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William T. Freeman is the Thomas and Gerd Perkins Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, joining the faculty in 2001.
His current research interests include motion re-rendering, computational photography, and learning for vision. He received outstanding paper awards at computer vision or machine learning conferences in 1997, 2006, 2009 and 2012, and won "test of time" awards for papers written in 1990, 1995, and 2005. Previous research topics include steerable filters and pyramids, the generic viewpoint assumption, color constancy, bilinear models for separating style and content, and belief propagation in networks with loops. He holds over 30 patents.
He is active in the program or organizing committees of computer vision, graphics, and machine learning conferences and was program co-chair for ICCV 2005 and CVPR 2013. MORE


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Close Knit - Snap #301
Snap Judgment proudly presents "Close Knit." Amazing stories about the ties that bind.
First Friend
What is the one thing that a two and half pound newborn baby needs more than anything else?
The Scott Sisters
Sisters have a special bond, but sisters Jamie and Gladys Scott are tested and forced to prove just how far they will go for one another.
Check out more from the Rip Daniels show, here.
Producer: Anna Sussman
Marathon Boy
Bhudia runs marathons. Sometimes he runs DOUBLE marathons. And he isn't even old enough to tie his shoelaces. Why does this boy run?
This piece was based on the incredible documentary, Marathon Boy by Gemma Atwal. You have got to watch it yourself to find out the whole story.
Producer: Stephanie Foo
Baby Daddy
A high school romance between a nerd and the hard edged rocker girl takes on a new meaning when a phone call comes two decades later that could change everything.
Big Poppa E is a poetry slam champion, writer and journalist who just released, "The Whole Wide World", a full-length book collection of rants, screeds and confessions.
Find more of his work at BrokenWord.org
Producer: Jamie DeWolf
Sound Design by Renzo Gorrio
Chambers Stevens had the perfect family life growing up until one day his perfect father was transformed into a fowl figure.
Besides being a storyteller, Chamber Stevens, is an award winning writer, director and acting coach in Los Angeles. You can learn more about Chambers at chambersstevens.com
Producer: Mark Ristich and Rita Daniels
The Holy House
Growing up in the Deep South wasn't easy for a family of Hindu vegetarians. Dhaya Lakshminarayanan's family was desperate for some good vegetarian nosh, but how far were they willing to go?
This piece was performed at the Fireside Storytelling event in San Francisco.
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You're a Civil War re-enactor carrying an authentic musket, out on the field with your history-buff buddies making a charge under withering enemy fire. It's great fun except for one thing:
Someone's going to have to "die."
And lying motionless in the grass on a sultry July day in a historically accurate wool uniform while others are performing heroic deeds all around you does not always make for an exciting afternoon.
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"That is the age-old re-enacting question, and that is a tough one," said Bob Minton, commander of the Union re-enactor forces last weekend at Gettysburg, the small town where the pivotal battle between North and South was waged on July 1-3, 1863.
For those whose hobby is dressing up in the blue and gray of the Union and the Confederacy, the Battle of Gettysburg is the pinnacle, and this week's 150th anniversary events are a very big deal.
Re-enactors are sticklers for historical accuracy, but sometimes, in the heat of battle, things go awry. Some people, especially those who might have traveled a long ways for the event, don't want to get shot, bayoneted or put to the sword a mere five minutes into a scene and miss all the fun, and so they keep on marching.
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Donald Shaw of Flint, Mich., said some units designate which soldiers will fall on the battlefield by slipping black cartridges at random into their ammunition boxes before the fighting starts. Other times, he said, an officer might start ordering men on the spot to "start taking hits."
Dying gives re-enactors a chance to do a little acting.
The enemy fires, "you wait two or three seconds for the ball to get to you and you go 'Aarggh!,'" Union artilleryman Alan Mazur of Columbus, Ohio, said Wednesday, tilting his head and stretching out his arms.
During the Civil War, most wounded soldiers didn't die right away; many languished in hospitals. To account for that, some re-enactor units make up cards or slips of paper with different scenarios written out. Some people might be instructed to die on the spot. Other cards might call for a wounded man to slowly make his way off the battlefield.
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Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Are Tea Drinkers Second-Class Citizens?
Chris Mobbs elaborates further on this theme in Coffee Has Spoiled the Tea Party, an opinion piece from the Australian press. He also offers "10 simple rules for eateries" who serve tea or who might be considering it.
What do you think? Are we second-class citizens or just a bunch of whiners?
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- Andy said...
It is quite hard to get a good cup of tea, unless of course I make it myself. All my coffee drinking friends can get coffee any where. Maybe I am just picky though, I would rather not drink tea if it is lipton tea bag.
- Aprildawn said...
Honestly, Coffee usually gives me a headache, especially if I drink it in the morning, so I prefer to drink Tea of any sort instead. I'm just getting into drinking herbal and flavored teas and am loving it! The people who spend their money on coffee every morning are a bit... stupid in a way. And besides, my favorite Tea company has their teas in single cup bags (wrapped in foil) and really all you need is your favorite tea, some hot water, some sugar or honey (You could buy packets of sugar easily!), something to stir it with, and a mug or a thermos to drink it from, simple as that. And Tea is better for you than Coffee anyway...


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Integrating the viewpoints and expertise of all stakeholders on a given issue helps to ensure that the outcome — whether legislation, administrative rules and regulations, or policy — is well balanced.
Is there any difference between advocacy and lobbying? The answer, like much of what occurs in Washington, is complicated. Advocacy is generally considered to encompass a broader array of policy activities than lobbying. Numerous interests actively advocate, including individuals, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), business groups, academic and research institutions, key opinion leaders, foreign governments, and international organizations.
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2013-14 Indoor: Advanced to the finals of the 60m dash and the 400m run at the 2014 America East Indoor Track and Field Championships… Posted a career-best 60m dash time of 7.80 in the event prelims to advance to the finals and jump to seventh in school history… Finished ninth in the finals… Advanced in the 400m event with a career-best time of 57.23, the seventh-fastest in program history, and then placed eighth in the finals… Also competed in the 200m event at the conference meet… Named the America East Female Track Athlete of the Week on Feb. 11.
Background: Named to the All-Metro First Team on three occasions… 2013 Maryland State 4A Champion in the 55m dash… Also, helped lead North Point High to the state title in the 4x400 relay… Named the Charles County Athlete of the Year in 2011 and 2012… Two-time Southern Maryland Athletic Conference (SMAC) Most Outstanding Runner.
Personal: Daughter of Rashuna Tillman-Akins and Marcus Akins… Her uncle, Travares Tillman, played football at Georgia Tech before going on to play in the NFL for the Buffalo Bills, Carolina Panthers, and Miami Dolphins… Plans to major in biological sciences… Born Aug. 18, 1995.


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Neshek joins A's for ALDS following tragedy
Grieving reliever hopes to honor son's memory, begin healing process
By Jane Lee / MLB.com
Friday, October 5, 2012 4:40 PM PT
Just two days after the sudden and heartbreaking passing of their 1-day-old son, Gehrig John, Neshek and his wife flew from their home in Florida to Detroit to rejoin the A's as they prepare to begin the American League Division Series on Saturday.
"I kind of questioned it at first, but I know it's the right decision," a somber but brave Neshek said. "I got out there and started playing catch and it all comes back to you right away. It really takes your mind off all of the bad stuff. I think it's a very good way of healing up a little bit and trying to get past it.
"It was tough. We were locked up in the house, and you can sit there all day, but it was kind of what I imagine hell is like. But seeing a lot of support from the guys and other players around baseball and guys I've played with and fans of baseball was really helping us. If nothing else, we kind of wanted to do it in my son's honor, to come here and do this."
"It's awesome to see him," A's manager Bob Melvin said. "I spoke to him real briefly. [He] got in here today, wanted to be here, rushed to get here. I think the team can kind of insulate you from something like that. You know you're going to get a ton of support."
An abundance of celebration, not sorrow, filled the 32-year-old Neshek's life just Monday, when he received a call from Stephanee, while champagne dripped from his face moments after the A's secured a playoff berth, to learn that she was in labor. Stephanee gave birth to a healthy Gehrig on Wednesday and, on Thursday, Neshek received a different kind of call from her while watching the fifth inning of Oakland's eventual AL West-clinching victory. Gehrig had unexpectedly and, with no explanation, stopped breathing.
"We sat all night," Neshek said. "We didn't know what to do, because people were sending us texts of congratulations and stuff and that really hurt. But then I put it up on Twitter and Facebook, and it was pretty amazing, just what talking with friends and talking with complete strangers, how much of that helps the grieving process. I don't think we'll ever get over it. This really helps. It's a good way to start putting the pieces back together."
The Nesheks have scheduled an autopsy for their baby boy, who provided enough joy to his parents in his one day on earth to last a lifetime.
"That was probably the best day I ever had, the one day," Neshek said. "I'd go through it all again just for that one day. It was pretty awesome."
Hopeful for the days ahead, Neshek will spend them with his family, Stephanee and teammates included. Whether he is placed on the A's active roster for the ALDS won't be known until Saturday morning, but no matter the decision, "We all want to be here for him," Melvin said.
"We're proud of the fact that he did get here and wants to be with us, wants to be on the roster, wants to pitch," he said. "So we will support that as completely as we possibly can."
"There's really nothing you can say and nothing you can do to take away the pain of something like that, just offer a hug and say a prayer for him," A's reliever Jim Miller said. "There's hope that maybe him being back with us helps him breathe a little bit. I can't imagine how that would feel like. I remember my son, when he was born, grabbing my pinky and holding on, and to think, 23 hours after that, for him to be gone, I would have been a wreck. I give him a tremendous amount of praise and credit to be here."


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The Crimson captured the fifth league title in team history Sunday against Cornell (Harvard Athletic Communications).
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The Harvard softball team left little doubt as to who was the class of the Ivy League this year, blanking Cornell, 4-0, to sweep the Ivy Championship Series and claim the fifth league title in team history, Sunday at Soldiers Field. The win ups the Crimson's overall record to 36-14 this season, a new school record, and gives Harvard its first league title since 2007.
Harvard wasted no time getting on the board, posting three runs in the top of the first, playing as the visiting team. Stephanie Regan took a one-out walk and back-to-back singles from Kasey Lange and Whitney Shaw loaded the bases for the Crimson. Allison Scott brought home Harvard's first run, slapping a ball to second base and bringing home Regan on a fielder's choice. Ashley Heritage was next up and the Crimson left fielder pumped a 2-1 pitch deep to left-center for a two-run triple, giving Harvard a 3-0 lead after one.
Cornell threatened in each of the next three innings, collecting a hit each in the first and second and a trio of hits in the third, but not bringing any runs across. Lange made a fantastic diving play on a Marissa Amiraian shot to finish off the Big Red in the second, and Shaw squashed a potential rally with an unassisted double play off a line drive to end the third.
Cornell pitchers Ali Tomlinson and Elizabeth Dalrymple worked well through the middle innings, combining to sit down the Crimson in order in the second, third, fourth and fifth innings. The Crimson padded its lead in the sixth where Lange reached on a one-out single and moved to second on a wild pitch. Two batters later, Scott went the opposite way with a 1-2 pitch, bringing home Lange and giving the Crimson a 4-0 lead.
Rachel Brown took over for Laura Ricciardone in the circle for Harvard in the sixth and was lights out down the stretch, fanning five Big Red batters and scattering a pair of hits. Brown recorded the final out on a swinging strike, giving Harvard the title with it second-straight shutout victory. Scott and Heritage were responsible for the runs on the day as each drove in a pair while Lange collected a pair of base hits. Brown earned her second save of the year in two innings of work and Ricciardone allowed just five hits in five solid innings for the 13th win of her rookie campaign.
Harvard will now turn its attention to the NCAA tournament, where it will represent the Ivy League in regional play. The NCAA selection show will take place Sunday, May 15.


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[CC][C:L10][RP PHASE ENDED] Classical Dressage
Leah Harrington Competition Committee
Wellington Classical Grand Prix
Judged by Leah Harrington
- All entry fees must be paid in full to the CC CLASSICAL DRESSAGE account on the main site for your entry to be processed.
- Please include the 'Show Name' in the Payment Memo.
- The system does not accept punctuation in payments at this time. If you put, for example, $50.00 when you send payment, you will be sending $5,000! Just type in $50 with no decimal places. Please pay once for your entire entry, not per horse!
- Payments must be made by the same member who entered the horse.
- Horses may not be cross-entered in different levels at the same show.
- Riders may compete up to two horses in each class.
- Horses must be registered with the appropriate discipline to be eligible to compete.
- Member can enter up to 5 horses per level with 50 horses total.
- If there are more than 14 participants in one class, it will be split. Classes with fewer than 10 participants will have phantom horses added to meet the minimum requirement.
- Go to the CLASSICAL DRESSAGE Leaderboard to check your horse's current level. Horses may enter below their level but those entered above will be disqualified and entry fee confiscated.
- Error change requests/discipline declarations are not guaranteed to be completed by end of show, especially those submitted on its final day.
- Undeclared horses will be disqualified and entry fee confiscated.
- Duplicate entries will result in a DQ and will not be refunded. If the same horse is entered by multiple members, only first entry is taken into account and any following entries will be disqualified.
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- INTRODUCTORY (1): $75 entry fee
- TRAINING (2): $150 entry fee
- FIRST LEVEL (3): $225 entry fee
- SECOND LEVEL (4): $300 entry fee
- THIRD LEVEL (5): $375 entry fee
- FOURTH LEVEL (6): $450 entry fee
- PRELIMINARY (7): $525 entry fee
- INTERMEDIARE I (8): $600 entry fee
- INTERMEDIARE II (9): $675 entry fee
- HAUTE ECOLE (10): $750 entry fee
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Questions, comments, and entry corrections should be posted as replies to this thread.
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This phase will remain open for 14 days from the time of this post.
You can submit any photo, story or a combination photo and story, as long as the entry is original and has not previously been used.
Horses need to be entered in the randomized phase to qualify.
Horses that have been disqualified may enter and collect points.
A total of 5 horses per member can be entered in the Role Play phase.
Entries must be submitted via the Roleplay Phase Entry Form to be counted and earn RP Rewards.
Minimum Requirements
Story entries must be at least 300 words long and related to the show or the entry will not be counted. Entries longer than 300 words will not receive extra achievement points.
Photos can be inspired by how your horse did in the competition portion of the show or you can do anything related to the show - e.g. arriving at the show, watching a class, etc.
One entry will award 2 points (photo or story).
If both a picture and story are submitted, 1 extra point is awarded for a possible total of 3 points per horse.
Each entry in the Roleplay Phase will award 20 Achievement Points ($1,000 prize money). For more information on Achievement Points please see The Achievement Points Guide
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A Biographical Timeline
The pianist, conductor and composer Mikhail Pletnev is an "all-round" musician who defies categorization. He was born in Archangel, Russia, in 1957. His parents were both musicians, and Pletnev displayed exceptional musical talent from an early age. When he was 13, he began to study the piano at the Moscow Conservatory with the famous pianists and teachers Jacob Flier and Lev Vlasenko. In 1978, Pletnev won the Gold Medal at the Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition in Moscow and, as a result, was able to make concert tours outside the former Soviet Union through¬out Europe, Japan, the US and Israel. Over the years he has appeared as soloist with many of the world's leading orchestras and conductors.


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A new poll from the Public Policy Institute of California finds that Californians are rewarding Gov. Jerry Brown with a record high job-approval rating after he persuaded voters to back his November tax initiative.
They also have renewed faith in the state's fiscal future.
The poll finds the Democratic governor's job approval has hit 48 percent after the passage of Proposition 30.
Nearly half of Californians surveyed by PPIC said they feel better about the state's budget situation because of Proposition 30 a rate of optimism mirrors the sentiment before the recession hit California.
Still, a combined 94 percent of Californians still believe the state budget situation is a problem. PPIC surveyed 2,001 California adults by landline and cellphone from Nov. 13-20.
The survey also found that although voters were willing to raise some taxes on the November ballot, a record high number of adults, two-thirds, said they oppose extending the sales tax to services that are not currently taxed. They also oppose raising the vehicle license fee, PPIC found.
"It's certainly likely that they feel that they have made some progress on the budget now and they want to see government spending responsibly what they have as opposed to asking voters for more taxes,'' said Mark Baldassare, president and chief executive of PPIC.
The poll has a sampling error margin of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points among all adults.


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#1 More Info about the Confederate FlaggatorGuest06-05-2008, 02:35 PM
You know that there was story in the news late last week about putting up at giganic Confederate flag at the junction of I-4 and I-75 in Tampa. It was going to be put on private property.
Two news stories today.
First is that the lawyers for the Hillsborough County Commissioners said there was nothing the County could do about it. It will go up if the people want to erect it.
Second story. On the way to my consulting office this morning the guy in charge of the project was on the radio. He said he had asked the Hillsborough County Commissioner to issue a Confederate Heritage Proclamation. He said the HCC issues several Proclamations every week on any thing you and your little brown dog can imagine. Because of the attitude of a snooty Black Commissioner the Proclamation was never even voted on.
He said that he decided to put up the flag as a protest against the County Commission being so goddamn stupid as not to honor the heritage of Confederacy, which the State of Florida was a member.
He also mentioned that he has all the money he needs to put the flag and he will do it.
God Bless him.
06-05-2008, 03:44 PMGun Control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is somehow morally superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound - Unknown
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VeprGuest06-05-2008, 03:57 PM
I actually bemoan the states rights issue but I had not poked at Gator since coming back so it needed to be done. Plus I am not technically a Yankee. I live in Georgia and I have been informed by my southern friends that people from Iowa are not truly Yankees. :)
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Atlanta is a pretty diverse place now with people from all over the states living here. But when you get out into the country Sherman is still ranks right above the devil on the infamous bastards scale.
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Accommodations in RosesIn the middle of Costa Brava, in Girnona, at the foot of the mountain of Puig Rom, lie the beaches of Roses. The area of the region is divided into La Playa Gran which goes from the marina of Santa Margarida until the mouth of the creek of Ginjolers Playa Nova and de la Perola that stretch until the port and La Playa del Palagrers which is found just below the road to the lighthouse.
They are quiet beaches of fine white sand, and are little visited. In Nova and Perola you can join the route taken by many coastal boats, some of which boast glass bottoms for enjoying the sea floor.
One of the attractions of the region and the one for which it is best-known is the famous restaurant El Bulli, where the famous chef Ferrán Adriá reigns, and which is open to the public only a few months a year.
Because Roses is essentially a small fishing town, albeit one of the most important in Cataluña, it doesnt have much of a nightlife. Its appeal lies in the tranquility it offers the sensation sought by most who visit this port and the beauty of the Mediterranean. In fact, one of the most strikingly attractive scenes of the region is found at this point, with the lighthouse and the panorama of the bay of Roses, and the sea as chief protagonist.
Along the length of the boardwalk are ice cream shops and restaurants for those wanting to enjoy seaside proximity: but aside from these typical tourist offerings, Roses maintains its spirit as one of the least known corners of the Spanish coast.
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Work with Paths and Strokes in Adobe Creative Cloud
Paths in Adobe Creative Cloud are the vector lines and outlines you create in a document. You can use paths to outline an image, separate areas of text, or be part of an illustration you create.
You typically make paths using a Line tool, Pen tool, or the shape tools. You can use these tools to create paths of different shapes and sizes. You also can use tools to modify the color and size of strokes (the actual line that makes up a path).
You can use paths to create clipping paths and paths for text. Clipping paths are used to mask (or hide) elements on a page. You define that mask with paths to create a shape for the area you need to hide.
Clipping paths can even be saved in a file and imported into a different design pattern. A common workflow is to create an image in Photoshop CC with a clipping path and import the image into InDesign. Because InDesign can interpret the clipping path, you can automatically remove the area you want to mask.
When you want to create text that flows along a path, begin by creating a new path and then use the Type On a Path tool to type text directly on that path.
For example, in Illustrator, you create a path with the Pen tool and then select the Type On a Path tool in the Tools panel. If you click the tool on the path you created, you can type new text along that path.
If you have an existing path, you can select the Type tool and cross over the selected path. The Type tool cursor changes to indicate that it's loaded as a Type On a Path tool, as shown in this figure. Click on the path, and the type is attached to the path.
A stroke is the color, width, and style of the line that makes up the path you create. You might draw a line with the Pen tool, and the line making up that path is the stroke. However, that path can also have no stroke (represented as a diagonal line in the Tools, Swatches, and Stroke & Color panels), which means that you don't see the path itself. However, you may see a color or pattern filling that stroke (the fill), as shown in this figure.
You can change the color, width, style (or type), and shape of a stroke by using controls and tools in the Tools panel and the Stroke panel in Illustrator and InDesign. You can also therefore create dashed or solid strokes of different patterns that are wide or narrow. Some strokes are shown in this figure.


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Developing Portfolios, Video Resumes, and Web Resumes
Non-traditional resume formats such as portfolios (with work samples), video resumes, and Web resumes are often effective in career fields such as arts or technology. Take a look at some possibilities that aren't mainstream methods but may be just the format you need in your job search.
Samples of your work, gathered in a portfolio, have long been valuable to fields such as design, graphics, photography, architecture, advertising, public relations, marketing, education, and contracting. Often, you deliver your portfolio as part of the job interview.
Some highly motivated job seekers include a brief version of a career portfolio when sending their resumes, although recruiters say that they want fewer, not more, resume parts to deal with. If you must include work samples to back up your claims, send only a few of your very best.
The portfolio is a showcase for documenting a far more complete picture of what you offer employers than is possible with a one- or two-page resume. Getting recruiters to review it is the problem. When you determine that a portfolio is your best bet, take it to job interviews. Put your portfolio in a three-ring binder with a table of contents and tabs separating its various parts.
Mix and match the following categories in your portfolio:
Career goals (if you're a new graduate or career changer): A brief statement of less than one page is plenty.
Your resume: Use a fully formatted version in MS Word.
Samples of your work: Include easily understandable examples of problem solving and competencies.
Proof of performance: Insert awards, honors, testimonials and letters of commendation, and flattering performance reviews. Don't forget to add praise from employers, people who reported to you, and customers.
Proof of recognition: Attach certifications, transcripts, degrees, licenses, and printed material listing you as the leader of seminars and workshops. Omit those that you merely attended unless the attendance proves something.
Military connections: The U.S. military provides exceptionally good training, and many employers know it. List military records, awards, and badges.
Your portfolio should document only the skills that you want to apply on a job. Begin by identifying those skills, and then determine which materials prove your claims of competency.
Make at least two copies of your portfolio in case potential employers decide to hold on to your samples or fail to return them.
Video resumes
A video resume (or video podcast) actually is a canned video interview in which a candidate speaks about her qualifications, goals, and strengths. Employers shy away from video resumes because they fear a candidate's image and sound could bring discrimination charges against them.
Web and multimedia resumes
A Web resume (or e-portfolio or HTML resume) is an electronic document that you post on a personal Web site. The format may simply display credentials, or it may go glamorous with links to sound and graphics of your work samples. Job seekers in cutting-edge technology fields, theater, marketing, and design are attracted to the presentation.
A multimedia resume is similar to a Web resume, but it's on a disk that can be sent by postal mail. An attention-getting novelty in the 1990s, multimedia resumes are rarely used today.


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Chancellor's Communication - October 23, 2008
October 23, 2008
RE:CSU Budget Update
As we've all heard, economies around the globe are facing significant challenges. California is experiencing very difficult economic times with seven straight months of job losses, and unemployment now at the third-highest level among the 50 states. This has all had an impact on the 2008-09 budget signed by the Governor on September 23. Revenues flowing to the Treasury to fund this year's budget are already more than $1 billion below those forecast in May, and it is estimated that the total shortfall will be between $3 billion and $4.6 billion.
California's 2008-09 budget provided $2.97 billion of state General Funds to the CSU. That is essentially the same amount we received the previous year, and $215 million less than what we need to meet enrollment growth and fund other operational expenses. The only significant source of additional revenue for the CSU is $73 million from the student fee increase that will be used to cover mandatory cost increases such as energy and employee health benefits.
However, we have been informed by the state Department of Finance that state agencies and departments receiving General Funds need to cut a total of an additional $390 million from the current budget. For the CSU, this amounts to $31.3 million of the money we receive from state funds. We anticipate that we will be able to manage this reduction without disrupting campus operations or impacting instruction, student services or public safety. Campuses will be encouraged to take measures such as curtailing travel, deferring purchases and delaying filling vacant positions.
The state's worsening budget situation also brings the possibility of additional mid-year reductions in the 2008-09 budget, which would require action by the legislature in a special session. Governor Schwarzenegger plans to call such a session with the current legislature for later in November before new legislators take office in December.
For a university system such as ours, no budget cut is easy. But, whenever the CSU is faced with budget reductions, we strive to manage those cuts with minimal disruption to campus operations, the quality instruction of students, the maintenance of our high quality programs, and the safety of students, faculty and staff. As a precaution, campus presidents will review the impact of possible additional cuts and report back to me. I want to stress that this is a precautionary move. The Governor and the legislature have not made decisions on any additional cuts beyond the $31.3 million.
Now, more than ever, we need to continue to advocate to the legislature and Governor about the impact of such cuts, and stress the importance of funding higher education. The CSU plays a critical role in the state's economy by providing more than 90,000 graduates each year into the workforce. We are a vital part of the long-term solution to righting the state's economy.
I know these are challenging times, and we all feel a sense of anxiety over the continuing bad economic news. But, together, we need to keep telling our friends, our community and our legislators about CSU's contribution to California, and the importance of higher education to the future of our state. As the budget picture evolves, I will continue to keep the CSU family updated on the developments. If you don't already subscribe to the newsletter CSU Leader, I'd encourage you to sign up for the most up-to-date information. For information on how to subscribe, please see http://www.calstate.edu/CSULeader.
Thank you for the hard work that you do every day for the California State University.
CSU Chancellor Charles B. Reed
last updated October 22, 2008


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DAHLONEGA, Ga. – The Georgia College men's basketball team (6-5, 2-2 PBC) dropped its first road Peach Belt Conference (PBC) contest of the season Saturday, falling 82-63 at North Georgia (8-2, 3-0 PBC).
The Saints led by just three at the half, but dominated the second stanza 44-28 to pull away for the win. Already up 59-50 at the 12:47 mark, the Saints went on a 13-2 run to stretch the lead to a comfortable 20-point advantage with just over seven minutes left.
Senior forward Scott Ferguson (Roswell, Ga.) continued his torrid pace for the Bobcats, scoring a team-high 18 points with eight rebounds. Classmate Nate Hamilton (Snellville, Ga.) helped the cause with 15 points in just 13 minutes off the bench.
Ferguson now has nine straight double-digit scoring games, and boasts an average of 15.5 points per contest, good for 10th in the PBC.
North Georgia out-shot the Bobcats 50 percent (31-62) to 37 percent (23-62) from the floor, adding a 47-29 rebounding advantage as well.
The Saints put four in double-figure scoring, led by Ishmael Hollis at 19 points and eight rebounds. Lamar Richardson had 14 points, while JC Ward and Scott Windom added 13 apiece.
The Bobcats are back in action Thursday, Jan. 10 at 7:30 p.m., hosting Flagler College.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 11 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/BobcatSports and www.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


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After the introduction of the Hermle "Automation Control System" (HACS), Hermle presents the new "Information-Monitoring-Software" (HIMS). This new option enables more comfortable the monitoring and control of Hermle machining centres.
HIMS can be installed on PC or on mobile devices
Imagine it's a Wednesday night. You're sitting at the glass control station in your production hall sipping a cup of coffee and eating a sandwich, enjoying the emptiness of the hall and taking in the ballet of perfectly functioning, fully automated production unfurling before your eyes. Every now and again you pause to check the screen of your PC, laptop or tablet, and then resume your other duties in your own good time. Not a chance? Oh yes there is! With HIMS.
Unmanned, automated production at night and on a weekend is already a reality. Parts requiring the use of minimal tools and associated with minimal tool wear can already be produced without staff needing to be present at all times. With the new software HIMS from Hermle you can rest even more assured that your machines really are doing what they should be. And should they ever not, you will be informed surely and reliably to allow you to take appropriate steps as soon as possible. How HIMS works: The machines report errors and events to the HIMS server, which forwards the information on to a PC in the office or an SMTP server.
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E-mails are then sent from there to the intended recipients of the information, who can take action if and as necessary.
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Tame e-mail storage - before it eats you alive
E-mail is high on the list of applications driving storage growth at most enterprises. A lot of that growth could be avoided with proper management. Fortunately, for major packages such as Exchange and Notes, help may be on the way.
Hyperbole-loving analysts love to talk about how we're generating more data now than ever before. They say there will be more data generated in the next two years than in all of human history. And while exact numbers are hazy, anybody dealing with storage knows that corporate e-mail is fueling the data explosion fire.
Once a novelty, e-mail has become the backbone of modern business. Research firm IDC estimates corporate e-mail volumes have increased 29% annually, from 9.7 billion per day in 2000 to 16.2 billion this year and 20.9 billion daily messages in 2003. That's 7.6 trillion e-mails next year.
Do you know where you're going to store your share? More importantly, do you know how to keep them all available so users can still access them, auditors and lawyers can pore over them and executives can intercept them if necessary?
Of course, the problem of e-mail management is much different than simply backing up files and storing a tape on a shelf. Today's enterprise depends on that information to be available, and as users depend more and more on their e-mail, the volume of information that needs to be available is exploding.
A recent survey by Osterman Research, Black Diamond, WA, found the average Microsoft Exchange user's mailbox consumed 72MB of disk space. The survey found one in six users have a mailbox larger than 100MB, and the median number of e-mails sent and received is 53. Accommodating this growth, which will only get worse, has placed a significant burden on storage administrators.
E-mail management programs
Finally recognizing the beast that e-mail has become, a number of storage vendors have recently released products specifically designed to reduce e-mail storage requirements while automating the archiving, aging and retrieval of e-mails.
StorageTek, Louisville, CO, cast its lot in March with the release of Email Xcelerator, which integrates with Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes servers to provide policy-based e-mail management. The suite incorporates Email Archive Manager, which intercepts all sent and received e-mails and sends copies onto near-line backup, Email Content Manager, which automatically indexes those e-mails and lets users later search through the message store when they need to and Application Storage Manager, which moves archived e-mails between different storage types - for example, from slow IDE near-line storage to tape - and deletes them according to user-defined rules.
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Bill Tolson, a senior industry solutions consultant with StorageTek, blames users' packrat mentality for the need to better manage e-mail requirements. "The vast majority of users are using their e-mail systems as filing systems," he says. "Most e-mail systems are already overloaded, and in most companies storage administrators will fix this by imposing a limit on users' e-mail boxes. But by imposing a mailbox limit, you're causing end users to make decisions as to what they delete."
One alternative to imposing limits, though, has been to give users larger size limits - or no limits at all - on their e-mail inboxes. But lack of size limits causes its own problems, as Ontario, Canada-based Dofasco, found out. The company, Canada's second largest steel manufacturer, found that its 7,000 e-mail users quickly consumed most of the approximately 400GB of space spread across the four post office servers supporting its Exchange 5.5 environment.
"We were out of space on the Exchange servers and either had to buy more servers or ask people to delete any old mail," says Terry Chisholm, Dofasco's divisional account representative for information systems. "We didn't get a lot of response from that, and most people claimed they needed to keep their mail. They were using Exchange as a file store, but we were over 90% full on our servers." Dofasco eventually implemented Ixos-eCONserver for Microsoft Exchange from Ixos Software AG, of Munich, Germany. eCONserver helped Dofasco set up an e-mail management policy in which messages were kept online for six months, then moved onto a Hewlett-Packard write once read many (WORM) jukebox.
The jukebox holds 56 WORM disks, and each disk stores around 9GB of data in a format suitable for legal discovery. The solution reduced Dofasco's storage requirements by 40%, and the jukebox now stores more than three years' worth of messages. New employees are given a 50MB space limit, and existing users are given around 100MB and the offer to build .PST files containing any messages over that limit.
Once the jukebox fills up - in around two more years, Chisholm estimates - WORM disks are cycled through the jukebox. If messages are needed that are more than five years old, old disks can be loaded into the jukebox.
The dangers of failing to maintain out-of-date information become clear when lawsuits require extensive discovery of archived e-mails. One such case, Linnen v A.H. Robbins Co., Inc., cost the Massachusetts-based company more than $1.1 million to search 823 backup tapes for e-mails related to 15 employees in question. The increased scrutiny on corporate accountability - particularly due to the requirements of the SEC's new Rule 17a-4 - has heightened the chance of having to manage a mass e-mail recovery.
Using automated e-mail management systems, recovery can be affected by using a Web interface to search through indexed archives and deliver results - and messages - instantly. Such indexes are maintained regardless of where messages end up, allowing storage administrators to move old messages onto cheaper, slower storage.
The vast majority of e-mails are never needed after 30 days. Using this as a guideline, you can reduce e-mail systems' use of online storage. Captured e-mails, for example, might be initially stored on fast disk arrays for seamless access, and then moved to slower IDE disks after 30 days. After 90 days, they could be moved onto tape, where they're still accessible to users. After the statutory seven years, the data can then be scrubbed using automatic e-mail aging features.
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Recognizing the importance of better e-mail management, vendors have been pushing out products specifically targeted at this area. Veritas, Mountain View, CA, offers hierarchical storage management (HSM)-like e-mail archiving through its NetBackup Storage Migrator (NSM) application. NSM, which only works with Exchange, lets storage administrators create policies that manage the retention of e-mails. Messages past a certain age, having certain keywords, containing attachments of a certain size or meeting other criteria are automatically moved off the Exchange server onto nearline or offline storage. On the client end, archived messages are indicated with a special icon, letting users retrieving know with a notification that it's being pulled out of the archive.
Veritas' NSM doesn't yet offer features for eliminating space consumed by redundant attachments, but still offers space savings that storage administrators should definitely look for it when choosing an e-mail management platform.
Legato Systems, also of Mountain View, CA, spent $403 million to buy OTG Software, Rockville, MD, whose DiskXtender, ApplicationXtender, and EmailXtender products help improve the archiving and management of data between storage media.
DiskXtender monitors usage of files and moves less-used files to nearline or offline storage. ApplicationXtender takes a similar approach for enterprise content, although this method doesn't work for e-mail, since multimegabyte e-mail files are constantly changing. This makes DiskXtender think they're frequently used and therefore leaves them alone.
EmailXtender, however, works at the individual e-mail level to intercept, archive, index and retrieve the messages one by one. More importantly, its Single Instance Storage (SIS) algorithm breaks e-mails into their individual elements, spotting cases where more than one message incorporates the same attachment. One instance of the attachment is stored in the system's database, and the e-mail's reference to that attachment is changed into a pointer that directs users to that single copy.
"The bulk of the storage impact is in e-mail messages and attachments," says Amena Ali, senior vice president of marketing for Legato's Management Solutions Group. "Our customers confirm the 80/20 rule: Generally speaking, 80% of data can be archived because most people don't use it. So we offer the ability to do more effective storage management, with storage driven by policies that are relevant to your applications. Think of it as HSM on steroids."
The effect can be dramatic. When Bob in marketing forwards his 400KB Excel spreadsheet to 15 of his co-workers, those 16 copies of the data would normally consume 6MB of disk space. Using SIS, the same messages are archived with just the one instance of the spreadsheet and pointers to it in the 15 copies. Users don't notice the difference, and total disk consumption is just 400KB. Extrapolate these savings to a real network with thousands of users, and it's clear just how much easier such systems can help ease the e-mail flood.
Breaking old habits
Changing the way e-mail is managed has taken time, particularly since e-mail vendors have built their systems on the assumption that the best way to keep pace with e-mail volumes is to add more disks. That approach was becoming a real problem for Peel Children's Aid (PCA), in Ontario, Canada, a statutory body charged with protecting the welfare of children in Canada's million-strong Peel region.
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The organization found its e-mail requirements were exploding after installing a Lotus Notes-based workflow and e-mail system in 1998. While the capabilities of Notes made it invaluable for the organization, Chris Harbour, manager of information services with PCA, says the system's demands on storage space quickly became an issue.
"Because of the service that we're in, we're accountable for keeping track of information," he says. "That was the reason for installing Notes: There were documents all over the place and managing them was difficult. We were looking at making better use of the servers and offloading a lot of that information."
PCA installed OTG's EmailXtender running against the Notes server, with 320GB of online Maxtor disk array available to the system. The setup archives the organization's e-mail, with the indexed database growing at around a gigabyte per month.
Having the e-mails so comprehensively archived, and so immediately accessible, has made life much easier for PCA. "In the past, a funding realignment meant we were going through workers very quickly and generating, deleting and regenerating e-mail databases," says Harbour. "We were losing messages that way. But cases are audited frequently, and the archiving has been a lifesaver a couple of times when we were trying to do an audit and the Notes pointers had lost track of where a thread had gone. The only way we could have found them was by going through the e-mails one by one, but by centralizing we have been able to manage them."
While proprietary products staked out the early market for intelligent e-mail management, mainstream e-mail vendors are coming to the party too. Just as many corporate manufacturing interests are being charged with cleaning up toxic byproducts of their business, e-mail vendors are building better e-mail storage management into coming system upgrades.
IBM subsidiary Lotus Software, of Cambridge, MA, has restructured its message structure, replication protocol and compression techniques to allow records to be managed with a much higher degree of granularity. Called the Streaming Replication and Attachments model, the new technique will be embodied in the upcoming Notes R6, according to Will Raabe, IBM's director of product introduction for Lotus products.
Notes R6 will include Single Copy Template (SCT), an SIS-like feature in which a single copy of each document template will be stored in the Notes database. Documents built using that template will be stored with a pointer to the template, rather than storing the entire template in the document itself.When applied to the existing e-mail databases of IBM test users, says Raabe, SCT immediately trimmed the size of those databases from an average 9MB to around 1.5MB.
Microsoft, which is readying a major upgrade of Exchange for release next year, has refrained from delving too far into e-mail storage management. Although it includes single instance storage features for reducing e-mail overhead and deleted items retention features for automatically deleting messages after a certain time, Microsoft has left more sophisticated HSM-like features to third parties, says Microsoft program manager Ken Ewert.
"I'm seeing that these solutions that [third party] vendors have are being used in very creative ways," he says. "Storage in general is undergoing a great radical change, since it's the one thing that people are finally trying to get a hold of. Single instance storage is very complex ... we haven't seen a lot of pressure until this year in this space."
Far more eager to make changes is SendMail Inc., Emeryville, CA, which offers an inline mail filtering API that lets IT staffers screen messages as they pass through the mail server. SendMail has previously partnered with UK firm ArchiveIt, which offers automated e-mail archiving using SendMail's hooks. But as the need for integrated e-mail management grows, Jeff Morris, product line manager with SendMail, concedes it is likely to become part of the e-mail server itself.
"For now we're doing it as a third party thing, but we are investigating becoming that third party," he says. "We're getting more and more granular about the types of messages we want to pass to storage, and doing things now to enhance control over mail as it's in transit. I'm quite interested in packaging our message server as a device with a single instance message store with digital signatures to ensure the identity of the e-mail's owner."
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Outsourcing e-mail storage
Storage administrators keen to make a total break may want to outsource their archiving to a company such as Iron Mountain, which has expanded its core business in physical records management to include archiving of e-mail and other digital content.
Using secure VPN connections, enterprises keep a connection open to Iron Mountain's massive data center, which includes 34TB of managed online storage and continues to grow every day.
Content sent to Iron Mountain is digitally signed to verify its source, then indexed and locked down within the company's virtual vaults, which are the latest addition to its existing stores of more than 200 million cubic feet of paper records.To access archived records, employees use a standard Web interface to enter their search.
Iron Mountain's largest customer currently sends the company 20,000 e-mails a day, but the service can receive any type of digital document from applications written to an Iron Mountain-provided API.
Peter Delle Donne, president of Iron Mountain's Digital Archives Division, believes digital archiving will become a $200 million business for the company within five years. Part of this appeal is the fact that Iron Mountain's systems are built around policies that ensure records are managed according to established best practices and the requirements of SEC Rule 17a-4. This includes enforcement of deletion policies that track down and destroy every instance of an archived document or e-mail when it's reached a certain age.
That's a big time saver for storage managers, who can redirect their e-mail archiving to Iron Mountain and more or less never have to think about the messages again.
Sensing the potential to be part of a lucrative market, some vendors have tried to simplify storage managers' jobs by offering e-mail archiving appliances designed to be plugged in, installed and left alone.
So far, customers have given such a concept a cool reception. Michael Schutte, chief technology officer and founder of archiving appliance vendor Rising Edge Technologies, Herndon, VA, concedes the company has "not been very successful in selling e-mail archive appliances. Although many of the customers we meet like the idea of keeping e-mail accessible, they don't necessarily want such a system for their business."
Therein lies the challenge facing vendors: Own up to the e-mail monster they've created, offer a workable solution and help storage administrators use the technology to make their own storage requirements far more predictable than they have been in the past. As e-mail continues along its preordained mission to bury corporate networks, it's clear this is the best way to meet archival requirements while keeping your storage sanity.


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It didn't take much Snookin for love – the "Jersey Shore" starlet found it at "first sight," according to her new man.
Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi's new beau is 24-year-old Iraq war vet and New Jersey native Jeff Miranda, People mag reported.
Miranda told the mag he's been smitten with Snooki since meeting her at a Garden State club – where else? – in Seaside Heights.
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"We just hit off," said Miranda, who works in video production and graphic design. "I've always thought she was beautiful … [But] she's also a sweetheart. She's affectionate like I am. We have a lot in common. We both don't care what people think of us. If we're happy, that's all that matters."
Over the weekend, the pair was spotted kissing on a boardwalk carnival ride, Usmagazine.com reported.
But the lovebirds may have to contend with Snooki's "gorilla juicehead" ex, Emilio Masella.
Snooki reportedly dumped Masella in April over rumors that he was more interested in pursuing his own reality career than GTL (gym, tan, laundry) with her.
On Sunday, Masella told People he still had feelings for the pint-sized self-described "guidette." But Masella said he was hurt following the latest episode of "Shore" where Snooki appeared to have hooked up with cast-mate Vinny while they were still together.
"I was at a bar and to see that in front of so many people, I was really hurt," Masella told People. "I felt so embarrassed."
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|Drug: lenalidomide
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Lenalidomide has properties of thalidomide and appears to have some activity against cancer in laboratory tests. Researchers are still learning how lenalidomide works against cancer in patients. Some ways that this drug seems to produce anti-cancer effects include through stimulating the immune system and blocking blood vessels contributing to cancer growth. The current study will explore different dose levels in patients to gather more information about lenalidomide.
This study will assess the maximum tolerated dose of lenalidomide in patients with relapsed or refractory acute leukemias and chronic lymphocytic leukemias. Toxicity or side effects within patients will also be evaluated. Other purposes of this study include analyzing preliminary clinical activity, pharmacokinetics, and pharmacodynamics. Pharmacokinetics refers to the activity of drugs in the body over a period of time, including how drugs are absorbed, distributed, localized in tissues, and excreted. Pharmacodynamics refers to the bodily processes that lead the drug to effect cancer and other cellular components in the body.
Study participants will be given lenalidomide through intravenous infusions once every 28 days. A 28-day period constitutes a cycle. Since this study will assess the maximum tolerated dose of lenalidomide, some study participants will receive different amounts of this drug compared to others depending upon when each individual enrolls in the study. Each group of 3 to 6 study participants will receive a higher dose of lenalidomide until the maximum tolerated dose is established. Several tests will be performed throughout the study, including bone marrow biopsies. Imaging exams will be conducted as well. Treatments will be discontinued due to disease growth or intolerable adverse effects. Lenalidomide administration will be repeated for 12 or more cycles in patients that experience clinical benefit.
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|Phase I Study of Lenalidomide in Acute Leukemias and Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia.
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Experimental: Stratum 1 Acute Leukemias
Patients must have a diagnosis of Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) or Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia(ALL)according to the WHO (World Health Organization) classification.
Drug: lenalidomide
Dose level -1: 2.5 mg daily for days 1-7, 2.5 mg daily for days 8-21. Dose level 1: 2.5 mg daily for days 1-7, 5 mg daily for days 8-21. Dose level 2: 2.5 mg daily for days 1-7, 7.5 mg daily for days 8-21. Dose level 3: 2.5 mg daily for days 1-7, 10 mg daily for days 8-21. Dose level 4: 2.5 mg daily for days 1-7, 15 mg daily for days 8-21
Other Name: Revlimid
Experimental: Stratum 2 Chronic lymphocytic leukemia
Patients must have diagnosis of B-Cell, Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia(CLL) or Small Lymphocytic Leukemia (SLL) (including Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinemia) requiring therapy (see eligibility criteria for definition of this) and have previously received treatment with one or more prior chemotherapy regimens.
Drug: lenalidomide
Dose level -1: 2.5 mg daily for days 1-7, 2.5 mg daily for days 8-21. Dose level 1: 2.5 mg daily for days 1-7, 5 mg daily for days 8-21. Dose level 2: 2.5 mg daily for days 1-7, 7.5 mg daily for days 8-21. Dose level 3: 2.5 mg daily for days 1-7, 10 mg daily for days 8-21. Dose level 4: 2.5 mg daily for days 1-7, 15 mg daily for days 8-21
Other Name: Revlimid
- Maximum tolerable dose [ Time Frame: Every 2 weeks during cycle 1; Monthly during subsequent cycles ]
- Toxicities of lenalidomide [ Time Frame: Every 2 weeks during cycle 1; Monthly for subsequent cycles ]
- preliminary clinical activity [ Time Frame: Twice weekly during cycle 1; Weekly during cycles 2-6; Monthly thereafter ]
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- Blood blast count must be < 40,000/uL prior to initiation of therapy. Hydroxyurea (up to 6g/day) may be administered prior to initiation of therapy and during the first week to maintain blood blast count < 40,000/uL
- ECOG(Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group)performance status 0-2.
- Patients with CNS(central nervous system)involvement will be considered eligible for this study if no residual leukemic cells are detected in the CSF (cerebrospinal fluid)following intrathecal chemotherapy or radiation.
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- Patients with acute promyelocytic leukemia are excluded unless patient has failed salvage therapy with arsenic.
- Patients with HIV are excluded due to increased risk of infectious complications, marrow suppression, and potential interactions with antiviral therapy.
- CLL patients who have had chemotherapy (with the exception of hydroxyurea) or radiotherapy within 4 weeks prior to entering the study are excluded. CLL patients receiving corticosteroids (within 2 weeks) for treatment of disease (other than autoimmune manifestations of CLL) are not eligible.
- Patients who have received mitomycin C or nitrosourea require a six weeks recovery period before they can be enrolled on the current study.
- Patients with the following abnormal clinical values are excluded (unless abnormalities in these parameters are directly attributable to malignancy): Serum creatinine >2.0 mg/dl Total bilirubin > 2 x upper limit of normal (unless due to Gilbert's syndrome) ALT and AST > 5 x upper limit of normal
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|Ohio State University Medical Center
|Columbus, Ohio, United States, 43210
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|Ohio State University
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|November 14, 2017
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An FOI request has revealed the number of children being convicted of driving offences.
Some 923 underage drivers were prosecuted in 2015 for more than one offence, with children as young as 12 convicted multiple times, outlined the research conducted by insurance company Churchill.
On top of the thousand-odd underage drivers, each week a minor is also convicted of dangerous driving despite being under the age to even apply for a driving licence, the company outlined.
One child was convicted of causing death by dangerous driving in the UK last year, and one 16-year-old driver accrued the highest number of prosecutions - going to court 15 times for different offences over the course of 2015.
Steve Barrett, head of Car Insurance at Churchill Insurance, said: "While the volumes of offences concerning underage and under the influence drivers are low, the impact on the victims and their families involved in accidents with these drivers is immeasurable. Highlighting these frightening statistics will hopefully act as a catalyst for the government and educators to address this issue as a matter of urgency."


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In my last granita post, I failed to mention one thing: I made it because I didn't want to feel like I completely and totally failed at making frozen treats without an ice cream maker… namely, the honey-vanilla ice cream that ended up tasting a lot more like gloppy, thick heavy cream and a lot less like sweet, fragrant honey and vanilla.
While I haven't yet gotten back on the trail in my quest for the perfect homemade ice cream sans another lumbering, noisy kitchen appliance, icy-cold fruit granita has been a pretty darn good stand-in. The last few I've made have served as a snack, dessert, and all around awesome way to cool down on a hot summer day, and best of all, granita is incredibly easy to make. Like, seriously easy.
All you need is some fresh fruit of your choice (usually, about three cups worth), a 13 x 9 pan, a food processor or potato masher, water, sugar, and a fork. Oh, right, and a cute bowl and spoon to savor the fruity, flaky ice crystals once it's ready.
Raspberry granita has an intense, sweet-tart flavor that makes for the perfect icy treat to have in hand while watching a sunset after dinner. And, pineapple granita, with its distinct tropical flavor, was the most delicious excuse to buy a pineapple that I have yet to come across… Besides rum cocktails. Fresh pineapple makes for a pretty amazing cocktail, too.
Granita has become my favorite summer treat and we make sure to have it on hand at all times. So, if you come over, it's likely that I'll force a bowl on you, and it's likely you'll ask for seconds. But in the event that you won't be coming over, you might want to do yourself a favor, go buy some fruit and clear out some freezer space so you can make your own. You ice cream makers can keep your big, noisy machines and heavy cream – I'm sticking with all-natural fresh fruit granita!
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1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
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Raspberry Granita
Combine water and sugar in medium saucepan. Stir over medium heat until sugar dissolves. Bring to boil. Remove from heat. Chill syrup until cold.
Meanwhile, mash 3 cups raspberries in medium bowl. Stir in lemon juice. Mix in sugar syrup. Pour mixture into 13 x 9-inch nonstick metal baking pan. Freeze until icy around edges, about 45 minutes. Using fork, stir icy portions into middle of pan. Freeze until mixture is frozen, stirring edges into center every 45 minutes, about 3 hours. Using fork, scrape granita into flaky crystals. Cover tightly and freeze.
To serve, scrape granita into bowls and garnish with berries. (Can be made 1 day ahead. Keep frozen.)
Pineapple Granita
Place the sugar and water in a saucepan and heat until the sugar dissolves into a clear liquid, creating simple syrup. Set aside to cool.
Cut the pineapple into chunks, discarding the skin and core. Put some pineapple and some simple syrup in a blender or food processor and puree. Repeat until you've pureed all the pineapple and syrup. Pour into a 13 x 9-inch nonstick metal baking pan and freeze partially, stirring icy outsides to the center every half hour for 3 hours.
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INFANT OF Prague Thrift Shop, 933 Lejeune Blvd., will hold a bag sale from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Nov. 16. All the clothing you can fit in a bag for $6. Call 910-937-1543.
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DOWN EAST ALS support group (Lou Gehrig�s disease) meets at 2 p.m. Nov. 17 at Vidant Medical Center, Rehab Center in Greenville. Information call 252-746-4221.
CRYSTAL COAST Habitat for Humanity will celebrate 25 years of building homes from 1 to 3 p.m. Nov. 17 at Presbyterian Camp Albemarle, Newport. Call 252-223-2111.
COUNCIL FOR THE Arts, 826 New Bridge Street hosts an Open Mic for all poets/writers 18 years and older at 3 p.m. Nov. 17. Register at 910-455-9840.
NABVETs Military Women�s Chapter 88 meets at 10 a.m. Nov. 16 at the DAV, 300 Sherwood Road. Information call 910-910-934-3494.
ONSLOW County Prostate Cancer support group meets for Dutch treat breakfast at 8 a.m. Nov. 16 at Onslow Memorial Hospital cafeteria. Meeting follows at 8:30 in west wing classroom. Call 910-347-6289.
NIGHT OF Giving for Operation Christmas Child (Samaritan�s Purse) drop off gift shoe boxes from 5 to 8 p.m. Nov. 18 at Chick-fil-A, 1405 Western Blvd. Receive coupon for free item.
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JACKSONVILLE Recreation and Parks seeks volunteers to help with its upcoming event Jacksonville Winterfest held Dec. 7 at Riverwalk Park. Call 910-938-5317.
ONSLOW County Tourism is accepting nominations for its annual Arties Awards. Deadline at 5 p.m. Dec. 15. Call 910-347-3141 ext. 233 or onlyinonslow.com.
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Washington, D.C. -- After almost two years and tens of thousands of tax dollars, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has released its report, HORSE WELFARE: Action Needed to Address Unintended Consequences from Cessation of Domestic Slaughter with two conflicting conclusions: restore horse slaughter or ban horse slaughter. Really?
The GAO was given the responsibility of assessing horse welfare from 2007 forward following the closure of the last three foreign-owned horse slaughter plants in the U.S. However, and vital to understanding horse welfare, the GAO was not asked to consider the impact slaughter had on America's horses while plants were operating in the U.S. or what it would be like for the horses if restored. In the end, one of two contradictory recommendations was to ban slaughter in the U.S. and the export of horses for the same purposes (what the Animal Welfare Institute has said for years).
In addition to this being the best alternative for the horses, this will also virtually eliminate any regulatory burden whatsoever to the USDA. In this time of economic strife, it is ludicrous to expend taxpayer dollars to benefit a few foreign investors (whether the plants are located in the U.S. or abroad). The only way to stop the abuse inflicted on American horses by the slaughter industry is for Congress to pass the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act, banning horse slaughter domestically and prohibiting the export of horses to Mexico and Canada.
To offer the option of restoring horse slaughter in the U.S. as the other recommendation ignores the cruelty inflicted on American horses' right under the nose of grossly underfunded and highly inadequate USDA inspection capabilities. There is ample documentation from the USDA, private investigations and the first hand observations by AWI staff, substantiating the inhumane treatment of horses at plants when they were operating in the U.S., and there is documentation of the inhumane treatment of horses at plants that are operating outside the U.S. First and foremost, it should be acknowledged that slaughter is not a form of humane euthanasia as claimed by horse slaughter advocates. Second, though the report touched on neglect and abuse of horses, all this does is introduce a separate horse welfare issue with no substantiated relevance to slaughter. Everyone agrees that neglect and abuse of horses is horrendous, however, it is happening irrespective of the horse slaughter issue and needs to be addressed - as the separate welfare issue it is.
The Animal Welfare Institute urges Congress to swiftly pass the S. 1176, the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act, sponsored by Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) and Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC). To do otherwise will only perpetuate animal abuse.
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Asked recently about the likelihood of adding Charlize Theron to the cast of his upcoming biopic about J. Edgar Hoover, Clint Eastwood let it be know that another Oscar-winning actress is already on board.
"We think (Theron) will be in the film. And Judi Dench is definitely in the film and there we are," Eastwood told Sandwich John Films, while working his way down the red carpet of the California Hall of Fame inductions.
Dench's role in the film, "J. Edgar," remains unclear, but Theron would play Helen Gandy, the young woman Hoover handpicked to be his secretary, a job she held for 54 years.
The cast already includes Leonardo DiCaprio in the title role, with Armie Hammer likely to play Hoover's special friend, Clyde Tolson. And Damon Herriman, whom you may recognize from his role on "Justified," recently signed on to play Bruno Hauptmann, the German ex-con who was originally convicted in the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby. Doubts about how Hauptmann's case was handled inspired Hoover to launch an investigation into his case.


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