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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — It's official: Steve Mills is the Knicks' new president and Scott Perry is their new general manager.
The Knicks announced the promotion and hire, which had already been reported by various outlets, on Friday afternoon.
MORE: Schmeelk: Perry A Good Hire By Knicks, At Least On Paper Anyway
Mills takes over as president after serving as GM since 2014. He replaces Phil Jackson, who mutually parted ways with the team last month following three losing seasons. With the exception of four years, Mills has worked for the Knicks and Madison Square Garden since 1999 in various capacities.
"Today marks a culture change for our organization where we reestablish the pride, work ethic and responsibility that comes with playing for the Knicks and representing New York," Knicks owner James Dolan said in a news release. "I'm confident Steve is the right person to take on this role, and ensure that we return to one of the elite teams in the NBA. He's got an ambitious plan that centers on building a young team focused on player development, communication and teamwork."
Perry comes to the Knicks from the Sacramento Kings, where he served as vice president of basketball operations for the past three months. Before that, he spent five seasons as the assistant general manager of the Orlando Magic. He was fired by the Magic in April.
The Knicks and Kings had to agree to a compensation package before New York could hire Perry. That compensation includes a second-round draft pick in 2019 and cash considerations, Newsday reported.
MORE: Report: While Knicks Reconsider Trading Him, Carmelo Anthony Wants Out
Mills' "decision to bring Scott on as general manager is a critical first step in transforming this franchise," Dolan said. "Scott brings tremendous skill and experience in helping to build winning basketball teams. He'll immediately get to work adjusting our basketball operations department to make sure we have one of the most effective front office staffs in the NBA."
Perry also has held front-office jobs with the Seattle SuperSonics and Detroit Pistons.
With Perry in their front office, the Magic failed to reach the playoffs over the past five years. But he has been part of staffs that drafted Kevin Durant, Victor Oladipo, Aaron Gordon, Elfrid Payton and Mario Hezonja.
Dolan said he does not plan to get involved with the basketball operations.
"Today is a new day for this franchise," Mills said in the news release. "Scott will immediately begin to put together a basketball operations department that is among the best in the league. We will be united in implementing our strategy, which is to build our team by developing young players, emphasizing athleticism, length and defense."
Said Perry, whose contract is reportedly for five years: "I am excited for the opportunity and the responsibility bestowed upon me. As general manager, I will work tirelessly to develop a culture that demands results, commitment and pride from everyone fortunate enough to be associated with our team — from our staff to our players."
The Knicks are coming off a 31-51 season and have not qualified for the postseason since 2013.
The first big question facing the Mills-Perry regime is whether to trade 10-time All-Star Carmelo Anthony. The Knicks had been in serious talks with the Houston Rockets this week before pausing the negotiations because they were having second thoughts.


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Lead-Tainted Ginger Found In California Trader Joe's And Whole Foods
By Chris Weller, http://www.medicaldaily.com
The state attorney general of California has accused Trader Joe's, Whole Foods, and ten other California grocery stores of selling ginger and plum candies with dangerously high levels of lead.
Amid the recent fervor regarding GMO-based foods, this case punctuates the growing importance of food labeling, especially as it pertains to children and pregnant women, who face a greater risk of lead poisoning.
While Lynda Gledhill, the attorney general's press secretary, said the lead levels were sporadic — "meaning it wasn't something that was naturally occurring" — the nature of this case poses the greatest threat, because pregnant women often enjoy ginger candy during their pregnancy and children are, no doubt, notorious candy eaters.
California's Proposition 65 states businesses must disclose to consumers the harmful toxins found in food, toys, jewelry, and other products — a disclosure that the suit argues never happened. Read More
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Tenzin began by teaching English to just three students in his spare time, but quickly saw the need and demand for much more. At the same time, he was lucky enough to have a personal audience with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and was told that he would be a good leader and encouraged to keep working hard. Realizing how insightful the Dalai Lama's advise was, Tenzin was moved to found the Hope Center.
The Tibet Hope Center was established in May 2007, and has since taught countless Tibetans the English language, making a positive difference in their lives, and helping them adjust to life in exile. "During our English classes we also explain the need for compassion and love," says Tenzin, explaining that, "Many students do not have any family or elders to teach them....we are their family."
The center does have a distinct family atmosphere. THC's status as a small nongovernmental organization (NGO) enables its staff to recognize and understand many issues pertaining to different students. According to Tenzin, "Some students are young and have a hard time adjusting to certain rules needed in larger NGOs....We are able to work more with them and help them...we are more grassroots."
The Hope Center has also initiated many community projects the need arises. The Groovy Nannies project helps to meet local elders' need for greater interaction with the community. In this project, students and volunteers visit the Jampaling Elders Home, where they play games with and host tea parties for the elderly residents. The Town Clean-Up project met an obvious necessity that had previously neglected by local bureaucracy. Volunteers and students clean up the Temple, Bhagsu, and Jogiwara roads, making the town safer and more beautiful for residents and visitors.
In a place where Tibetan refugees' need for hope is so urgent, the Tibet Hope Center answers this calling. Its mission to give hope to both those Tibetans in dire need and those who could simply use a little more epitomizes compassion in its purest form. "It's all about what we can do for someone else," concludes Tenzin. "It is good to give, it is good to help."


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Six months after the craze of Pokémon GO hit the US and Europe, the game has now landed in South Korea.
Using Twitter as its platform, the app developer Niantic Labs said: "We're excited to announce that Pokémon GO is now officially available for download in South Korea. Get up and GO!"
According to reports, the game had been delayed as Google Map's request to access Korean maps had been denied due to South Korean government restrictions and concerns over national security.
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Allow me to introduce my wrestling alter-ego – The Infamous Informer, a.k.a. Grant Body -P! You can find my weekly WWE RAW blogs elsewhere on this site, or the Cage Amateurs UK website, or the BDSIR NETWORK website. This other side of me is a wrestling fan, but sometimes I'm not always proud to be one, because of how fans can act sometimes. I will tell you straight – I DON'T take wrestling seriously, but smart enough when it comes to common sense. I hate dirt sheets, because half the time they talk sh!t, and I think they are the cause of wrestling fans being so critical. I am a proud admin of FB group 'WWE Smack Talk Centre', you can request to join – http://www.facebook.com/groups/smacktalkcentre – but DON'T BE A WEIRDO, by that I mean someone who spams sunglasses in groups, somebody who posts endless rants about John Cena in a negative, or somebody pretends to be a sexy woman who claims to love wrestling on some fake profile sh!t… Follow Us – Pon Di Twitta @stc_wwe. That's how the f**k we roll!
But enough of that sh!t! This blog is a response by STC member @kingvaughnjr720, who recently wrote his Fantasy WrestleMania 32 Match card, he broke down the rivalry, stories, the match and it's outcome. You can check it out HERE. Remember the key word is FANTASY, meaning NOT REAL, meaning his imagination ran wild. So I decided to write mine, which won't be as detailed, biased in places, but will be more realistic and still has that comedic fantasy element that only the Infamous Informer knows well. So let's get into it…
Singing America The Beautiful: Heather Victoria.
Good chance is you don't know her. The Grant says – GET TO KNOW! By this time she will have an album out called Black Girl Story on 9th Wonder's Jamla Records. I'm in love with this woman in many ways, her appearance, her humbleness, her music, and appeal.
Recommended tracks: Nobody, Not Taking You Back featuring Rapsody, Don't Take Your Love Away… YOUTUBE EM!
HOST OF WRESTLEMANIA 32: Chilli From TLC
I mean… come on… Chilli is an official wrestling fan. I remember making a suggestion to WWE on twitter saying that Chili should host WrestleMania and Chilli herself re-tweeted it and it went viral.
Intercontinental Title Jump Off: Dolph Ziggler Vs Hideo Itami
No secret: I DON'T LIKE Dolph Ziggler. I never will, He will NEVER become World Wrestling Federation Champion, but I respect his fighting style. By this time, Ziggler has returned to his true HeelZiggler roots. F**k all this fan favourite sh!t… it's getting him nowhere. Hideo Itami, was in the battle royal at WrestleMania 31, now he's made it to the main roster. Should be a fantastic opening wrestling contest, and fans are still wanking because Itami dropped his GTS (the SUPERIOR version) on Ziggler and beat him.
Featuring a lot of mid-carders. I ain't tryna name em all here f**k that! Just like it was when Crash Holly won the title and said it should be defended any time, anywhere, let's bring that sh!t back with Dean Ambrose as the holder. Defend that sh!t for 20 mins all over the AT&T stadium!
BRAY WYATT Vs FINN BALOOOOOOR!!!
I was gonna put Sheamus in Bray's place, but I think Bray Wyatt would fit the storyline crazy. The Wyatt family reforms, Finn Balor got his wild body paint going on, it would be a battle of mind games and ruckus (and entrances) but I don't think my dude Finn Balor is sweating a reformed, badder than ever Wyatt Family…
JOHN CENA Vs HULK HOGAN
Yeah I WROTE IT!!! Say what you want… this says DREAM (or NIGHTMARE) match depending how you look at it! Check it out – these two have been bredrin for a minute now, you see pics with them together and all that posted all over the net, it would be on some 'match you would never see sh!t', generations collide sh!t… Hulk Hogan just can't help himself – he just have to be apart of big BIG WrestleMania in some capacity. So he trains up crazy, took his vitamins, drank his milk and all that, either Hogan dons the red & yellow and Cena turns evil, or Cena is his usual fruity pebble self, and Hogan sends for his NWO threads. A friendship gone sour if you will…
STEPHANIE McMAHON Vs RONDA ROUSEY
I hear some of the jabronies out there: 'the divas title should be defended…' The Grant says shuddup. Next, SHUDDUP. Third, go to the toilet, because that's what you do when diva matches come on… you worse than the gyal dem – that's a female trait – 5 women going to the bathroom together at a club to take a p!$$, running down guys, doing make up, taking selfies… yeah I said it – you wrestling fans are worse than b!tches!
This sh!t has been building up or months, through the twitter, while Rousey fights in the UFC, Stephanie running her mouth outside the Octagon, they were once friends and sh!t, but Stephanie too outta order and bright! But you saw Stephanie's fighting style at Summerslam last year – the girl can fight! Rousey gets 'additional training' by the likes of Paige and Charlotte Flair, you got divas supporting Rousey, then you got divas supporting Stephanie because they feel Rousey 'stole their spot' on some #GiveDivasAChance sh!t… imagine Rousey coming down the ramp like she does at UFC all bex and sh!t!!! Stephanie goose cook!
Still going to the toilet???? HA! HA! HA! HA!!!!
MUSICAL PERFORMANCE: METHOD MAN & REDMAN – Tear The Roof Off
I'm sick of all that Machine Gun Garbage and all that Flo-rida sh!t WWE tries to call hip hop to the fans… bring some REAL HIP HOP to the AT&T stadium… I can see STC's Anthony Cardenas and BDSIR Network's Mike Knoxxx wilding in that capacity crowd right now! Method Man & Redman are genuine Wrestling fans… so why not bring them in? Keep it real huh?!
The Ascension (Champions) Vs Lucha Dragon Vs New Day Vs Uso Brudda
F**k splitting up tag teams after 3 months and sh!t! Remember back in the days? Hardy Boyz, Dudley Boyz, Edge & Christian were teams for years! F**k that – go further than that! LOD! Rockers! Earthquake & Typhoon! Rock & Roll Express! Harlem Heat! Rocky Johnson & Tony Atlas! Keep the tag team division thriving! I think this match would be WILD! You put them four teams up in there… think of what the Ascension can REALLY DO…. WROOOOOY!!!!
DANNY BRYAN Vs SHAWN MICHAELS
Check it out, What if Danny Bryan was gonna win the Rumble a THIRD TIME, but this time Shawn Michaels pops out of nowhere and super kicks Danny out the rumble, leaving Uhaa Nation to win the rumble? (at this point, Uhaa is booed because he came up to the main roster too quick and was shot up to the main event because he was hand-picked by both Triple and Vincent Kennedy… and I'm jumping up and down saying #WhoeverLosesIWin)
If Danny can't main event WrestleMania because Triple told HBK to do that, then Danny goes off the edge… continuously attacks HBK until HBK is forced to come out of retirement for one more match.
Before you jabronies try to stone me for HBK's happy retirement, let me remind you that this is a FANTASY card, half this sh!t may never happen, and this ain't a serious blog. Look at King Vaughn's blog! Half the card he wrote has dead wrestlers on it! And yet he made it sound like an incredible card!
THE ROCK Vs TRIPLE TEEF (Austin as Special Referee)
They teased it on Smackdown last year, they mentioned 100,000 people… think about it, where else can this match happen? Both of em can still go…. I see no problem in it – LET IT HAPPEN! One more time! Yes! Let's do this! Their rivalry in the attitude era – I was so invested… Triple was so EVIL… The Rock was that dude that they tried to keep down, usually The Rock does his usual comedy promos, but Triple set off an angry side of The Rock… THAT'S how to be a HEEL!
As far as Austin… Fantasy or no fantasy – Austin might wanna go again in the ring, but CM P**k loves his time in the UFC, win or lose! That match ain't happening! Sure I would love to see Austin drop 10 stunners on that ungrateful brat… sh!t can't he go to the UFC and do it in the octagon! Hey it's a fantasy right?
BROCK LESNAR (CHAMPION) Vs UHAA NATION (WWE TITLE)
Somehow the mayor of Suplex City came back with a vengeance! Seth Rollins got hurt…. and so did Roman Reigns…Brock's being putting muthaf***az on the shelf for joke! Brock never lost that title! He wasn't involved in the decision! Now, it IS a fantasy card, so #BlackWrestlersMatter… imagine this: Suppose Uhaa Nation becomes the World Wrestling Federation Champion??? Does the unthinkable? Out wrestles Brock to the point where Brock has to send for the shooting star press to try to defeat Uhaa? Don't take this for a Brock/Goldberg match! Have you seen what Uhaa can do??? You better look on YouTube!!!
Brock Lesnar didn't sign a new deal for nothing yo!!!!
STING Vs UNDERTAKER (END OF TWO ICONS)
I told you this was biased!!!! F**k all that 15-20 years too late sh!t, Sting held his own against Triple, and Undertaker showed Wyatt that bad man move in silence…
In fact this has been 15-20 years in the making! Look how WWE did that Monday Night War episode where they made these careers parallel to each other, all the legacy, all the loyalty… but there can only be one! Sting wanted this match, the WWE Universe wanted this match, some of the IWC does NOT want this match… who wins???? ME!!!!!! Entrances phenomenal, Record setting crowd on their feet, IWC B!tches doing research saying there was really 80,000 muthaf***az up in the AT&T stadium… I don't know why they are concerned about that sh!t… I mean, when I watch WrestleMania, do i suddenly pause the action and think…"I wonder how many muthaf***az are up in here??? 1,2….(pointing with my finger)" EXACTLY! Yeah you forgot who I am didn't you!
Imagine RAW the next day. A farewell ceremony to both Sting & Undertaker… by that time I would have reached my milestone 36 years. I have never had a tear in my eye watching this wrestling sh!t… I suppose there's a first time for everything… at the same time, I got all this Undertaker DVD selection, all this WWE Network sh!t…. plus both would make appearances here and there…. yeah I'll quickly wipe the tears now!
Big ups to @KingVaughnJr720 for inspiring me to write this. Clearly a lot of this sh!t wouldn't happen but I can assure you of this, come that time, I will be hype as a muthaf***a, (what if Ziggler is in the main event Grant?) Let's be real. I don't give a damn! If he was, more power to him! I just hope whoever his opponent was, he would BRUKK HIM UP! To me when it goes down to it, it's all about one man: UNDERTAKER. That's the truth! F**k all this complaining online – I ain't got time for that!


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I blogged recently about the EU Privacy Directive. Here's an update …
Apparently, the rules were watered down at the last minute, and, as I understand it*, you can now cover all the bases by doing something similar to
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Further reading –
The Guardian – Cookies law changed at 11th hour to introduce 'implied consent'.
A very funny blog post about the cookie law.
*this does not constitute legal advice etc. etc.
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Listening to his sermon on the good angels yesterday gave me such encouragement. I always find that thinking of, reading about, or listening to any piece which exalts the majesty of God is in itself great encouragement. And why not? All good things come from God and thus, He is the source of encouragement.
Illustration, "Guido Reni's Michael (in Santa Maria della Concezione church, Rome, 1636)tramples Satan. A mosaic of the same painting decorates St. Michael's Altar in St. Peter's Basilica." (Wiki)
Lloyd-Jones's sermon brought out so many great points, and he did it so seemingly easily. That is to say, he speaks simply and carefully but that doesn't belie the complexity and majesty of the material. He makes it both understandable and exalting at the same time. He opened with asking a series of pointed and important questions
"Let me ask a question at this point: How often have you heard either a sermon or an address on the biblical doctrine of the angels? How often have you considered this doctrine or meditated upon it? I ask those questions in order that I may ask another: Why is it that we tend to neglect certain parts of the biblical revelation? Why is it that even as evangelical people we seem to be content with the minimum of doctrine? Why are we only interested in the doctrine of salvation? It more and more seems to me that we rob ourselves of a wealth of truth because we do not isolate these doctrines and hold them up for our study and contemplation."
I'll summarize in very bare bones fashion what Dr Lloyd-Jones preached on:
Jesus made all the angels. There are thousands upon thousands of them. (Luke 2:13, Rev. 5:11). He made every one a unique individual. He did this before He created the world. (Colossians 1:16).
Angels never die. They were created, but won't die. They came into existence by Jesus at a certain point, but their existence will never end. And what about those cherubim (e.g. Ps. 99:1; Ezek. 10:1–22) and seraphim (Isa. 6:2)?? They dwell in the presence of God, as we will one day. Don't forget about the cherubim standing guard at the eastern entrance to the Garden of Eden with his flaming sword going every which way. Dr Lloyd-Jones wondered if he would be there also to welcome us when the Garden is re-opened at the resurrection. They are incredible beings.
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He said, "I think that there is profound significance in that; the flaming sword is to prevent man from entering back again into Paradise. He can never go back on his own. There is only one way back, and it is the way that has been opened by the Lord Jesus Christ."
He spent some time developing the hierarchy of angelic orders and the distribution of work. From archangels on down, he revealed truth after truth. His take on it was fascinating, delving deep into the bible and unearthing gem after gem. He briefly mentioned the hierarchy/division of the bad angels but only touche don ti since this sermon was only about the good angels.
And that, of course, leads us in turn to the next question which is: Are there orders among the angels? Are they all identical? Are they equal in power and in authority, or have they orders and ranks? It seems quite clear that there is a division both in status and in work.
Annunciation to Zechariah.
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And that brings us to the whole question of their power. The Bible is explicit about this—they are very great in power. We are told of the mighty angels, that they excel in strength' (Ps. 103:20). Their power is undoubtedly greater than human power; they are not only superior in dignity and in status, they are also undoubtedly superior in power.
Salvation is such an incredible, holy act, and the angels long to look into it.
Then there is something else that the angels are very busy about. I never read this next point without having a still more glorious understanding of my salvation. We are told that they spend a good deal of their time in looking into this question of our salvation. Let me give you my authority. Peter, in talking about our salvation says, 'which things the angels desire to look into' (1 Pet. 1:12). It is something so marvellous, and so wonderful, that these created angelic spirits, who have always spent their eternity in the presence of God, are, as it were, looking on at this thing which is most astonishing to them, and which surpasses everything else.
Then the next thing we are told about them is this—let us bear it in mind always—they not only behold the face of God, they are not only looking into salvation, but they are looking at us. ...the Scripture teaches that when Christians meet together, and when they gather together in prayer, then the angels of God are present..."
If you read Revelation you realize just how much the angels participate in bringing judgment. They are instruments of God's will and participate in it. They gave the law. They reveal God's purposes. They bring messages from God. When not directly performing a task, they stand at attention, adoring God, worshiping Him, looking into salvation. They are busy. And one of the ways they are busy is that they minister to God's own people.
"But again I would say that the most comforting, and the most wonderful aspect of this teaching is what we are told in the Scriptures of the way in which God uses the angels to bless and to care for His own people: Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth [called forth] to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?' (Heb. 1:14). What, after all, is the greatest function of the angels? It is to minister to you and to me—to minister to the heirs of salvation."
Chris Koelle, The Book of Revelation Graphic Novel Source
We find that the angels protect us. They also give us guidance. They cheer us and to give us comfort and consolation. Angels fight on behalf of God. (Elisha's servant was given a sight of this). They deliver us from situations (Peter was led from jail by an angel). They are tremendous beings. Of course, Dr. Lloyd-Jones developed each of those points He ended with this glorious, glorious testament to the level of care that God gives His children:
But there is something more which I trust will give great comfort and consolation to many people who may perhaps have been thinking with fear and dread of the end of their life in this world—afraid of the physical aspect of death. But we need not be, for we read in Luke 16:22–3...
...when we come to die they will be there to receive our spirit and to take us to Paradise. That is the teaching of the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. Never again, Christian people, imagine that when you come to die you will be going into some awful loneliness as a disembodied spirit to an unknown world. Not at all. The angels of God will be there to receive you, and to conduct you, and to take you to be with the Lord in Paradise. What a wonderful thing!
Oh, indeed it is wonderful! God made the uncountable stars and named them all. He made the innumerable angels and named them too. The doctrine of angels is an amazing doctrine.
Angel rolled the stone from the tomb
- Alexander Ivanov
Shame on us Christian people that we neglect the doctrine of the angels, that we do not read our Scriptures thoroughly and wholly. ...
..."Let us take hold of the biblical teaching. Let us not rob ourselves as we do. Let us look into this great Word and receive it as it is, and we shall find things that will amaze us, and fill us with a still greater sense of wonder as we come to know our marvelous God and His wondrous love towards us."
Amen! Please take some time to listen to the sermon. Of course, just the few quotes here do not even come close to comparing the full impact of this terrific sermon and hearing about the doctrine of angels.


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Hoyt HPX Review
Junior GB international Jacob Vick
The Hoyt HPX Riser is one of Hoyt's latest bows with the all new floating limb bolt system which gives better contact with the limb. The phrase that I would use to sum it up is that it looks and feels good. I tested this riser in the shop's indoor range shooting 20 yards.
There are many good points about the riser like the speed, lightness, hand position, smooth draw and the sweet sound when shot. Within the first end of shooting the riser I thought "you can feel the speed through the riser", so this gave me a sense of confidence in shooting it. When I first picked it up, I commented and said how light it was compared to the Hoyt GMX. The stats for the weight of the 25 inch HPX riser is 2.7lbs compared to the GMX which is 2.9lbs.
I thought this would suit a smaller and shorter person because it would be easier for them to handle. Half way through the testing I was thinking about the hand position and said to myself the grip puts your hand in the right place and feels comfortable when holding the bow. On my first shot of testing this riser I thought it had a smooth draw, Dave said he had put 36lbs limbs on to the riser, but it felt more like 32lbs so I could have shot it all day. This smoothness is due to the floating limb bolts having more contact with the limbs, this would lead to greater consistency. The next big point is that is sounds really sweet, I was shooting it as an un-tuned bow with my ACE arrows that I usually shoot with my GMX, the sound is one of the things that made it a pleasure to shoot. All in all, this riser you can shoot straight out of the box, it was not tuned to me or my arrows, I still shot them all in the gold!
There are some negatives about the riser that I was not sure on: the window is too small on the 25 inch riser, too light, not international limb fitting and not good as a first bow. The first thing that disappointed me was that when I was shooting 20 yards my sight was almost at the top of the sight block, so this meant I was aiming on the top of the window.
So Dave and I both suggested if you are tall person it might be worth looking at the 27 inch riser. The next big negative is personal preference because I prefer a heavier bow and the HPX tested is too light so you may get pushed around in the wind. The main disappointment with this riser is that it doesn't have the advantage of having international limb fitting so you have to buy the specific Hoyt limbs for that riser whereas I prefer to shoot a Hoyt riser and Win and Win limbs. The last thing is that it would not suit a beginner because it is very hard to tame the bow.
To conclude, this riser I would consider buying because it looks good and feels comfortable in the hand but the only thing I would have to do is add some additional mass weight so it would sit in the X 10 ring. But all in all, it has to be the best riser that I have tested.
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In my last devotional post, I wrote about why not me, why not now. Why don't I deserve the things I work so hard for while everyone else is achieving their dreams? But since then, I started to question why me. Why do I deserve anything? What makes me more special than the next person who is working just as hard for the same dream, and why was I born into the family I have while so many others are born and are suffering? Why am I sitting here complaining about not getting my way, and why do I even deserve to be where I am right now? The hard truth to swallow is, you deserve nothing.
What family you were born it, what circumstances you are born into, those are things you cannot control. And while in America it is true that everyone should be equal, the truth is we do not treat each other equally nor do we have equal opportunities for all the things we want to achieve. Someone in a lower class is not going to have the same opportunities and resources as a kid in a higher class . And that is not your fault. It's nobody's fault. You shouldn't feel guilty for what you have, but you shouldn't be complaining about it either. While you sit there and try to play the victim of the situation like most people tend to do, including me, you're not thinking about the people who have even less than you.
Let me tell you right now, we are all born equal to God. What makes us go further in life is how we treat people and how we choose to use our life to spread goodness. Do you really think that God cares about who has the bigger house or which one of us is driving a Range Rover? No, He cares about how you treated His people. He cares about how you chose to present yourself to the world. He cares about how you fought past boundaries that should have never existed but do. He cares about how you used your power to contribute good to the world.
I was sitting here throwing a pity party for myself because my dreams haven't come true. I'm not saying give up on your dreams or quit your job and go on missionary trips. I'm trying to show you that you have more than what you think. And you deserve none of it, so why do you think you deserve more. There are people out there that have less than you and they need you. And I'm not just talking about them needing money. I am talking about people needing someone to talk to, someone to volunteer their time. There are ways to contribute to others without it being a money issue. We often over look our blessings because we see others who have more than us. But don't forget that the dreams you have probably also live in the heart of a kid who doesn't have the same opportunities that you do.
We deserve nothing, and yet God gives us everything. He give you what you have because you are more special than the next person. He has blessed you because He knows you have the potential and you are in the position to share your gifts with the world. The next time you think you don't have enough, realize that not only do you have more than you think, but you have what others wish for and need. Most importantly, they need you. The sad part is, not all of us contribute good to the world. Some of us are selfish or ignorant. But we can change. We can give thanks for what we have instead of taking it for granted. And while you're working towards whatever your dreams have, don't forget to give to those who do not have what you were born with. At the end of the day, the materialistic things are not what matter. Instead, it is your actions and what you contribute to the world that are what is important. God didn't give you what you have for you to not share God with others. And when you achieve your dreams one day, I hope this makes you feel extra thankful for all the blessings you have received.


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Meg the Yellow Lab was playing in the grass when her dad saw something tiny moving in front of her. He came closer to see what it was and saw something so cute even Meg wasn't able to look away – a wild baby bunny. They named him Little John Stamos.
The hopping ball of floof was left behind when mommy rabbit saw ravens in the sky and ran into the woods seeking safety. Unfortunately, Little John Stamos was too little to go that fast. Fortunately, a curious dog and her human came to the rescue and they kept him safe until the birds were gone.


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Some people become San Franciscans almost immediately, feeling the poetry, sensing the specialness, seeing what makes the city great, boning up on the history and walking the streets with glamorous ghosts at their elbows. Others can live here all their lives and never get the message.
It's cute I guess. But is it this black and white, or are there lots of in-betweens? What of the people that feel the poetry only after years and years? What of the people that think they get the message but really don't? And those that see what makes the city great but are still compelled to leave? (Like our buddy Katherine who posted this quote earlier.)
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text: Andy Baldwin When Passion, Skill, Courage and Commitment Collide One of the first cases I worked, the Keith J. case crystalized in my mind that the key to criminal defense is the willingness to go to trial. Prosecutors will run roughshod over lawyers that will not go to trial or stand up for their clients. Prosecutors are more willing to dismiss charges or offer a better plea agreement if they fear that the criminal defense lawyer will actually go to trial. Unfortunately, most lawyers, in my experience, neither stand up for their clients or go to trial. The fact that I stood up for Keith J., and had the courage and willingness to go to trial against an experienced prosecutor, ultimately lead to the case being dismissed. I have never forgotten that lesson from over 20 years ago. I have built my entire practice on the very concept that the key to criminal defense is the willingness to go to trial. When I or members of our firm say we will go to trial, we mean it and prosecutors know it. This reputation often leads to amazing results. Proven Defense Strategies Recognizing that my reputation was growing in criminal defense, and more importantly recognizing that I was really only passionate about criminal law, I made a career-changing decision in 2004: I would focus my practice only in criminal law. Lawyers I knew scoffed at this idea. How can you survive on just criminal defense cases alone? I would answer by telling them I only wanted to practice in the area of law of which I was completely passionate – criminal law. Because criminal defense is a word of mouth business, and because I actually fought hard for the accused, my client base grew quickly. Once I made the switch to handling only criminally-related matters, I went from having an average number of clients, to having more clients than I could handle on my own. I began surrounding myself with top-notch lawyers who also wanted to focus their careers in criminal law. I also began surrounding myself with amazing staff members that shared in our passion for justice for our clients. In 2007, we began calling ourselves The Criminal Defense Team of Baldwin Perry & Kamish, PC. No longer would I have to fight these battles alone. We are like family and fight for our clients together as a team. In 2009 we bought the very office building that I had left to embark on my own road. The same building where I had cut my teeth with Tom Jones nearly 15 years before. My career had come full circle. I had come home to the very place where I developed my passion for defending the accused. We have even expanded by adding a satellite office in Noblesville. This type of growth does not happen if you don't take care of your clients. This type of growth happens when passion, skill, courage and commitment collide. Attorney Baldwin 1 of Only 6 Board Certified Criminal Law Specialists in Indiana Areas of Practice Criminal Defense Trial lawyer and litigator Post-conviction relief Criminal appeals Education Franklin College, IN (B.A. 1989) University of Akron School of Law, Akron, OH (J.D. with honors 1994) President of class 1992, 1993, 1994 Graduation speaker 1994 Bar Admission Supreme Court of Indiana U.S. District Court, Southern and Northern Districts of Indiana Bar Association Membership & Awards: Board Certified Criminal Trial Advocate by the National by the National Board of Trial Advocacy Johnson County Bar Association (Past President & past Vice-President) Top 100 trial lawyers Professional Experience Jones, Drury & Hoffman - Franklin IN (1993-1995) Baldwin Law Office - Nashville IN (1995-1996) Nice, Moore & Wooley - Indianapolis IN (1996) Eggers & Baldwin - Franklin IN (1996-2004) Baldwin & Roesener - Franklin IN (2004-2007) Criminal Defense Team - Franklin and Danville IN (2007 - present). (Also, former Radio DJ, ditch digger, waiter, bartender, substitute teacher and burger flipper…among other former careers) The Keith J. Case "I am not leaving your office until you type out a dismissal and get my client out of jail. Not two days from now. Not tomorrow. Now." These were the words that I shouted to the very experienced chief deputy prosecutor of a local county who had finally agreed to dismiss all of my client's charges, but had indicated that her secretary wouldn't get around to preparing the paperwork for a few days. Without that paperwork, my client would remain in jail. Back then, I was a baby criminal defense attorney. I didn't know that most lawyers thought it as bad form to yell at the prosecutor – especially one that was dismissing all charges. I guess that I didn't really think about it. I was more interested in watching my innocent client walk out of the jail where he had been sitting for the prior 9 months. I began representing Keith J. in the fall of 1995. He was accused of molesting his 6 and 7 year old step-children. He was innocent, but nobody believed in him. He didn't have a whole lot of money, but the good news for him was that back in those days, I didn't have a whole lot of clients. I had been working with attorney Tom Jones, my mentor, since graduating law school. Tom was one of the premier trial lawyers in Indiana – who was also nationally recognized – for over 40 years. However, I didn't want to ride on his coattails. I had to make it on my own. I quit the job with the firm that I loved in order to open up my own practice in a 6 x 12 space in Nashville Indiana. I was 28 at the time. The office featured a tiny desk I had purchased at a second hand store. The walls were bare, except for a framed law degree. On the desk was a black phone. I remember the color well, because I stared at it constantly waiting for it to ring, hoping that a client needing representation was on the other end. However, my first client didn't call me on the phone. Rather, he wrote me a letter from jail. He had heard good things about me. He knew I was young, but didn't care about my lack of experience. He wanted someone that actually cared about him as a human being. Someone that would fight for him. I had represented Keith J's friend while working for Tom. This friend told Keith J. that I treated him with respect and worked hard and that Keith should write me a letter. I drove to the jail to meet Keith. He was 24 years old. His eyes swelled with tears as he told me the story of how he ended up in jail. He was facing 100 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit. I immediately began my own investigation by interviewing neighbors and family members. I watched the interview tapes of the children over and over and over again. I conducted depositions. I began to piece the case together. It was my belief that these children had been molested…but not by my client. They were protecting the actual molester who was a family member. My client took a polygraph with the state police, but they said that he failed it. I didn't believe the results. We would have to win at trial. The problem was that I had never tried a case to a jury on my own. I had no partners. I had no mentor to help me. I had no team. I was on my own. At times I thought about trying to talk my client into a plea agreement, but I just couldn't do it. He was innocent and he needed to see that the system could work. Two weeks before the trial, I got married and went on my honeymoon. I took the file with me to continue my preparation. My wife, Michelle, learned early in the marriage that my passion for defending all of my clients (whether they are guilty or not) comes with a heavy price. Many nights are spent on my office couch, rather than in my bed at home. My wife has gotten used to it over the years. After returning from my honeymoon, the prosecutor called me to meet at her office. Once in her office she told me that although she felt my client was guilty, she felt the evidence may be too weak to take to trial and she would be dismissing charges. She finally relented and typed out the dismissal herself. Thirty minutes later my client walked out of jail a free man. We hugged. He cried. Then he moved to Kansas City to begin his new life. A life that I dramatically changed. In many ways, it was the Keith J. case that laid the groundwork for my career as a criminal defense attorney. It was through his case that I began to understand the need for courage when representing the accused. Going up against the government with all of its resources is a daunting task. It takes courage to fight with a prosecutor or judge. It takes courage to stand in front of a skeptical jury to argue that your client is innocent or to fight for a client that society deems unworthy. The easy road is to take a quick plea agreement. The courageous road is to work the case and to take it to trial if the prosecutor is not willing to do the right thing or is being unreasonable. Without courage, a criminal defense attorney becomes ineffective, lazy and satisfied with the status quo. Get Help Today! Contact Attorney Baldwin to Schedule Your Free Consultation.


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Samsung PL210 Review
Image Quality
All of the sample images in this Review were taken using the 14 megapixel SuperFine JPEG setting, which gives an average image size of around 6Mb.
Noise performance is varied on the Samsung PL210. There are 7 steps available from ISO 80 to ISO 3200. At the 2 lowest settings, there's little to no noise showing but unfortunately, that starts to change at ISO 200 where there's a slight drop in image sharpness and mild salt and pepper noise starts to creep in.
At ISO 400 coloured noise begins to appear in shadow areas but the overall picture retains its natural colour. That all changes at ISO800 as noise reduction starts to fail and pictures get a cool cast as purple colour takes over most of the frame.
By ISO 1600, edge definition starts to degrade and noise reduction tries damage control by smoothing out the image. The final setting is high in noise and low in image definition.
We don't like to see noise on pictures at all, so even the smallest amount is annoying to us. However, for everyday use the noise performance is good enough. We think for happy snappy pictures the sensitivity settings up to and including ISO 400 will be sufficient. Most people try to avoid flash to retain natural colours but unless you're really close, the flash on the camera gives natural looking light which means you can avoid raising the ISO.
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Focal Range
The Samsung PL210's 10x zoom lens offers a versatile focal range, as illustrated by these examples:
We're happy with the sharpness of the pictures straight from the Samsung PL210, but as you can see in our sample pictures, small writing is defined better when employing a little boost from Adobe Photoshop.
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Chromatic Aberrations
We tried multiple times to get some chromatic aberration (CA) to register on the pictures but we had some real trouble. We found a very mild amount of it on very high contrast images but in everyday cases, pictures were ok.
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Macro pictures are good on the Samsung PL210. The camera can focus close enough at 5cm and although there is a degree of barrel distortion, it's not too excessive. Centre of frame sharpness is exemplary with edge of frame definition blurring out.
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There are 6 flash modes on the Samsung PL210 with 2 of them dedicated to red eye reduction. The first is a simple red-eye reduction preflash but the second is an actual red-eye fix that uses software to black out pupils that are suffering from red-eye.
Flash Off - Wide Angle (27mm)
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Flash Off - Telephoto (27mm)
Auto - Telephoto (270mm)
However, we found that red-eye isn't a problem for the PL210 anyway. Saying that it could be worth using it to better safe rather than sorry. Bear in mind that if you decide to use the flash, it takes a long time to recycle the charge and the camera freezes while it does it.
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The night scene is an intriguing feature on the Samsung digital compact cameras. Preset modes are generally designed to do everything for you and it will do but there's also the chance to over-ride the aperture and shutter speed. It's not the most versatile that we've seen but to have this level of control on a camera at this level and price point is very good. The quality of the night scene pictures is actually pretty good. ISO and white-balance are set automatically and there's no option to over-ride these, however the camera chose a low sensitivity of ISO 80 to achieve a long exposure with low noise. There's a small amount of noise in the dark areas but this will be generated from neighbouring heated pixels because of that long exposure. There's lots of detail and although a little warm, the white balance is also a good performance.
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When gaming there is always a certain level of admiration given to those who have reached the highest levels in a game. You know that character, the one with the best armour and weapons with the highest stats and who could kill most in one fell swoop and boss characters in maybe two.
But the fact is that it's boring. Rarely do I reach such a level because I often start a new character before then. To me the highest levels in any game from Skyrim to online multiplayer don't offer the same level of satisfaction.
Quests are a great example. At lower levels there are plenty of quests to do offering up challenges to the player. But past a certain level odds are you've done most the quests and those that are left you are so powerful you manage them without breaking a sweat.
Progression is another element, while you're a lower level you progress fast, there's a continuous feeling of progression and achievement as skills quickly improve and you soar from level 1 to 5 before even finishing the tutorial! As time goes by however this stagnates, level ups are few and far between and unless you switch from two handed weapons to spells at level 50 you are unlikely to be using a skill that will improve quickly.
Finally the biggest for me is exploration. No matter how many times you have replayed a game in the beginning when you first discover locations that is the most fun, seeing new sights and encountering enemies for the first time is an experience that only happens once. Eventually there is nothing left to explore.
Of course being a high level has its advantages, perhaps more so in multiplayer games than single player ones as you have other high levels to fight. But for me nothing is quite as satisfying as starting a game and working through the lower levels, it's a time of rapid progression and where every experience is a new one. But which do you prefer, to be level 1 all fresh faced full of energy but easily killed or to be level 100 a hardened warrior and champion whose seen much in their life time?


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UPDATE: OGS disciplines 7 for misbehavior
Poor supervision at the steam plant serving the state government complex in Albany led to misbehavior by workers that included watching "Dancing With the Stars," being drunk on the job, and leaving bedrolls and beer cans in the facility, New York's inspector general reported Monday.
The Office of General Services disciplined seven workers and supervisors with fines ranging from $228 to $13,212, the report said. The intoxicated employee was subjected to two years of random drug and alcohol testing. Two others facing disciplinary charges retired last year.
"Only a few years after my office uncovered a significant dereliction of management responsibility leading to grossly improper behavior at OGS, blatant waste, abuse and potentially hazardous conduct continued," Inspector General Catherine Leahy Scott said. The agency has taken steps to fortify management, including bimonthly tours of every shift at its facilities statewide, with reports forwarded to her office, she said.
Problems identified in 2011 followed the inspector general's report two years earlier on two OGS workers, later convicted of fraud, who established in a state parking garage a hidden lounge with couches, a television and scales to weigh marijuana.
The Sheridan Avenue Steam Plant provides steam from natural gas boilers for heating and cooling the Empire State Plaza. Investigators say an engineer responsible for maintaining boilers exposed thousands of people to potential danger by working while intoxicated, and that two supervisors knew and did nothing.
According to their report, the 2010 plant manager acknowledged knowing about bedrolls and beer cans and did nothing about it. An unscheduled inspector general's tour in 2011 showed several rooms used for unauthorized breaks including cigarette butts and inappropriate photographs of women.
One employee, who has since retired, brought to work a television, a 15-foot antenna, a chair and a portable power generator to watch his favorite show, "Dancing with the Stars," during his shift in an enclosed parking deck after co-workers locked him out of another unauthorized break room that had a television, the report said.
Security cameras confirmed he watched an entire two-hour show on May 17, 2011. A supervisor, seen on the video walking past, told investigators he took no steps to discipline the employee because he wasn't his regular supervisor and past complaints hadn't gone anywhere.


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I recently went out on my own from my former law firm and needed a web page with email immediately. Tiffiny was very fast in her response and I had my web page and email address set up within 24 hours. The page is very professionally done and I know that it will make a good impression on any prospective clients. Thanks to Tiffiny, that is one less headache I have to worry about when setting up my private practice.
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How much do newspaper ads cost? Newspaper advertising costs vary considerably. We've isolated a few advertising costs for newspapers to give you a feel for what you'll get for your money.
Newspaper advert prices can blow your marketing budget if you are not careful. Before you launch an advertising campaign, understand the costs of advertisements in newspapers.
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This article brings you up the learning curve on newspaper ad costs. We've isolated the ad costs for national papers that you might be interested in, as well as for some city newspapers that might catch your fancy.
Wall Street Journal Advertising Costs
Ad costs for the Wall Street Journal are steep, but you are tapping into a wealthy demographic. Perfect if you are selling islands or private jets, but not a good way to sell pens or toilet paper.
A full-page black and white ad in the Wall Street Journal National Edition will run you $164,300. A full-page color ad in the Wall Street Journal National Edition runs $210,300. Wall Street Journal advertising costs are a bit more reasonable if you go for only a half-page ad. $96,900 is the cost for Wall Street Journal ads that are black-and-white half pagers, whereas you'll pay $137,595 if you want a color ad.
Washington Post Newspaper Advertising Rates
A full-run, full-page black-and-white ad in the Washington Post can cost as much as $100,000, based on rates available on the newspaper's Web site.
Newspaper Advertising Costs for the Los Angeles Times
Buying a newspaper ad in the Los Angeles Times will run you about $70,000 for a full-run, full-page black-and-white ad.
Newspaper Ad Rates for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
If you steer clear of the largest cities, there are some more affordable newspaper advertising prices. In Milwaukee, for example, you can buy a full-page ad for around $15,000.
Local Newspaper Advertising Costs
If you live in a small town and advertise in your local newspaper, advertising costs really drop -- in comparison to the bigger national publications. A full-page local newspaper ad might run a $1,000 in your community.
Tips on Buying Newspaper Ads
The newspaper ad costs give you a general feel for what it takes to run a big advertising campaign. Here are a few tips for starting a newspaper advertising campaign:
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A member of ITC's hotel groups, Fortune Park Hotels has opened opened Fortune Park, Haridwar.
The 48-key hotel is located on National Highway 58 and is 5km away from SIDCUL, the city's industrial hub. Haridwar railway station is a ten-minute drive and Har ki Pauri, the religious ghat by the Ganges is a 12-minute drive from the hotel.
Owned by Lotus Infra Projects, the hotel's accommodation has 30 Standard rooms, 6 Fortune Club rooms and 12 suites. Some of the in-room amenities include 24-hors room service, free wifi, a safety deposit box and tea/coffee making facilities.
Its F&B outlets are Orchid (all-day dining restaurant serving Indian, Oriental and Continental cuisines) and Fortune Deli that offers confectioneries and breads.
The hotel houses a banquet hall that can accommodate up to 125 delegates and a business centre. Leisure facilities include a fitness centre/yoga room.
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Advances in treatment for the deadliest form of skin cancer are aligning, bringing patients new hope
By Michele Conklin
Sitting around the dinner table each night, Shannon Clark and her three children play a game they call "High-Low" when each person shares the high point and the low point of their day.
On Jan. 26, Clark's high and low points came in one phone call. Her oncologist, Karl Lewis, MD, at the University of Colorado Cancer Center in Aurora, had phoned her with bad news. Her stage IV melanoma had progressed and she had a large stomach tumor that was blocking one kidney from functioning.
The news came 17 months after she was diagnosed–a miracle amount of time in the world of advanced melanoma where there is no cure and patients live only nine months on average. Still, a blink of time when you're a single mother raising three children. It was definitely a low moment. But it was what Lewis said next that Clark clung to.
"I have something for you," he told Shannon. "We're opening a trial that has shown some good results and there's a spot for you." "It wasn't just his words, it was the tone of his voice, the excitement in his voice, that gave me hope," Clark, 34, of Fort Collins, says.
Delicate decisions
Nearly 70,000 people in the United States will be diagnosed with melanoma this year, according to the American Cancer Society. The vast majority will have early stage melanoma that is cured by removing it from the skin.
But when melanoma spreads into the lymph nodes or organs, there is no cure. Only two drugs have ever been approved to treat melanoma: dacarbazine and Interleukin 2. But these drugs have never actually been shown to improve overall survival in randomized clinical trials. Fifty percent of patients treated with these drugs survive past one year–the same percentage of people who receive no treatment at all.
Hope for these patients lies in clinical trials of new drugs. Determining which drug to use, however, becomes a bit like solving a Rubik's cube where each twist counters another. Physicians have to understand all the trials currently available, as well as those that are soon to open and the requirements for each, so that they can organize treatments in a sequence that will not preclude the patient from being eligible for a different treatment down the road. The goal is to eke out weeks and months of quality life before the cancer recurs, while always leaving another option in reserve.
"The question always is: What do we do next?" says Lewis, an assistant professor of medical oncology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine (SOM) who specializes in melanoma. "It's never easy. We try to leave as many doors open as possible. Unfortunately, some patients come to us after they've been treated with something we know to be ineffective that then excludes them from a trial."
Last year, CU Cancer Center's melanoma program treated more than 450 new patients, ranking it as one of the top centers in the country with M.D. Anderson and Memorial-Sloan Kettering. These centers not only treat patients, but they are also the leading research institutes conducting clinical trials at every level into new treatments for melanoma. CU Cancer Center members also conduct laboratory research in areas such as identifying strategies to overcome melanoma resistance to treatment, and can quickly adapt research back and forth from lab to patients.
First real breakthroughs
Clark was first diagnosed with melanoma in 2003 when a cancerous spot was removed from her shoulder. Like 98 percent of people diagnosed with melanoma that has not spread, Clark was considered cured.
Five years later–almost to the day–Clark felt a bump on her head. She wasn't worried about cancer because her latest x-rays and blood tests at the oncologist were clear. Because she worked at a radiology facility, she decided to have the bump scanned just in case.
"That was the day my life as I knew it changed forever," says Clark, a petite woman with blonde hair and fair skin who remembers getting badly burned while growing up in Estes Park. Sunburns are one of the known risk factors of skin cancer. Clark decided to first try a holistic approach. She eliminated meats, processed foods and sugars from her diet, and added large doses of vitamins. Within two months, however, with her cancer continuing to grow, she decided to try biochemotherapy–a vicious regimen of five chemotherapy drugs that requires hospitalization for five days every three weeks.
"If you weren't scared when you were told you had melanoma, you were when they told you about this," Clark says. "But I was ready to beat this monster for my kids. I came with my fighting gloves on."
Although controversial due to unreliable outcomes and severe toxicity, biochemotherapy may result in a response in some patients. Clark was one of those few–her tumors stopped growing after the second round.
She received seven rounds of biochemotherapy at University of Colorado Hospital–CU Cancer Center's adult clinical partner–followed by eight months of reduced biochemotherapy maintenance before her cancer started growing again. By January, she had lived twice as long as the statistics predicted.
"No one can tell me how long I have to live," says Clark, sitting in a conference room at the Cancer Center with her children–15-year-old Shane, 10-year-old Blake and 8-year-old MacKenzie. "You don't know; I don't know. All we know is what we have today."
And what Clark was offered that day in January when her cancer returned was a new drug that was showing promise in other melanoma patients. "At that time, physicians were talking about seeing results in days," Clark says. "From day one (on the trial drug), my stomach (tumor) started melting away."
The drug Clark was put on, still in clinical trials, is known as PLX4032. The drug blocks the action of a gene known as BRAF that is mutated in about half of melanoma patients. Now entering the last phase of clinical trials, the drug appears to stop the disease from progressing for about six to nine months, Lewis says.
"The reality is that this cancer will probably find a way around most drugs," he says. "Although we are always searching for a cure, it may be more realistic to turn cancer into a chronic disease, like diabetes, that you don't cure but rather you manage."
Attacking two fronts
CU Cancer Center is one of just 14 centers in the world–and the third largest test site–with access to PLX4032. That trial is one of about a dozen melanoma clinical trials that the center is currently conducting.
"It's an exciting time in melanoma research," says Rene Gonzalez, MD, director of the melanoma program and professor of medical oncology at the SOM. Gonzalez doesn't make that claim lightly. This is the first time in his 25 years of specializing in melanoma that he's seeing treatments make a difference. Interleukin 2 was the last drug to be approved for treatment–in the mid-1990s. Even then the drug showed no improvement in survivability over doing nothing.
Researchers are making advances on two fronts–molecular biology and immunology. The molecular biology drugs attempt to identify and block genetic mutations that cause cancer. Immunology treatments seek to use the body's natural defenses to fight the cancer. CU Cancer Center recently participated in the Phase III trial–the final test before a drug is considered for widespread use–of an immunologic drug that shows the first-ever survival benefit in melanoma patients. The drug, called ipilimumab, allows the body's immune system to continue to fight the cancer cells.
"This is the only drug that has ever shown improved survival results in melanoma," Gonzalez says. "And we have it right now (at CU Cancer Center), even before it's been approved by the FDA."
Expanding trials to more patients
Currently, CU Cancer Center is collecting data for approximately 500 clinical trials in 10 cancer areas, including melanoma, with between 150 and 200 of those open to enrollment of new patients, says Andrea Buchmeier, director of clinical research. The clinical research program has doubled in number of trials, number of enrolled patients and number of staff in the past six years, she says.
And still that's not enough.
"It's difficult to tell a patient that they can't get into a trial or that a trial is not open yet," says Mary Cook, BSN, the clinical research coordinator for melanoma trials. "It's heart-breaking when you know that this person may die before you can get the trial open."
Cook and her staff work side-by-side with the medical team and patients, ensuring that every appointment is scheduled, lab test conducted and reaction recorded. Inevitably, that means becoming close to patients–in bad times and in good.
"We're treating a woman who went from lying in bed in a fetal position to being up and about for the past seven months," Cook says. "Seeing that kind of improvement in quality of life keeps you going."
As is so often the case in health care, funding is always an issue. The cancer clinical research program has an annual budget of $5 million and runs in the red every year. About 40 percent of the clinical trials are paid for by pharmaceutical companies. The remaining 60 percent are unfunded or underfunded trials initiated by CU physicians, by other cancer cooperative research groups or by the NCI.
"There's this misconception that drug companies pay for all our research," Buchmeier says. "But the majority of our work is trials that our physicians or physicians from other cancer centers have written that could fundamentally change how we treat cancer. It's what makes us a comprehensive cancer center."
In the past 15 years, the melanoma program has enrolled more than 1,200 patients on clinical trials, including patients from as far away as London and Amsterdam. The melanoma clinic will log more than 4,500 patient visits this year.
"When you see that many patients and you participate in that many trials, you offer patients the greatest chance of finding something that works," Gonzalez says. "We're in line to get drugs that are not even in clinical trials yet."
Gonzalez doesn't take sides in whether he thinks the biggest breakthrough will come from the genetic therapies or the immunologic therapies. "I'll use whatever drug works," he says.
For Clark, the drug that is working for now is PLX4032. And if that stops working? She'll think about that when the time comes.
"I embrace what I have right now," she says as she smiles across the table at her children.


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Energy Update – Accessing The Doorway To Higher Perceptions
by Anastacia-Blue Beyond,
Australian Correspondent, In5D.com
At the moment with people going through so much, now is not the time to go into someone space to do what we feel is 'assisting' or 'rescuing' from people feeling what they are right now!
This is NOT the 'time' to do so. Each person is NEEDING TO FEEL what they are.
No matter, how painful or difficult this is for someone especially when it is someone close to us, this is NOT the TIME to go into their 'space'.
And people are in some very very challenging and difficult times of 'I can no longer do this' and while I say this with so much love, this is what souls are needing to feel and experience for their souls divine journeys.
If someone is in a 'black hole' or in a muddy hole, going in or jumping in this with them, really is not going to assist them, as they are needing to be there for themselves.
What use is it, to throw oneself into another's 'muddy hole'?
If someone feels like they are 'drowning', it serves no use for us to 'jump in and drown' with them!
As often when someone is in a 'situation' for themselves, that they are needing to feel for themselves, others can go into judging these souls.
This is where we need to 'take a step back' and out of THEIR EMOTIONS and be impartial with other souls.
The Australian Bush Flower essence that came for this is Yellow Cowslip Orchid (I love that name ;-). Where one can read and feel into this and tap this into their crown chakra:
Yellow is the color that symbolizes the intellect and the element of Air. This orchid has a very social and gregarious nature and is commonly found growing in clusters. The element of Air is very concerned with social order, group activity and harmony. When out of balance there is excessive judgement and criticism.
Negative Condition:
- critical
- judgemental
- bureaucratic
- nit picking
Positive Outcome:
- humanitarian concern
- impartiality – stepping back from emotions
- constructive
- a keener sense of arbitration
When we 'help ourselves firstly' this allows us to then be able to guide/support others, if need be.
As this is a/the time to continue to be in 'one's own space' and look after oneself and then take this up a 'notch' as well!
Increase the self-care and self-nurturing to another level of this care of one self.
Many are opening up to their spirituality and to access the doorway to their higher perceptions.
The Australian Bush Flower (ABF) essence that came for this is Bush Iris. Which one can read and feel this, and tap this into their crown chakra:
This was one of the first Essences to be prepared. It is an Essence to open people up to their spirituality and to access the doorway to their higher perceptions. It allows the trinity to flow into a person and is an excellent remedy to give someone who has just started meditation or 'conscious' spiritual growth. In the negative mode there will be materialism and/or atheism. There may also be a deep seated fear of death.
Negative Condition:
- fear of death
- materialism
- atheism
- physical excess
- avarice
Positive Outcome:
- awakening of spirituality
- acceptance of death as a transition state
- clearing blocks in the base chakra and trust center
Many are feeling a 'death of the old' as many are actually face a 'possible' physical death through their health.
As many souls are now blazing their own trails!
As to 'blaze one's own trail' is also pushing through and feeling – and coming from 'one's heart and not ones head' – and pushing through/breaking through CHANGE for themselves.
As 'resistance is futile' of oneself and ones Soul Divine Journey.
Again, it is getting out of one's head and into our heart and feeling deeply within this and our soul.
My Spiritual family is all part of contributing a lot of what is shared in these posts, and I just need you to know this.
Bringing through family healing energy, to be able to collate it all together, to provide it in a way to present it to humanity.
As this is my personal sharing from personal experiences for those who may resonate to the Divine within and Blazing their Own Trails.
As always I am right here with you.
Much Unconditional Love, Truth and Honesty
Anastacia Kompos
6D Ascension Pioneer/Trailblazer/WaySeer
Australian Correspondent in5d
Personal 1:1 Divine Guidance/Healings of self are available.
About the author: Anastacia is in Service to humanity and Gaia, as an Ascended Earth Master in 6D human embodiment. Sharing unique energy updates/insights from Spirit to Soul through our emotions = Both – of the Divine – through human embodiment of being in 6D, in real-time experience as a template for humanity.
You are welcome to share this post and others, with full credit given to the author and is kept in original complete content and intact. All rights reserved. Anastacia Kompos 2017. Copyright © 2016-2017


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Tata Steel's structural hollow steel brand 'Tata Structura' is now a Superbrand
Superbrand status validates past efforts and provides strong tailwind for the brand's future
MUMBAI: Tata Structura, the premium structural hollow steel product brand widely used in building homes, industrial and infrastructure projects, has been accorded the Superbrand status after being validated by consumers and industry in the most recent survey by the Superbrands organisation.
Mr. Ujjal Chakraborti, Executive-in-Charge (Tubes), Tata Steel said, "The Superbrand certification is a testimony to the faith reposed by customers in the Tata Steel brand. With the power of the Superbrand status, Tata Structura will continue to make steel the preferred choice for the shape of things to come."
"To achieve this, we intend to consistently enable product innovation for the benefit of our customers. While we increase our participation in building and construction segment to create lasting relationships, we will leverage technology efficiently by launching a range of futuristic hollow sections to enable next level solutions for architectural and heavy engineering applications." Mr. Chakraborti added.
Tata Structura is the fourth brand in the Tata Steel family to receive the Superbrand certification. The status is valid for a year and a half (till October 2020). The brand story of Tata Structura will be featured in the Superbrands publication 2019. Tata Tiscon, Tata Shaktee & Tata Wiron have also been honoured with the Superbrand status in the past.
The Superbrand status validates the recognition and respect earned by Tata Structura among architects, engineers, consultants and individual house builders for its superior quality.
Participation in Superbrands is by invitation only, offered only to the most outstanding brands in their field.
Launched in 2005, Tata Structura has successfully equipped architects, engineers, consultants and individual house builders with critical tools for the country's new-age construction and infrastructure needs.
Superbrands is a global organisation present in 86 countries is dedicated to recognise, showcase and pay tribute to the best brands in each country. It has come to be acknowledged as a prestigious selection. It recognises the brand custodians' persevering efforts to build brands strong on consumer perceptions which make them more resilient to fluctuating economic conditions.
"Superbrands Status" strengthens a brand's position, adds prestige and sets the brand apart from its competitors. It provides evidence of a brands' exceptional status for existing and potential customers in India and overseas, dealers, vendors, media, suppliers, joint venture partners, investors, financial institutions, members of your board, shareholders and even present and future employees.