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This month's Paint the Target challenge at Lost Hemisphere is "Hard shells, armor, spikes, carapaces". To that end, I decided to work on a project I've had sitting around for over a year. I've had this single mini from Super Dungeon Explore's Testudo Tower expansion since the first PAX Unplugged—a free mini from a paint and take that I never actually painted.
There really isn't anything you can do with a single creep model like this in Super Dungeon Explore, so I had been kicking around the idea of modding him into an NPC for my chibi D&D campaign. To that end, I needed to get rid of that bomb first. I used a dremmel just to carve it out quickly. (N.b. be safe and follow all precautions when using power-ish tools.)
Next, I needed to cut his arms off. I knew I'd have to reposition them anyway.
And then, I started working on building up his body.
I used the belly from one of the shells in Caverns of Roxor as my guide here.
Next, I made a cloche out of Sculpey polymer clay. I used a pin head for the handle. I also reattached the arms, after having cut them into two parts—upper arm and lower arm—so that I could change the pose.
I could leave the left arm a little rough because I new the seem was going to cover most of it with a towel. I made the towel by adopting the process for making a cloak used by Aella13 in this video (LINK)—I used this video to help make my own Soda Master Candy, which I hope to get painted up sometime soon.
I don't have a great glamour shot of my new Tortle Maître D'. I'm still not sure about those two red spots on his head. I might mod them into a bad toupee and pencil mustache. It partly might depend on what the NPC is like in the campaign.
I do like the bowtie, cloche, and tea towel. I think that's all looking pretty good.
I'm going to call him "done for now." But we'll see where he is in six months…


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One of the many ways for the citizens of Oak Creek to become involved in the City's governmental decisions is by serving on a board, committee or commission. While not all of the committees have vacancies at this time, you are always welcome to fill out the Boards, Commission & Committee Application located at the bottom of the page. We will get back to you when there are openings.
Standard Appointment Procedures
The following are procedures relating to appointment to City of Oak Creek boards, commissions and committees, supplementing requirements of Sec. 2.60 of the Municipal Code.
- The Mayor recommends appointments, reappointments and replacements for regular boards, commissions and committees for confirmation by the Common Council; appointments to ad-hoc committees are made by the Mayor with no Council confirmation required.
- Any person desiring to be considered for appointment to any City board, commission or committee, except incumbent members, shall complete an application form obtained from the City Clerk's office. A resume or other letter of interest may also be provided but is not required. When an applicant is recommended for appointment, a copy of his/her application is given to all members of the Council and included with the agenda documents distributed to the public.
- Prior to re-appointment, incumbents seeking re-appointment are required to update previous applications or provide current letters of interest.
- Unless otherwise provided, each person desiring to be considered for appointment shall be a full-time resident and qualified elector of the City of Oak Creek.
- Appointees shall comply with a code of ethics, pursuant to Wis. Statutes Sec. 19.42 and 19.59. The Council shall not appoint any person to a board, commission or committee who would have continually recurring conflicts of interest requiring abstentions or an excessively high percentage of said situations.
- Applications for appointments shall remain on file for a period of two years from the date received. Applicants may be considered for future vacancies should they occur during that time.
- New appointees to a board, commission or committee shall appear before the Council at the meeting in which their appointments are to be made, prior to action being taken on their appointment. New appointees may provide a brief statement to the Council and may be questioned by the Council members.
- It is suggested, but not required, that incumbents being re-appointed appear before the Council at the meeting in which their re-appointments are to be made, prior to action being taken on their re-appointment.
- Members shall serve without compensation, unless specifically provided, for their services as such; however, such members shall receive reimbursement for necessary travel expenses and other expenses incurred on official duty when such expenditures have been authorized by the Council.


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Roberte Clemente, Jr., the son of the great Puerto Rican baseball legend, specifically told Goya that the company logo appearing on the base of a new statue honoring his father should never be changed, according to a Latino Rebels interview with Rafael Toro, Goya's director of public relations.
In the interview, Toro addressed the growing controversy surrounding the Clemente statue at Roberto Clemente State Park in the Bronx. The statue was unveiled the last week of June, and within days, social media reaction to a large Goya logo at the statue's base was so strong that Goya had to issue a statement last week. Toro agreed to the interview to add more details about the company's position.
Toro also emphasized the long relationship the Clemente family has had with Goya, including baseball clinics Clemente ran for the company and the winter league baseball team he managed. In addition, Toro pointed to the personal relationship Clemente had with Cristobal Colón, Goya's first salesman and of one of the people to see Clemente the night of December 31, 1972, just minutes before Clemente's plane headed to Nicaragua with relief items for earthquake victims crashed into the ocean.
RELATED: Opinion: Goya should do the right thing with Clemente statue
"The Clemente family is very happy with how the statue turned out," Toro said in the interview.
When asked about whether he thought the statue is being seen by many as an ad, Toro said, "It was never intended to be an ad. We aren't tying it to a marketing or sales campaign. It is not tied to any of our products."
Toro also acknowledged the community criticism and the factual error wrongly listing the day Clemente got his 3,000th career hit. He said that "everybody is entitled to their opinion," but "the overwhelming response has been very positive, by the state, the park, and the community." Toro did confirm that the factual error is currently being fixed.
"We wanted people to know that we did this, and that we were proud that we did it," Toro said, echoing many of the sentiments expressed in last week's Goya statement. "We did it with the best of intentions. Yes, we know that there is a logo and that the logo is prominent, and we're proud of that."
RELATED: Cuban-American sculptor honors baseball legend Roberto Clemente
Meanwhile, Boricuas for a Positive Image (BPFI), the grassroots organization that spoke out against the Coors Light Puerto Rican flag beer can at the Puerto Rican Day Parade, wrote a letter dated July 8 to Goya president Robert Inanue. In the letter, BPFI called for the complete removal of the Goya logo, saying that "the placement of your company name smeared whatever goal you may have had."
The letter later states:
…our position is that there is no MORAL JUSTIFICATION giving you the moral imperative to place a corporate ad on a work of art symbolic of a Puerto Rican and world-wide hero, no matter what relationship you've cultivated with Clemente and Latinos. The people of the Bronx are insulted by this logo placement, and no amount of corporate sponsored relationships with Latinos will justify its existence. The fact is, if Goya were truly interested in a harmonious relationship with Latinos, it would change the plaque and let its beauty speak for itself. Goya has made billions of dollars from Latinos in general and Puerto Ricans in particular, and still does to this day. It could erect a 20 foot solid gold statue for Clemente studded in diamonds and rubies and its cost would still be a drop of water compared to the vast oceans of money Goya has reaped off of Latinos, and yet Goya is miffed when we politely ask to remove its name from the base, as if we just asked them to remove their corporate left arm.
In a press statement, BFPI's Lucky Rivera said, "If we do not hear from them soon, and I mean by Friday, July 12, we will start actions against Goya and step up our commitment to having the offensive ad removed."
BFPI also announced a public forum for later in July to discuss the statue and its response to Goya.
Julio Ricardo Varela (@julito77 ) founded LatinoRebels.com in May, 2011 and proceeded to open it up to about 20 like-minded Rebeldes. His personal blog, juliorvarela.com, has been active since 2008 and is widely read in Puerto Rico and beyond. In the past 12 months, Julito represented the Rebeldes on Face the Nation, NPR, Univision, Forbes, and The New York Times.


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A Deeper Look at Divestment
November 28, 2012
A recent op-ed ("Divestment Creates Positive, Systemic Change") argued that divestment is a valuable tool in the fight against global warming. While I wholeheartedly share in the author's concern about climate change, I am not convinced that Middlebury College's divestment from fossil fuel companies would constitute a step towards realizing this goal.
Divesting from a publicly traded company will not lower the company's share price. Simple economic models tell us that if a stock is sold in sufficient volume to lower its price, non-ideologically motivated buyers will simply take advantage of the lowered price to buy stock until its price returns to the equilibrium point. While the pro-divestment op-ed noted this, the author suggested that if enough investors take action, the financial stability of the company could be jeopardized. Yet this misses the point entirely: it does not matter how many would-be divesters decide to sell — as long as there are non-ideological buyers somewhere, divestment will not impact the company's valuation.
Far more importantly, the op-ed also fails to note the crucial fact that most of the oil industry is not controlled by publicly traded companies. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, national oil companies — not publicly traded international oil companies — control the majority of current production (55 percent as of 2010) and the vast majority of oil reserves (85 percent). Even ExxonMobil, the largest publicly traded oil company, accounts for only three percent of world petroleum production. Divestment would not have an economic effect on private or state-owned oil companies. Furthermore, because those companies are accountable to governments and not to shareholders, they are also far less likely to care about the moral or symbolic message that divestment could generate.
Even the much-lauded case of divestment from apartheid-era South Africa was not the unmitigated success that activists would have us believe. A London Business School paper titled "The Effect of Socially Activist Investment Policies on the Financial Markets: Evidence from the South African Boycott" found that divestment efforts had "little discernable effect" on either the financial valuation of corporations invested in South Africa or on South African financial markets themselves.
Perhaps one could argue that these criticisms of divestment are misguided, and that divestment is not merely an economic tool, but a social and a moral one. Even if this were the case, we owe it to ourselves to consider not only the benefits of divestment, but also the potential costs. Another study, "The Stock Market Impact of Social Pressure: The South African Divestment Case," found that there was a negative impact on companies that divested: "Stock prices of firms announcing plans to stay in South Africa fared better relative to stock prices of firms announcing plans to leave [emphasis added]." Could divestment have a similarly negative financial impact on Middlebury?
Campus activists do not seem to consider this important point. In their rush to condemn oil companies, many activists do not appear to grasp the fact that their proposed divestment will have costs as well as benefits. While activist groups have done a remarkable job raising awareness, they have yet to publicly present a plan for how divestment could actually be implemented. Many crucial questions remain unanswered, and indeed, unasked. What are the potential costs of divestment? Who should bear these costs? How much are we willing to sacrifice? What do we want the purpose of our endowment to be? And above all else: is divestment the best way to accomplish our goals?
The best way to fight climate change is not through disruptive agitprop. The small number of students who reject community discussion and mutual respect in favor of radical direct action — who I recognize do not represent the entire divestment movement — should recognize that they are merely alienating potential supporters and weakening the claims of the divestment movement as a whole.
Dissimulation and disruption can only lead to distrust and polarization. Middlebury is better than that. The path to 350 parts per million runs not through the narrow halls of Old Chapel or the crowded seats of Dana Auditorium, but through the classrooms and laboratories of Bicentennial Hall.
So let's use our skills as Middlebury students not merely to criticize the way things currently are, but to envision a better way forward. Rather than name-calling, protests and accusations, let's see a concrete model of how the endowment should be managed. With this in mind, here's an open call to the Socially Responsible Investment Club, Divest for Our Future, the so-called Dalai Lama Welcoming Committee and all students, faculty, staff, administrators, trustees and members of the Middlebury community who are concerned about the future of our endowment: let's see a cost-benefit analysis of divestment by the end of this academic year.
Written be MAX KAGAN '14 of Freeport, ME


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Sequester could play havoc with air travel
Automatic federal spending cuts could force Houston-area airports large and small to close runways, cut flights or even shutter air traffic control towers.
The Federal Aviation Administration says it is considering putting most of its 47,000 employees, including all air traffic controllers, on furlough beginning in April if the across-the-board cuts known as sequestration take effect on Friday.
The FAA has said it would have to close more than 100 control towers at small- and mid-sized airports, possibly including two in the Houston area, and eliminate overnight shifts at several dozen others.
On the horizon: As budget cuts loom, is a government shutdown next?
The agency said furloughs of up to two days per pay period would persist at least until the end of the fiscal year in September.
If those furloughs occur, "the only way to protect the safety would be for the traffic to be slowed down," said Dylan Hodgson, an air traffic controller and local union representative at Houston's Terminal Radar Approach Control, which handles low-altitude air traffic for all airports in the Houston region.
Hodgson said the facility regularly pays overtime to meet minimum staffing requirements already.
His union, the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, released a report Wednesday saying controller furloughs could force the world's busiest airport, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, to close one runway.
"In both Chicago and Houston, under ideal weather conditions and using two runways instead of three, the hourly arrival rate could fall by 37 percent," the report also said.
'A negative effect'
Senior congressional Republicans on Wednesday said the FAA could avoid controller furloughs, Bloomberg News reported. But FAA and Department of Transportation officials say the sequester requires cuts to all programs.
Houston Airport System Director Mario Diaz said that any impact to staffing at federal agencies, including the FAA, Transportation Security Administration or Customs and Border Protection, "could have a negative effect on our wait times, and if prolonged will have a negative impact on the local economy."
"Anything that would interrupt air travel, especially international travel, would be troubling," Diaz said.
Jean Medina, spokeswoman for Airlines for America, said the industry trade group, which represents U.S. carriers, has scheduled a meeting with its member airlines and the FAA "to plan for any potential cutbacks."
Control towers pegged for closure in the Houston area are Lone Star Executive Airport in Conroe and Sugar Land Regional Airport, which cater to corporate business travelers.
While those airfields could still legally operate flights without control towers, officials say it would be a lot less safe and thus make the airports less attractive to some customers.
'Giant step backward'
Montgomery County, which owns and operates Lone Star Executive, pieced together $2.8 million in local, state and federal funding to open a tower in 2009.
Airport Director Scott Smith said the airport, which is preparing to break ground on a runway extension, has seen significant growth since then.
"Closing the tower would be a giant step backward," he said.
Some insurance companies require operators to use only airports that have towers, Smith said.
Doug Adolph, spokesman for Sugar Land, which owns and operates Sugar Land Regional, said closing the control tower, which opened in 2001, would not only diminish safety but also have a significant impact on the regional economy.
The city has poured $53 million into the airport since acquiring it in 1990.
"We serve more than 100 Fortune 500 companies who are doing business in the region and, quite frankly, without an air traffic control tower, many of those companies simply won't utilize Sugar Land Regional Airport," Adolph said.
He said the airfield is the largest "reliever" airport in the state, handling general aviation traffic when larger airports like Bush Intercontinental or Hobby get too busy.
Unless lawmakers agree on a deficit reduction plan, sequestration will take effect on Friday.


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A cigarette burns slowly on Lester's sill as it begins to curl the varnish. A deep sigh and a low bogged chord falls out of his jowls, kicking up the dust on the portraits that line his stetson. A shirt in sore need of ironing hangs loose where a few buttons wandered off years ago. His eyes close and a vision of a youth returns. New boots. Film cameras. Rebecca. A beam of light wanders across the bar as the front door swings open. Eyes turn from glasses as a timid customer steps in. "Is there a Lester G. here?" "Who's asking?"
Find Lester Gulbransen drinking in Santa Cruz.


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What were your early inspirations that were outside of mainstream music?
When my dad would get really pissed off, he would storm into the living room and put on Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring. I've always associated that with these fits of anger. There are parts of that piece that are like a storm of terror. It made a huge impression on me. So it was sort of like Slayer and Stravinsky came to occupy two different extremes I suppose in my young brain.
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1. What makes the Psychology Program at CSUCI unique?
The Psychology Program at CSUCI is unique in two aspects. The first is that students will have exposure to all major areas of psychology through a required sequence of core courses. Included in these courses is a year-long upper division course in quantitative reasoning. This core-course curriculum borrows ideas from the best undergraduate psychology programs, producing students with knowledge in all branches of psychology as well as methodological skills which can be widely applied within and outside of the discipline. The second unique aspect of the CSUCI Psychology Program is the interdisciplinary course offerings. These interdisciplinary courses offer students a chance to experience the intersection of psychology with other disciplines. This closely follows how psychology is understood and practiced in the world at large.
2. What psychology courses do I need to take to get a BA in Psychology from CSUCI?
In brief, you will need to take: (Please note that not all courses have to be taken at the exact times listed here - however, this schedule is typical).
- Year 1: Intro to Psychology, a biologically-related psychology course or Intro to Biology, and an introductory Statistics course.
- Year 2: Cognition & Learning, Developmental Psychology, and Theories of Personality.
- Year 3: Psychological Research and Statistics I & II, History & Systems of Psychology, Social Psychology, Psychology Electives and/or University-Wide GE or Elective Courses.
- Year 4: Clinical & Abnormal Psychology, Physiological Psychology, Psychology Electives and/or University-Wide GE or Elective Courses. In addition, you will have to take General Education and Title V courses to fulfill university requirements (see catalog for details).
Psychology degree requirements may change so please refer to the
latest edition of the catalog or catalog supplement!
3. Can I transfer into the CSUCI Psychology Program from a community college? And if so, what courses from the community college apply towards the CSUCI Psychology Program?
Yes! We strongly encourage students who have finished their AA degree and/or have their GE certified to transfer into the CSUCI Psychology Program.
Courses that are the same or substantially similar to the required CSUCI Psychology Program Lower Division courses may be counted towards the degree program. These would include courses listed in Years 1 & 2 above (question 2). You may still transfer as a Psychology major even if you have not completed these courses at the community college. However, you will be required to complete these courses at CSUCI, which may lengthen the time until graduation.
4. Is the lower division preparation for the CSUN Psychology program the same as the preparation for the CSUCI Psychology Program? It looks like I have to take a lot more lower division courses - what gives!?
The CSUN Psychology program that was offered at the Channel Islands campus is very different than the new CSUCI Psychology Program and therefore the preparation is different.
The CSUCI Psychology Program requires students to take a number of major core courses at the lower and upper division levels. In the CSUN program almost all of the required courses are at the Upper Division level.
Students who enter the CSUCI Psychology Program are required to take the Lower Division psychology core courses if they have not had the same or similar courses elsewhere - even if they are Junior transfer students.
This is offset by the fact that up to 9 units of the CSUCI Psychology Lower Division course requirements and up to 6 units of the CSUCI Psychology Upper Division requirements may be double counted as General Education as well as for the psychology major. CSUN does not allow this. This means students should take roughly the same amount of time to complete either psychology program.
Of course the amount of time it takes to finish the Psychology Program at CSUCI will vary according to what courses each individual student has completed before transferring here. It may be the case that it will take a student longer to finish the Psychology degree at CSUCI than at CSUN.
We suggest that you make an appointment with the Psychology Undergraduate Advisor to review your options. Please be assured that regardless of whether you need to take some Lower Division psychology courses, you are welcome to join the CSUCI program.
5. Do I have to have been a Psychology major at a community college in order to transfer to CSUCI in Psychology?
No! We welcome students from all disciplines. However, you must realize that the more lower division courses you need in psychology, the longer it will take to complete the program.
6. I had a course in Social (or other) Psychology at the community college. When I transfer to the Psychology Program at CSUCI can I get credit in the major for this course?
No. We cannot count a lower division course towards upper division credit. Therefore, you will have to take the CSUCI course. However, you may be able to test out of the course - please see the undergraduate psychology advisor if you need to talk about this.
7. Can I be a part-time Psychology Major at CSUCI?
Yes. However, you should realize that not all courses are given every semester. Therefore, it would be best for you to meet with an advisor to plan out your courses so you will be able to finish in the shortest amount of time possible.
8. Are there jobs for graduates with a BA in Psychology?
Yes! Psychology majors typically do well in the job market. Approximately 90% of Psychology students find a job immediately after graduation. Within a year about 94% of Psychology graduates have found a job. Psychology graduates tend to go into a wide variety of fields including, business, human services, management, research, teaching, sales, etc.
9. What if I want to be a professional psychologist? Do I need to go to graduate school in psychology?
If you want to be a professional psychologist, you will need to go to graduate school. The CSUCI BA in Psychology will provide strong preparation for graduate programs in most areas of professional psychology. The CSUCI Psychology faculty have extensive experience with a number of different kinds of graduate psychology programs, as well as many psychology graduate schools. We are committed to helping students achieve admission to graduate programs.
10. What about other professions? Can I get into professional programs such as law, medicine, business, etc with a BA in Psychology.
Yes, provided you complete any specific undergraduate pre-requisites for the graduate programs. For instance, if you want to go into medicine you would need to take courses in calculus, chemistry and physics in addition to psychology courses. Psychology in general is excellent preparation for a wide variety of professions. The CSUCI Psychology curriculum will provide you with many important skills which will stand you in good stead in graduate professional programs.
For more information about the CSUCI BA degree in Psychology please contact:
Kimmy Kee-Rose, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
Madera Hall Room 2617
Phone: 805-437-3276
Office Hours: Mon 12-1:30 pm; Tue 4-6 pm; Wed 8:45-9:45 am; Fri 12-1:30 pm


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Specs Drop on Subaru's Impreza WRC2008 Rally Car
Seeing as their new Impreza WRC2008 rally car is hitting the dusty trail at this weekend's Acropolis Rally in Greece, Subaru and Prodrive have seen fit to officially launch the car and - and subsequently, its technical specifications.
We'll start with what lies underhood: a two-liter turbocharged four-cylinder boxer mill, taken from the Japanese-market Impreza WRX STI. The motor cranks out 300 hp, four less than the JDM production car, but 479 lb-ft of torque - 168 more than the stock car.Those figures will work well with the light weight of the rally car; the WRC2008 weighs in at 2711 pounds, nearly 550 less than the WRX STI.
That power is transmitted through a six-speed dual-clutch transmission and Subaru's ubiquitous all-wheel drive system. Fully-adjustable shocks from Bos help the car hold things together on the course, while larger brakes - 310mm discs with six-piston calipers in both front and rear - help bring things to a stop in a hurry.
We'll see what the WRC2008 can do when it starts hitting rally stages later today, but as drivers Petter Solberg and Chris Atkinson have remarked that the car is easy to adapt to, it may fare quite well in its first outing.


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Chapter: 92: Why?!
The door hit the wall and made a dull noise.
Ning Xiaofei was shocked. Her fingers shook and the pot in her hand almost fell down.
"Mu Tianye?" At the sight of a livid Mu Tianye standing in the doorway, Ning Xiaofei asked in bewilderment? "How come you're here?"
What was wrong with him?
Now that he is back, it was a bad thing for her, right?
Mu Tianye?!
Was it time she took a "husband"?
Mu Tianye walked over with a calm face. As she watched the man approach, Ning Xiaofei stepped back subconsciously. In a matter of seconds, she unconsciously had retreated to the front of the console and her lower back was affixed to the counter top. There was no way to retreat.
Looking at him in front of her, she instinctively tightened her hold on the porridge pot in her hand.
Reaching out, Mu Tianye took the pot over.
The pot has been baked already and it was still very hot. He grabbed it by the hand and caught unprepared for the searing pain from the burn, he frowned and immediately threw the pot aside.
When the porridge pot fell on the floor, the man frowned as he surveyed his burnt palm.
Knowing that he was hurt, Ning Xiaofei hurriedly caught his wrist and opened the tap then let the cold water run through his palm.
"Quick… let it under the cold water… I'll get some ice packs for you…
Want to escape?
Mu Tianye grabbed her arm and pulled her back. He lifted his wet palm and pressed her against the cupboard.
"Where's the man?"
"What man?"
Ning Xiaofei asked in daze.
The man grabbed the collar of her shirt and tightened it furiously. Due to rage, bloodshot eyes drilled into her unrelentingly.
"I told you, the thing I hate the most is others betraying me. So Why did you do it? Why… Why?!"
He clutched her collar tightly which rendered Ning Xiaofei almost breahtless. She instinctively raised her hand and tried to pry his fingers away.
"Let… cough… let go of me…"
He had never been on a non-stop flight before. For the first time, he had bought a flight ticket and flew back within a dozen hours just because he was worried she might have been in an accident. He even gave up the inspection…
But what came of it?
At this moment, Mu Tianye's sanity has long been burned by anger. Feeling her resistance, he tightened his hold some more.
"Answer me!…Why… Why…"
This man is tall and sturdy so there was no doubt in the disparity between their strength. In the midst of his anger, his strength was doubled.
Ning Xiaofei almost couldn't breathe. Her chest and lungs were burning with the same pain and her small face has been already turned red. Struggling to get rid of his violence, she let her hand aside and felt a fruit basket on the side. The basket however fell to the floor and the fruit inside rolled to the floor.
Hearing this sound, Mu Tianye came back to his senses and realized what he was doing. He quickly loosened his grip on her collar.
Air rushed into her throat, Ning Xiaofei dropped down and held her neck as she coughed violently. At the same time, she kept her eyes warily at him, filled with fear.
Noticing his gaze, she grabbed a knife and held it with both hands. She shrank away and held the knife with trembling hands.
"You… Don't come near. or else… I… I'll hurt you."
Everything happened so suddenly that she was really shaken up.
Mu Tianye's hands which where hanging on his sides slowly clenched tight.
The palm of his hand was still burnt but he felt none of the pain.
Looking at the corner of the kitchen cabinet where Ning Xiaofei was clutching the knife while trembling, he slowly squinted.
"From today onwards, don't let me see you again."
With that, Mu Tianye turned around and stepped out of the kitchen, leaving all the mess everywhere.


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Instead of making lofty promises to lose weight this New Year, you can be much more successful if you focus on changing your behavior. The reason most resolutions aren't achieved, or are only short-lived, is because we don't define how exactly our behavior will change. Our goals are often vague, unstructured or don't define actionable steps.
Set SMART Goals
The most effective goals are Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Timely. For example, if your primary desire is to lose weight, a SMART goal would be to keep a food journal and write down everything you eat, each day, for a week.
Once you have your SMART goal, take steps to monitor your behavior and adjust as necessary.
Plan For Slips
It would be unrealistic if we didn't anticipate slips, or lapses, as we work on building new behavior. The most important thing is not to be hard on yourself when slips happen. Reflect on what contributed to the slip and find ways to navigate through the challenges.
Reward Yourself
Define what success looks like for you and reward yourself for the behaviors that support your goal. For example, at the end of the week if you met your goal six of the seven days, treat yourself to a movie, pedicure, shopping or whatever you like.
Seek Support
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Toll-like receptor 10 (TLR10) exhibits suppressive effects on inflammation of prostate epithelial cells
Yu Fan1, Lu Yang1, Qiang Wei1, Yu Ding2, Zhuang Tang3, Ping Tan1, Tao Lin1, Duan Guo4, Shi Qiu1
1 Department of Urology, Institute of Urology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China2 Department of Core Facility, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China3 Department of Urology, Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital of Zhongshan University, Guangzhou 510120, China4 Department of Palliative Medicine, West China Fourth Affiliated Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China
Correspondence Address:Qiang WeiDepartment of Urology, Institute of Urology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China Tao LinDepartment of Urology, Institute of Urology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: NoneCheckDOI: 10.4103/aja.aja_100_18
Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None
DOI: 10.4103/aja.aja_100_18
Prostate inflammation (PI) is closely related to the development and progression of chronic prostatic diseases: benign prostatic hyperplasia and prostate cancer. Toll-like receptor (TLR) 2 has been reported to be associated with inflammatory diseases, such as infections, autoimmune diseases, and cancers. Meanwhile, TLR10, which can form heterodimers with TLR2, has been considered an orphan receptor without an exact function. The present study therefore aims to examine the effects of TLR2 and TLR10 on PI. Prostate samples and clinical data were obtained from the patients diagnosed with benign prostatic hyperplasia. The inflammatory cell model was established by adding lipopolysaccharide to RWPE-1 cells. Prostate tissues/cells were examined by histological, molecular, and biochemical approaches. Both TLR2 and TLR10 were found to be expressed in prostate tissues and RWPE-1 cells. mRNA/protein expression levels of TLR2 and TLR10 were both positively correlated with prostate tissue inflammatory grades. Lipopolysaccharide-stimulated RWPE-1 cells expressed higher levels of TLR2, TLR10, high mobility group box 1 (HMGB1), phospho-nuclear factor kappa-light-chain-enhancer of activated B-cells P65 (phospho-NF-κB P65), interleukin (IL)-6, and IL-8 than control cells. Moreover, HMGB1, phospho-NF-κB P65, IL-6, and IL-8 were downregulated after TLR2 knockdown and upregulated after TLR10 knockdown in RWPE-1 cells. TLR2 stimulation can activate the inflammatory signaling cascade in prostate epithelial cells. Conversely, TLR10 exhibited suppressive effects on inflammation. With antagonistic functions, both TLR2 and TLR10 were involved in PI. TLR10 could be a novel target in modulating inflammatory signal transduction of prostate epithelial cells.
Keywords: benign prostatic hyperplasia; inflammation; Toll-like receptor 2 (TLR2); TLR10
Yu Fan, Lu Yang
These authors contributed equally to this work.


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I was enjoying my afternoon, wandering around the back pasture and letting the dogs root and dig and play grab ass with each other. I decided I'd check in on a friend who was having a new floor installed this week. Before you can say "I like to fire people", our conversation turned to what happened in New Hampshire and what might happen in South Carolina. Neither of us thought any of it mattered, because Romney has the resources, the organization, and now the momentum against the weakest field of candidates known to man. (They aren't the gang that couldn't shoot straight, they are the gang that wants to shoot everything.) Clearly, it is Mitt's to lose. Then, my friend casually remarked that she thought the 2012 Presidential Campaign was going to be the dirtiest, ugliest, and most expensive contest of our lives. Isn't that disheartening? Especially for those of us over 50. Been there, done that.
Primaries are mutually destructive, ruinous affairs as it is. The last Democratic one led to a permanent fissure in the Democratic Party base. I imagine some of that is good, and there have to be rhetorical suicide bombers in each Party to at least keep the candidates honest on some important but seldom debated issues. How many political martyrs were felled by the mere suggestion that Social Security might one day need restructuring? It was called the third rail of politics for a reason. So I was looking forward to a few months of watching my political adversaries tear into each other. Call it a character flaw. I call it a guilty pleasure, like ice cream. Surprisingly, I grew tired of it almost immediately.
Maybe it isn't so surprising. I mean, when Democrats have tough primaries, they run to the right. When Republicans have tough primaries, they run to the far right. They trotted out the same tired bogeymen and sounded the same lame dog whistles, and not a single real issue got discussed. When Hillary had to attack candidate Obama, she called him out on his lack of experience, and wondered what the hell he would do when he got the 3:00 a.m. "phone call." (Pretty sure that issue has been, er, put to bed. Turns out, wake this POTUS up in the middle of the night and he will likely send a Seal Team over to make sure you have a bad day) But it was a legitimate question to ask, and the majority of voters rolled the dice on whether this former Junior Senator from Illinois would keep his legendary composure under fire. We aren't going to hear that in the Republican Primary, right? I mean, the man way out in front stood way back in the rear during his generation's call to arms. It is completely reasonable to wonder how Mr. Romney will react when the game of world-wide chess gets escalated to a game of Modern Warfare 5, Global Nuclear Shit-storm. But nobody in his Party seems to want to ask him about his views on, say, dealing with the son of a recently deceased dictatorial mad man, or a regime that plays us because we need at least the appearance of strong allies in that part of the world. They won't wonder (aloud anyway) what might happen when all that business acumen runs afoul of a nuclear armed "competitor" that may not act in his own self interest?
Instead, we know that he won't support the Dream Act, but he probably won't dot the deserts of the Southwest with bouncing bettys either. We know he won't round up homosexuals and gas them, but he ain't gonna recognize their marriages either. He won't totally loot the funding of our social safety net, just siphon a little off to "manage" for us. He's a taller, younger, better haired John McCain, without any of that bothersome street cred. Boring.
So, being a tried and true Pollyanna, I had hoped to see a Republican candidate stand up to those in his Party who can only be said to possess a rather thumb-less grasp on the real world. Call out your grifters, your charlatans, your snake oil salesmen! Appeal to those who have real, potentially solvable complaints. Government regulation can be murderous to small business. (I must add, though, that of all the evil regulation I have ever been subjected to has been on a local level.) The tax code is chaotic. Money collected from taxpayers should be treated like a scarce resource, but that must apply to military expenditures and domestic programs equally. If we can't fund Headstart, we can't build that new Drone that is the size of a pimple but can level a city block. In short, there are compelling arguments to be made on a whole range of issues, and I had hoped that this time, our political process would produce an intellectual debate over our common problems. Lucy/football, and all that.
I thought, for a minute, anyway, that a smart, well traveled and well mannered Republican candidate would give President Obama a run. I'm pretty confident that the President could hold his own with Mr. Huntsman, but he would be forced to take a firmer position on some important issues that he has regarded as, well, fluid. Win/win, am I right?
Not gonna happen, even if somehow, some way, a dead girl/live boy type scandal were to render Romney moot and elevate Mr. Huntsman, the SuperPacs would still make daily runs to the ATM. There will be billions spent turning both candidates into grotesquely shaped, foul smelling monsters from which we must be saved. Thanks, SCOTUS!
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In a tweet today, pod2g, a member of the evad3rs, the team who brought you the evasi0n jailbreak, stated he was "being more and more confident about an iOS 7 public jailbreak." He also noted "that does not mean soon" in regards to an ETA, so don't expect one anytime soon.
Pod2g was replying to @pimskeks who tweeted that he and pod2g were "working on funny things."
In response to pod2g's revelation, pimskeks tweeted, "hey @pod2g that's confidential."
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You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which 'clicks.'
Through his spoken word, man is continually making laws for himself.
Words and thoughts are a tremendous vibratory force, ever moulding man's body and affairs.
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Unite2cure was well-represented this October at the Better Medicines for Children conference, hosted by the European Forum for Good Clinical Practice and the Drug Information Association. Both Delphine Heenen and Chris Copland took part and Chris had the opportunity to present on the FAIR Trials age-inclusive research campaign. A colleague from the FAIR Trials working group, Christina Bucci-Rechtweg, of Novartis, also made headway with EFGCP colleagues in planning a position paper on age-inclusive research, with guidelines for ethics committees. The idea of FAIR Trials was well-received and Chris was invited by one of the delegates to speak at a workshop on paediatric oncology at Astra Zeneca later in the autumn
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Tragedy of children dying from cancer because drug companies won't include them in trials
Unite2cure has been busy campaigning in the UK this week.
Our message has come across loud and clear: across the word we need better access to newer and kinder drugs for kids with cancer.
We must also immediately ditch lower age ranges for adult trials so that more kids can get a change of better treatments.
6,000 children die of cancer each year in Europe. It is the biggest killer by disease in the under 25 age range. We must unite for change.
The UK media has got our message loud and clear. Firstly there was an hour long documentary on teenage cancer from the BBC's flagship scientific programme Horizon. This was followed by articles in the national UK press – all highlighting the need for better drugs for these children.
Debbie Binner is one of the founding members of Unite2Cure
Here are links to the press coverage and the BBC Horizon full programme:
Unite2Cure: calling for FAIR Trials
Our video sets out how young people with cancer are often excluded from research trials, without any just cause. This not only limits their individual options but holds back progress in finding better cures and kinder treatments for generations to come.
What are we doing about this and how can you help?
Unite2Cure has helped set up the ACCELERATE working group on FAIR Trials in order to Foster Age Inclusive Research . Here we are working with medical professionals, academic researchers, members of the pharmaceutical industry and those responsible for the ethics of research trials. The group is jointly led by a clinician, Nathalie Gaspar, and a parent, Chris Copland. You can find out more about the group here.
Our key proposal is for the age of entry to be reduced to 12 years in adult early phase studies (where medically justified). This may sound a bold target but there is no great obstacle in terms of law, regulation or safety. The issue, rather, is one of awareness and will within the research community. How then can we change this dogma?
- Identify trials that are truly age inclusive and publicise these success stories as examples to follow
- Lobby the pharmaceutical sector, with the help of our supporters within the industry, and put the issues to the wider research community
- Engage with ethics committees at a local and national level, as well as with international networks like the European Forum for Good Clinical Practice
- Provide a researchers' toolkit so that the procedures and paperwork for making trials inclusive become easy options
- State our case live, in the media and online
- If you work in Pharma or Research, complete our survey on current standards: ly/FAIR2018survey
- Whether you work in Pharma, Research, Ethics or as a Patient Advocate, join our circle of supporters so that we can share expertise and experience
- Push the arguments in your own networks. Patient advocates are often consulted on the planning of research trials and these are ideal opportunities to bring the issues to the table
Do, therefore contact me at firstname.lastname@example.com
We look forward to your active support,
Chris Copland, co-chair of the FAIR Trials working group
Children with cancer still left behind!
Childhood Cancer professionals and parents say urgent action is vital following release of the European Commission report on 10 years of the EU Paediatric Regulation
SIOPE – the European Society for Paediatric Oncology and the Unite2Cure network of parents of children with cancer welcome the recognition of unmet needs in paediatric oncology in the European Commission's 10 years Report on the Paediatric Regulation but strongly regret the lack of urgency and concrete proposals on how the Regulation will be amended to improve the cure for children and adolescents with cancer.
Some of the important concerns voiced by the paediatric cancer community and its supporters are acknowledged in the report. These are:
– For cancer drugs at least, the driving force for the pharmaceutical industry remains the drug's market potential in an adult cancer rather than the needs of childhood cancer;
– Wide-spread use of the Regulation's 'deferral' system, which leads to delays in paediatric drug development, often until their market of an adult cancer indication is secured;
– Shortcomings of the Regulation's waiver system, giving companies a route to avoid the obligation for paediatric development for a drug even when the way the drug works might be effective in treating certain paediatric cancers.
Crucially, the Commission confirms the possibility of an amendment of the Regulation, which SIOPE and Unite2Cure have been calling for. Nevertheless, we are disappointed by the lack of urgency for change, with more debate planned and no definite proposals expected until the end of 2019.
Cancer remains the leading cause of children's mortality by disease in Europe with 6,000 young patients dying each year. Lack of access to innovative medicines is a principal problem behind stagnating survival rates and adverse long-term side-effects in survivors.
Introduced in 2007, the Paediatric Regulation intended to meet the therapeutic needs of children through better-evaluated and authorised medicines. However, progress for paediatric cancer has been insufficient, with only two new medicines authorised for cancer affecting children since the Regulation's entry into force.
Working with multi-stakeholder experts, SIOPE and Unite2Cure identified the weaknesses in the Regulation and ways to improve it. The European Parliament also called for revisiting the regulatory framework and implementation in its Resolution of December 2016.
A targeted revision of the Paediatric Regulation remains a much needed and urgent step to advance more and better cures for children and adolescents with cancer across Europe.
This is all the more urgent since it is clear that children with cancer do not benefit from the Orphan Drug Regulation. By contrast, the RACE for Children Act was recently passed in the United States which requires that new cancer drugs be studied in any paediatric cancers for which the molecular target of the cancer drug is relevant.
In passing the RACE for Children Act in August 2017, the FDA has made the law catch up with the science, which is unfortunately not yet the case for children in Europe.
SIOPE and Unite2Cure remain committed to advancing the necessary changes in cooperation with all stakeholders and call for the set-up of working groups that would work on the improvement of the Regulation.
Every day, every minute matters to patients – the time to take concrete measures for a brighter future for children and adolescents with cancer is now
Link to the European Commission's 2017 Paediatric Report: https://ec.europa.eu/health/human-use/paediatric-medicines_en
Link to position statement ' Paediatric Cancer Medicines –
Urgent need to speed up life-saving innovation' https://www.siope.eu/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/1.-Paediatric_Reg_Position_paper.pdf
Link to paper 'Orphan Drug Regulation: A missed opportunity for children and adolescents with cancer'.
Vassal, Gilles et al. European Journal of Cancer , Volume 84 , 149 – 158: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28818704
Link to the 6th Accelerate Paediatric Oncology Conference http://www.accelerate-platform.eu/annual-conferences-2/
Unite2Cure (www.unite2cure.org) is a network of parents, parent organisations and patient advocates from across Europe, which is calling for better treatment and better access to treatment for children and young people with cancer.
Unite2Cure works in partnership with Childhood Cancer International (www.childhoodcancerinternational.org) which is the largest patient support organisation for childhood cancer in the world, and represents 181 parent organizations, childhood cancer survivor associations, childhood cancer support groups, and cancer societies, in 90 countries, across 5 continents.
SIOPE, the European Society for Paediatric Oncology (www.siope.eu), is the only pan-European organisation representing all professionals working in the field of childhood cancers in close cooperation with parents, patients and survivors. With more than 1,600 members across 35 European countries, SIOPE is leading the way to ensure the best possible care and outcomes for all children and adolescents with cancer across Europe.
The SIOPE Strategic Plan – endorsed by all partners in the field – aims to a future where no child dies of cancer and survivors live to the fullest. As the 'European Childhood Cancer Plan', it is based on seven key objectives and will inspire all future initiatives in this field.
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A September Update
Most of you know by now: September is paediatric cancer awareness month.
The 2017 edition is very special: our community of parents, patients and caregivers is waiting for the European Commission's report on the assessment of the Paediatric Medicines Regulation (to be published around the end of October 2017).
What has Unite2Cure been up to these past few moths?
We have been meeting with the Commission and many other EU officials to convey our message that an amendment to this Regulation could be a game changer for kids with cancer, giving them a swifter and safer access to innovative drugs.
Let's continue our awareness work on this topic: we need to have a clear legal framework to make sure all kids cancers become curable in the 21st century.
Dear followers, keep spreading our messages and supporting our actions
Accelerating Together
Last week, Unite2Cure participated actively in the ACCELERATE Paediatric Oncology Conference in Brussels. This event is a unique occasion for high-level experts to reflect upon and discuss concrete proposals to accelerate new oncology drug development for children and adolescents.
The conference is part of a unique multi-stakeholder joint initiative, the ACCELERATE multi-stakeholder Platform. Co-organised by CDDF, ITCC and SIOPE, this platform provides a transparent forum enabling patients and parents' organisations, academic paediatric oncologists and haematologists, pharmaceutical companies and EU regulatory network representatives to collaborate and jointly address specific obstacles to faster and more effective treatments for children and adolescents with cancer, including the needed changes to the Paediatric Medicines Regulation.
Innovative therapies could target several paediatric malignancies and, thus, save many young lives. However today less than 1 in 10 children in relapse with a terminal cancer has access to these types of medicines, and investment in paediatric oncology drug development is insufficient.
Paediatric drug development is currently regulated in Europe via the EU Paediatric Regulation. 2017 is the year of the 10th year report by the European Commission on this Regulation: 10 years of learning, 10 years of success and failure, 10 years of interaction between stakeholders. A huge experience to build upon in order to accelerate innovation for children and adolescents with cancer.
The Accelerate Conference provided us with a valuable opportunity to discuss successes and failures in paediatric development, as well as to discuss the strategies to accelerate new oncology drug development. It was also a chance to share experience, harmonize and strengthen the collaboration between all stakeholders at the international level (Parents, Academia, Regulators, Pharmaceutical Industry). This year was the 5th anniversary of the conference, and a wonderful chocolate cake was served to commemorate the event.
Angela Polanco, one of Unite2Cure's founding members, described her overall feeling about the conference: "It was an amazing few days spent with colleagues, friends and new friends. There exists so many possibilities for change and the people to make it happen includes you and me. Change can only be made with passion, dedication and consistency and by not being afraid to have a voice, even when the challenge seems so great. We are excited to see the progress made in the upcoming year, for all those children that deserve to live long and happy lives free from cancer."
Some points that were presented and will remain a priority for Unite2Cure:
The waivers for adult-only diseases are not relevant in oncology and must be amended: what is most important is the mechanism of action of a given drug,
There must be prior discussions to select the most suited drugs in order to match the best available therapies with children suffering from rare or refractory malignancies,
The delays must be reduced in starting paediatric development of potentially life-saving innovative drugs,
The rewards must be more effective and flexible to increase the interest the development of new and specific paediatric medicines,
We must get rid of the 18-year dogma and allow adolescents to participate in adults trials.
Delphine Heenen spoke to the audience about "Raising awareness and the EU political agenda" with a very well thought-out and moving presentation which drove home our message. She will be representing Unite2Cure again today at SIOPe's ICCD in Brussels.
Here is just a small part of Delphine's speech "When my son Raphaël was diagnosed with cancer in 2013, the comforting words most people felt obliged to say were really often the same: "I am so sorry but nowadays, treatments are making such progress, it's going to be OK". And I thought it was true. The irony is that IT IS NOT TRUE FOR CHILDREN. My son relapsed end 2015 and when I started inquiring more specifically into the best treatment options for his relapse, I was quite shocked to realise that the most recent drug he had received in 2013 dated back from 1988 -25 years! And the treatment for his relapse was not quite more innovative with the most recent drug being from 1998.
Children are treated with old drugs. They are left out of the innovation we read about almost every week in the papers for adult cancers.
I apologise for the comparison but the situation is shocking; hence shock is what I want to convey: cancer cures are not like movies. There should not be an "adult-only" section. Children and cure belong together!
And we can do better."
Unite2Cure's immediate goals following the conference are to continue to push for changes to the Paediatric Medicines Regulation in line with the Resolution adopted by the EU Parliament in December 2016. We will also begin working on the 18 age limit dogma – as there are no medical, legal or ethical reasons for adolescents not to be included in adult trials.
Together, we can make a difference!
Fireworks for International Childhood Cancer Day
February 15th was International Childhood Cancer Day and one way we chose to celebrate was by dispatching our reply to the European Commission's Consultation on the Paediatric Regulation on the same date as the ICCD call to action. This was the climax of weeks' of work, cooperating with patient advocacy groups in Spain, Italy, France, Britain, Switzerland and across Europe to push home a set of common messages about the need for better research for children with cancer. You can read a copy of the U2C reply here.
Also on February 15, a feature was broadcast on French TV which showed how cancer affected one Belgian family. Featuring U2C activist, Delphine Heenen, and set up with the assistance of Anne Goeres, this demonstrates why there is a need for 'more support for childhood cancer research, cure and care.' You can watch the film at the link here.
The soundtrack is in French or German, so if you do not speak either of these languages, you will have to ask a friend who does. If you do not have such a friend, then make one.That is what this project is all about. 😉
Unite2Cure, Cancer Research UK, and the European Society for Paediatric Oncology (SIOPE) – representing the united voice of parents, researchers and health professionals active in childhood cancer – welcome the adoption of this resolution seeking to improve the current EU Regulation on Paediatric Medicines.
The European Parliament adopted the Resolution during its plenary session in Strasbourg. A key aim of the Resolution is to limit pharmaceutical companies' scope to avoid the obligation the existing law imposes on them to investigate and develop drugs for children.
Today, companies can ask for a waiver from the obligation to investigate the potential benefit of a drug in a child if the adult cancer for which the drug was originally developed does not exist in children. However, such drugs can still be used to treat other childhood cancer types. For example, – a new drug for adult lung cancer can benefit children with neuroblastoma.
The Parliament Resolution proposes that the existing Regulation is revised by the European Commission to reflect this important distinction, ensuring that the Regulation goes as far as it can for children with cancer in the UK and across Europe.
The Resolution was tabled by Members from across a range of political groups in the European Parliament. It calls on the European Commission to modernise the current legislation to better address the needs of children and adolescents with a life-threating disease, facilitating a more rapid and better prioritised development of innovative therapies for children including for childhood cancer.
Cancer is the leading cause for death by disease among children, with 6000 young people dying of cancer every year in Europe[1]. It is vital that European legislation allows for a more enabling environment when it comes to the research and development of new cancer drugs and medicines for children.
"We, parents and patient advocates want our children to have a chance at a long and healthy life. We will not give up on this. But the problem is that there is still not enough research, not enough drugs and not enough options. At Unite2Cure, we are calling for very specific changes to the Paediatric Regulation to develop more drugs and save our children" commented Patricia Blanc, Anne Goeres, Nicole Scobie, Chris Copland and Delphine Heenen – just some of the many parents and patient advocates at Unite2Cure.
Professor Pamela Kearns, clinical adviser for Cancer Research UK and SIOPE Board member said: "The adoption of this Resolution, advocating important changes to the current regulation, is essential to support a regulatory environment that safely enables and promotes the development of new cancer drugs for children. We urgently need more studies into new cancer treatments for children to improve the lives of children and adolescents diagnosed with the disease."
Professor Gilles Vassal, SIOPE Past President and Board member said: "The need to accelerate the development of safe and effective innovative anticancer therapies for children and adolescents as well as the need for more studies to obtain paediatric information for paediatric medicines is today a matter of consensus supported by the pan-European paediatric haemato-oncology community and at the global level"
We call on the European Commission to revise the 2007 Regulation on Paediatric Medicines and introduce measures facilitating the testing and developing of new drugs that could potentially be beneficial for children and young people.
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About SIOPE
The European Society for Paediatric Oncology represents more than 1,600 professional members across 34 European countries. SIOPE is the leading organisation in Europe fighting to ensure a brighter future to children and young people with cancer, by increasing their cure rate and the quality of their lives on the long-term. Learn more: www.siope.eu.
About CR UK
- Cancer Research UK is the world's leading cancer charity dedicated to saving lives through research.
- Cancer Research UK's pioneering work into the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer has helped save millions of lives.
- Cancer Research UK receives no government funding for its life-saving research. Every step it makes towards beating cancer relies on every pound donated.
- Cancer Research UK has been at the heart of the progress that has already seen survival in the UK double in the last forty years.
- Today, 2 in 4 people survive their cancer for at least 10 years. Cancer Research UK's ambition is to accelerate progress so that by 2034, 3 in 4 people will survive their cancer for at least 10 years.
- Cancer Research UK supports research into all aspects of cancer through the work of over 4,000 scientists, doctors and nurses.
- Together with its partners and supporters, Cancer Research UK's vision is to bring forward the day when all cancers are cured.
For further information about Cancer Research UK's work or to find out how to support the charity, please call 0300 123 1022 or visit www.cancerresearchuk.org. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook.
About Unite2Cure
Unite2Cure (www.unite2cure.org) is a network of parents, parent organisations and patient advocates from across Europe, which is calling for better treatment and better access to treatment for children and young people with cancer. This network is supported by many doctors, paediatric oncologists and researchers from all over Europe.
[1] G. Vassal, M. Schrappe, R. Ladenstein et al., The SIOPE strategic plan: A European cancer plan for children and adolescents, Journal of Cancer Policy, Volume 8, pp 17–32, March 2016, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcpo.2016.03.007
URGENT: Call on your MEP to support children with cancer
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We have just received news that, within days, Members of the European Parliament will vote on a resolution vital for the future of children with cancer. We are asking you to contact your MEPs now, urging them to support the Resolution on the Regulation on Paediatric Medicines on December 15.
Our Toolkit here provides a simple 'two- click' procedure that will get a message to your elected representatives fast. It also gives plenty of background on what the Resolution is about.
This is a once in a decade opportunity to transform research into childhood cancers and other young people's illnesses. Please call on your MEP to represent you and all those that have been affected by cancer by voting YES to the Resolution on December 15.
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Let's Do #More4KidsCancer – Support Our Campaign by 15 Dec 2016
Between now and Thursday 15th December 2016, support our online campaign Let's Do #More4KidsCancer to act in favour of children and young adults with cancer.
SIOPE, CRUK and Unite2Cure are calling for EU institutions and civil society to speed up the development of safe and effective anticancer therapies for children and adolescents, as the European Parliament is voting on a Resolution about the EU Paediatric (Medicines) Regulation.
In Europe, less than 1 in 10 children with a terminal cancer have access to potentially life-saving innovative medicines. Ten years after its approval, the EU Regulation did foster progress in paediatric drug development but remained insufficient for paediatric oncology. Too few drugs targeting childhood cancers are currently under development, despite cancer remaining the first cause of children's death by disease in Europe.
Support our cause by clicking here: it takes 5 seconds to join our campaign and it is very easy to do.
For our campaign, we are using the "Thunderclap" tool: it allows people to pledge a Tweet/Facebook message with our important message, and unleash them all at the same time on 15th December, thereby "flooding" the web. Think of it as a "Twitter flash mob".
If you are active on social media, we would like to ask you to add your support via Twitter or Facebook, by using #More4KidsCancer, or even posting something gold/a golden ribbon to show that you understand the fundamental importance to increase cure and quality of treatment for children with cancer.
With your contribution, our voice will be stronger!
Thank you very much,
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Kyocera Realizes Crystal Filter By Using Atomic Diffusion Bonding
Kyocera Crystal Device Corp developed a crystal part by using atomic diffusion bonding and will start to ship samples of the part in January 2013.
It is a filter designed for large-capacity optical communication systems and expected to reduce sizes of modules and devices.
Specifically, Kyocera Crystal Device developed an "etalon filter," which is used for the tunable laser modules of WDM transmission systems. Etalon filters are used inside laser modules to check if the oscillation wavelength of a laser light source is stable.
When the temperatures of traditional etalon filters change, their light transmission rates also change, making it impossible to accurately monitor the change in wavelength. Therefore, to place an etalon filter in a module, it is necessary to control temperature with Peltier devices, which are used to keep temperature constant but increase the footprint and power consumption of the laser module.
Because the temperature characteristic of the new etalon filter is stable, it is not necessary to control temperature with, for example, Peltier devices. Kyocera Crystal Device said that the filter is "temperature characteristic free."
The company's old etalon filter has a wavelength change property (in response to temperature change) of 5.4pm/°C. But, this time, it drastically reduced the property to "±0.15pm/°C.
"With the new filter, the size of tunable laser module can be reduced so that its package size will be reduced to about 1/3," Kyocera Crystal Device said.
One of the reasons why Kyocera Crystal Device succeeded in drastically improving temperature characteristic is that it used atomic diffusion bonding. Specifically, the company bonded a crystal having a "positive temperature characteristic," which shifts wavelength characteristic to the positive side in response to temperature change, to a crystalline material having a "negative temperature characteristic," which shifts wavelength characteristic to the negative side in response to temperature change, by using atomic diffusion bonding.
In the past, even though Kyocera Crystal Device was considering combining a crystal having a positive temperature characteristic with a crystal having a negative temperature characteristic to realize an etalon filter that does not require temperature control, it could not commercialize such a filter because of problems related to bonding technologies.
This time, by using atomic diffusion bonding, the company realized a high bonding strength without affecting the properties of the filter, it said. The bonding strength of the new filter is more than five times higher than that of the "optical contact" technology, which the company used in the past.
There is another method for realizing a temperature characteristic free filter, and it is called "air gap type." But, with this method, the size of etalon filter becomes large.
Atomic diffusion bonding is a bonding technology that does not require any organic adhesive. And it was developed based on a research conducted by Takehito Shimatsu, professor at Tohoku University. Kyocera has been engaged in a research on atomic diffusion bonding in cooperation with the university. And it made an announcement about basic technologies for applying atomic diffusion bonding to crystal devices in May 2010.
This will the first time that a crystal device product developed based on atomic diffusion bonding has been actually released, Kyocera Crystal Device said. And the company plans to apply the bonding technology to other crystal parts in the future.


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SCHOOL leavers are swinging back to college courses leading to careers in the construction industry and professions such as law and architecture.
A breakdown of this year's applications to the CAO shows a big return in popularity in areas that suffered a big decline after the economic crash and end of the building boom.
The figures also show a continuing resurgence in interest in business courses, with a rise of almost six per cent in first preferences for honours degree courses.
CAO applications are at a record high for this time of the year, at 73,091, up almost three per cent on 2013.
Rising college applications reflect the population boom as well growing numbers of second-level students opting to stay on in school to sit the Leaving Certificate.
Six years on from the building industry crash, a notable feature of this year's CAO applications is the return in interest in construction.
Although the numbers are small, first preferences for Level 8 (honours degree) courses in the built environment category have more than doubled from 133 in 2013 to 312. Meanwhile, first preferences for Level 8 architecture courses are up 15 per cent on the year, while law has seen a four per cent rise.
The rise in popularity in engineering and technology courses is continuing with a 10 per cent rise in first preferences, while agriculture/horticulture has also retained its attraction, with 12 per cent growth.
Science has enjoyed a huge surge in interest in recent years, but that has slipped this year with applications rising by less than one per cent.
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10 Guidelines On Getting Small Business Insurance By Timothy Rudon
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President Obama's re-election heartened Democrats and disappointed Republicans, but in the Lone Star State — no stranger to secessionist movements — many Texans began drafting a wild plan to cleave Texas from the United States to form a separate country. On last night's episode of The Daily Show, correspondent Jessica Williams tried to capture the root anxiety driving the most recent attempt at secession by parachuting into suburban Houston, where she documented — and, in a few cases, encouraged — several Texans' ongoing struggle to win independence from the tyranny of Barack Obama, gun control, and non-Biblical law. Watch her on-the-ground report below:
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Teamwork proved to be the answer for a group of Vision AfriKa learners who were set a hiking challenge to scale Table Mountain in Cape Town last week.
The Grade 10 students started their walk at 10am to avoid the heat and take advantage of the fresh breezes that are often around at that time. But even so, the majority of them started to struggle very quickly and were keen to turn back. As a result, the coordinators pulled the learners together as a group and gave a motivational talk in a bid to encourage them to continue in their mission.
And the focus on teamwork succeeded. As some students started flagging again, others took control, taking it in turns to give each other support and encouragement until everyone had reached the top.
During a debrief session "scaling the mountain" became a potent metaphor for overcoming life's obstacles with Olwethu remarking: "We have heard from the other groups but we did not really understand how difficult it would be to climb the mountain. Now we know that anything that is worth the while will take a lot of effort…"


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16 Dec Cutting expenses after a job loss
Q. I lost my job a year ago, and I work several part-time jobs, but not enough to cover my expenses. I've been dipping into my emergency fund and that's running low. Any advice on cutting expenses if I can't get a better job?
— Trying
A. We're sorry to hear money is tight.
You've probably cut back in all kinds of places, but we have some ideas you may not have considered.
Part of the cutback strategy is to reassess which of your expenses are for needs and which are really discretionary.
Discretionary expenses are for items you can live without, even if you don't want to live without them. This means you may have some tough choices ahead.
Start by looking at subscriptions or memberships that you pay for and do not use, or ones you can live without, said Marnie Aznar, a certified financial planner with Aznar Financial Advisors in Morris Plains.
"For example, a magazine or newspaper subscription that you don't read or a gym membership that you don't use," she said. "If so, that's a quick and easy start."
She says you may also want to contact your television and internet provider to discuss your current package and see what changes can be made to reduce your monthly bill.
Remember — you might want the big movie package or the sports channels, but you don't "need" them.
Aznar said you should also contact your cell phone provider and discuss your current service to see what adjustments can be made to reduce the monthly bill.
If you still have a landline, consider whether you need that and the cell phone.
Aznar said making minor adjustments to your grocery shopping, such as shopping in bulk to the extent possible, can have a big impact over time.
"If you buy coffee outside of your house, consider making it at home instead," she said. "Coffee purchases can become very expensive over time, especially if you are a Starbucks fan."
Take a look at your use of gas and electric, she recommends.
"If you don't have a timer on your thermostat, consider purchasing a thermostat that will allow you to drop the heat significantly when you are out of your home or sleeping," she said.
Now take a look at your entertainment expenses.
Aznar said if you like movies, stick to Netflix or Redbox for now. A trip to the movies, as we all know, can become an extremely expensive night out, she said.
Dining out can very easily add to your budget.
"Ideally, while things are tight, you avoid dining out to the extent possible," she said. "If you do dine out, try to avoid ordering drinks, appetizers and desserts and just stick to a main course."
Depending on the severity of the cash flow situation, you may need to think bigger picture, Aznar said.
Do you have any flexibility with where you live? If you have a large mortgage or real estate taxes, for example, perhaps it is worth considering downsizing? If your rent is higher than you can afford, are there alternatives you could consider?
If you have a car payment, consider making adjustments, she said.
Can you sell your car and consider a low monthly lease arrangement for the time being?
While you have control over your expenses, you do also have control over your income.
Consider widening your job search to include full-time work that may not be directly in your field — if it will increase your income or further cut your expenses, such as commuting to several part-time jobs.
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Handwritten page of a diary dated March 1, 2000
… get out on the terrace and there's a giant pink moon. So I start singing "Pink Moon" from that Volkswagen commercial. It's still my favorite commercial of all time. These four friends are driving out in the middle of nowhere to find a party and they get there only to decide the party looks lame compared to driving around in their Cabrio under the pink moon — and from having gone to a million of those, I can say they made the right decision. The problem is that after driving on obscure roads for half an hour, you can't just get there and see that it's lame and say, "well, I can't stay long but I was just in the neighborhood so I thought I'd drop in." You were so not in the neighborhood.
Then Grandma comes out on the terrace and I point to the moon, and she says it reminds her of a song, and I say "yeah, right?" and I start singing like Nick Drake, "pink pink pink pink … pink moon" and she starts singing "full moon and empty arms, the moon is there for us to share but where are you?" I said that's a new one on me and she said it was sung by Eddie Fisher, and I said who's Eddie Fisher and she said "Remember when you were little and you liked Princess Leia? It's her father"
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Director Darren Aranofsky's controversial "Noah" movie (rated PG-13) grabbed the top spot at the box office over the weekend, grossing $44 million in the U.S. and Canada and almost $100 million worldwide. Many Christians voiced objections to the movie's content prior to its release, and the debate continued over social media as people went to the theater to see what all the fuss was about. The verdict: Christians are still divided on the film's value.
"This is not a 'buy up a block of tickets' moment for churches…," National Religious Broadcasters President Jerry Johnson blogged at ChristianityToday.com before the film's release. "Noah, the film, may be inspired by the biblical character and events – but it is not a straightforward retelling of that story. Churches who are looking for that kind of movie will not find it here.
"However, many people will go to this film and enjoy it. The main events from the Noah story are depicted in a powerful way on the big screen by name brand actors and quality production. Christians should be ready to engage moviegoers in conversation about biblical and cultural themes that are portrayed in this movie."
Your turn: Have you seen "Noah"? What did you think? Leave us a comment below.
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Saddleback, Warrens host conference on the church and mental health
Nearly a year after their son, Matthew, committed suicide, Rick and Kay Warren invited experts in the field of mental health to a one-day conference at Saddleback Church. More than 3,300 people attended the meeting March 28, which featured workshops for people and families struggling through mental illness, as well as church leaders who want to be better equipped to handle mental health issues in their churches and communities. "We do this in honor and memory of our son and others lost to mental illness, realizing there is hope for others dealing with this condition," Kay Warren said, according to a report by The Christian Post.
Judge makes Michigan latest state to take up same-sex marriage issue
Judge Bernard Friedman overturned Michigan's ban on gay marriage last week, and about 300 couples were married after his decision. The ruling was stayed, and Michigan Governor Rick Snyder has said the state will not recognize those marriages as of now. But U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said the government will offer federal benefits to the married couples, mirroring the action it took in Utah earlier this year. Click here to read about action in other states and to view the updated marriage map.
Barna researches why 64% of Americans aren't regular church attenders
Author Donald Miller sparked controversy recently with a blog about why he doesn't attend church (he feels more connected to God through his work than through a worship service). Research from Barna indicates many people feel the same way. Of the 64% of Americans who don't attend church regularly, 40% say they find God elsewhere, and 35% say church is not relevant to them personally. Read more, including details about church attendance for the millenial generation, at Barna.org.
Faith, family more important than mirror ball trophy for former 'Full House' star
Candace Cameron Bure, who came to fame as DJ Tanner on 90's TV series "Full House," is also a contestant on this season of "Dancing with the Stars." During a recent episode, she explained the modest choices she made when planning her rumba with professional partner Mark Ballas: "My life revolves around my relationship with Jesus Christ so with the overall tone of the dance or the costumes, it's not going to take a backseat."
Bure told host Erin Andrews after the dance: "I want to reserve some things for my husband so I think we did the best that we could with the rumba that I still felt comfortable doing." Read more at ChristianPost.com.


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Double Tree Village Museum is a museum in Alberta with a difference! You see, the owners just LOVE antiques, and have collected them over the years, which is how the Double Tree Village Museum ended up today as a great antiques collection that spans over 25 buildings!
The buildings are worth a visit in itself, with a general store, church, school, dress up shop, bank, and even a hotel!
Every inch is lovingly stocked with authentic period antiques and decorated convincingly. It's a fascinating trip through time!
Their wagon and sleigh rides are popular too, especially with kids! Spend the day riding along, being are pulled by a beautiful team of Belgian horses, through the trees and across their fields where you just have to watch out for wildlife, birds, farm animals and wild flowers around Hidden Lake. An ideal treat, summer or winter!
Check what events they have across the year too! Christmas is always a fun time to visit, with Double Tree Village is decorated for the festive season, and the sleighs are set with red bows and bells.
Kids will especially love the farm animals that they have in the area, where you can pet them and make new friends! Keep an eye out for those Pioneer Days Festivals too!
Great family fun in Alberta, where you can go back in time through history, and see what life would have been like for those pioneers! An invaluable experience for kids in history and FUN!