraq deflected with a elbow jab to her larynx. So, we broke up, and she met some convict, and had some more babies.
But I'm forced to know deep down, "Lindsay's" mine. I'm not saying anything publicly because I really don't care. She just taking up too much of my Press. I'm not going Larry Birkhead or anything. I don't want this on my resume. Nor my biography that's why I am settling this old score on this private blog. Plus I have 38 other children...
But the rest of this blog is for "Lindsay":
Dear "Lindsay":
It's me. Your true father, Beckett. First, lease change your first name. Your mother has a history of naming children poorly. I had no say. I am sorry. It's tough being the popular girl with such a lousy first name. These are my choices, daughter: Leighanna, Vianca, Lajita, Akeldama, Jezebel or Penny. If you had a unique name you wouldn't have to overcompensate. I'm not scolding you. Trust me, Penny, I've had my nostrils sewn together a couple times now. But, when you have this much blackmail over Hollywood I get great doctors.
[Stay with me this far "LIndsay". Almost done. No sleepy, yet.]
So, to recap, ditch the name. Keep in touch with Dina, but protect yourself from her "Peter Pan Syndrome". Don't call me, or that Michael guy. He's a patsy, and I don't really care. Go to acting school, or call my friend Hugh Hefner (323) 555-3187 at the Playboy Mansion - he'll hook you. But have a good life. Take better care of yourself. Don't blame anyone, but yourself and your publicist. Call Ken Sunshine. If he'll see you.
Also, your Mother was never a "Rockette" for Radio City Music Hall. Unless you call being a "Rockette" being the top call girl at Bling Bling's in Astoria, Queens. Your Mother has exaggerated that story for yeeeeeeeeears. Just like I brag about have four Bentley's on my episode of "Cribs". I only own two. The other's were borrowed from Ice T. There I said it. Let's all join a 12 Step-program.
You can just rest on your laurels, or you can be a woman and pull "an Angelina". Pay for Ken Sunshine. Whatever the cost. Look what he did for Leo, and Leo was a huge x-head.
There's a way to stay drunk and still make it look dignified.
Fix it, Penny.
Beckett Boo, Esq.
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USC lands ESPN 100 Max Agbonkpolo. A highly skilled combo forward, who at 6'8" shoots it with range and accuracy. He brings tremendous versatility and upside to the Trojans.
I recently spoke with Collin Sexton on some of the adjustments in the game from middle school to the NBA. 1. Middle school to high school: "Learn the game, don't just play the game." 2. High school to college: "Scouting report defense and the ability to read a defense. I watched a lot of film. Be ready to watch a lot of film." 3. College basketball to the NBA: "Nobody graduates. As a rookie you are playing against five and ten year veterans in practice and in games."
Espn no.27 Will Baker will visit UCLA this week. He is also hearing from Texas A&M, Kansas, Texas, UNC, and Stanford on a regular basis. Extremely skilled post who brings a high level game and high character to any program.
Nuggets president and ex-Missouri guard Josh Kroenke to ESPN's The Undefeated on drafting Missouri forward Michael Porter, Jr.: "Michael is an incredible talent and we were surprised to see him available at #14. We know the risks associated with him due to his recent back injury at Missouri, but he's an incredibly hard worker, is an outstanding young man, and we think he will fit in well with our up and coming group in Denver."
Elijah Brown out of Oregon — son of assistant coach Mike Brown — plans to play Summer League for Golden State, league sources tell ESPN.
Baylor picks up a strong verbal commitment from 6'7" Jordan Turner. The small forward plays with effort and is one of the better 3-point shooters in the class.
Espn 60 D.J. Burns reclassifies up into the class of 2018 and commits to Rick Barnes and Tennessee. A power forward at 6'8" & 255lbs who scores with footwork, touch, and instincts on the blocks. The Volunteers will be projected as a top 5 team next season. This is a terrific recruit for Tennessee.
Espn 60 Josh Nickelberry commits to Louisville. The first big recruit for Chris Mack. This breaks the ice for the Cardinals.
Evaluated and spoke with Kahlil Whitney last weekend at the EYBL. He is receiving heavy recruiting attention from Florida State, Louisville, Illinois , Miami, Ohio State, Oregon, Seton Hall and Saint John's. He is one of the better small forwards in the class of 2019.
Spoke with ESPN 60 Josh Green. He is on his way to Treviso, Italy for the NBA Global games. On the recruiting front, he mentioned Virginia, Villanova, Arizona, UNC, USC and Michigan as the programs that have been active in his recruitment. He is still open to other programs. Green came over from Australia, plays high school at IMG and travels with West Coast Elite in the offseason. One of the best two way players in the class of 2019.
ESPN 60 Tre Mann recently cut his list to three schools. His thoughts on each. "Florida- is home. I grew up in Gainesville, all of my family is there. I have a great relationship with all of the coaches there since 8th or 9th grade. I think I fit their system well and I'll be able to play my game at Florida." "On Tennessee. I have a great relationship with coach Lanier and coach Barnes. Coach Barnes is a veteran at what he does and I feel like he can develop me into the player I need to be to go to the next level. " "Kansas, is a winning program and is always does well in the tournament. Coach Self is a veteran and knows how to win and I believe he can help me get the where I want to be in the next couple of years."
Romeo Weems is headed to DePaul. Weems is currently ranked no.30 in the ESPN 60. Huge get for the Blue Demons.
Ex-Texas A&M center Tyler Davis told ESPN's The Undefeated that he is staying in the NBA Draft and forgoing his senior season. "I loved my time at Texas A&M. I love Coach Kennedy, my coaches and my teammates. I will always be an Aggie, and am thankful I was a part of their program. I just want to start my career as a pro and have decided to stay in the 2018 NBA Draft with the goal of being in the NBA next season," Davis told The Undefeated.
Starting this weekend in Atlanta, 90 teams on the Nike EYBL AAU circuit will wear an orange patch on their jerseys to bring attention to the fight against gun violence. Three years ago, the Rens (New York Renaissance) program developed the Orange Patch concept to shine a light on - and to fight against - the epidemic of gun violence. They partnered with ex-New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg's Everytown for Gun Safety initiative and visited the White House with President Obama in 2016.
ESPN 100 Jordan Brown to Nevada. "The have been on me the longest and they have stuck with me through all my ups and downs." Brown tells ESPN
Tyrese Maxey on John Calipari. "He told me what I needed to hear to play at the next level, not what I wanted to hear. That was important to me. " Maxey told ESPN
Kentucky receives a huge verbal commitment from guard (2019) Tyrese Maxey, no.14 in the ESPN 60.
UCLA received a verbal commitment from current Espn 60 Jaime Jaquez Jr. "I will have the chance to play on the wing in UCLA's motion offense, that style fits how I play." Jaquez Jr. told Espn.
Per, Lavar Batts Sr. Freshmen Lavar Batts Jr. has been granted his release from N.C State. He is free to speak to other schools.


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Sunday, November 21, 2010
Haley's First Mile and the Story of Mine
You weren't allowed to join the track team at Logan Middle School until you were in 7th grade, but once a year the 6th graders were invited to have a fun run on the track. I remember showing up with my white Keds and my street clothes, ready to take on the world. The gun went off, and for the first 200 meters, I was in first place--sprinting ahead of all the boys. Reality set in after 300 meters, and I soon drifted back in the pack.
Now, as you well know, one mile is 4 laps around the track. If you can imagine with me, at one end of the track there was the starting line (which is--of course--also the finish line) and at the clear other end of the track there was a bathroom. Halfway through my 3rd lap, I started to feel thirsty. I had sprinted so hard in the beginning and was pushing a good pace, but now was starting to feel it. Not knowing any better, I exited the track and got myself a nice, long drink and even took a bathroom break. After taking a couple of minutes to catch my breath and recover, I joined the mass of others--who were now VERY spread out and even lapping each other--in finishing my 3rd lap.
Now, what happened next changed the rest of my life. I turned the corner and started running down the "home stretch" to finish lap #3. The coaches must have lost track of who was on which lap because--next thing I know--I hear the coaches shouting and yelling my name. "ANNIE HALEY!!!!! BRING IT HOME STRONG!!!!" I started to pick up the pace, not completely sure what was happening. Others started to line the track and cheer for me, "ANNIE! You're almost done!!" (Huh? I am?! ) FINISH STRONG!!!" I started to sprint towards the finish line, trying to convince myself that I had run 4 laps.
I crossed the finish line and immediately my 6th grade P.E. teacher came up to me with his stopwatch and eyebrows raised in excitement. I had won. I had made an AMAZING time....possibly even broke the 6th Grade Mile Record (can't remember for sure). The high school cross country coach came over, introduced himself and started recruiting me for the team. The other coaches surrounded me, talking of my talent and my potential. I stood in the spotlight beaming, completely ignoring the voice that was telling me I was a deceitful, conniving cheat.
It wasn't until after placing in the Division 1 Wisconsin High School State Cross-Country Championships that I confessed to my coach what I had done years earlier. I've often wondered how different my life would have been if I hadn't stopped for that drink on lap #3. Here is a picture of Haley finishing her mile on the track...Oh, and Yes....she ran the entire thing.
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- Pelt Family said...
Haley - Excellent race and a welcomed addition to Team Pelt.
- November 21, 2010 at 10:19 PM
I watched and cheered your Mom in most every race throughout her high school career. She was really a good cross country and track distance runner.
No one can make you a good runner, you just have to love it.
- November 22, 2010 at 8:03 PM
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Vulnerable, deprived and excluded men, women and children who are well-organized and devoted to their self-development are the target people of SSS. As on 30 June 2017, number of direct beneficiaries of SSS stands at 5,89,788. Of them 5,74,051 are female, 14,326 male and 1,411 children.
On the other hand, about 40 lac people are financially benefited by the direct impact of overall activities and services of SSS.
SSS has been implementing different innovative, welfare and people-friendly activities with a view to bringing a positive change in the socioeconomic condition of the target people. The chief activities of the organization include: micro-finance and financial nursing, education and child development, vocational education, nation-building through eradicating malnutrition, healthcare, human resource development, training, agriculture-fish-livestock development, disaster management and rehabilitation, begging eradication, research and publication, benevolent and welfare activities, sports and culture, advocacy and networking, and so on.
Human Resources
The organization owns skilful and devoted manpower to keep the work-environment, discipline and activities dynamic. Under the supervision of human resource development division, the number of staffs stands presently at 3,880. Of them, 954 are female and 2,926 male.
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As on 30 June 2017, SSS has expanded its working area over 31 districts with a view to delivering its services to the doorsteps of the target people. There are 10,704 villages, 1,265 unions, 130 municipalities and 182 upazilas under the above-mentioned districts. The activities are being facilitated and implemented through 13 zone, 57 area, 331 branch and six other offices at field level under the head office.


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One of the things I enjoy doing is looking at the search words people use to get to this website. Often I find interesting posts to write by looking at those key words. Well, a few days ago I noticed someone got to this blog by searching for the term in the headline: "How Do I Make a Million Dollars in 12 Months".
If I knew the answer to that question I wouldn't be writing a blog about personal finance, I would be too busy raking in the dough and choosing the color for the suede furniture on my yacht. Well, maybe not suede. I think leather might work better, but I digress.
Anyway, let me take a crack at that question. I have several answers, some serious, some not so much:
1. Win the California State Lottery - according to Wikipedia, your chances of winning are about 41,000,000 to 1, but somebody has got to win, right? Of course, I believe that lotteries and virtually all other forms of gambling are a form of tax on the financially challenged.
2. Have a Rich Uncle Die and Leave You a Bundle - unfortunately, unless you have a wealthy relative who is in poor health and that loves you like a son, banking on that is probably not a great strategy. There is also that tiny matter of homicide laws preventing you from helping nature along.
3. Go On American Idol - in which case you can build yourself a million dollar career by either doing very well or by being the weirdest guy around. If you are seriously searching the Internet for ways to make a million dollars in 12 months, you may actually have a shot at the latter.
OK, enough with the fun and games. Yes, there are some real world scenarios in which you could make a million dollars in 12 months. To do that, you have to either be extremely lucky, extremely knowledgeable, or more likely, a combination of both. If you are a professional at the top of your game, you might also be able to earn a cool million in one year. Some investment bankers, lawyers and doctors can make that much. Of course, if you are a member of the corporate elite, say the CEO of a Fortune 500, a million dollars is chump change for you. And if you are sitting on the next Apple iPod, YouTube or eBay, you might be able to pull off the $1M in 1 year trick.
There are many ways in which some individuals can make vast amounts of cash in a short amount of time. Those make for some excellent dinner party conversations. Sadly, for the vast majority of us middle class folks, riches are not easy to come by, and patience is the quickest road leading to financial security. If you were to ask me about saving a million dollars in 30 years, well that's a question worth discussing seriously.
If you are looking for quick ways to make a million bucks on the Internet, chances are you will run into something or someone that will offer you just what you are looking for. Chances are also that in the course of chasing down this imaginary pot of gold, you will lose much of your money to the scam artist which lured you into his trap.
Come to think of it, if you need to make a million dollars in 12 months, maybe your best bet is to become a online con man. It seems like there is a new client born every minute...


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The New York Times, Business Day, B1, Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Catching a Wave, and Measuring It, by Quenting Hardy
Sunnyvale, California
"James Gosling wants to network the world's oceans."
Mr. Gosling, who designed Java, the computer language, is now working on a "Wave Glider", a solo robotic with sensors about the size of a surfboard. The robotic "measure(s) everything from weather to oil slicks, sharply reducing many of the costs of ocean-related businesses." LIquid Robotics, whose product is the "Wave Glider", wants to network thosands of the gliders.
Sunnyvale is near Silicon Valley and good beaches. Surfers want to catch good waves in Santa Cruz and nearby beaches. Perhaps Mr. Gosling is a surfer as well as an inventor. He has developed a robotic surfboard with computers to travel the ocean recording data which is then transferred to onshore computers to analyze.
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The project is ambitious. It pretends to be one of the three biggest airports in the world by 2020. Norman Foster and Fernando Romero have designed a massive X that will host millions of passengers per year. Do we need such an infrastructure in Mexico City? Is this scale necessary? Similar questions were asked in Germany with the new and long delayed airport in Berlin. What is the role of these spaces in cities today?
The act of flying as a mode of human mobility has a relatively brief history. The first commercial trip by airplane was achieved in 1914, in Tampa, Florida. Percival Elliot Fansler, the businessman who promoted the journey wrote that 'instead of playing around with jazz trips, we can start a real commercial line from somewhere to somewhere else', The airboat that operated this voyage carried the pilot and only one passenger. The ticket was sold in auction in 10,000 USD in today´s money (Look for the visual document In Flight, published online by The Guardian in 2014).
Everyone can fly at the beginning of the 21st century. In 2013, nearly one-hundred years after the first commercial trip by airboat in Florida, 3,120,448,937 plane tickets were sold across the world, compared to 641,872,888 in 1980 (In Flight, 2014). Cheaper and abundant flights make air travel attractive. China is planning to build 70 new airports in 5 years, in addition to the expansion of 100 existing airports; 39 out of the 47 aviation mega cities are schedule-constrained today. According to the International Civil Aviation Organization (2012) domestic markets grew by 3.9 percent over 2011. This growth was mainly determined by demand for domestic air travel in the Latin America/Caribbean, Asia/Pacific, and the Middle East regions. Significant contributions to these regional results came from countries such as China, Australia, Indonesia, Mexico, Saudi Arabia and Japan.
Compared to motorcars, the energy consumption and CO2 emissions from the aviation industry is low. However, its expansion is causing increasing alarm in studies that focus on the environmental impact of mobility. Air travel is estimated to cause about 2.42% of manmade CO2 emissions in the world. While the road transport sector has other non-liquid fuel options available such as electricity, aviation has no alternative at this stage (IATA. 2015). More than 70 individual technologies have been designed in the last decades to improve the fuel efficiency of airplanes; however, the current development status from most of these technologies is low, and the time horizon for their availability extends beyond 2025. The dependence on fossil fuels is likely to persist in the coming decades.
Why did Germans -a society with a culture of strong scrutiny over public expenditure- allow a tortuous and chaotic replacement of its Berlin Schönefeld Airport (1934). Because, along with Mexicans, they understand that aerial mobility is increasingly shaping interactions between cities, and weak aerial infrastructures means isolation. Quite a paradox, isolation instead of global warming emissions.


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Donald Trump is potentially going to run for the Republican Nomination for President. Yep. Donald Trump. Host of the American version of "The Apprentice." That's the equivalent of Alan Sugar going for Prime Minister.
I can see no reason why he wouldn't be a great President. I mean he recently bankrupted his own casino company. A casino. His own casino. Only a very special person could do that.
He also gets on with the common man. Recently saying in an interview:
"You know the funny thing, I don't get along with rich people. I get along with the middle class and the poor people better than I get along with the rich people,"
He probably makes these friendships with comments like: (From the same interview) "Part of the beauty of me is that I'm very rich."
Word of advice Trumpy. Don't call them poor to their face and don't bang on about how rich you are. They tend not to like that, the poor. Apart from that I'm sure you get on great.
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"I mean this is very serious, I always take things seriously but, I've never taken it seriously like this, this is a very serious time in my life."
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Friends: "Lucky fer you I came along when I did and was able to give you a lift," the man behind the wheel of the pick-up truck who had just stopped for me said as I slipped into the cabin of his truck after hefting my bike into his cargo hold. "If a cop had seen you ridin' on the interstate here, he would have given you a ticket fer sure, that is if you hadn't been keeled first. This is a downright dangerous tunnel. You'd have been lucky to get out of it alive."
He was right about the tunnel, the mile-long East River Mountain Tunnel just before the Virginia/West Virginia border. It had no shoulder, though it was well-lit and the mid-morning traffic was light. I've survived much worse, but I was still much obliged to this guy coming to my rescue shortly after I slipped onto Interstate 77 when the road I was on, Route 52, joined up with it, not knowing that a tunnel awaited me. I feared I might have a brief interstate interlude before 52 separated off towards Bluefield, but it was either take that risk or take a twenty mile detour with considerable climbing.
The woman in the Visitor Center at Wytheville forty miles back had assured me bicycles could go this way. She had been right about the free ice cream cone at the Big Walker Mountain Lookout Country Store if one mentioned the Wytheville Visitor Center, so she'd won my confidence, though I well knew she was more accustomed to catering to Civil War buffs than to bicyclists. Her town was dotted with signs documenting Civil War battles and skirmishes. She said they'd already had one reenactment commemorating the 150th anniversary of the start of the war and had more planned. All through Virginia I had seen "Civil War Trails Route" markers and plaques. Many towns had statues dedicated to their sons who died fighting for the Confederacy just like those in nearly every French town acknowledging their World War I and World War II dead.
The sharpest evidence I've passed though in these travels, reminding me of bygone times and that I was in the South, was a road sign for Hanging Tree Road just north of Hillsville, Virginia. I had already passed through the town so I couldn't ask anyone if it was a description of some unique tree or the purpose the tree served.
Highway 52 through West Virginia is also known as Vietnam Veterans Highway. It would be a stunningly beautiful ride in the fall with the steep hillsides flaming with fall foliage down to the creeks and rivers the road follows, but it is still a quite enjoyable ride with the trees just beginning to bud. I had to share the road with coal trucks and pass under huge conveyors transporting coal from one side of the road to another at various mining complexes. The homes are largely mobile homes interspersed with the occasional substantial home with swimming pool looking almost like a mansion in comparison. Towns can extend for two or three miles with the homes lining the road through the narrow gorges they are built within.
The county seat of Welch found a flat bulge in the mountainous terrain for a bit of a downtown. It had blocks and blocks of fine two-story brick houses reflecting the once great prosperity it enjoyed. Though the mining is in decline, the town still had a captivating character and shine to it and about the most friendly librarian I have encountered. When I told her I was from Chicago she asked how long the Chicago library allows its patrons to use a computer. I told her it allows two one hour sessions a day. She said, "You can use our computers as long as you like as long as no one is waiting."
After I had sat down at the computer she came over and asked, "Do your Chicago librarians give you hugs and kisses?" I hesitantly replied, "No." "Well we do here in Welch," and then she handed me two Hershey kisses in a small packet with a slip of paper saying "National Library Week" and a photo of the Welch library.
When I left the library a fifty-year old guy was standing by my bike waiting for me. "I was curious about your travels," he said. After I told him, he said, "I'm gonna hike the Appalachian Trail next year. Its something I've been meaning to do fer years. I was all set to go a couple years ago but my brother got killed and I had a lot of things to take care of. But next year fer sure."
"A lot of people start, but not many finish," I replied.
"I know. I've read every book there is on the trail. I know I kin do it. I live in the backwoods. I do a lot of hikin' and I run four or five miles every day. My doctor tells me I should quit the runnin' as its bad for my joints, but I like it too much."
"Have you chosen a trail name?"
"I know all about that, but I haven't decided on one yet. I reckon it will come to me or one will choose me."
"Do you know when you're going to start?"
"I'm still tryin' to figure that out. There's a boy in the next town over who hiked it last year, I got to talk to him. I know it will take about six months, but I know I can do it."
"You sound like you have a better chance than most people. I'm sure you'll have the time of your life and wish you'd done it long ago. You could be a star, helping and encouraging everyone you meet along the way."
"I think so too."
He certainly seemed sincere and looked quite fit. I just hoped he wasn't one of those talkers who tells everyone he meets of some grand ambition that he'll never accomplish. I've met plenty of those over the years. I'd like to think he only opened up to me because he recognized I would be one to appreciate his dream. I certainly could and was glad to have shared in his happy anticipation of what could be the greatest event of his life.
Later, George
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Logan, West Virginia
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1 comment:
- stephen said...
glad that you're on the road! Nice to read about the encounter with the AT hiker.
- April 15, 2011 at 12:17 AM
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