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Everolimus With or Without Bevacizumab in Treating Patients With Advanced Kidney Cancer That Progressed After First-Line Therapy
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01198158
Recruitment Status : Terminated
First Posted : September 9, 2010
Last Update Posted : September 27, 2018
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|Condition or disease
|Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma Recurrent Renal Cell Carcinoma Stage III Renal Cell Cancer AJCC v7 Stage IV Renal Cell Cancer AJCC v7
|Biological: Bevacizumab Drug: Everolimus Other: Laboratory Biomarker Analysis Other: Pharmacological Study
|Phase 3
l. To compare the overall survival of patients receiving bevacizumab plus everolimus and everolimus alone among patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma progressing after first line vascular epidermal growth factor receptor (VEGFR)-tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) treatment.
I. To compare the progression-free survival and proportion who experience an objective response (defined as complete clinical response [cCR] + partial response [PR]) in patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma receiving bevacizumab plus everolimus and everolimus alone.
II. To compare grade 3 or higher toxicity in patients receiving each treatment regimen.
OUTLINE: Patients are randomized to 1 of 2 treatment arms.
ARM I: Patients receive everolimus orally (PO) once daily (QD) on days 1-28.
ARM II: Patients receive everolimus PO QD on days 1-28 and bevacizumab intravenously (IV) over 30-90 minutes on days 1 and 15.
In both arms, courses repeat every 28 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
After completion of study treatment, patients are followed up every 8 weeks until disease progression and then every 6 months for up to 5.5 years.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|78 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|Double (Participant, Investigator)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|Randomized Phase III Trial Comparing Everolimus Versus Everolimus Plus Bevacizumab for Advanced Renal Cell Carcinoma Progressing After Treatment With Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors
|Actual Study Start Date :
|September 15, 2010
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|December 15, 2017
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|December 16, 2017
Active Comparator: Arm I (everolimus)
Patients receive everolimus PO QD on days 1-28.
Drug: Everolimus
Given PO
Other Names:
Other: Laboratory Biomarker Analysis
Correlative studies
Other: Pharmacological Study
Correlative studies
Experimental: Arm II (everolimus with bevacizumab)
Patients receive everolimus PO QD on days 1-28 and bevacizumab IV over 30-90 minutes on days 1 and 15.
Biological: Bevacizumab
Given IV
Other Names:
Drug: Everolimus
Given PO
Other Names:
Other: Laboratory Biomarker Analysis
Correlative studies
Other: Pharmacological Study
Correlative studies
- Overall survival (OS) [ Time Frame: The time from date of randomization to date of death due to any cause, assessed up to 5.5 years ]The stratified log-rank statistic will be the primary analysis to compare the two treatment arms on OS adjusting on the stratification factors (number of negative prognostic factors (0, 1, 2-3) and prior VEGFR-TKI therapy (< 12 weeks, >= 12 weeks). The Kaplan-Meier product-limit estimator will be used to estimate the OS distribution. In addition, the proportional hazards model will be used to assess the importance of the treatment arm adjusting on patient characteristics, stratification variables and other important covariates in predicting OS.
- Progression-free survival (PFS) [ Time Frame: The time from randomization to disease progression or death from any cause, assessed up to 5.5 years ]The stratified log-rank statistic will be the primary analysis to compare the two treatment arms on PFS adjusting on the stratification factors (number of negative prognostic factors (0, 1, 2-3) and prior VEGFR-TKI therapy (< 12 weeks, >= 12 weeks). The Kaplan-Meier product-limit estimator will be used to estimate the PFS distribution. In addition, the proportional hazards model will be used to assess the importance of the treatment arm adjusting on patient characteristics, stratification variables and other important covariates in predicting PFS.
- Objective response rate (defined as confirmed complete response plus partial response) [ Time Frame: Up to 5.5 years ]Furthermore, the Cochran-Mantel-Haenszel test will be used to compare the two arms on the proportion of patients who experience an objective response (defined as either a confirmed CR or a PR) adjusting on the stratification factors (number of negative prognostic features and prior VEGFR-TKI therapy.
- Toxicities, graded according to the National Cancer Institute Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events version 4.0 [ Time Frame: Up to 30 days after completion of study treatment ]The Fisher exact test will be used to compare the two treatment arms on the proportion of patients with unacceptable treatment related grade 3 or higher toxicity.
- Cutpoints for change in biomarker levels [ Time Frame: Baseline to 8 weeks ]Statistical methods based on exact asymptotic distributions will be used to find a cutpoint (other than the median) for change in each biomarker at 8 weeks from baseline.
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Renal cell carcinoma with some component of clear cell histology
- Metastatic or unresectable disease
- Must have been treated with at least 1 prior VEGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor treatment and have progressed or have been intolerant to treatment
- No prior systemic therapy with a vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) binding agent (e.g., bevacizumab)
- No prior systemic therapy with any mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) inhibitor (e.g., sirolimus, temsirolimus, everolimus)
- Prior cytokine therapy is allowed
- Any systemic therapy must be completed at least 4 weeks prior to registration
- >= 2 weeks since any prior radiation (including palliative)
Patients must not have had a major surgical procedure, open biopsy, or significant traumatic injury within 4 weeks prior to study registration, and must have fully recovered from any such procedure
- The following are not considered to be major procedures: thoracentesis, paracentesis, port placement, laparoscopy, thoracoscopy, bronchoscopy, endoscopic ultrasonographic procedures, mediastinoscopy, skin biopsies, incisional biopsies and routine dental procedures
- Patients must have measurable disease by RECIST criteria; lesions that can be accurately measured in at least one dimension (longest diameter to be recorded) as >= 2 cm with conventional techniques or as >= 1 cm with spiral computed tomography (CT) scan
No active brain metastases: patients with treated, stable brain metastases for at least three months are eligible as long as they meet the following criteria:
- Treated brain metastases are defined as having no ongoing requirement for steroids and no evidence of progression or hemorrhage after treatment for at least 3 months, as ascertained by clinical examination and brain imaging (magnetic resonance imaging [MRI] or CT) (stable dose of anticonvulsants are allowed); treatment for brain metastases may include whole brain radiotherapy (WBRT), radiosurgery (RS; Gamma Knife, linear accelerator [LINAC], or equivalent) or a combination as deemed appropriate by the treating physician; patients with central nervous system (CNS) metastases treated by neurosurgical resection or brain biopsy performed within 3 months prior to day 1 are not eligible
- Baseline brain imaging (MRI/CT) is required
- No serious non-healing wound, ulcer, or bone fracture
No arterial thrombotic events within 6 months of registration:
- Including transient ischemic attack (TIA), cerebrovascular accident (CVA), peripheral arterial thrombus, unstable angina or angina requiring surgical or medical intervention in the past 6 months, or myocardial infarction (MI); patients with clinically significant peripheral artery disease (i.e., claudication on less than one block), significant vascular disease (i.e., aortic aneurysm, history of aortic dissection), or any other arterial thrombotic event are ineligible
- Patients who have experienced a deep venous thrombosis or pulmonary embolus within the past 6 months must be on stable therapeutic anticoagulation to be enrolled to this study
- Patients receiving anti-platelet agents and prophylactic anticoagulation are eligible
- No inadequately controlled hypertension: (defined as a blood pressure of >= 160 mmHg systolic and/or >= 90 mmHg diastolic on medication), or any prior history of hypertensive crisis or hypertensive encephalopathy
No known severe impairment of lung function, defined as >= grade 2 dyspnea or cough, or either:
- Requirement of supplemental oxygen, or
- In cases where pulmonary function or pulse oximetry tests have been obtained, forced expiratory volume of the lung in one second (FEV1) or forced vital capacity (FVC) are < 50% of predicted, or single breath diffusing capacity of the lung for carbon monoxide (DLCO) is < 35% of predicted or resting room oxygen saturation is less than 90%
- No active or severe liver disease (e.g. acute or chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis)
- No positive serology for anti-hemoglobin C (HBC) or anti-hepatitis C virus (HCV) antibodies; hepatitis B virus (HBV) seropositive patients (hepatitis B surface antigen [HBsAg] positive) are eligible if they are closely monitored for evidence of active HBV infection by HBV deoxryribonucleic acid (DNA) testing and agree to receive suppressive therapy with lamivudine or other HBV-suppressive therapy until at least 4 weeks after the last dose of everolimus
- No New York Heart Association (NYHA) class >= 2 congestive heart failure
- No active bleeding or chronic hemorrhagic diathesis or increased risk for bleeding: Including but not limited to history of major bleeding within 6 months (e.g. gastrointestinal, lung, CNS sites; or required transfusion support)
- No history of abdominal fistula, gastrointestinal perforation or intra-abdominal abscess within 6 months prior to the initiation of treatment
- No ongoing immunosuppressive therapy: including chronic systemic treatment with corticosteroids (>= 10 mg/day prednisone equivalent)
- Archival tissue must be available for submission: though it is optional patients to choose to participate in the correlative substudies or not
Patients who are pregnant or nursing are not eligible
- Women of child bearing potential must have a negative serum or urine pregnancy test within 16 days prior to registration
Women of child-bearing potential include:
- Any female who has experienced menarche and who has not undergone surgical sterilization (hysterectomy, bilateral tubal ligation or bilateral oophorectomy) or is not postmenopausal (defined as amenorrhea >= 12 consecutive months)
- Women on hormone replacement therapy (HRT) with documented serum follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) level > 35m IU/mL
- Women who are using oral, implanted or injectable contraceptive hormones or mechanical products such as an intrauterine device or barrier methods (diaphragm, condoms, spermicides) to prevent pregnancy or practicing abstinence or where partner is sterile (e.g., vasectomy)
- Performance status Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) 0-2 or Karnofsky score >= 60%
- Granulocytes >= 1,500/μL
- Platelet count >= 100,000/μL
- Calculated creatinine clearance >= 30 mL/minute (modified Cockroft and Gault formula)
- Bilirubin =< 1.5 x upper limits of normal
- Aspartate aminotransferase (AST) =< 2.5 x upper limits of normal (ULN)
- Fasting serum triglycerides =< 200 mg/dL
- Serum cholesterol =< 300 mg/dL
- Fasting serum glucose =< 1.5 x ULN
- Urine protein to creatinine ratio < 1.0 or urine protein =< 1+
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01198158
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|Principal Investigator:
|George Philips
|Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology
|Responsible Party:
|National Cancer Institute (NCI)
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01198158 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
NCI-2011-02603 ( Registry Identifier: CTRP (Clinical Trial Reporting Program) )
CALGB 90802 ( Other Identifier: Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology )
CALGB-90802 ( Other Identifier: CTEP )
U10CA180821 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
U10CA031946 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
|First Posted:
|September 9, 2010 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|September 27, 2018
|Last Verified:
|September 2018
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Carcinoma, Renal Cell
Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Kidney Neoplasms
Urologic Neoplasms
Urogenital Neoplasms
Neoplasms by Site
Kidney Diseases
Urologic Diseases
Endothelial Growth Factors
Antibodies, Monoclonal
Immunoglobulin G
Angiogenesis Inhibitors
Angiogenesis Modulating Agents
Growth Substances
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Growth Inhibitors
Antineoplastic Agents
Immunologic Factors
Immunosuppressive Agents
Anti-Bacterial Agents
Anti-Infective Agents


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LA Police Admit That Red Light Camera Payments Are Now 'Voluntary'
from the if-you'd-like-to-contribute-to-the-police-red-light-fund... dept
Officials said that paying the fines was optional and the city had no legal power to force people to pay.Of course, they never said that publicly before, and those who already paid can't take back their money, but it's still quite a revelation for the police to make.
The tickets are part of a "voluntary payment program," without sanctions for those who fail to submit fines, said Richard M. Tefank, executive director of the city's Board of Police Commissioners.
"The consequence is somebody calling you from one of these collection agencies and saying 'pay up.' And that's it," said committee member and Councilman Bill Rosendahl. "There's no real penalty in terms of your driver's license or any other consequences if you don't pay."

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|secret government experiments with weather control, administration of drugs, or aerosol weapons.
|45 votes
|a popular delusion.
|58 votes
|103 total votes
Independent Discussion Guidelines
Beware the aerosolized, solid-phase of dihydrogen monoxide.
John_Adams (anonymous profile)
April 18, 2013 at 7:53 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Well several governments including the U.S. government, the UK government and the German government have all admitted in the past to covertly spraying aerosol chemicals disbursements from military aircraft over populations for various reasons, so it isn't a "popular delusion" unless you like to deny the facts of the matter. I guess 62% of Indy readers don't mind denying the facts of the matter.
The question of whether the U.S. government is currently, covertly spraying our skies, with what chemicals and for what reasons is certainly up for debate.
Some people say they are spraying for weather manipulation purposes, or to combat global warming. Others believe it is to lull the population into a sense of complacency, similar to fluoridating the majority of the US water supply with sodium fluoride (rat poison) and others as opposed to fluoride that is naturally occuring in spring water (sodium fluoride is an industrial waste byproduct).
I remember during the Jesusita fire that started on May 9, 2009, the day before the fire the skies just to our north were GRIDDED with chemtrails, or contrails, or whatever they actually were. The next day the temperatures were over 100 degrees in Santa Barbara.. I recorded a time when it was 100 in Goleta, 92 in SB, 92 in Carp and 75 degrees in Ventura and 61 in Lompoc/Vandenberg!! I heard a similar phenomenon happened back during the early history of the city of SB, I don't know if that was a local phenomenon or if it affected the entire area. Could have been that, but I would not discount the government screwing with our atmosphere. In fact, there were even political motivations, as Prop 1A and 1B were coming up for vote and the Governor himself was using the Santa Barbara wildfires as an excuse to why people in California needed to vote for Prop 1A and 1B tax increases.
loonpt (anonymous profile)
April 18, 2013 at 10:54 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Wow, it jumped from 62% of Indy respondents to 69% even after the correct information was presented to them.
Very disappointing.
loonpt (anonymous profile)
April 18, 2013 at 11:38 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Don't you think it's kind of arrogant to to criticize people for not swallowing as truth the postings of an anonymous internet blogger?
"The Great LoonPoint has spoken". C'mon! Count another vote for popular delusion, and maybe you should have a cup of coffee.
Ken_Volok (anonymous profile)
April 18, 2013 at 12:23 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Maybe you should re-read my post, Ken. The U.S. Government, the UK Government and the German Government have all ADMITTED to covert aerial spraying operations over populations in the past. That is a fact that cannot be denied. Therefore, logically, that means it does in fact exist, period. It isn't merely a delusion. If you voted the incorrect way, you were simply wrong.
Whether it is currently going on may be speculation, and I admitted that and carried that attitude throughout my post. Whether you tend to believe that it is happening (like myself) or whether you tend to believe it isn't happening is completely independent of whether you agree with the facts that I presented in my posting.
loonpt (anonymous profile)
April 18, 2013 at 12:53 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Ken and loonpt need to get a rooom! Hahaha!
sacjon (anonymous profile)
April 18, 2013 at 2:49 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Ken_Volok (anonymous profile)
April 18, 2013 at 3:02 p.m. (Suggest removal)
How dare you call our government liars? They would NEVER do that, and all they want is to care for us. Our Savior Obama is calling us unto his bosom.
AZ2SB (anonymous profile)
April 19, 2013 at 11:47 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Well, there is active silver iodide distribution during certain times of the year over the backcountry for cloud seeding so that could be an option as well.
Num1UofAn (anonymous profile)
April 19, 2013 at 4:08 p.m. (Suggest removal)
It could just be water vapor.
Ken_Volok (anonymous profile)
April 19, 2013 at 4:46 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Google "Global Warming and Ice Ages Physics Based Modulation for Global Change, Seminar On Planetary Emergencies, Sicily, 1997" this is Dr Teller's (Department of Energy Lawrence Livermore) solution to allow the use of fossil fuels for the next 50 years. If you read the paper it talks of using "Scatterants" to reflect 1% of the incoming sunlight. Dr Ken Caldera the man who ran the computer models for DOE stated it would not work and the public will rebel when the skies turn white. Well guess what "Nobody cares" and no one notices the planes flying over that are spewing the Chemtrails, fly out of Edwards Air Force Base. But not to worry 55%, go back to sleep, sheeple!
contactjohn (anonymous profile)
April 20, 2013 at 9:45 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Far to bias with the options... There's was an article last year in your rag about cloud seeding. (I remember the government paid person handling the "experiments" stating you couldn't see chemtrails because it would be raining....) The reporter never asked him to elaborate on the aresol techniques, This cloud seeding, invasive plant/erosion control, and the fire retardent has led to an increase in algae... Just think of the bird sanctuary!
Ask yourself why haven't we done some controlled experiments of our own. Say two ecospheres, one natural, one laden with aluminum oxide, moldy green hay mulch herbicide and fire retardant....,
BBOY (anonymous profile)
April 21, 2013 at 5:51 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Chem Trails are weather control? Not according to most cracked-pots, those giant radar dishes and whales swimming backwards are clear examples of weather control!
dou4now (anonymous profile)
April 22, 2013 at 9:42 a.m. (Suggest removal)
I understand that many people are afraid to believe that our own Government and the USAF would be involved in something that would harm the fellow US citizens. To you people I say put your big boy pants on and look up with awareness. I have been looking at the sky with awareness for decades, and please allow me to share some info. In the late 1980's and the 1990's, I worked in film production on several westerns, Dance with Wolves and Wyatt Earp just to name 2. Since I was low man on the production totem pole, one of my jobs was to monitor the skies for contrails, because they obviously would not be part of a 19th century western sky. Contrails were never a problem and the camera never waited, but real contrails always dissipated in a few minutes. Fast forward to 1999- Suddenly plane exhaust became a totally different creature, chemtrails. The chemtrails did not disappear, quite the contrary, they stuck around and even expanded. Many many days I remember clearly in Los Angeles, the high desert, over the Sierras, and in NM, the spraying would turn a cloudless day into a sky covered in lingering chemtrails. In those days a Google search for the word, "chemtrails" would yield a few hundred hits. Today a Google search for the word "chemtrails" yields 4,850,000 hits. That means nearly 5 million websites are talking about the word. That's a lot of people talking about something that doesn't exist, don't you think? So many scientists have validated chemtrails that you should do your own research. People like Al Gore and Bill Gates have admitted that chemtrails exist, although those two are public figures, they are not trustworthy in my book. Those of you who laugh and scoff at the thought of chemtrails do not surprise me a bit, arrogance and ignorance seem to go hand in hand these days. Please do your own research. The US Government exterminated Native Americans by the millions, even the peaceful ones, but if you want to believe that the Government is not enforcing Agenda 21 and ongoing genocide of it's own people in dozens of ways from GMO foods, to plastics, to cosmetics, to vaccines, to evil US experiments like the Tuskegee experiment, and many others, to chemtrails, to just about everything that major pharmaceutical companies sell, well God bless you, enjoy Disneyland, because if you havn't figured out by now that the US Government doesn't give a hoot about you by now, you have lost the ability to look up, or even see what is right in front of your face and think critically.
Rinconer (anonymous profile)
April 22, 2013 at 7:20 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I'm offering tinfoil hats and breathing masks at a special price.
JohnLocke (anonymous profile)
April 24, 2013 at 8:48 a.m. (Suggest removal)
loonpt (anonymous profile)
April 26, 2013 at 3:21 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Four days ago we photographed over 75 of these trails. When the wonder that is the vapid office of hanna beth jackson was reached for comment in both locations the 12 yr old answering the phone was clueless. she told my partner off and made a lot of comments well over her pay grade. you cannot get the city counsel, the mayor or any of our "elected" officials to comment. why is that? because regardless of party it is all about taking big money for our air space. then it rains for three days. Same thing happened in May. SAD
zvara (anonymous profile)
November 23, 2013 at 2:55 p.m. (Suggest removal)
You should be grateful Zvara, at least you got a response. I tried three times to reach Jackson a number of years ago about her opposition to school vouchers (explaining how it *doesn't* violate church/state issues and suggesting that public schools give the taxpayers a padded bill) and despite two e-mail and a snail mail I never got a response.
billclausen (anonymous profile)
November 23, 2013 at 6:51 p.m. (Suggest removal)
If you can read this is it, Teller created it reflect 1% of the incoming sunlight to extend the use of fossil fuels for 50 years, the ones that are deluded are the sheep that believe the BS on TV.
contactjohn (anonymous profile)
November 23, 2013 at 11:43 p.m. (Suggest removal)
The US used silver iodide cloud seeding in Vietnam to create monsoons to impede Ho Chi Minh's troop movements. The US has recently used lithium officially to map the jet stream. Chemtrails are mentioned in Dennis Kuchinik's 2001 HR2977, NASA Future Strategic Issues, 7/2001 mentions chemtrails use, these are online as well as in the congressional record and many other military pubs. that say boorn and aluminum particles are dispersed for climate modification and to create a reflective layer for communications purposes. Many people around the world have collected and analyzed fibers collected when chemtrails are visible. Not something that can really be blown off. Maybe a poll "is smog real?" next time.
14noscams (anonymous profile)
December 26, 2013 at 6:41 p.m. (Suggest removal)


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Origin of merit
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Some of these meritless canvases are attributed to John of Burgundy.Toledo. The Story of an Old Spanish Capital
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Word Origin for merit
c.1200, "spiritual credit" (for good works, etc.); c.1300, "spiritual reward," from Old French merite "wages, pay, reward; thanks; merit, moral worth, that which assures divine pity," and directly from Latin meritum "a merit, service, kindness, benefit, favor; worth, value, importance," neuter of meritus, past participle of merere, meriri "to earn, deserve, acquire, gain," from PIE root *(s)mer- "to allot, assign" (cf. Greek meros "part, lot," moira "share, fate," moros "fate, destiny, doom," Hittite mark "to divide" a sacrifice).
Sense of "worthiness, excellence" is from early 14c.; from late 14c. as "condition or conduct that deserves either reward or punishment;" also "a reward, benefit." Related: Merits. Merit system attested from 1880. Merit-monger was in common use 16c.-17c. in a sense roughly of "do-gooder."
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A Dream Singapore Itinerary by Lonely Planet
I'm ashamed.
As a Singaporean, I've never been interested in guide books about our own country (Who reads guidebooks of their own country anyway? I bet most of you don't!). Jody, one of our friendly staff has donated a series of Citiescape of Asian countries from Lonely Planet, 2006 Edition.
Not exactly a very comprehensive guide, but it covers and has vivid photos of Singapore, and the rest of the asian countries like Beijing, Delhi, Ho Chi Minh, Sydney (huh?) and more.
What particularly caught me was the itinerary that was listed behind by Mat Oakley, an expat that stayed in Singapore for almost two years,
Start early, amid the chatter of an old kopitiam (breakfast and coffeeshop), for hot sweet kopi, runny eggs and kaya toast, slapped onto your table without ceremony. Once you're loaded with cholesterol, take a stroll in the magnificent Botanic Gardens, then along Orchard Road before the crowds hit.
Head down into the MRT, up one stop to Little India and out into another world of grubby streets and food markets, and dip your hands into a curry lunch – fiery fuel for a walk to the mosques, carpet sellers and coffee houses of Kampong Glam, the Muslim Quarter.
After a cardamom coffee or hot mint tea, take a bus to Chinatown and browse through the antique shops, street markets and teashops. A few steamed dumpling and tea from a Chinatown cafe, then leave the city for the green centre, and Singapore's zoo and peerless Night Safari.
After seeing the sunset with the leopards, do a taxi race down the flawless, tree-lined expressway to Newton Circus, the city's most famous hawker centre. Bursting with seafood and beer, take another taxi to Raffles Hotel for a cocktail.
Energy permitting, dance your way into the early hours with the beautiful people at Zouk, Singapore's thumping megaclub.
Matt Oakley
Well I couldn't put it better in words than Matt. And take note all these locations that are mentioned apart from the Zoo are very, very, very close to G4 Station. So if you're coming and need help in directions, feel free to ask our frontdesk staff for help.
They'll probably point a direction and tell you you can even walk there for some of the destination mentioned above, seeya soon! 🙂


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Perry Mason never lost a case on television. Why was that? He had the evidence; the stuff that proved his client was innocent. Evidence was the basis for his conclusions, and the basis for what he said in the courtroom. Of course, sometimes he didn't have all the evidence he really needed, so he "went fishing" with the person on the stand, but he always managed to win.
A similar situation exists with our genealogies. We need to have evidence for EVERY statement we make. I know many people who do not cite a source if it is generally known, but that isn't proper genealogy. We should make note of our sources for all our facts. I know this makes for a lot of extra work, but it is necessary extra work. I have some data on my family where I have ten or more sources for the same fact.
Why is it important to put the source with the facts? Evidence is sometimes very straightforward, but the proof behind it is what makes it straightforward. For example, I know my birth date. I was there.However, I don't remember the event. I rely on what my parents and other relatives have told me. I also rely on the birth certificate, the baptismal certificate, newspaper articles, and other things. I even have some pictures taken just a few days after I was born, and they have a date stamp on the back, from the developer. All of those pieces of evidence point to, or explicitly say that I was born 16 JUL 1949. All of the evidence agrees. Sometimes, though, that isn't the case. My grandmother's birth date is listed as a certain day on her baptismal record, and on a different day on her birth certificate. The Bible record of her birth agrees with the baptismal record, and not the birth certificate. It is only one day different, but the records are not the same.
Elizabeth Shown Mills wrote a book called "Evidence Explained." It is a very good resource for genealogists because Ms. Mills tells us how to cite our sources for many types of material. She has a standardized version of source citation for documents, such as those certificates, and also for other things, such as photographs, mementos, dishes that the person owned, and other artifacts. I am following her methods when I write anything about my family because I want to do things correctly, and I also want to be consistent. If I cite the census for Aunt Margaret in 1920 I also want to cite the census for my dad in 1930 in the same way. It is a lot easier to follow along if everything is done the same way.
Ms. Mills says "There are no historical resources we can simply trust." (p 9) There are a few other things she says in her Forward that I would like to mention, too. "At the root of everything we find in history is a source." (p 9) Even more importantly, "We cannot judge the reliability of any information unless we know exactly where the information came from; and the strengths and weaknesses of that source." (p 10)
We should be able to trust most documents we have found in our searches, but, even though that is usually true, it isn't always the case. My grandmother's birth information is a good example. Somebody made a mistake somewhere, so we have two different dates. Sometimes the mistake is exactly that–a mistake. But we can also have fabrication. My great-grandmother lied on her marriage application. Since she was a first cousin-once removed from her husband-to-be, and since they both had the same last name (her grandfather was the brother of her husband's father), she used her mother's maiden name as her last name on the certificate. She didn't want questions to be asked.
I'm not saying that we can't trust any records we have, but we should always look for several sources of evidence for any data because sometimes a record is incorrect. I'll write more about that next time when I go into family history standards.
Jim Moses is a genealogy buff living in Lansing. Write to him at the Sentinel-Standard, 114 N. Depot St., Ionia, MI 48846 or email email@example.com.


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Not a month has passed since Samsung last got its sales trumpet out, but this morning it has practiced its embouchure for a second time during November and like before, it's celebrating another Galaxy Note 2 sales record.
A short post on Samsung's Korean website has confirmed the Galaxy Note 2 has racked up five million sales since its release in September, beating the original Galaxy Note to the figure by three months.
The news follows analysts voicing their expectations for the company during the final three months of the year, with UBS number-crunchers suggesting it's on its way to reaching sales of 61.5 million Galaxy devices before the calendar flips to 2013. It also expects Samsung to add another two million Galaxy Note 2 sales to its tally, bringing the total to seven million.
Samsung has sold 30 million Galaxy S3 smartphones, its other Android big-hitter, with 20 million shifted in the first 100 days. The popular phone has subsequently been named as the world's most popular smartphone, after passing the Apple iPhone 4S over the summer.
Last time out, we questioned when the Galaxy Note 2 would receive some meaningful competition, and the fact it has sold another two million in-between then and now only emphasizes how little choice there is in this expanding mobile industry niche. In the U.S., the Note 2 may not hog all the 5-inch-plus device sales from now on though, as Verizon and HTC have released the Droid DNA.
The Droid DNA's 5-inch 1080p screen is the first of its kind to go on sale in the U.S., and despite perhaps unwarranted concerns over the battery performance, the exciting new phone could soon start to take some of the attention away from the Note 2. Sadly, its chance to do the same internationally has taken a hit this week, and for it to slow the Note 2's stampede it's going to need a wider release.
We can expect another rousing blast from Samsung's trumpet sometime before the end of the year, depending on which milestone it chooses to share next.
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My baby will be 7 weeks old tomorrow, he's only had breast milk. He's been a strong sucker with great feeding instincts from day one. I've had nipple pain throughout the entire time, but it was worse at the beginning. I had flat nipples that had to be kind of reshaped by a nipple shell. When I was in the hospital the lactation consultants said my latch was fine. Sometimes I think my nipple might be shaped wrong after a feeding, but I need to see pictures of what people mean when they say flat, slanted or lipstick shaped to tell, and I haven't been able to find any pictures online. I also have letdown pain and achy soreness between feedings. The letdown pain feels like strings pulling hard at various points in the breast toward the nipple, and pain in the second breast's nipple while I feed him at the first breast. Between feedings it feels like my bra is sandpaper or something. I can't stand for my breasts to be touched by anything ever at all, which is wonderful for my baby who wants to be held, not to mention my husband.
The big problem now, in addition to those pains, is that he's been fighting me while I feed him. Not every feeding, but several times a day. He pushes with his hands and kicks his legs and pulls back with his head, very forcefully, usually taking my nipple with him. He'll pull off entirely and make some fussy cries, and sometimes go back to it, chomping eagerly, and other times he'll be done. This makes our feedings sometimes very short, and that makes me worry that he's getting enough to eat. He might do only 5-10 minutes on each side, and sometimes refuses one side entirely.
I called a lactation consultant about this twice, and talked to two different ladies. The first said it was oversupply and an overly forceful letdown, so I should try different nursing positions. I did, but they weren't comfortable at all. They either required me to hold up his head, taxing my arm strength, especially when he was pushing against me, or when I lay on my back and put him on my belly the weight of his head on top of my breast was painful.
The second lactation consultant said I had a low supply and I had to try to get it back up. I think she thought that was the case because I said I'd taken sudafed. And she said that a baby's behaviors are the same for oversupply and undersupply.
You can imagine the effect these contradictory diagnoses have had on my faith in lactation consultants. I also don't believe anyone who says if you have a proper latch it won't hurt. Or at least I won't believe it until I experience a painless latch, which seems to me like a myth right now. I find it very discouraging to constantly hear I'm in pain because I'm doing it wrong. It feels like blaming the victim.
My mom, who breastfed 7 babies, says he's just an efficient feeder and he's getting all the nutrition he needs because he's growing and producing plenty diapers. She tells me to stop stressing and just feed him on demand and he'll be fine. We both feel like oversupply and overly strong letdown are more likely. We see milk overflowing the side of his mouth and hear the way he swallows it. I do still get painfully engorged sometimes. As long as he's getting what he needs, I'm ok with short feedings as long as he fully drains each breast at least once a day. That takes 20-25 minutes for me to feel relieved.
He was 7#3oz at birth and is now over 11#. Just looking at him you can tell he's much bigger. His limbs used to be skinny, but now he's filled out and has a double chin. People who see him once a week remark on how much he's grown.
He's making 8-10 wet diapers and 4-5 poopy a day. Half of the poopy diapers are yellow-gold, and half are greenish.
I feel like I need "rules" or guidelines of some kind to help me know what to do. These are the ones I've been following:
Feed him when he cries.
Feed him two hours from the end of the last feeding, if the last feeding was a good one. A good feeding is at least 20 minutes combined. If the last feeding was shorter than that, feed him again in 1 hour.
Don't wake him to feed, since he's growing and my supply is established. If he's sleeping when he's supposed to eat, feed him as soon as he wakes up, and pump in the meantime if necessary.
If he's fussing while I'm feeding him, try 3 times to get him to feed on that side, then give up. I can give up without trying 3 times if he's fed for 12 minutes on that side already.
Pump to relieve engorgement.
Do you ladies think the baby is getting the milk he needs?
Why is he fighting and fussing and how can I stop this behavior?
Are my guidelines ok or should I change any of them? Particularly, how much should I fight him back when he resists feeding? (I would love for an expert to give me permission to give up when he's making feeding him so hard, and try again later.)
Is there anything I can do to relieve these various pains I have? The pain between feedings and the letdown pain are worse that the nipple pain for me, and I feel even more helpless about those pains.
It all just feels so random that I can't make sense of any of it.


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Vija Celmins: Television and Disaster 1964–1966
Vija Celmins: Television and Disaster 1964–1966 explores an essential and often overlooked period of the artist's work. Celmins is best known as a painter of refined representational images—including night skies, ocean waves and spider webs. However, the images that first grounded her interest as a young artist in Los Angeles in the 1960s are characterized by violent themes such as crashing warplanes, smoking handguns, and other images of death and disaster influenced by the violence of the era and the mass media that represented it.
This is the first exhibition to concentrate on the Celmins's early paintings and sculptures, made during a three-year period that laid the technical and thematic groundwork for her future as an artist.
Vija Celmins was born in 1938 in Riga, Latvia, and fled with her family to Germany in advance of the Soviet army's invasion in 1944. Migrating to the United States in 1948, the family settled in Indianapolis, where Celmins grew up and studied art. In 1962, she moved to the West Coast to attend graduate school at the University of California, Los Angeles. She has lived and worked primarily in New York since 1981.
This exhibition is co-organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Menil Collection, Houston.
The Los Angeles presentation was made possible in part by Laura and Jim Maslon.
Image: Vija Celmins, Time Magazine Cover, 1965, oil on canvas, 22x16 in., private collection c/o Ms. Laura Bechter.
Vija Celmins Interview
Celmins talks about her work during this period.
Seeing Anew: A Conversation with Franklin Sirmans
Franklin Sirmans hasn't wasted any time settling into his new post as head of contemporary art at LACMA. He's been visiting studios, galleries, and private collections around town, getting to know the works of art in our permanent collection, and planning upcoming exhibitions...
Reflections on the Decade: Los Angeles 1955–1985 at the Pompidou
The art of Southern California has taken a long time to find its rightful place in the (art) world. Despite the consistently high quality of work made here, the art and artists of Los Angeles undeniably languished in the shadow of their East Coast counterparts for many years...


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As Living Colour reminds us every time CM Punk enters the fray, "Like Mussolini and Kennedy / [Wrestling's a] cult of personality." Faces and heels don't rationally debate the comparative merits of their worldviews, they battle over charismatic authority. And, much to the continued chagrin of Punk's army of the voiceless, John Cena remains the new millennium's reigning authority. Unfortunate for many reasons -- primary among them, while his predecessor Hulk Hogan was more Kennedy, Cena's more Mussolini.
Wrestling went mainstream in the 1980s at the cultural zenith of the Cold War. Decades of heightening nuclear tension between Western democratic capitalism and Soviet state socialism had reduced the political complexity of the dispute to a fateful clash between Good and Evil.
The adult audience thus seeking a cathartic morality play alongside the childhood audience's developmental need for simple, allegorical characters, Hulk Hogan emerged as wrestling's flesh and blood 'Real American' superhero. Hogan overcame mortal limits when he hulked up, affirming certainty that democratic capitalism was right through his might. This circular reasoning put blue-collar American values over literally costumed 'Bolsheviks' and allied oil 'Sheiks,' crooked 'Million Dollar' men, and effeminate 'Genius' leftist intelligentsia. Enough talk, time to fight it out: the odds stacked against him, clutching the cross hung from his massive neck, balding and basic, Hogan inevitably bested every ideological foe.
With undeniable charisma, Hogan quelled any doubt that North America's material ascendancy since World War II was the justified outcome of its moral superiority. Might -- not reason -- made right, the very crux of fascism. Like JFK's prodigal popularity, Hulkamania let people put aside their moral uncertainties and believe whole-heartedly in the fair virtue of democratic capitalism and its red, white, and blue saviour. As Gorilla Monsoon elegantly summed up Hogan's famous victory over the corrupted Andre the Giant at WrestleMania III, "He's thanking the big guy upstairs, as he always does ... thanks the man upstairs who makes it all possible, and Hogan fulfills that dream by keeping it all together."
Fittingly, when Hogan epically turned heel, he did so by selling out his morality to form the nWo. In cultural parody of global politics, wrestling's New World Order took their namesake from Papa Bush's favourite post-Cold War catchphrase for a world security (some read 'police') state where superpowers ultimately maintained prominence by potential force alone, freed from the awkward condition of defending a moral system through nuclear fallout. Like the visible culmination of conspiracy theory fears of a secret Bush-Gorbachev alliance, Hall and Nash from "up North" joined Hogan "down South" in a nihilistic faction seeking the annihilation of professional wrestling's moral order. Appealing to both the children of the '80s turned angry teenagers and its adult audience coping amid a swirling sea of moral relativity after the fall of the Berlin Wall, wrestling enjoyed another boom period in the late 1990s. Fuelling Stone Cold middle fingers and DX crotch chops, the nWo's mission was at least successful in inverting the moral order.
Out of the white-hot ashes of the Attitude Era of the anti-hero, the first generation of mainstream wrestling fans found themselves burnt out on the product and submitting to the dispassionate apathy of early adulthood, so WWE sought their children by recalibrating its morality play. However, from his SmackDown debut on June 27, 2002, to his 10-year anniversary, John Cena seems a pitiable replacement for Hogan's moral guarantor.
Wrestling reflects this delicate moral balance, with Cena its figurehead chameleon ready to take whichever side of the Republican/Democrat divide serves storyline purposes, one week the Dionysian 'Rated-R' Edge's conservative foil and a reunited D-Generation X's liberal consort the next, or, at WrestleMania XXVII, appealing to Atlanta's assumed Southern gospel values with an extended prayer only to blithely drop any and all evangelizing in return to his eponymous dog tags and phony military salute the next night on Raw.
Cena's moral grounding is as empty and obtuse as his catchphrases "Hustle-Loyalty-Respect" and "Rise Above Hate," freeing him to situationally enact any moral position regardless of self-contradiction.
Wrestling's new children may believe in him, and its long-suffering remaining adult fans may want to believe again, but his might does not confirm right, only Cena's might itself. Originated as the poster boy of "Ruthless Aggression," Cena's fascistic circling has oscillated so frequently that it has completely detached from its moral bearings.
There are catalogues of troubling propaganda photos of a young Benito Mussolini skiing topless and posing beside gymnasium equipment, muscles primed and gleaming. While the comparison is crude and outrageous if not crass and careless -- of course neither John Cena the person nor the wrestling character is in any way sympathetic to a genocidal totalitarian -- a pivotal aspect of the muscular culture that abetted 20th century state fascism was its separation of charismatic authority from morality through this very process of might proving might, unencumbered by right. Encouragingly, a large portion of the wrestling audience continues to reject this amoral cultural shift. So go ahead, as long as he remains an unrepentant amoral fascist, chant "Cena Sucks" with pride.
A lifelong fan, Doug Willcocks wrestled with professional wrestling through a sociological lens during an MA degree at the University of Toronto and a Graduate Research Fellowship at the University of Victoria, and continues to be intrigued. If you like his musings, perhaps check out his chapter, "Wrestling with Canadian Masculinities: Contesting Hegemony within WWE's Masculinities Matrix," in the forthcoming (November, 2012) CSPI/Women's Press book Canadian Men and Masculinities: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives.


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The recently revamped Google Play Store is one of the most frequented application stores on the Internet. Competing head-on with the iTunes Store, the free marketplace lets you browse, download, and purchase variety of applications without any hassles. And though the store suffices the needs of almost every app-hungry user, it doesn't, however, provide access to apps that violate Google policies. Furthermore, modders and rooters are always ready to try out variety of new apps, many of which aren't available in the Play Store.
So, if you are looking for some great alternatives to the traditional Google Play app store, here is a list of some great replacements for the revered marketplace (previously known as Android Market):
Amazon App Store
While it might seem a bit weird for a big company like Amazon to invest in an alternative to the Google Play Store, it does, in fact, help the retail giant cater to the needs of its huge user base of Kindle Fire consumers. The Amazon store isn't that different from the Google Play Store; it doesn't offer any banned apps, nor does it provide any special apps of its own. The only advantage that the Amazon app store has over Play Store, and also other competing app stores, is the fact that it gives away one app for free everyday. This makes the store a perfect choice for all the users who are always on the hunt for freebies.
GetJar is perhaps the biggest app store on the Internet. Founded in Lithuania in 2004, the store provides more than 350,000 applications for Android, Blackberry, Symbian and other devices. GetJar, thanks to its versatility, is quite popular amongst developers as well as users. The site sees about 3 million downloads a day, which is quite an achievement for an independent app store. The store can easily be seen as a replacement for the default Play Store.
AppBrain is one of the most frequented alternative stores for Android. Rather than being yet another app store, AppBrain serves more or less like a website for discovering and sharing new Android apps. Once you download an app, it gets added to your custom wish list that is then stored on your AppBrain account. Since AppBrain doesn't distribute apps, purchase of paid apps happens via the Play Store itself.
The most important feature of AppBrain is its discovery engine, which lets users stumble upon new apps. Also, each app's page has a detailed description of the title, something that you won't find on all apps in the Play Store.
Installing of apps can be done via two methods: you can either use the link leading to the Play store and install it from there, or you can use AppBrain's fast installer. The Fast Web Installer is an application that lets you push applications to your smartphone just like you do in the Play Store. To get started, all you have to do is install the Fast Web Installer application on your phone.
Overall, AppBrain is one of the rare marketplaces that can be used as a viable replacement for the original Play Store. A must try even if you're not willing to quit the Play Store.
SlideME is an app store that is more lucrative for developers than end users. While Android Market keeps 30% of your app price and gives you the remaining 70%, SlideMe offers much better payouts so that developers can benefit the most. As for the applications, users can browse through thousands of titles, or they could just search for an app they like. To install a particular application, simply click on the Download button and save the .apk file to your computer. You can then transfer this file to your Droid and install it from there. Also, you can send this .apk file to your friends so that they could also install the app on their phones. Overall, the variety of apps offered in this store is nothing compared to what we have on AppBrain; however, it's still a great place to publish new apps and download apps from.


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The young couple reportedly met at university in the
The wedding festivities were spread over several days and was coordinated by Eventful owned by Yewande Zaccheus
All the best to the couple!!
congrats to the couple btw...
wow she is such a pretty lady! and her makeup is on point.
Wish them joy and happiness!
6th!!! WOOSH!
Tha make-up has Banke written all over it...lol...Great job BML, as usual u no dey disappoint!The couple looks fab! althought 'ol boy looks like he's having second thoughts about taking the vows though...lolOn another note, Bella u be hustler sha, as in your paparazzi don reach another level o...lol...great job girl, I respect!
Amazing how you got these pictures Bella. You continue to out-do yourself...exclusiveness.
I love it
Bobby Tee.
i can swear the bride's make-up was by banke Meshida-Lawal......
Now, this is what u call great make-up. The bride fine no be small. Really impressed with the whole Dangote clan....their humility is just so inspiring esp in a 'my hummer is bigger than yours'country like ours...lol
yea d make up is by banke.luvs it bella
wish them happy married life
i wish them a happy married life
Well I wish them well!
But I have to remark on those pics.They both seem to be suffering from one facial expression, his is more like boredom.
U're so right. It seems the guy is having a reality check on himself. I wish them well, it's too late for any last minute changes, they just have to work it out.
she used to be my girl.....
just kidding o...lol
who wouldnt want to marry the only official billionaire in nigeria...
wish them luck with it sha...
by the way, do u know if she has a junior sister i could....emm preach to...lol
These Hausa guys always know where to find the Prettiest brides. The look on the guy's face sha ... e funny no be small. Kudos Bella!
beautiful couple - muah! Bella hmmmmmmmm...ur levels don go far o! abeg, cut me some...lol just joking. u know how we rolls it deep 360 degrees, u r my girl...much love
I blogged about this too. Pls I will like to sk for permission to use the picture of the couple on my blog. I will give you credit for it on my blog. Thanks
Beauriful. I hope he doesn't do a Mohammed Babangida sha.
The Bride looks stunning..
The groom looks gloomy. I hope nothing
awwwwwwwwwwwwwww she is SOOO PRETTY!!!!!
BEST OF LUCKS!! to them.
She really looks like her dad…
She looks pretty but I think the make up didn't do her much justice not lovin the lipstick , eye shadow to much which kinda looks a bit circusy….her eyebrows beautifully shaped not sure about the choice of necklace but bet it cost a small fortune like her wristwatch girlfriend is rocking that "la dona de cartier" and I think her purse is a gina HONOLULU all in yellow gold which complements the colour of her outfit, makes her the golden girl…beautiful!!! All in all marks 7/10….
As for the groom ladies to be honest who cares. According to ross in the sitcom friends
"as long as he shows up and says the right name" it's all about the bride….baby…
@ 2.04...lol at d Mohamed Babangida quote. 9ja and lines, man! una no go kill me.
Can anyone tell me why the boy looks as if someone is flogging him with an invisible cane? Are they forcing him to marry her? Can't he try to look a little happier at his own wedding?
Very pretty bride!
LOL U guys and your theories!
Its just a photo - he was probably tired
You know how weddings in Nigeria are spread over several days. Then factor in the press, all the 'dignitaries' that the couple had to 'greet' etc... They must have been rather exhausted. I agree the makeup is beautiful!
cute couple.
the guy's hotter tho :P
The Bride looks Stunning. Love what's she wearing from head to toe. As usual Banke did an amazing job! i Wish the couple all the best.
bella, I am not sure why you have water marks ( Bella naija) on the photos, surely this is the world wide web and there I don't think there is any harm if these pictures are re-used. Most pictures are readily available on the web now and trying to police them with water marks really contradicts the "openess of web/Internet" e.g this medium that you use to reach out to so many people across the world is provided free from google. I beg Bella, we are of the free generaton, lets keep the openness of the internet and all knowledge.
p.s: This is not a personal attack, just a comment.
Awwww. Lovely looking couple. I go love oh. Abi Bella, how you take see am? lol.
Congrats to the couple! I wish them a very happy married life.
Wish them a Happy wealthy life.
the man doesnt look very happy.........
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Bryce Dallas Howard: 'Jurassic World' Details Revealed!
Bryce Dallas Howard holds hands with her adorable son Theodore, 6, as they walk through the terminal at LAX Airport for a departing flight on Saturday (December 21) in Los Angeles.
The 32-year-old actress was also joined by her hubby Seth Gabel and daughter Beatrice, almost 2, who started to cry a bit.
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Bryce Dallas Howard
While plot details are being kept under wraps on Bryce's upcoming film Jurassic World, director Colin Trevorrow did give some insight into what we can expect.
"Reboot is a strong word. This is a new sci-fi terror adventure set 22 years after the horrific events of Jurassic Park," he recently tweeted.
Also starring Chris Pratt, Jake Johnson, Nick Robinson, and Ty Simpkins, the film is due out in 2015. We can't wait to see it!
15+ pictures inside of Bryce Dallas Howard and her family at LAX…


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Questions abound about what should and should not go into Letters of Reference. I will not include any particular reader question here, but will try to hit the major points that commonly arise.
Of course the purpose of the letter and the nature/length of the letter will vary depending on the purpose and the personalities involved, but there is a certain sameness to these things as well, whether the letter is for an undergraduate applying for a summer internship or a postdoc applying for a faculty position.
Over the years, I have marveled at some of the weird things that people put in reference letters. I think the weirdest items appear in letters for undergraduates applying for internships or graduate programs because the letter-writers:
(1) may not know the applicant very well and struggle (in some cases, mightily and inappropriately) to find something to say other than "Jane got an A in my class"; and
(2) may know the applicant very well indeed and may somehow lose perspective on whether potential research advisors want to know that Jane was a great babysitter for the letter writer's 7 children (I personally do not want to know this. There are people I would trust with kids but not research, and vice versa.)
Just a few examples from the FSP and SP archives of strange and possibly inappropriate things I have seen in letters of reference for academic positions, awards, tenure, and promotion over the years:
- phrases like "Applicant X is one of the best female graduates of our department";
- or this: "He and his wife have spent many vacations in Bavaria, organizing their walking routes to coincide with the locations of breweries."
- "In my opinion, Applicant X is an excellent scientist. Now let me tell you about my credentials. Attached is my CV."
- "Applicant Z's Christian faith has helped guide her through a rigorous academic program."
- "Molly is such a responsible and mature person that my wife and I have repeatedly trusted her to care for our 5-year old and 2.5-year old when we have a 'date night' or a social function that is not suitable for young children."
- "Dr. X has come from a distinguished academic line. One of his committee member's advisor's advisor's advisor was awarded the Nobel Prize in 19xx."
OK, enough of that (for now). Writing letters is difficult, no matter how little/well you know the applicant. No one is perfect, so a common question by letter writers is how/whether to describe or hint at some of these imperfections.
Arguments in favor of writing a positive letter that has a few minor mentions of reasons why the applicant is mortal, even if you mostly think this person is awesome:
Letters should convey useful and accurate information. If someone's imperfections are relevant to the position for which they are applying, wouldn't the letter readers want to know this? Your credibility is at stake as well, and therefore your ability to advocate for others in the future.
Argument against mentioning these unless they really are major, fatal flows (in which case there is the issue of whether you should have told the person who asked you to write the letter for them that you couldn't write them a good letter):
Many (most?) letter-writers don't write anything negative in letters, so if a particular letter-writer does say something negative, however mild, that may doom the applicant's chances because all other candidates are apparently perfect (even if committees/individuals reading the letters know that the letters are likely to be somewhat incomplete in this way).
I think you've got to do what you think is right in each case, and just be as straightforward and unambiguous as possible. I have spent way too much time in committee meetings listening to people try to divine what is meant by a possibly somewhat ambiguous turn of phrase or choice of words -- is this a Red Flag intended to signal that the candidate is fatally flawed as a human being and a scientist, even though the rest of the letter is entirely positive, because the letter-writer didn't want to commit on paper to writing a major criticism? Or is that phrase just what it seems; a simple statement of something reasonably positive?
But maybe people will try to 'read between the lines' no matter how unambiguous you think you are being in your writing, and therefore it isn't worth anyone's time to try to psych the situation out.
These are some general "rules" that I try to follow for myself when writing letters (please add to the list with your own personal LoR-writing rules):
- I write what I think is fair, relevant, and useful in the context of the letter. I tailor each letter to each applicant and letter destination/purpose. I back up opinions with examples or other information.
- If the letter request contains specific questions or topics that should be addressed, I try to answer/address these as much as possible, unless I think the question/request is unreasonable. I have written before about requests to compare someone with their peers; that can be an extremely challenging request, fraught with potential for unfairness.
- If I don't have much to say about someone [and they are aware of this fact, but don't have other/good options for letter-writers], I keep the letter short. I explain that I had limited interaction with the candidate, so my short letter will be understood in that context, rather than that I was too busy to take the time to write a decent letter. I think some of the stranger letters I have read arose when the letter-writer started fishing around for things to say to bulk up a letter.
- I avoid personal information (hobbies, babies..) and irrelevant information about personality. Studies have shown that unconscious bias creeps into the adjectives we choose to describe the personality of female vs. male candidates, so I fight the urge to describe someone as "nice". If the person in question gets along well with others, there are other ways to explain that, such as with examples of successful collaborative work. I also don't think it is relevant to mention whether someone has a sense of humor; I think this is more common to describe in letters about male candidates than about female candidates, even though I doubt if the men are actually funnier than the women. [Yes, I know there are studies and debate about this.]
My letters are by no means perfectly crafted and compelling vessels of information, but I think it's important to try to write a good, useful, convincing letter. This takes time, of course, but it is time well spent.
What are some other Rules to Live By when writing a Letter of Reference?


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David Stremme Finishes 33rd at Martinsville Speedway
October 26, 2009
Martinsville, Va. (October 26, 2009) – Driver David Stremme and the Penske Dodge team were on track for another NASCAR Cup Series top-20 finish on Sunday at Martinsville Speedway before gear problems forced an early end to the Tums Fast Relief 500 and a 33rd-place finish for the No. 12 squad.
Stremme entered Sunday's 500-lap race facing several unknowns. The team had limited practice time during the weekend due to bad weather, but the No. 12 crew was confident they had a car that would be competitive come Sunday afternoon.
Stremme rolled off for the start of the event in the 11th position. After 35 laps, he radioed to his team to explain that the Penske Dodge was handling tight in the center and loose coming out of the turns. Crew chief
When the caution flag was displayed to the field on lap 43, the team prepared to welcome Stremme and the Penske Dodge Charger to pit lane. The No.12 arrived in the pits three laps later for service. The team changed two right side tires and filled the car with racing fuel. The crew also made both trackbar and air pressure adjustments to the machine to try and improve its handling through the corners.
The red and black No.12 car restarted the race in the 13th spot, looking to continue its march toward the front of the field. Unfortunately, the two right side tires affected the performance of the Penske Racing machine and Stremme began to fall back in the running order. By lap 100, Stremme had dropped to the 23rd spot. Stremme told the team he needed the car to turn better in the middle of the flat corners on the track. McCauley contemplated the changes the No.12 team would make during the next round of pit stops.
Knowing he had to be smart and take care of his car to last all 500 laps, Stremme was patient with the Penske Dodge. At the halfway point of the race, the No. 12 car was positioned in 23rd place. Stremme radioed the team on lap 289 to explain that the car was still running tight in the corners, but it was producing good forward bite coming out of the turns. The tight-handling condition did not prevent the experienced Cup Series racer from ticking off the fastest laps on the track. Stremme was consistently posting quick lap times around the half-mile speedway. He took his time passing competitors, setting them up on the entry of the turns and getting by them coming off the corners as he moved inside the top-20.
Stremme made a rare green flag pit stop on lap 435. The crew filled the car with enough fuel to make it to the finish and they bolted on four fresh Goodyear tires. The team also made a trackbar adjustment as it hoped to correct the tight-handling car Stremme was fighting in the corners.
Seven laps later, the Penske Racing driver informed his team that there was something wrong with the rear end of the car. McCauley ordered the No. 12 to the garage so the team could assess the situation. After further review, the team discovered the Penske Dodge had a rear-end gear failure, which forced an early end to the race for the No. 12 squad.
Stremme was credited with a 33rd-place finish. He remained 30th in Cup Series point standings with four events remaining on the 2009 schedule.
"I hate we didn't get to finish the race," commented Stremme. "We qualified well and felt like we had a car capable of running in the top-20. We struggled early in a run, but our car really came to life after about 20 laps. As a team, we made significant improvement from the spring race (at Martinsville). Our car was just a bit too tight in the center of the corners. We are going to one of my favorite tracks next week and I am looking forward to a strong run in our Penske Dodge."
Next week, Stremme and the No. 12 team will head to the biggest track on the Cup Series circuit – Talladega Superspeedway. The Amp Energy 500 will be aired live on Sunday, November 1. Race coverage will begin at 12 p.m. ET on the ABC television network. The race will also be broadcast live on MRN Radio.
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Centre for Cancer Registry Data
The German Centre for Cancer Registry Data (ZfKD) is located within the Robert Koch-Institute in Berlin. It is responsible for pooling and quality-checking the data it receives from the population-based cancer registries in each German federal state. Each registry has its own unique history with a unique initiation date. Thus, the range and quality of the pooled data is heterogeneous.
After pooling and quality-checking, the ZfKD analyses and evaluates the data and publishes its findings on a regular basis. An important publication is »Cancer in Germany«, which is released every two years. In our online database you will find current cancer statistics available through an interactive query. The pooled data set of the German Epidemiological Cancer Registries is available to scientists on application.
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