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Multiple-sclerosis patients have waited years for the first generation of treatments in pill form. Now that they're becoming available, however, doctors are warning: not so fast.
The pills are easier to take than shots that have long been used to treat the disease. Yet they could have serious side effects, and for patients who are stable on their current regimen, doctors say shifting to pills may not be worth it.
Jill Kider had been anticipating the pills since she began injecting herself daily two years ago with a drug called Copaxone.
Copaxone stopped Ms. Kider's attacks of her multiple sclerosis. But when she travels, it isn't always easy to carry the syringes through airport security or refrigerate them at hotels. Still, a talk with her doctor, Peter Calabresi, persuaded not to take a chance on a new drug.
"I don't have any side effects, and it seems to be working very well for me. Why switch it?" said the 52-year-old from Rockville, Md.
The newest pill, Aubagio, was approved in September. Another, dubbed BG-12 until it is named, could be approved early next year. They join Gilenya, the first pill, which was cleared for use in late 2010.
Dr. Calabresi, who helped lead the clinical testing for Gilenya and consults for other drug makers involved in multiple sclerosis, likes to spend two hours discussing the various options with patients.
For "all of those patients who had been waiting years for a pill, the conversation isn't quite as rosy as we'd like it to be," said Dr. Calabresi, director of the Johns Hopkins Multiple Sclerosis Center in Baltimore.
Multiple sclerosis is a neurological disease that strikes painfully and unpredictably in 250,000 or more people in the U.S., about two-thirds of them women. In the U.S. last year, doctors filled 2.2 million prescriptions for multiple-sclerosis drugs, according to IMS Health, which tracks drug sales. World-wide, 2.1 million people have the disease, according to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
Symptoms, often starting with vision problems, muscle weakness and dizziness, commonly surface between 20 and 40 years of age. Most patients will face stretches of relief, interrupted by periodic attacks of the symptoms. Multiple-sclerosis drugs are measured, in part, by their effectiveness reducing the recurrence of those attacks.
Multiple sclerosis takes different forms. The most common involves periodic attacks of the disease—or relapses—while in other forms the disease progressively worsens. The new pills treat only the disease's relapsing forms.
The pills and injectable drugs typically cost $45,000 a year or more, and they are usually covered by insurance.
When Ms. Kider first sought treatment, the most popular options, such as Copaxone, Avonex and Rebif, were shots. Yet the injections can cause welts, itching or scarring. The most effective treatment is a drug taken intravenously, Tysabri, but it had been linked to a rare brain infection.
Tysabri reduced the rate of attacks by 68% over the course of two years compared with placebo, says Biogen Idec Inc.,its maker. But a medical test identifies about half of multiple sclerosis patients as at a higher risk of developing the brain infection if they take the drug, according to Lawrence Steinman, a Stanford University neurologist.
Generally, Dr. Steinman says he will prescribe Gilenya to new patients who haven't tried one of the older therapies, have aggressive cases of multiple sclerosis and want to take a pill. Gilenya reduced relapses by 54% at two years treatment, according to Novartis AG, its maker.
Yet Dr. Steinman says Gilenya won't work for some patients. He wouldn't give it to heart patients, because it could dangerously slow their heart beats, which could lead to death. Another concern with Gilenya, which works by suppressing the immune system, is that it increases the risk of herpes virus infections that can lead to shingles.
Aubagio cut relapses by 36% during an average of 18 months treatment, according to Sanofi SA'sGenzyme unit, which sells the drug. Doctors say that rate is comparable to the effectiveness of the older injections, and that clinical testing didn't indicate any serious side effects. But lab testing with animals suggested a risk of fetal death—and the drug's label warns against giving the drug to women of "childbearing potential."
Choosing which drug is most appropriate for patients is "all about safety and efficacy, not oral versus needle," said Dr. Steinman, who has consulted for Novartis and many other companies selling multiple sclerosis drugs.
It is difficult to find multiple-sclerosis treatments that are both effective and safe, experts say, because the understanding of the disease continues to evolve.
Researchers say multiple sclerosis wreaks havoc with a patient's immune system, causing it to damage healthy nerves and the myelin sheaths that wrap around nerve fibers, disrupting signals from the brain. Researchers still don't understand why the immune system goes haywire.
They believe it is a combination of genetic and environmental factors, including exposure to a virus.
The progressive forms can cause fatigue and depression and make it difficult for sufferers to concentrate and make decisions. Eventually, the disease can become debilitating, putting many patients in wheelchairs.
Timothy Coetzee, chief research officer at the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, says treatment "is in a remarkable place than it was years ago, when we had no disease modifying" drugs. He expects the new pills will help patients stay on their regimens, an important component to avoiding attacks.
For now, Mark Keegan, who heads the multiple-sclerosis section at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., has supported use of the older shots. That is "mainly because of an overall safety profile that is good," said Dr. Keegan. His counsel may change, he said, as doctors gain more experience with the new drugs in pill form.
By: Jonathan Rockoff, Wall Street Journal
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For Immediate Release, November 30, 2012
Lesser Prairie Chicken Proposed for Federal Protection
Energy Development, Agriculture Threaten Prairie Grouse
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed today to list the lesser prairie chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus) as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. The western grouse has been a candidate for listing since 1998 and is among the most imperiled species on the federal candidate list, where species await needed protection; the proposed rules comes as a result of a 2011 settlement between conservation groups and the Service to speed protections for hundreds of species around the country.
"The lesser prairie chicken will disappear forever without the protection of the Endangered Species Act," said Jay Lininger, an ecologist with the Center for Biological Diversity. "Voluntary measures that preserve a little remaining habitat may be more convenient for industry, but they won't save the species from extinction."
The lesser prairie chicken, an indicator species for the southern Great Plains, is a medium-sized, gray-brown grouse that lives in shinnery oak and sand-sagebrush grasslands in parts of Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. Its range has been reduced by more than 90 percent, and its population has declined by approximately 85 percent, since the 1800s; the Fish and Wildlife Service identified continued population declines and myriad land uses as threats to the species' persistence.
"Listing cannot come soon enough for the lesser prairie-chicken," said Taylor Jones, an endangered species advocate with WildEarth Guardians. "Threats are increasing, the species' range is contracting, and current conservation efforts are too little, too late to conserve the species."
The lesser prairie chicken is threatened by habitat loss and degradation from livestock grazing, agriculture, oil and gas extraction, herbicides and unnatural fire. Habitat fragmentation from fences and power lines and disturbance from roads, mining and wind energy production also affect the species. Climate change and drought are increasingly important threats. The potential loss of habitat on private land enrolled in the "Conservation Reserve Program" may have severe negative impacts as well.
Like other western grouse, male lesser prairie chickens engage in a unique, communal breeding display each spring to attract females. Both males and females congregate at breeding grounds (leks), where the males strut ("dance"), vocalize ("boom") and physically confront other males to defend their territories and court females. The male repertoire will include displaying bright yellow eye combs, inflating red air sacs, flutter-jumping, cackling and stamping their feet.
The lesser prairie chicken occurs in southeastern Colorado; the southwestern quarter of Kansas; and in patchy areas in the panhandle and northwest counties of Oklahoma. The species also occurs in east-central New Mexico and in small areas in the northeastern and southwestern corners of the Texas Panhandle. Kansas has the largest population of lesser prairie chickens, where the species relies heavily on habitat on private lands enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program.
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Oct. 10 Bob Melvin postgame interview
Q. 15th time this season you guys have walked off. Has it stopped amazing you yet?
BOB MELVIN: Well, what it's done is give us a sense that we're never out of it until the last out. We've been in plenty of situations where this has popped up, but probably no more than tonight. I mean, they got their closer on the mound and the game was going in their direction.
But as I've said often, we have some very intense at‑bats late in the games, especially here at home and every one of them to an extent in the last inning.
Q. When Smith hit the single to tie the game I noticed the reaction in the dugout going crazy and you were still stoic. I just wonder sometimes, you can't allow yourself maybe to get ahead of the game and start celebrating?
BOB MELVIN: Yeah, there's a lot of things that you're thinking about that can pop up. You have to remain calm and gather your thoughts and figure out what's the best course of direction to go and just standing there was the best course of direction to go and let the guys take over and swing the bats.
Q. Coco's had a couple of the walk‑off hits, and you said in the past about how good he is, how you're excited to see him in that situation. How come?
BOB MELVIN: Well, you know what? You look at ‑‑ I look at his match‑ups every day and I see the pitching that he hits. And he hits closers and he hits good pitching. He always puts a great at‑bat. We don't need a homer right there, all we need is a hit. That's the third time he's come up with a hit in walk‑off fashion. I don't think there's anybody we feel better about. There's certainly guys we feel good about, but I don't think there's anybody we feel better about in that situation than Coco.
Q. Your guys knew that their back end bullpen had had the occasional oil leak. Is that part of the psyche at all in the dugout?
BOB MELVIN: We're confident no matter who we play late in the game. Their guys have a good track record. I don't think anybody is thinking whoever has had some struggles this year. But we're trying to focus on what we can do and try to be prepared at every at‑bat, more so than anything.
Q. Regardless of stats and matchups going into the 9th inning, was there ever a doubt in your mind that you guys weren't going to win this game?
BOB MELVIN: You know what? We've done it too many times down this road to feel like we weren't going to win. And then we get the first guy on and we feel like here we go again. That's a contagious feeling in our dugout. And Donaldson gets the double and the momentum and the crowd got into it again. We just don't feel like it's going to end for us. So that was the feeling in the dugout during the 9th inning.
Q. It's easier to talk about it now that you've won, but when Stephen got thrown out at third, did he go on his own or did Mike send him?
BOB MELVIN: No, he went on his own. He thought he could make it. Stephen can be a cautious baserunner, so he really felt like where the ball was when he turned around and looked, he felt like he could get it. And he knows more than anybody, with nobody out that you have to be able to make it. He just thought he could make it. It wasn't Gallego sending him, he just ran.
Q. You've had all these miracles in the last couple of weeks. But you go to the 9th and you haven't done much. You're facing their closer, what are you thinking? Are you thinking can we do it or is there a confidence?
BOB MELVIN: No, there's a confidence. We've done it so many times that there's always going to be that confidence until we make the last out.
Again, what we were talking about earlier is the first guy gets on, now Donaldson doubles, now the crowds' into a frenzy and they're into it big time. We didn't feel like once there was a couple of guys on that we were going to be denied. Once Coco gets up there, I think everybody was very confident that he was going to come through as he has so many times.


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To crack the mysteries of interplanetary space travel, you first consult with the old woman in the shack. She sits inside, surrounded by windows in a dingy little room warmed by a portable heater. You stand in the chill of the larger reception area, stooping down to a slit in the glass, and then you slide your identification papers toward her so she can give them a sour once-over. She scribbles something in a spiral notebook (there are no computers involved), and then, after a wait, you are released into the outdoor courtyard, which gives way to the monolithic concrete-walled buildings of the Institute for Biomedical Problems, in Moscow, where today—a gray morning in October 2010—the winds are howling, the pewter skies threatening snow. The grass in the courtyard is dead. On the cork bulletin board, there is a single note. Handwritten, it advises employees where to procure foam for their fire extinguishers. It is all so bleak that you feel the urge to grab a bottle of vodka and cling to it for dear life.
by Bill Donahue (36.6 MB .mp3)
But wait, for there is romance alive at the institute as well. Everywhere in its vast, drafty building there are ancient gilt-framed photographs of Sergei Korolev, the mid-20th-century rocket engineer whom the Russians revere as the "father of space." The pictures are black-and-white and dramatically shadowed, the better to highlight Korolev's virile black eyebrows and his dreamy ambition. By 1956, Korolev had become a pioneer among space scientists, his designs inspiring serious plans to launch a manned mission to Mars. And now, at the institute he cofounded in 1963, mankind is making one small, decidedly unglamorous step toward that goal.
In a secluded area on the ground floor, six brave young men (three Russians, an Italian, a Frenchman, and a Chinese national) are simulating a mission to Mars. For 520 straight days—that's more than 17 months—the volunteers will be sequestered in a tubular steel stand-in for a spacecraft whose 775-square-foot living area is so cramped and spare it might have been designed by Dostoyevsky himself. Mars500, as their mission is called, is jointly sponsored by the Institute for Biomedical Problems and the European Space Agency. It seeks to answer a question that looms as the EU, the US, Russia, and India all look to put a man on Mars by the 2030s: Can the human animal endure the long isolation and boredom implicit in traveling to a planet that is, at its closest, 35 million miles—and roughly six months of rocket travel—away? Will one of the volunteers crack before the faux mission's scheduled conclusion on November 5, 2011?
When I visited the institute last year, it was hard to tell. The voyagers were sealed off from terrestrial life, each one allotted a private bunk room just 32 feet square and access to a common living room, a small gym, a greenhouse, and two minuscule lavatories. The crew's food storage room is almost as big as their living quarters, and when they entered isolation on June 3, 2010, it contained every single calorie they would consume as they soared through "space," then spent nine days on "Mars" (in this case a small pit of red sand) before returning and exiting a year and a half later.
Mars500 is unprecedented. Never before have six healthy males been so thoroughly isolated under such unvarying circumstances. Both public health researchers and space scientists regard them as the perfect experiment subjects—and in fact the astronauts spend much of their days pricking their arms for blood and handling vials of their own urine. They are taking part in more than 100 experiments.
But what else is going on in their tube? Last fall, I was able to make a videotape posing questions to the astronauts. I heard back from the two western Europeans—France's Romain Charles and Diego Urbina, a Colombian-born Italian. They appeared on camera one at a time, in a dimly lit room, and their tone was earnest and plaintive. "So far we've done 130 days," said Charles, 31, who has worked mostly as a quality engineer for auto companies like Tesla Motors. "But I am not counting the days one by one."
In his video, Urbina, a 27-year-old career astronaut, said, "I believe in a humankind that is space-faring, that expands its frontiers. I believe we cannot risk losing everything we have done by putting all our eggs in one basket—Earth. "
After I watched these clips, I turned to study the four nearby surveillance monitors that track activity in the Mars500 module. Charles and Urbina were slouched in the spaceship's living room, staring at a TV screen. Charles was strumming on a plastic instrument, playing Guitar Hero. Urbina was singing. They were wearing socks without shoes, both of them, and they were killing time. It would still be more than a year until they could step out and see sunlight.
"I like Star Wars the most, but being in here feels more like Star Trek, so I think if I had to pick sci-fi characters to feel identified with, I'd say the crew of the Enterprise."—Diego Urbina
The Institute for Biomedical Problems is a world leader in the torture of isolation. Over the years, it has done dozens of isolation experiments, starting with a brutal yearlong trial in 1967. Today's isolates bear the added burden of living in a reality-TV sort of fishbowl: A team of psychologists and representatives from China, Russia, and the ESA is watching the closed-circuit television monitors 24/7. "We're looking to see if they have breakfast together and whether they are playing together," says Elena Feichtinger, a psychologist who works for the European Space Agency and serves as the deputy project manager. "During the experiment, they are dependent on us like children. They aren't getting care and support from other people. So they lose their basic sense of safety. They need us."
Feichtinger, an effervescent redheaded Austrian, is the western European astronauts' link to civilization. It is she who sends them daily news, filtering out potentially depressing stories, and it is she who forwards the emails of family and loved ones. (On a brief time delay, of course. On a real space flight, an email would take up to 17 minutes to reach a Mars-bound spaceship.) When I visited, she suggested that I strike up a correspondence with the stimulation-starved astronauts.
I started emailing them soon after I left Moscow. It was a tricky endeavor, for I was hoping to glimpse the dark soul—the Russian-novel quality—of their long isolation. I aimed to pick my way into their hearts. But what tools did I have? We were all guys, so if I got too touchy-feely it was certain to backfire. And then there was the fact that I could move freely about and they couldn't. Would I make them hate me by writing about my vacation to Mexico? I wrote about it anyway, and about riding my bicycle through Oregon wine country, in hopes that they might open up, too. Before long, responses from the astronauts began arriving.
"It definitely feels like we are in the middle of nowhere," Urbina wrote.
"Half of us feel like we're traveling far away," Charles said, "while the other half still feel like we're standing on Earth. I'm in this second half. Since the beginning of the experiment, I find too many hints of a surrounding presence to feel like I'm in a real spaceship. However, even if I can't forget that I'm on Earth, I feel like I'm far away from anybody. As if the Mars500 modules had been moved to a strange and unknown place."
Charles came off as pensive and quietly genial. When I sent him a song by singer-songwriter Andrew Bird, he reminisced about seeing Bird once live in Angers in western France and marveled over Bird's use of a loop pedal on the album The Mysterious Production of Eggs. Urbina, meanwhile, seemed restlessly creative and geeky. He was setting up a computer program that would, he said, gather statistics on his email and tweeting "to see if there is any correlation of the communications with my mood."
But the emails I got rarely plumbed emotional depths. They seemed circumspect and of a piece with the G-rated stories that prevail on the European Space Agency website, esa.int, whose Mars500 coverage seems calibrated for schoolchildren. "Our Halloween party was great," Charles wrote me. "With Diego and Wang Yue, we dressed up in our costumes in the morning and we spent the whole day like that. If anybody had some free time, he could play Resident Evil 4, which Diego had installed on the big screen of the living room. In the evening we watched two horror movies while eating gummy bears and other sweets.
"Our main challenge right now," Charles added, "is to avoid being bored. Every single day is very similar to the previous one."
"I miss the presence of women and especially mine. We've been away from each other for nearly five months now, and it's not really easier to deal with it. It's not harder either. Some weeks we need to communicate every day while another week could be spent without any message. We have ups and downs like in a normal relationship."—Romain Charles
Isolation is hard; being deprived of fresh air and social variety makes you go batshit. That narrative is so ingrained in the collective psyche that when the Irish bookmaking chain Paddy Power set odds on Mars500, it all but anticipated failure. If a bettor wagered a dollar that the original six-member crew would not last the whole mission, he was, by Paddy's lights, practically predicting the sun would rise tomorrow—he'd only get $1.20 back. Paddy, meanwhile, set 8-to-1 odds that at least one crew member would go "clinically insane" after leaving the Mars500 experiment. (Fairly long odds until you consider that most jobs don't come with an 11 percent chance that you'll go clinically insane in a year and a half.) The Irish bookie even set odds as to who'd be first to quit. It tapped the sole Chinese astronaut, Yue Wang, putting him at 2-1. (Yue was, after all, the most culturally isolated.) Diego Urbina was next, at 5-2. Urbina had deep experience. He'd designed a star compass for a nanosatellite in Italy, and just before joining Mars500 he'd spent two weeks in the Utah desert, in a space suit, simulating a Mars landing. But he was the youngest crew member, and in press photos he always bore the most eager grin.
All three Russians got, relatively speaking, a vote of confidence from Paddy Power. Indeed, captain Alexey Sitev was the long shot in the quitting department, at 10-1. Which is a bit weird, because during the 1970s and 1980s three Russian space missions ended early on account of psychological problems. In 1976, for instance, two Russian cosmonauts abruptly cut about 10 days off a planned nine-week mission aboard the Salyut 5 space station. The oft-repeated reason for the early return was "interpersonal issues," but one cosmonaut, Vitaly Zholobov, would later report that he experienced almost hallucinatory fears when he looked out at a star. Zholobov apprehended space as "a bottomless abyss," he said.
The six astronauts crammed into the Mars500 simulator have all the comforts of home. Will that be enough to stave off space madness?
The Mission
After eight months, three crew members spent nine days "exploring" a 42,000- cubic-foot room designed to simulate Mars' Gusev Crater.
The Food
Most sustenance comes from the storage area, but the crew also experiments with growing food in small greenhouses.
The Lander
A landing simulator sequestered three men for the "trip" from orbit to the Martian surface.
The Beds
Smaller than cells on Alcatraz, 32-square-foot bunks provide a modicum of privacy for the 17-month slog.
The Experiments
The mission members are constantly tested on every conceivable metric: stress, metabolic rates, group dynamics, and more.
The Entertainment
In space, no one can hear you scream—even if you're belting out Bon Jovi on Guitar Hero to pass the time.
Time to get to Mars: 175-225 days. / / Miles traveled: 70 million. / / Total length of a round-trip: 500-1,000 days. / / Food required for a crew of 6: 29,200 pounds. / / Samples to be brought home: 550 pounds. / / NASA's goal for a manned Mars mission: mid-2030s. / / Estimated cost: $100 billion.
Illustration: James Provost
Credits: clockwise, beds-mission: ESA; food-entertainment: IBMP; Mars: NASA
Isolation can drive people crazy on Earth, too. Lawrence Palinkas, a USC professor of social policy and health who has extensively researched what happens to people who linger in Antarctica when it is dark for six months straight, writes that the austral winter "has long been associated with reports of depression, irritability, aggressive behavior, insomnia, difficulty in concentration and memory, absentmindedness, and the occurrence of mild fugue states known as 'long-eye' or the 'Antarctic stare.'"
Christian Otto, an emergency physician who studies space medicine for NASA, explains that isolation all but bores us to death. "As humans, we're novelty-seeking creatures," he says. Millions of years ago, he explains, our ancestors stood up "to seek food sources in the high grass. We look for refuge, for vistas. We have opioid receptors in our brain, and when we go outside—for a run, say—opioid release gets triggered. That's good; we need that. But if you deprive the senses of variety, the hippocampus atrophies and the brain's cortisol level rise." High cortisol is associated with stress, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Otto has spent two winters as a physician in Antarctica. "I was busy all the time with mental health issues," he says. "Over time, isolated people undergo social narrowing. They stop eating in the cafeteria; they just take food back to their rooms. Their IQ goes down 5 to 10 points. They lose all affect. There's little inflection in their voices. You look into their eyes and you think, their lights are on, but they're not home."
Social tension has cropped up in past missions carried out by the Institute for Biomedical Problems. On a 240-day international experiment there in 2000, Russian crew member Vasily Lukyanyuk ruined a drunken New Year's Eve celebration by shoving a Canadian, Judith Lapierre, away from the video monitors and forcibly French-kissing her twice, against her will. The astronauts weren't supposed to have alcohol (drinking is also banned on Mars500), but scientists surreptitiously supplied it, crew commander Norbert Kraft later said.
The booze wasn't the only contraband aboard that simulated space station run. The ship's Russian cosmonauts regularly watched pornography, Kraft admitted, and one Japanese man, Masataka Umeda, left the mission two months early in protest. Meanwhile, there were cockroaches in the showers and mice crawling up through cracks in the floor.
"The walls are thin and with poor acoustic isolation. It is not a huge problem, but a bit annoying in that you have to make an active effort not disturb other people that can hear every little sound you make even from two or three rooms away. I think it is comparable to when you have to share rooms in college."— Diego Urbina
Our six astronauts are multicultural, friendly, and given to horsing around. At one point, they joined forces to create a music video in which they wailed with gleeful exuberance through "Song 2," by Blur, complete with a go-bananas "Woo-hoo" scream.
But there were serious duties to attend to as well. On February 12, 2011, the crew "landed" on Mars—or, more accurately, gained access to the small expanse of red sand, a facsimile of Mars' Gusev Crater, just upstairs from their living quarters. "We opened the hatches of the Martian module," Charles wrote me, "and it was like a second Christmas!" Before landing, the crew split into two groups of three. Urbina, Yue Wang, and the ship's physician, Alexandr Smoleevskiy, positioned themselves in a tiny landing craft; the other astronauts stayed behind, feeling lonesome. "The main modules seemed big and empty," Charles wrote me. "It was a strange feeling that I only experienced when I was younger. During the holidays it happened that my brothers and sister went away, leaving me alone at home with my parents."
The Mars-faring trio "journeyed" to the Red Planet, holing up in the lander module, doing preparations for four days. "Europe has for centuries explored Earth, led by people like Columbus and Magellan," Urbina said after he took his first steps in the sand wearing a 66-pound space suit. "Today, looking at this red landscape, I can feel how inspiring it will be to look through the eyes of the first human to step foot on Mars. I salute all the explorers of tomorrow and wish them godspeed." Over the course of nine days, they took three walks on the Martian surface, each roughly an hour long.
The ESA website put the word "landed" in quotes, but among the astronauts, the suspension of disbelief was almost total. Urbina pretended that it was September 2018. He pictured the half-empty Mars500 mother ship orbiting 280 miles overhead and then reckoned that it could contact the landing crew only when it was directly above the Gusev Crater. Under such strictures, the Mars party would relay their reports from the surface only during prescribed intervals.
Despite such conscientious verisimilitude, the Mars500 crew drew mixed reviews among the space cognoscenti. Christian Otto of NASA questioned whether Mars500 was a useful exercise at all. "If you were actually going to Mars and a person made an error, that could have serious consequences," he says. "A true space mission is more dangerous, more stressful. And also more rewarding: You actually get to go to Mars."
In Russia, I encountered deeper skepticism among cosmonauts, who tend to live just outside Moscow in an elegant, tree-lined enclave known as Star City. When I ventured there one day, I spoke to Sergei Krikalev, who has spent 803 days in outer space—more than any other human being—and he scoffed at Mars500. "If you spend 500 days sitting in a chair," he asked, "does that make you a race car driver?"
"As you guessed, the private messages that we receive from the outside are always a ray of light in our days. I spend a lot of time writing emails because it makes me very happy when I receive an answer."—Romain Charles
Being aboard Mars500 is mostly menial and toilsome—the astronauts are glorified lab rats. Scientists are keeping close tabs on how the isolates' hearts are coping with the stress of confinement. They are monitoring the microflora in the crew's intestines, subjecting them to questionnaires on their interpersonal dramas, and hitting them with regular doses of blue light to gauge its effect on their psychological states. The regimen is at times exhausting. "The biggest challenge for me," Charles wrote in one email, "is the width of my bed—60 centimeters. As soon as I have more than one device to wear during the night (for blood pressure tests, electrocardiograms, electroencephalograms, etc.), I can't move."
"We have to collect urine the whole day," Urbina said. "And in the morning we have to take samples of the previous day's urine with syringes. That was pretty disgusting at the beginning, but now we've gotten used to it. "
The urine samples may help reshape notions of male hormonal fluctuations. Jens Titze, a nephrologist at University of Erlangen, in Germany, is using them to test a hypothesis. "Men might have periods, too," he says. "We always thought it was females only, but it looks like there's a clock ticking for men also." Titze explains that the rhythms are related to the body's excretion and retention of salt. With the Mars500 crew, Titze is measuring salt in and salt out—and reveling in the purity of his study sample. "Usually, there are so many variables in public health," he says. "But with these guys we know their exact sodium intake." (During Titze's experiment, each astronaut is required to finish every meal.) "It might be that if you pee less," Titze adds, "you are in a bad mood. We don't know yet. We still have 6,000 urine samples to analyze, and we have to correlate those with mood reports."
Moods aboard Mars500 aren't just self-reported. David Dinges, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania, has the astronauts sitting in front of videocams once a week, to gauge their emotional states with facial-recognition software. "We're asking: How fast are they blinking? Are their facial expressions slowing down?" says Dinges, whose research could help show soldiers how to contend with stress and fatigue.
I wished I could see Dinges' findings, for the astronauts' missives to me were growing increasingly reserved. Still, in March, nine months into the mission, Charles wrote, "We haven't had any conflict so far."
I could gauge the astronauts' stress levels only by trying to decipher hints. In June, at the mission's one-year point, esa.int posted a small photo of Charles. It was a self-portrait; you could see his left hand reaching out for the camera. He was staring at the camera, not smiling. His eyes looked weary and tender, and as he leaned forward slightly, there was something plaintive in his posture, like he was showing us his heart and beseeching us to register the weight of a full year in isolation.
"We are now heading back to Earth, and we are prepared to deal with this hardest part of the trip, as the psychologists call it."— Romain Charles
"Are we almost there?"
Whether this question is asked from the back of a minivan or from the hull of a mock spaceship, a "yes" answer always has a soothing effect. What's most difficult about traveling is the part before almost-there. The third lap of a mile race always feels the slowest.
I hoped that my correspondence with the astronauts would finally blossom during their almost-there agony. I hoped that in their misery they might take to their laptops to proffer me something brooding and confessional. But no, they were fading from me. It was as though I were watching a movie and the screen kept getting dimmer and dimmer. On April 3, seven months before Mars500's "return," I got my last letter.
The withdrawal shouldn't have surprised me. Feichtinger, the Austrian psychologist, had told me that isolated groups often grow skeptical of outsiders. "They have to focus their aggression on the outside," she said. "This is normal. This is even good. It helps them to bond."
After four more months of silence (it was now August), Feichtinger intimated that the astronauts were scarcely writing to anyone. "They've become close to each other, and they're not paying so much attention to the outside world," she said. "They're doing that to survive. I still try to get them to write to their families, but I can't be too pushy. This is a very delicate moment."
When I spoke to Christian Otto, the NASA physician, late this summer, he struck an ominous note. "I cannot divulge information that has been shared with me in confidence by the researchers," he said, "but I'd be absolutely shocked if they walked out of there in tip-top shape."
I'd be shocked, too. And still, I ended my reporting awed by the astronauts. They are living, as all of us do, circumscribed lives. They're obliged to grind through certain routines inside a small box, and they have to amuse themselves inside that box and to find meaning in their pursuits. And they are, it seems, succeeding. Their messages have been hopeful. They are surviving.
Still, I can only guess what is going on with them now. And I suspect that for years after they emerge, smiling and waving, we will all still be guessing. In their sealed lair, astronauts aboard Mars500 will have journeyed to a remote and unique psychological place—to a new planet that we won't ever wholly understand, even after the data is crunched. They went on a mission and they came home, as travelers always do, changed in ways that they will forever protect as secret, and also in ways they may never quite fathom themselves.
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Photo No. 28 is similar to one we saw earlier:
As with Photo No. 10, this image has an upside-down imprint from Folsom's studio in Danbury, Conn. This image also has a very grainy texture to it. It almost looks like a drawing, rather than a photograph. There are no other identifying marks on the image.
Photo No. 29 is from still another studio, this time in New Milford, Conn.:
I found photographer Walter F. Chipman in city directories on Ancestry. He's at the Bank Street location in 1888-89 as well as 1891-92. He's even listed as a photographer at age 17 in the 1880 U.S. Census (though he's in New Haven then).
1880 U.S. Census, New Haven County, Connecticut, population schedule, New Haven, page 372, dwelling 379, family 510, Walter F. Chipman; Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : accessed 23 March 2011); Roll: 105; Family History Film 1254105; Page: 372A; Enumeration District: 74; Image: 0286.
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Batting great Rahul Dravid received India's third highest civilian honour, the Padma Bhushan, from President Pranab Mukherjee during a ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhawan's Darbar Hall Friday.
Former boxer Ngangom Dingko Singh and rower Bajrang Lal Takhar received the country's fourth highest civilian honour, the Padma Shri.
"It was a great feeling. Surprisingly, it worked out all fine for me. Tomorrow, I am playing our IPL match here and today I got this award. I would have gone anyway to receive this award. I'm happy my family is here besides me," Dravid told reporters on receiving the award.
The 40-year-old will be leading Rajasthan Royals against the Delhi Daredevils in the Indian Premier League (IPL) at the Ferozeshah Kotla here Saturday. The prolific batsman scored 13,288 runs in 164 Tests at an average of 52.31 and amassed 10,889 runs in 344 ODIs, averaging 39.16.
This year's list of honours were announced Jan 25 and another ceremony is expected later for presentation of the awards to the remaining recipients. Boxer M.C. Mary Kom was also named for Padma Bhushan while shooter Vijay Kumar, wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt, mountaineer Premlata Agrawal, para-athlete Hosanagara Nagarajegowda Girisha were named in the list of Padma Shris.


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(Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia; ALL)
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is a cancer of the white blood cells in the bone marrow. The white blood cells (lymphocytes) grow in the bone marrow, then travel throughout the body to fight infections.
ALL also causes the bone marrow to make too many of these cells. The overgrowth makes it difficult for other blood cells like red blood cells or platelets to develop. Low levels of other blood cells can cause a variety of symptoms such as bleeding problems, fatigue and shortness of breath.
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The cause of ALL is unknown. Many cancers are believed to be caused by a combination of genetic and environmental factors.
Risk Factors
Risk Factors
ALL is more common in white males. It is also more likely to occur in children and adults over 70 years of age. Other factors that may increase your chance of ALL include:
- Previous chemo- or radiation therapy treatment
- Exposure to toxic chemicals such as pesticides or benzene (common in agriculture, dye works, and paint manufacturing and use)
- Exposure to atomic bomb radiation or nuclear reactor accident
- Certain genetic disorders, such as Down syndrome, Bloom syndrome, Fanconi's anemia, ataxia-telangiectasia, neurofibromatosis, Shwachman syndrome, IgA deficiency, and congenital X-linked agammaglobulinemia
Factors that may increase the chance of ALL in children only include:
- Having a brother or sister with leukemia
- Exposure to x-rays before birth
- Exposure to radiation, including X-rays and CT scans
- Previous chemotherapy or other treatment that weakens the immune system
ALL may cause:
- Weakness
- Fatigue
- Fever
- Pale skin
- Night sweats
- Easy bruising or bleeding
- Petechiae (flat, pinpoint spots under the skin caused by bleeding)
- Shortness of breath
- Weight loss
- Loss of appetite
- Bone or joint pain
- Stomach pain
- Pain or a feeling of fullness below the ribs
- Painless lumps in the neck, underarms, stomach, or groin
- Swelling of the liver and/or spleen
Your doctor will ask about your symptoms and medical history. A physical exam will be done including check for swelling of the liver, spleen, or lymph nodes. If your doctor suspects leukemia, you will likely be referred to a specialist.
Abnormal cells may be found through:
- Blood tests—assessing number of different blood cells to look for abnormally high or low levels and tests of other substances in the blood that may indicate organ stress
- Bone marrow aspiration and biopsy —to remove and test a portion of bone marrow
Further tests may be done to provide detailed information about the leukemia. These tests will help guide treatment. Tests may include:
- Cytogenetic analysis—a test to look for certain changes of the chromosomes (genetic material) of the lymphocytes; certain genetic abnormalities
- Immunophenotyping—examination of the proteins on cell surfaces and the antibodies produced by the body; to distinguish lymphoblastic from myeloid leukemia and determine types of therapy
- Lumbar puncture —to see if leukemia has spread to spinal cord and brain
- Chest x-ray —look for masses in chest caused by leukemia
Talk with your doctor about the best plan for you. Treatment of ALL is done in 2 phases. First, remission induction therapy is used to kill leukemia cells. Then, maintenance therapy is used to kill any remaining leukemia cells. Cells left behind could grow and cause a relapse. Treatment options include:
Chemotherapy is the use of drugs to kill cancer cells. It may be given by pill, injection, and via a catheter. The drugs enter the bloodstream and travel through the body. It kills mostly cancer cells, but also some healthy cells.
Clinical trials are now underway to test medications that are better are targeting cancer cells. One drug is imatinib. This drug is used to treat chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML). It helps to prevent the function of genes associated with ALL.
Some ALL may spread to the brain and spinal cord. In this case, chemotherapy may be deliverd directly into the spinal column. This type of chemotherapy is known as intrathecal therapy.
Radiation Therapy
Radiation therapy is the use of radiation to kill cancer cells and shrink tumors. For ALL, external radiation therapy is used. The radiation is directed at the tumor from outside the body. This type of treatment is used for ALL that has or may spread to the brain and spinal cord.
Chemotherapy With Stem Cell Transplant
Stem cells are immature blood cells that are removed from the blood or bone marrow of the patient or donor. The chemotherapy destroys the blood cells. The stem cells are then infused through the blood to restore the blood cells. It is most often used with ALL that was treated, but then returned.
Biologic Therapy
This process is still being tested in clinical trials. This is the use of medications or substances made by the body. The substance is used to increase or restore the body's natural defenses against cancer. This type of therapy is also called biological response modifier therapy. Sometimes, very specific (monoclonal) antibodies are developed to target the leukemia cells specifically. Currently, monoclonal antibody therapy is restricted to clinical trails and not generally available.
Possible Development of New Cancers
People treated for ALL in their youth may have a risk of cancer later in life. The exact type of new cancer can vary. It is important that people who have had ALL be carefully watched for new cancer development. These screenings should be carried out through their lifetime.
There are no current guidelines for preventing ALL since its cause is unknown.
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Singapore, 13 November 2011 – This weekend, Singaporeans everywhere will come face to face with multi-coloured, life-sized baby elephant sculptures throughout the island, with the launch of the Elephant Parade two days ago. This open-air art exhibition across the world promotes and supports the conservation of the endangered Asian elephant, and the Singapore Zoo will have a collection of 25 such sculptures grazing on its grounds for over two months.
Painted by local and international artists, each 'elephant' is a unique piece of art, which will be auctioned off during two private events on 12 and 14 January 2012, to raise funds for the cause. Five percent of the proceeds from the auctions will be donated to Wildlife Reserves Singapore Conservation Fund, the conservation arm of Wildlife Reserves Singapore (WRS), which was set up with the primary purpose of conserving Singapore's endangered native wildlife, and also supports capacity building, education and awareness programmes on key species and conservation issues in the Southeast Asian region.
One of the elephants was specially designed in collaboration with the Movement for the Intellectually Disabled of Singapore (MINDS). Seven artists, four from the MINDS – Woodlands Gardens School and three from the MINDS – Woodlands Employment Development Centre, came together to paint the 'elephant', called Love and Protect, which depicts a boy and girl linking protective hands around the elephant, in a field of grass.
Singapore Zoo has also scheduled several activities in conjunction with the inaugural Elephant Parade. A Nikon Photography Contest will be held on Facebook to encourage people to look for quirky photo opportunities with the elephant sculptures. To participate, visitors need to take a photo with the displays at the Singapore Zoo and upload them with the completed caption: "My wish for the Asian elephant is…" Winners will walk away with Nikon Coolpix cameras and Elephant Parade replicas.
In addition, WRS will set up an educational booth, "Mad about Elephants", at the Ele-fun play area at the Elephants of Asia exhibit for five weekends from 19 November. Visitors can view elephant artifacts and specimens at a show and tell session. This activity aims to highlight how Asian elephants are dying in the wild – from 200,000 a century ago to a fifth of that population now.
Ms Claire Chiang, WRS Chairman and Ambassador of Elephant Parade Singapore said: "We are very proud to be part of this meaningful initiative, which brings global attention to the plight of these beautiful animals in the wild. WRS runs a very successful captive breeding programme for these Asian elephants, which has recently resulted in the birth of one-year-old Nila Utama at Night Safari, the first of its kind to be born at our parks in nine years. Through partnerships with organisations like the Elephant Parade as well as tie-ups with voluntary welfare organisations such as MINDS, we hope to raise awareness and encourage the wider public to join the effort to protect these charismatic creatures for future generations."


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Israeli folk dances and Chinese culture
Back in the early/mid 1970s, I, like every good American Jew, did Israeli folk dancing. Our family was very serious about it, so much so that we'd usually attend the annual get-t0gethers in San Luis Obispo at which the top Israeli choreographers would introduce their new dances for the year.
At one of the annual events, a choreographer introduced a new dance called "Li Lach." I loved it because it was a bright, energetic dance that periodically broke out into a polka. I am a big fan of polkas and waltzes and, back in the day, could do them pretty darn well. Li Lach was also fun because the chorus was the word "why" repeated over and over again, which meant that the dancers would swing joyously around the dance floor, polkaing and hollering out "why, why, why!" at the top of their lungs.
Fast forward forty-odd years: I've made a playlist on Spotify that has hundreds of my favorite songs (many of which I share here on "just because music" posts). These songs span decades, genres, and countries. After I added Bashana Haba'ah to my playlist, it occurred to me to search out Li Lach. I couldn't find it on Spotify, so I turned to YouTube.
Sure enough, there on YouTube was the song Li Lach. Unfortunately, it's not a straight out recording but is, instead, the background music part for a video showing amateur Israeli folk dancers in a big gym. (If anyone can find a straight recording, I'd sure appreciate that.) For some reason, too, the recording is speeded up, so it makes the whole thing sound like an Alvin and the Chipmunks version of the song.
Despite its failings, I found the video fascinating for two reasons. First, the choreography hasn't changed in forty years. And second, it's a Chinese group doing the dancing. That made me laugh until, with perfect timing, I read in PJ Media that the Chinese are fascinated (in a good way) by Jews and Judaism . . . so maybe it's not so funny after all:
Over the past couple of decades the Chinese have become more interested in the Jews. Of late the Chinese regime has been bringing Jewish scholars and theologians to the People's Republic to discuss Torah, Talmud, Mishnah and even some of the more mystical tracts.
Read Michael Ledeen's whole post to see his intriguing theory about this new love affair.


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No one plans on setting records this year in most U.S. business sectors, including the RV park and campground business. But the good news is that the nation's campground operators are generally experiencing a decent year, based on positive reports thus far from a wide array of locales, from Ohio to Texas and California.
Montana-based Kampgrounds of America Inc. (KOA) is seeing much the same thing after a slow start coming out of the winter, according to KOA Vice President of Communications Mike Gast.
"We have a report that we generate every week called a weekly Flashlight Report, and it looks at camper night trends both on the franchise and the company-owned properties side," said Gast. "We measure everything from short-term nights on RVs to cabins to lodge and tent traffic, and it's been getting consistently better, week to week, by a percent or two as it's gone along – to the extent that we're now only about 5-6% under last year, and 2008 was one of our best years ever.
"We got off to a very slow start with the winter traffic, so we kind of had our foot in a bucket right off the bat. But it's been getting progressively better, week to week, as the numbers (volume) have gotten bigger."
That strong trend is apparently continuing, as KOA's 425 franchised parks and 25 company-operated facilities are currently ahead of last year's early reservation pace for the 4th of July weekend.
KOA, for its part, specifically monitors Memorial Day, Independence Day and Labor Day for advance holiday reservations. "And the trend we're seeing is that, especially on those holidays, people are slower to book," said Gast. "They're much more likely to wait until closer to the holiday. At one point, for instance, a couple of months out before Memorial Day, we were 12% under last year. That, of course, was very concerning to us – to be 12% under that early. And it got progressively better every week and we finished up 1% over last year on Memorial Day."


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By COLLEEN LEDDY
When I unpacked my suitcase following my return from Baton Rouge I was reminded of something I did when I went there to visit my granddaughter Caroline. As I emptied the suitcase, I pulled on a bright white long sleeve shirt and thought I might have mistakenly packed one of Rosie's shirts. And then I remembered...Mardi Gras Mambo.
My son-in-law Taylor registered for the Mardi Gras Mambo 10K run, but Rosie had signed up for the one-mile Fun Run/Walk. At least, I thought Rosie had said Walk. She figured I could sign up for it too when we went to pick up their packets. It cost only $10 to register and came with a cool long sleeve shirt, and since Rosie said we could just walk, I figured why not.
Why not? 8:30 a.m. in the morning, that's why not. That would be the starting time for the Fun Run/Walk. But, Caroline was going to be there in her jogging stroller and I didn't want to miss out on any time gazing upon that sweet face. Had I been thinking, I would have offered to babysit her and we could have slept in, but I had not been thinking. So, I set my phone alarm for 7 a.m. preparing to leave the house at 8 a.m.
My alarm never went off and Rosie and Taylor snoozed after theirs did. Suddenly, about 10 minutes to 8, Rosie was yelling at me to wake up. Shower plans were scrapped and we all scrambled to get dressed.
Parking was a nightmare and by the time we finally belted Caroline into the jogging stroller and arrived at the staging area, the one-mile event had started. So, we had to run to catch up with everyone else. And then we had to run when Rosie saw her friend Laura.
"I thought you said we were going to walk," I complained at first. But Rosie had originally signed up with Laura so I gamely ran when I could so we could catch up with her.
But Laura, 8 1/2 months pregnant and pushing her 18-month-old in a jogging stroller, was running at a pretty fast clip alongside her husband. He was warming up for the 10K run we discovered as they passed us on the return path to the finish line.
Rosie and I finished 39th and 40th out of 50 females, and seven males had a slower time than us. Rosie thought it curious that the results showed me ahead of her until she realized we were so late we never attached our numbers to our shirts. They were in the basket of Caroline's stroller and the chips were read as we ran across the finish...because, really, you gotta make that last dash when the finish line is in sight even if you are the third oldest participant in the race and totally out of shape.
Old and out of shape. That's the state I'm in—and not just when it comes to Mardi Gras Mambos. I'm flat out pooped out in the Adult Child in New Zealand arena.
I know Maddie is perfectly capable of taking care of herself, but I can't help worrying about her. New Zealand is sooooo far away! And she appears to be in territory with way more trees than people—and no WiFi.
"Wifi for a minute at McDonald's but don't know when I'll have it next. Don't worry if you don't hear for a little while. We're outside Nelson now and we'll explore the Abel Tasman area the next few days," she emailed on March 2.
"Haha, telling me to not worry!" I emailed back.
"In Takaka," she emailed on March 4. "Rarely Internet so don't worry when I don't write for a couple days/weeks. We've been campervanning. Pretty beautiful places....We made friends with a guy from New York in a parking lot last night and he gave us good tips."
Yeah, that's the kind of thing that will allay a mother's fears. A guy from New York giving tips in a parking lot.
By March 8 we hadn't heard anything from her. "I am sicker than sick with a Cajun Cold I think I picked up in Baton Rouge. Make me happy and email me something..."
By March 9, I was getting pretty worried. I really thought she had said "Don't worry when I don't write for a couple days." It's only now that I notice the slash mark and "weeks."
"Is it time for me to go looking for you?" I email. I know I'm talking to myself. "I miss you and I don't think 'a couple days' is the same thing as 5 days. It's time for you to find a McDonald's and say hi."
"OK," I say on March 10. "I'm ready to call the embassy. Dad says, 'Don't be stoopid.' I say (to you), I wouldn't if you'd hurry the hell up and email or Skype or something."
Later that night she finally emerges from the bush.
"Don't be stoopid. It's impossible to get internet sometimes and it's really really annoying worrying about how you're worrying about me.," she scolded me. "It should only be about 2 more weeks of it being this hard to get internet but you're gonna have to deal with it until then... there's rarely wifi and sometimes it doesn't work even when there is a McDonald's and libraries turn it off when they're closed and lots of camp sites are far from town. I'll write you a nicer email about the lovely time I'm having later but just letting you know I'm alive. And now we're down to Arthur's pass. But I'm going to stop worrying about you worrying about me just so you know, so try not to worry so much."
Maybe I should just take up running.


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CALGARY, ALBERTA -- (Marketwire) -- 02/05/13 -- ATCO announced today that $3.8 Million was raised for charity in 2012 through its ATCO EPIC (Employees Participating in Communities) program. The employee-led program combines fundraising events, auctions, friendly team competitions and employee pledges to support charitable organizations.
ATCO employees are able to donate to the charities of their choice with all administration costs for the program absorbed by ATCO, ensuring that the charities benefit from100 per cent of the donation. ATCO further enhances its peoples' generosity by matching charitable donations made to human health and wellness organizations.
Through ATCO EPIC Time to Give, employees volunteering 50 hours or more are eligible to apply for a $150 donation from ATCO to a registered charity of their choice. In 2012, ATCO employees volunteered more than 34,000 hours.
"The ATCO EPIC program is a testament to the generosity of our people and their commitment to building better communities," said Nancy Southern, Chair, President & Chief Executive Officer, ATCO Group. "The hard work and dedication of our employees to the success of this program year after year is an inspiration."
Special celebrations were held today in Calgary and Edmonton to announce the amount raised by the EPIC program and to bring together committee leaders from all nine of ATCO's principal operating companies as well as representatives from benefiting charity organizations.
Building on nearly 60 years of ongoing community support, ATCO EPIC was launched in 2006 and has raised over $19 Million for charitable organizations since that time.
ATCO Group, with more than 8,800 employees and approximately $14 billion in assets, delivers service excellence and innovative business solutions worldwide with leading companies engaged in structures & logistics (manufacturing, logistics and noise abatement), utilities (pipelines, natural gas and electricity transmission and distribution), energy (power generation, natural gas gathering, processing, storage and liquids extraction) and technologies (business systems solutions). More information can be found at www.atco.com.
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Dalton is a town in Massachusetts. It was formed in 1784 and was previously called (Ashuelet Equivalent). It can be found in Berkshire county and is a part of the Middlesex registry of deed district. For more information, contact the county at 462 Main St., Dalton 01226. On the attached map, Dalton is shown as 13 in Berkshire county.
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Finally! Re-installing my own personal wagon station way up on a little plateau that we've been working to level out for the last few years. Frame was set today and panels are coming up the hill tomorrow morning. I love how private it is up here. Years ago, before I bought the land, someone squatted this same site with a tiny white geodesic dome that has since blown away and scattered across the desert.


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Specifies the location of the data file for the Java DB database.
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Specifies the port for the Java DB database.
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Specifies the port that Oracle Solaris Cluster uses to test the health of the server for the Java DB database.
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Controls fault-monitor restarts. The property indicates the number of times that the process monitor facility restarts the fault monitor. The property corresponds to the –n option passed to the pmfadm(8) command. The Resource Group Manager (RGM) counts the number of restarts in a specified time window (see Monitor_retry_interval). Note that Monitor_retry_count refers to the restarts of the fault monitor itself, not of the SUNW.derby resource.
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Indicates the time window in minutes during which the RGM counts fault-monitor failures. The property corresponds to the –t option passed to the pmfadm(8) command. If the number of times that the fault monitor fails exceeds the value of the extension property Monitor_retry_count, the process monitor facility does not restart the fault monitor.
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