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You may have heard of couples that strive for exact equality when it comes to chores, i.e. I scrub a dish, you scrub a dish, I change a diaper, you change a diaper.
But new research finds that keeping score with chores isn't the best path to a high-quality relationship. Instead the data points to two items that should have a permanent place on a father's to-do list:
Do housework alongside your spouse
Spend quality time with the kids
"We found that it didn't matter who did what, but how satisfied people were with the division of labor," said Brigham Young University professor Erin Holmes. "We found that when wives are doing work together with their husbands, they are more satisfied with the division of labor."
Holmes and scholars from the University of Missouri and Utah State University authored the study for a 2013 issue of Journal of Family Issues. They studied how 160 couples handled housework and child-rearing duties. The purpose of the research was to see what contributed to the quality of a marriage relationship.
The most significant factor was the quality of the fathers' relationship with their kids.
"For women, dad having a good relationship with the kids means that dad and mom are probably going to have a better relationship," Holmes said.
The study measured father involvement in a number of ways — playing with kids, engaging in shared interests and providing teaching moments.
"Something as simple as reading a book with your children every night and talking with them about their day can really go a long way," said Adam Galovan, a BYU grad who authored the study with Holmes.
Most of the parents were between the ages of 25 and 30 and all of the couples had a child age 5 or younger.
"This stage of life, where couples have young children, is potentially really challenging for couples," Holmes said.
In fact, previous research by Holmes shows that both husbands and wives dramatically increase their household tasks during the transition to parenthood. Typically dads do twice as much housework after the first baby arrives. Moms, however, do about five times more housework than before.
Though all isn't fair in love and chores, Holmes' statistical analysis suggests that there's truth to the saying: happy wife, happy life.
"When wives are satisfied with the division of labor, both spouses report higher marital quality," Holmes said.
To put that into practice, couples could merge some of the items on their individual to-do lists, whether that's dishes, laundry, or bedtime stories. And dads should be aware that when they strengthen bonds with their kids, everyone wins.
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New York, April 4, 2012–At least 10 journalists were reported injured, several of them seriously, when a bomb ripped through Somalia's newly reopened national theater in Mogadishu, local journalists told CPJ. The blast, for which the militant insurgent group Al-Shabaab took responsibility, killed several people, including two of the nation's top sports officials, news reports…
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New York, February 28, 2012–Unidentified gunmen today assassinated a veteran journalist who had been trying to relaunch a radio station that extremist group Al-Shabaab had shut down and looted in 2010, local journalists said.

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Posted December 24, 2021, 3:19 PM HST
The Hawai'i State Department of Health Kaua'i District Health Office announced 43 new cases of COVID-19 on Friday, Dec. 24.
Today's cases consist of four visitors and 39 residents. Of the 43 new cases, three are children and 40 are adults. Twenty-three of the cases are related to travel – 16 mainland and seven interisland. The remaining 20 cases are considered community-acquired. Twelve of the community-acquired infections are close contacts of a previously announced case or are tied to an active cluster. The remaining eight cases have no known source of infection, including four whom investigators have been unable to reach after repeated attempts or who have refused to provide information. One of today's cases did not receive their positive test result until after their arrival on Kaua'i.
Today's cases bring the number of active cases to 189, with four hospitalized, and 3,584 cumulative cases. Kaua'i's cumulative case count includes 3,517 confirmed locally, eight probable, and 59 positive cases diagnosed elsewhere, as they received their pre-travel test results after arriving on island.
In observance of Christmas Day, there will be no COVID-19 news release tomorrow, Dec. 25. Kaua'i cases for Friday and Saturday will be reported on Sunday.


Cucina Enoteca is the latest restaurant of the Urban Kitchen Group (better known for running Cucina Urbana and Kensington Grill in San Diego). Through whatever forces of fate, I actually ended up trying their restaurant in Irvine before any of the ones in San Diego.
Cucina Enoteca is basically Cucina Urbana moved north to Irvine; the restaurant is owned by Tracy Borkum and the kitchen is headed by Executive Chef Joe Magnanelli. Chef Magnanelli is also in charge of Cucina Urbana, and focuses on trendy takes of Italian classics while bringing a modern feel to the dishes. While Cucina Urbana claims a $20 limit on all dishes, I noticed many of the lunch entrees at Cucina Enoteca had creeped into the mid $20 range, so the pricing aspect of the restaurants doesn't seem to align.
The risotto was well cooked and had a nice flavor for a vegetarian dish. The dish was balanced so the flavors of vegetables were able to shine through the rice.
This was the best dish of the meal. This is the famous Cucina Urbana burger taken north. The burger was well cooked and the short rib gave the flavor an extra punch to take the flavors more complex. The fries were cooked very well.
The pasta was slightly overcooked, but the bolognese was well made. Overall, the dish was unremarkable, but also was not outstanding either.
With my short glimpse into Cucina Enoteca, I feel that there is some potential in the restaurant. However, it doesn't seem to have fully captured the magic that I hear about Cucina Urbana in San Diego. I feel that I should visit Cucina Urbana soon to give the proper comparison. If Cucina Enoteca is able to fully bring the Cucina Urbana experience to Irvine, then I expect the restaurant to be a success.


Desexing, or neutering, your pet is a surgical procedure that prevents them from being able to reproduce. In male pets it is commonly referred to as castration; in female pets as speying.
Mostly we encourage desexing cats, dogs and rabbits before they are six months old.
Prevents unwanted litters, which can be very costly and adds to the already overwhelming number of stray animals put down each year.
Prevents cancers of the reproductive system (for example: mammary, testicular and prostate tumours).
Prevents a potentially fatal infection of the womb called 'pyometra'.
Stops the 'heat' cycle in females.
Can prevent and stop male cats from spraying urine.
Decreases aggression towards humans and other animals, especially in male animals.
Makes them less prone to wander, especially in male animals.
Helps them live a longer and healthier life.
Performed by operation under general anaesthetic, your pet is admitted in the morning and can be collected later that same day.
Not at all. Your pet will retain its pre-operation personality, possibly with the bonus of being calmer and less aggressive.
No – it's actually better for her not to have any litters before being speyed. Her risk of developing breast cancer increases if she's allowed to go through her first heat.
Your pet's metabolism may be slowed due to hormonal changes after desexing. However, this is easily managed by adjusting its diet and ensuring adequate exercise. There's no reason a desexed pet cannot be maintained at a normal weight. We can recommend specific diets designed to maintain your pet's weight after being desexed.
As with all surgery, there is some tenderness immediately after the procedure, but most pets recover quickly. We administer pain relief prior to and after surgery. Your pet will be discharged with a short course of pain relief medication for the first few days after the surgery. In many cases, pets will likely need some encouragement to take it easy!


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Letters - Spring 2012
Response to Our Winter 2012 Issue
By Our Readers | March 1, 2012
Financing the Deficit
In "How to Pay for What We Need" (Winter 2012) Richard Striner presents as innovative a system for financing government deficits that is essentially the same as the present method.
In Striner's world, Congress would appropriate nonexistent money though direct deposit to employee or vendor accounts. The accounts thus created would generate new bank reserves capable of multiple-deposit creation (i.e., when the Federal Reserve Bank supplies the banking system with an additional $1 in reserves, deposits increase by more than a multiple of $1), as is the case with any excess reserves. In the present system the U.S. Treasury has to issue additional government securities to generate funds to pay for deficits. These funds are obtained through sale of securities to investors, with the proceeds paid to the Treasury's accounts at the Fed. Thus the initial drain on bank reserves is instantly restored, but the public is left with the additional government securities that were sold to finance the deficit.
Suppose now that the public does not wish to hold the additional securities it has been asked to buy—a very likely story as the deficits and financing needs accumulate. Here is the rub: the Federal Reserve is likely to have to purchase the securities unloaded by the public so as to mitigate the rise in interest rates that might ensue and conflict with the Fed's interest rate objectives. Thus, excess reserves are regenerated, exactly as they would be if Congress created fiat money as per Striner.
Excess reserves and money supply have increased vastly since the recession and trillion-dollar deficits made their appearance, or roughly since 2008. The danger of inflation exists, exactly as in Striner's scheme. The danger is dormant for the time being because of the mutually reinforcing factors of weak business conditions and the banks' liquidity and balance sheet concern. Yet, a second recession has been averted.
Let Mr. Striner explain how his substantively identical scheme could have done better.
Francis H. Schott
retired officer, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Ridgewood, New Jersey
Richard Striner replies: I recommend that Mr. Schott reread my article and think beyond the limits of his orthodox presuppositions. I am not, as he believes, suggesting a different method of financing deficit spending.
It's true that the Federal Reserve has expanded our "excess reserves" considerably in recent years, as Schott observes. But the situation now is comparable to the Great Depression, when the Fed augmented the money supply and the money sat idle. As economic historians Lester S. Levy and Roy J. Sampson observed years ago, though "large amounts of reserves were pumped into the banking system, the reserves remained unused. So severe was the depression that sound business people were reluctant to borrow and banks were hesitant about lending."
One merit of my proposal is that the new money to be created by Congress would go to work and not sit idle: it would be spent—and spent immediately—on job-creating projects. Another merit is that the money would be spent, and not lent: it would add not a particle of debt-drag to our struggling economy.
The Fed has been allowed to be autonomous for far too long. It's time to construct a new monetary system that would link our fiscal and monetary policies and make them work in tandem for us.
No "respectable" journal has in recent times published such economic heresy as Richard Striner's article, in spite of its obvious intellectual merits. As implied by Striner, this has been a taboo topic for any serious economic discussion since the 1930s. It is no surprise, however, that the author is not an economist. That profession, with tragic consequences, is so mired in leftwing or rightwing ideological certitude that it is incapable of applying anything remotely resembling scientific objectivity to its studies.
Wavell Cowan
Moretown, Vermont
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One aspect of Northwest life that William Deresiewicz does not discuss in "A Jew in the Northwest" is the passive-aggressive core of the niceness he describes. People here avoid conflict so assiduously because they are ultra-sensitive to any criticism whatsoever of their little nirvana. Some of the commenters on the Scholar website are so smug they probably think the essay was about them. No! It's about what it's like to move from a place where conflict and interesting personalities are part of everyday life to a place where they are buried by niceness.
Rudy Lefkowicz
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As one of those excessively polite Portlanders Deresiewicz describes, I hate to say this, but his commentary paints him as a walking cliché of the Eastern Innocent Abroad. It's a type instantly recognizable to us literate hicks out here in the territories, upon whom literary New York periodically drops a roving correspondent to gather glib, retail-able anecdotes.
Tim McCormick
Portland's mayor is openly gay. Before him our mayor (Vera Katz) was openly Jewish. You might not get your bagel here with a schmeer, but you can get a bagel. The downtown area has two large temples, and if you want to kibitz with others there are plenty of opportunities.
But as far as someone asking if you're Jewish so as to bask in your Hebrewness, I find that highly unlikely. We have plenty of ethnic groups to bask with, from Albanian to Zoroastrianism. Stop acting like Bwana bringing civilization to a bunch of coonskin-hat wearing savages.
More than half of all Portlanders were born in a different state. If you can't find a group of New Yawkers to hang out with, then you ain't looking.
Bea Forni
Listen, go back to Manhattan. The people whom you mock, who love the hiking and deserts and whatnot, will never, ever begrudge you your MetroCard. I'll be teaching a 200-level course on Judaism in the spring, and I will be certain to include this in some of the readings. I doubt that my students will take away from the essay anything other than the racist smugness the essay oozes.
Alan Deresiewicz
Kesey, Kerouac, and Caen
Sterling Lord, literary agent to authors Ken Kesey and Jack Kerouac, wrote in "When Kerouac Met Kesey" (Autumn 2011) that prior to the publication of Kesey's novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Kerouac turned down a request from the Viking Press to write a blurb for Kesey's book jacket. (Kerouac and Kesey were both Viking writers at the time.) On this detail Lord appears to be mistaken. The book jacket of the 1962 first edition of Cuckoo's Nest quotes Kerouac as referring to Kesey as: "A great new American novelist." This quote very likely came from a Kerouac letter, dated October 1961, to Tom Guinzburg at Viking, a letter now in the Kesey Collection at the University of Oregon Library in Eugene.
I am familiar with that letter because Kesey showed it to me in 1961 when we, both from Oregon, were Stanford University graduate students and friends. I asked Ken to make a copy so that I could take it to Herb Caen, the San Francisco Chronicle columnist. Told that Caen didn't accept appointments or entertain visitors, I went to his office and gave the copy to his assistant. Soon a direct quote from Kerouac praising Kesey and Cuckoo's Nest appeared in "Baghdad by the Bay," Caen's column. It was apparent that the Kerouac quote came from his letter to Viking, and I am sure this was Caen's first mention of Kesey, someone Caen continued to write about until he retired more than 20 years later.
Johan R. Gustafson
When Veterans Come Home
Regarding James Gibney's review of Robert Jay Lifton's memoir Witness to an Extreme Century (Summer 2011), I take exception to Gibney's remark that "[s]ome analysts argue that the Vietnam veteran population as a whole was much less damaged than [Lofton's] book suggested." Who are those analysts, and where do they practice?
Lifton's Home from the War: Vietnam Veterans—Neither Victims nor Executioners along with Gloria Emerson's Winners & Losers: Battles, Retreats, Gains, Losses, and Ruins from the Vietnam War were two of the most important books that helped to bring me (and many other Vietnam veterans I knew) all the way home to a real understanding of how our longest war was deliberate, prolonged, and damaging. The psychic wounding from Vietnam still lingers and has only deepened in the wake of two Iraq wars and now Afghanistan.
The returning veteran is society's problem, a problem novelist Erich Maria Remarque wrote about in The Road Back 80 years ago. As philosopher Karl Jaspers noted, a nation cannot escape its metaphysical guilt. Lifton knows this, and his fine memoir chronicles his inability to turn away from the victims of war and its aftermath.
Gerald McCarthy
Nyack, New York
In Jessica Love's interesting comment on grammar ("The Grammarian Was a He," Point of Departure, Winter 2012) she fails to point out that the problem she discusses—the correct possessive to use when the referent is an indefinite pronoun—does not exist in many other languages.
French, Italian, and Latin (is, ea, id, ejus, ejus, ejus, as we learned in high school), for example, do not distinguish gender in their possessives (although German does), and while I'm not very familiar with Spanish, I don't think it distinguishes either. Well, as the French don't say, Chacun a leur goût.
Paul F. Zweifel
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Did I mention live music? Because that's there too.


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What makes Euroventure Travel Ltd different?
We're the innovators in a niche market, being the first to offer complete interrail packages including seat reservations on most European trains. We like to have a personal relationship with all our suppliers and we live up to our claim that we check out all the hostels we use. As an official agent for Deutsche Bahn we can also fulfil orders quicker than most others, being able to issue European rail tickets in house. This efficiency and personal touch combined with excellent customer service makes us unique, as can be seen from our regular 5* reviews.
What is your favourite success story from your agency?
We were contacted by a powerchair user whose dream it was to travel around Europe by train, but who couldn't find a company that would take the time to look into booking the right tickets and assistance. After a lot of work, and an unscheduled flight to Germany to personally collect a ticket for her she went away and had an amazing time.
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Euroventure is a travel company established in 2012 and based in Leeds, UK. Its tour operator arm provides independent and group interrail packages around Europe for students and travellers of all ages, but it is also a Deutsche Bahn rail ticketing agent and a travel agent for worldwide tours.
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Membership: WYSE Travel Confederation Buyer Member
What are your future plans?
We are always trying out new things and expanding into new areas, and currently we are testing our first interrail group tours, which are also the first in the market. This is our biggest project at the moment and we hope to see more and more groups travelling year-round with Euroventure. We are also translating the website and assessing new markets to sell into, but in general we want to keep it fun and carry on learning.
Which trends do you see in educational and active youth travel?
I think there is a trend for experience-driven choices when it comes to youth travel, with an audience that has more destinations than ever to pick from. Social media has a very important part to play in delivering content and is a strong influencer, particularly on platforms such as Instagram.
Which challenges do you see in educational and active youth travel?
I think technology is a huge challenge as it evolves so quickly and is expensive to test and develop. Therefore I think keeping up with new forms of delivering content, booking processes, and even the model itself will be a challenge. Youth travel will always be the first to be disrupted by new technology and we need to keep informed about what choices people are making when it comes to researching, booking and experiencing travel.
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Is anyone able to do me a Van Dijk siggy, please?
I would like a Fairy Godmother avatar, a pretty glittery one, and big enough to see.
I'll donate 1 million vCash for it!
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Born Austin Richard Post in July 1995, he took on the moniker Post Malone when he started his music career at the age of 14. Strangely enough, he named himself Post Malone because of the result he got from a rap name generator. He is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He debuted his first single, White Iverson, in 2015. It reached #14 on the Billboard 100 and was awarded a quadruple platinum award. It also gained 1 million views online. He signed a contract with Republic Records soon after. His debut album, Stoney, hit #6 in the Billboard 200 and was certified triple platinum. His second album, Beerbongs and Bentleys, also performed very well in the charts and reached double platinum, not to mention getting almost 80 million streams around the world in 24 hours.
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Chapter 15: Premarital Day To Day Life Where He Is Very Handsome And Also Very 'Low'.
Chapter 19: After Marriage Day To Day Life Where There Are A Lot Of Differences.
Chapter 21: Chapter On Travelling.
Chapter 25: No Do, Will Die.
Hi, sorry but I'm not Heisui haha (I'm Tofubyu ( ̄▽ ̄;) ).
The book has 14 chapters in total and a few afterwords.
Thanks for the translations, Tofubyu! "Full of My Love to You" made my night a cheery one. Will eagerly wait for chapter 11.
I haven't updated the translations page in a while but if you scroll down the homepage, chapter 11 should be there!
Hi Tofubyu. Thanks for the translations. I would like to know how many chapters are there in "Full of My Love to You". Is it translations completed?
Hi, there are 30 chapters altogether so we are halfway there!
When can I expect the next chapter of FOMLTY?
P.S. Thanks for the wonderful translations.
P.P.S. Could you suggest some really awesome C-novels to read and also post their links in your reply?
Where is chapter 23?? It keep showing 22 instead of 23.
Many thanks for the translations!
Full of my love to you chapter 17?
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Ali Fazal Family Background, Father Name, Wife, Age, Biography
Sep 16, 2016 May 17, 2022 by sultan
Ali Fazal is one of the rising faces in Indian acting industry. He is one of the top rising youngster in India who has started his acting career through a special appearance in one of the hit films of all the time 'Three Idiots' in 2009. After this he worked in number of hit films like Always Kabhi Kabhi, Fukrey, Sonali Cable and many others films. He has also played the lead role of a super hit film Khamoshiyan in 2015. Ali Fazal has recently seen in a comedy film Happy Bhag Jayegi opposite to actress Diana Penty in 2016. He also has worked in Fast& Furious 7 in 2015. Besides his acting, he is also a well known model. He is one of the top rising actor and model in Indian who want to rule over bollywood film industry with his acting and hot looks. Here you can check about Ali Fazal, about his family background, parent names and biography, which I have written for you in this article, so keep scrolling down.
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Ali Fazal belongs to a Muslim family of Lucknow which has come from Allahabad India. His Father resides in Middle East and worked there while his mother is a house wife and lives with his maternal grandparents in India. His parents got divorced when he was only 18 years old.
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Ali Fazal loves to keep his profile personal and not share much about his father and other family members with media. But we are trying our best to gather information about his father and other family members. As we receive any latest news about his father, we will update it here soon.
Ali Fazal Wife:
Ali Fazal has not married yet. He is currently single and enjoying his single life. But there are some rumors about his relationship status that he is dating to a Delhi based girl and purposed her for marriage. As we receive any more info about his relation status, we will let you know as early as possible.
Ali Fazal Age:
Ali Fazal was born on 15 October in 1986. He is 29 year old and going to celebrate his 30th birthday in 2016.
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Many patients with advanced Merkel cell carcinoma who received the immunotherapeutic pembrolizumab as first-line therapy in a phase II clinical trial had durable responses. Merkel cell carcinima is a rare, aggressive form of skin cancer. Responses to the drug were seen in those whose cancers were driven by a virus, as well as those whose cancers were induced by exposure to ultraviolet light, a type of radiation from the sun or other sources .
The research was presented today, April 19, at the American Association of Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2016.
This study was simultaneously published in The New England Journal of Medicine.
"In this clinical trial, patients with metastatic Merkel cell carcinoma who received pembrolizumab had an objective response rate of 56 percent, which is similar to chemotherapy outcomes, but the duration of response to pembrolizumab appears to be significantly longer than that for chemotherapy," said Paul Nghiem, affiliate investigator of the Clinical Research Division at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle and and UW professor of medicine, Division of Dermatology.
In about 80 precent of cases of Merkel cell carcinoma, a virus called Merkel polyomavirus, abbreviated MCPyV, is the driving factor, Nghiem explained. The virus is often present on normal skin.
About 2,000 new cases of this rare skin cancer are diagnosed in the United States each year. Merkel cell carcinoma is 35-fold less common than melanoma. On average,however, it is about three times more likely to kill a patient than melanoma.
Response to chemotherapy is typically quite brief, and half of patients develop progressive disease within three months of starting treatment, Nghiem added.
Nghiem and his colleagues enrolled 26 patients with advanced, metastatic Merkel cell carcinoma in this single-arm, open-label trial. None had received any prior, systematic therapy. Of them, 17 had MCPyV-positive disease. All patients received 2 mg/kg body weight of pembrolizumab every three weeks. Responses were assessed every nine to 12 weeks. At the time of data analysis, patients in the trial had received 4 to 49 weeks of therapy.
The overall response rate was 63 percent in patients with virus-positive Merkel cell carcinoma and 44 percent in those with the virus-negative form induced by ultraviolet light. Four patients, three with virus-positive disease, had complete responses, and 10 patients, seven with virus-positive disease, had partial responses.
Adverse events in this trial were similar to other trials of other PD-1 inhibitors -- drugs that block an immune system checkpoint called programmed cell death protein 1 and activate the body's defenses to attack tumors. Side effects were largely managed with steroid treatment and stopping the study drug, Nghiem added. The condition of two patients who developed severe drug-related toxicities improved by treating with corticosteroids and quiting pembrolizumab.
"Importantly, both these patients have ongoing antitumor responses many months after discontinuation of pembrolizumab," he noted.
"We believe that the immune system is likely 'seeing' different targets in the virus-positive and virus-negative patients," Nghiem said.
He explained that the virus-positive tumors produce the viral proteins needed for the tumors to grow. These viral proteins may be readily detected by the immune system.
In contrast, virus-negative Merkel cell carcinoma has extremely high numbers of mutations caused by sunlight. These mutations can change the normal cellular proteins so they no longer appear to be the body's own self.
Certain of the immune system's T cell should be able to recognize and attack these tumors, but sometimes are restrained.
Pembrolizumab acts by removing the "brakes" on tumor-specific immune cells, thereby allowing the T cells to kill the cancer cells.
Currently there are no FDA-approved drugs for the treatment of Merkel cell carcinoma.
"We are expanding this trial to recruit additional patients. We hope that these data will contribute to meaningful new therapeutic options becoming available for these patients," Nghiem said.
"It was initially challenging to partner with pharmaceutical companies because of the rarity of Merkel cell carcinoma," he added. " We are v thankful that the National Cancer Institute's Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program. the Cancer Immunotherapy Trials Network, Merck, and multiple clinical sites came together to carry out this challenging study, which we believe is providing significant hope for Merkel cell carcinoma patients," he added.
Nghiem is a consultant for EMD Serono, Inc., and receives funding from Bristol-Myers Squibb to perform biomarker studies in Merkel cell cancer clinical trials.


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Dismiss No Major Candidate Yet
There is a temptation by some at this early point in the presidential campaign to dismiss ex cathedra certain major candidates for the Republican nomination. In fact, there are those who have already done this about each of the three major announced contenders.
History demonstrates time and again that premature dismissals are not a rewarding undertaking before a single vote has been cast in a primary or a caucus, before any large-scale debate between all the candidates has taken place, before the Iowa Straw Poll, and yes, before all the candidates have announced.
We have already heard that, despite his leading in most polls, having virtually unlimited funds, and already well-organized nationally from his run in 2008, that former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney can't win. Why can't he win, we are told? Because of his religion, because of state-mandated healthcare enacted when he was governor, and because he does not fit predetermined stances on some issues. Somehow, however, Mr. Romney's campaign is thriving. Despite being so rich he could finance his own campaign without a single donation from anyone, he raised $11 million in one day recently (a record). His poll numbers either have stayed the same or are growing.
Anyone who dismisses Mitt Romney at this point is likely to be already committed to another candidate and indulging in wishful thinking.
We are now told that former Speaker Newt Gingrich absolutely can't win. Why can't he win, we are told? Because he is too old, because of two past divorces, because he's "had his day" and most recently because he criticized Representative Paul Ryan's Medicare reform plan. These contentions are made despite Mr. Gingrich's cutting edge technological prowess (he was the first to announce by Twitter), his remarkable decade-long recovery from his 1998 resignation as speaker, and in spite of his current happy marriage. His choice of words in regard to Mr. Ryan were indefensible, but he has apologized. The latter incident was the most serious because he was violating The GOP eleventh commandment about not criticizing leaders in his own party. Nevertheless, the national media, including the conservative media, have piled on and proclaimed Mr. Gingrich's campaign dead in the water. Yet even as they were doing this, and many blog commentators were echoing his political demise, Mr Gingrich was drawing large and positive crowds in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, sites of the first primaries and caucus. Perhaps sensing a premature dismissal, even The Washington Post is now calling the former speaker "The Comeback Kid." The contretemps with Mr. Ryan has furthermore seemed to chasten Mr Gingrich about his tendency to speak carelessly in public, and his fundraising has temporarily slowed, but he has more than a million persons (and funders) on his regular mailing list, draws large friendly crowds wherever he goes, and has no intention of going away quietly.
We are told that former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty can't win, because he has no experience outside of Minnesota, because he can't raise sufficient campaign money, has a history of poor political organization, and because he is boring, Yet he continues to draw praise for his bold style of campaigning, including telling Iowa voters he now opposes funding for ethanol, and Florida voters it's time to reform Social Security and Medicare. For a man who is supposed to be boring, he is being quoted in the media a great deal, continues to attract endorsements from major political figures, and continues to draw top political operatives to his campaign. Mr. Pawlenty, a virtual unknown only months ago, is now frequently touted as the major challenger to Mr. Romney. Mr. Pawlenty does not seem like a good choice for early dismissal.
I am not suggesting that any of these three men are going to win the Republican nomination for president, but I am suggesting we have not yet seen what any of them, nor any other GOP candidates, can do on the actual campaign trail when voters actually go to the polls.
I also want to point out that each of the three seem quite determined to be president. They do not hesitate to say so, nor to wilt under pressure and the ruthless glare of the presidential campaign season. Mr, Gingrich in particular has undergone a withering series of dismissive criticisms by editorial writers, political cartoonists, and political "experts," and yet he seems to have found a second wind for the campaign ahead. I seem to remember so many telling me in the winter of 1992 that then Governor Bill Clinton, mired in scandals about his girl friends, was "finished," and had no chance to win his party's nomination only a few months ahead.
A second wave of announcements by Republican hopefuls now seems imminent. Perhaps the eventual nominee will be one of them. Or perhaps the nominee will be one of the three candidates who announced early in the race, and are somehow still standing after the media and political elites (on all sides) said they could not possibly make it to Tampa in triumph.
Isn't it interesting that a biography of Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), famously declared dead more than a hundred years ago (and long before he did pass away), was recently the number one bestseller in America?
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'Grey's Anatomy' two-hour finale will be hot stuff
We're only days away from this seasons "Grey's Anatomy" finale (due to air on Thursday, May 20 on ABC). Although producers are trying to keep the plot as hush hush as possible rumours are leaking that the Dr. Owen - Cristina/Teddy love triangle will finally come to a head. Of course our own Irish boy, Kevin McKidd, who plays Owen is in the thick of it. Cristina's bestie Dr. Meredith Grey has been trying to tell her friend that she thinks there is something between Dr. Teddy and Dr. Owen but Cristina is having none of it. Tough as nails that girl. However, it's believed that the two-hour finale this coming week, will finally reveal who Owen really loves. Will Cristina confront her beau (whom she has random acts of passion with in the changing rooms of the hospital every now and then) or will she just continue to turn a blind eye to it. If you have been following the last few episodes you'll see that it's coming to a head. Producers are setting up the scene for what could potentially be an explosive ending to this season. All season the show has eluded to Teddy and Owen's baggage. Plans for Cristina and Teddy to move in together had been put on hold - his doing! Cristina is definitely getting suspicious. Tune in next Thursday to see how it pans out.
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We're only days away from this seasons "Grey's Anatomy" finale (due to air on Thursday, May 20 on ABC).
Although producers are trying to keep the plot as hush hush as possible rumours are leaking that the Dr. Owen - Cristina/Teddy love triangle will finally come to a head.
Of course our own Irish boy, Kevin McKidd, who plays Owen is in the thick of it.
Cristina's bestie Dr. Meredith Grey has been trying to tell her friend that she thinks there is something between Dr. Teddy and Dr. Owen but Cristina is having none of it.
Tough as nails that girl.
However, it's believed that the two-hour finale this coming week, will finally reveal who Owen really loves.
Will Cristina confront her beau (whom she has random acts of passion with in the changing rooms of the hospital every now and then) or will she just continue to turn a blind eye to it.
If you have been following the last few episodes you'll see that it's coming to a head.
Producers are setting up the scene for what could potentially be an explosive ending to this season.
All season the show has eluded to Teddy and Owen's baggage.
Plans for Cristina and Teddy to move in together had been put on hold - his doing!
Cristina is definitely getting suspicious.
Tune in next Thursday to see how it pans out.


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I tried Past Life Regression and what I discovered
2021-01-05	 Meditation, Past Life Regression
I tried past life regression and what I discovered about my life before this one was absolutely fascinating
I figure that digging about in my past lives could hold some clues to feelings I'm experiencing today.
There are acceptable levels of hippie. Crystal-toting is fine, almost expected these days. A bit of reiki is the step above, combined with a cosmic chat about the 'universe' and chakras. That's when people tend to drop off, TBH. Heart chakras, shamanic healing and cacao ceremonies are most people's woo woo limit/nightmare. But they're not mine. I have zero limits around what I'll try in pursuit of wellness. And the one thing I've always wanted to try? Past life regression, I figure that digging about in my past lives could hold some clues to feelings I'm experiencing today.
It's kismet too; I happen to meet Fiongal Greenlaw aka The Wellness Foundry when I'm taking an excellent tarot class he's teaching. He mentions in passing he's a past life regression practitioner (among a host of other things) and within a few weeks, I'm booked in, sitting in a chair, about to undertake something that pushes even pushes my boundaries. So what is it? "Past life regression is a gentle healing technique that takes you on a hypnotic journey, safely into a past life. I never convince people of their past-lives, in a spiritual form or otherwise, it's more of an exploration to represent the power of the subconscious mind," he explains.
I like the sound of that, it takes the fright factor out of it a bit (I do have some trepidation about what I could unleash – what if I was like, Satan, in another life?) as does its spiritual usage: "Past lives can be found in most Eastern religions, Buddhism, Hinduism, Sikhism and Jainism, and they come in different forms," he explains. Those five types are fascinating. 'Past life memory' is where your soul takes on a new physical form (ie…you) but it carries memories of its former reincarnation. There's 'inherited memory' which comes from our ancestors ("in particular through the mother," says Fiongal.) 'Cryptomnesia' is when you can pick up on collective thought-forms, for example from other people's memories, 'parallel lives' is when we pull through a life from alternative universe and imagination, which is simply accessing the subconscious.
So what am I hoping to get from it? Well, there are certain things I wonder about myself. I'm so pulled to certain eras in history in a borderline obsessive way and I have some emotional stuff I can't explain – like always feeling abandoned – when that's never actually happened to me. Therapy hasn't been able to shift it, so I wonder if past life regression could bring me some resolution on that, or even just some insight. And, I often have this nostalgic feeling of deja vu in certain places, which some say we get when we're somewhere that we've been in a past life. Like a merger of the former and present, which is kinda beautiful, when you think about it.
But I've got a dose of side-eye too. My biggest question is how do we know what we're seeing is true? What if I'm just seeing what I watched on Netflix last night? And I watch a LOT of Netflix. Fiongal reassures me: "I always say it doesn't matter too much where the memories are coming from, but rather the content. Even if it simply imagined or ideas from the subconscious it still has meaning. For instance, one client might picture themselves as a father of six who works on a farm, whereas another person brings forward a young lady of a rich family. There are insights and understandings to be found in these differences." I feel a bit calmer about it, and less like I'll be accessing something I can't control. But Fiongal cautions: "It's not simply a trip down memory lane, but it can be a tool for insight as to where the causes of certain traits or ways of thinking stem from. You can come away from the session with a much broader concept of who you are, and perhaps explain the source of some of your issues in this lifetime, such as phobias, addictive traits and compulsive behaviours."
Fiongal sits opposite me in a comfy therapy-type room and takes some details like the names of my five best friends and parents. He then gently leads me into a guided visualisation and meditation: "Putting the client into a deep sense of relaxation and a trance-like state helps to bypass the conscious, rational mind and the 'monkey-chatter' brain and allows the right-side brain to activate. This is the seat of the intuition, creativity, stored memories and where there is no fear," he tells me before-hand.
After 20-30 minutes, I feel myself becoming sleepy. My head drops a little, as Fiongal asks what I can see through a mirror we're visualising. I see an old man in a deck chair. My rational brain kicks in to ask why? I can't make any sense of it, it's so random. Fiongal gently nudges to see what else I can see. It's on a pebble beach, definitely in Britain. It looks like Margate or something like that. It's very empty and he's not super friendly. I don't understand why I'm there – it's pretty odd if I'm honest.
Next Fiongal asks me to look down at myself – and it gets weirder. I'm small, I'd say about four and I've got a retro bowl-ish haircut and patent shiny black shoes. The weirdest part? I keep looking at myself and realising that I'm white. I get stuck on that actually – being it's so, so weird to me – but Fiongal tells me afterwards that people are often a different race in past lives and find it bemusing. He moves me past my current block, and we explore my relationship with that man in the deckchair. He's a caretaker, but I don't feel any emotional connection to him. We live around the corner in a small, bare house. I feel like a burden to this man and I definitely don't feel any love.
I see my bedroom, which has a single wooden bed in it and the walls are a dark salmon colour and it's quite bare. I get an overwhelming sense of sadness in this room, I'm in it a lot actually, just reading or looking out of the window. There are no more images or memories around the house or the area. I don't think I do very much here. Fiongam guides me towards anything else I can see, and I get flashbacks of a different much bigger house in a city which has a warmer environment with siblings. It's so busy and full of love. He guides me to explore the connection of these two scenarios and I work out that I was an evacuated child – though I can't tell which war or time period we're in exactly.
As we go back to the seaside situation, I get a deep sense this story doesn't go any further. I can see myself looking about six years old, still in that room, with the same solitude. Nothing else comes up, and it just feels like the story ends – as if there are no more memories. Fiongal asks if I can see anything else and I feel a rush of sadness. I'm pretty sure that I passed away at that age, from some kind of childhood illness of the time, in that room. It feels like my soul never really leaves it like there's no future past it. I also think I'm alone when it happens. And there is something about that seems so real, and so sad.
Fiongal guides me through that experience and then very slowly back to the present day – the whole process takes an hour and a half. It gives me plenty to think about afterwards. I feel wiped out, but I also feel a sense of sadness as I leave the session, and I still can't get over being white – that felt so alien to me. But over the next few days, things start to click a bit. I am obsessed with the '20s-'50s and British wartime history. To the point where my house is a mid-century shrine, I almost exclusively buy vintage clothes, listen to music and watch films from that era. It could just be a coincidence of course, but it's also a possibility this love came from a former life. Another curious coincidence, I also LOVE slightly grotty British seaside towns and the slightly maudlin historical feel they have. There are a few other similarities too; my bedsheets now are the same dark salmon shade of those walls. The patent shoes I'm wearing are a child version of an adult pair I've been lusting over. And that strong sense of abandonment I've felt and clearly feel in my past life? Well, I'm trying not to read too much into that – it could totally be something triggered by my current life – but who knows?
So would I recommend it? Absolutely. Anything that can give you insight into how you feel and potential reasons why can be useful, if you're able to cope with it emotionally that is: "Any good past life regression therapist will give you the tools and prompts of how to navigate the session safely, you can return to a safe space at any point the client feels a sense of overwhelming. That said, often the lives that are brought forward have issues and difficulties that are left unresolved, so carry with them sadness or other difficult emotions." I feel that a little – but I'm just sad for my tiny past life self, actually. It's not always a sad ending though, Fiongal says the insights clients get can be fascinating: "I once did a past life regression session on a couple who independently brought through lives from the same era and country. They were a couple in this past-life too, which was fascinating." I'd absolutely try it again because it does feel like something has finally clicked a bit – even if it's not given me the concrete answers I was looking for.
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There seems to be some debate about whether the left has "sold out" under Obama, or whether leftists have remained principled and critical in light of the president's continuation of his predecessor's policies. To explain it the way I see it, I'd like first to outline my views of leftist taxonomy.
What passes for the American left today is a wide spectrum. It reaches from principled radicals to those barely on the left side of the fascist establishment center. I see at least several categories, each of which has a diverse membership but sharp distinctions from other groups, and they all respond to partisan concerns differently. Some individuals and organizations have a foot in more than one camp. Nevertheless, here is my simplified sketch of the breakdown of modern leftism.
Communists and Pinkos: This is a rather diverse but small bunch. For better or worse, they are principled in their opposition to American capitalism as they define it. They are usually reliable on questions of U.S. empire, but not always so, and even though they will never have power in this country, it is probably good that they won't. Their critiques of American power, corporatism, the war machine, and the prison-industrial complex are sometimes invaluable, but as we know, state socialists are horrible in power, not infrequently the worst. Their isolation from the U.S. power elite is a saving grace, and the Marxist intellectuals among them write good history. Because they follow the money and see politics as a class struggle, much of what people in this group say is more on target than anything heard among the moderates.
Anti-Authoritarian Radicals: I'm thinking of folks like those at Counterpunch. These AAR have an anarchist streak and are more numerous (and in ways more reliable) than the smaller clique of self-proclaimed "anarchists" we typically see on the left. These are some of my favorite leftists. They are very reliable on war if not perfect pacifists. They are great on police state issues and corporatism and recognize that the regulatory state is not our best friend. They have a soft spot for some welfare programs. They are often lefty culture warriors but are much more nuanced than those fellow leftists to their right, knowing cultural bias against cultural rightists can be a weapon of state power. I'm thinking of Alex Cockburn's excellent take on the Waco massacre. These people are not perfect, but I will take them over 99% of conservatives and probably a third of libertarians.
Civil Libertarian Liberals: Glenn Greenwald is the paradigm case, although he is unusually magnificent. These folks consider themselves liberals on the left, although their radical allies would never use the word "liberal" for themselves. The CLL are principled on civil liberties and often on many questions of foreign policy, transparency, and fairness. They are rarely partisan and have decent priorities. For better or worse, they are less anti-capitalist than the AAR and certainly less so than the pinkos. They are therefore less enraged about questions like intellectual property and less inclined to see public schools as a product of mercantilism—which is bad—but they are more likely to see the modern market, however skewed, as not an enemy in and of itself. Unlike some to their left, they understand you cannot abolish money or private property and expect to feed the population. None of them suffer the illusion that the USSR was preferable to America or that Mao's Workers' State was anything short of a totalitarian hellhole. Whereas the commies and even some of the AAR sometimes have a soft spot for foreign regimes but are reliably critical of the US, the CCL are sometimes too tame on the US but are more grounded on the problems of "far-left" statism.
Self-Styled Progressives: The Daily Kos-Huffington Post crowd, progressives can be the most frustrating, but they are in ways the largest lefty group that is not irredeemably evil. These people are Keynesians by default. They support gay marriage and drug liberalization, but probably would prioritize the first above the second. They tend to embrace the center-left culture war narrative, seeing the far right as the scariest camp, followed by Republicans. They want taxes on the rich to be higher, public school teachers to be better paid, wars to be internationally sanctioned, torture to be outlawed (or at least Republican torture). They put a lot of stock in the fact that Obama is the first black president. They are better on foreign policy and police issues than all but the very best conservatives, but are weaker on authoritarianism than the AAR and CLL. They hate Walmart but, if pressed, would defend eminent domain. They are probably the most statist left group on the issue of gun rights.
Democratic Partisans: These people simply embrace the DNC line. They are so statist, however, that they will side with Republicans over uppity Democrats for the sake of preserving bipartisanship, and thus serving the long-term interests of the state. But they tend to be loyal to the Democrats in the face of most political questions, no matter how inconsistent that makes them. The only issue on which they're reliably in favor of less intervention than conservatives is abortion. There are a vocal if small minority of conservatives I prefer to these people. Krugman is their God. They love Woodrow Wilson. Chuck Schumer would count as one of these types, and no one on earth is more loathsome. Their only redeeming quality is they are not Republicans.
During the Bush years, all these groups sounded rather reasonable compared to the neocons, with the exception of the Democratic partisans, who at times sounded more hawkish in an internationalist, JFK sort of way, and who often chided progressives, liberals, and radicals for rocking the boat too much.
The biggest shakeup on the left during Bush was how good the progressives got. They became more radical. They became moderately interested in war revisionism, whereas usually they care little about this stuff. They came to question some political issues somewhat deeply, rubbing shoulders with the AAR, becoming almost indistinguishable from the CLL, and only allying with the Democratic partisans insofar as the latter was a brake on neocon warmongering.
Under Obama, most of the progressives have swung back to ally with the Democratic partisans, some enthusiastically and shamelessly, but most in a sort of schizophrenic way, trying to pretend they haven't sold out at all. This explains all the emphasis on the torture issue of the Bush years, which they can blame on those evil Republicans while taking a nuanced position toward Obama—praising him for "banning torture" while criticizing him for not investigating or prosecuting the truly evil Bush people.
The fact that Obama is a black president and his conservative enemies are often so crude allows the progressives to mask their partisan cheering for the emperor behind a facade of Civil Rights activism, even radical humanitarianism. They do criticize Obama around the edges and do tend to oppose the war in the abstract. Maybe some are even truly upset about it and feel betrayed. But they will never admit to themselves, much less the public, that if Bush was a warmongering criminal who deserved to be impeached and prosecuted for violating the Bill of Rights and international law, so too is Obama. Their criticisms of the president are always going to be much like the criticisms conservatives had for Bush—he is a "disappointment" on domestic spending, but surely not a "socialist" like Clinton or Obama.
If we are talking about commies, anti-authoritarians, and civil libertarians, the left has been very consistent in criticizing Obama. Since they are not libertarians, they might, to varying degrees, wrongly credit him on some issues, thereby not judging him as harshly as they should. On the other hand, many of these three groups appropriately see Democrats as a greater threat to true leftism than Republicans are, because they taint their rhetoric of leftism with the reality of war crimes, Wall Street corruption, and mass imprisonment. If these three constitute the "true left," then I will say these people's critiques of Obama are far better than most of the rightwing critiques of Obama.
But the "false left" are not only partisan Democrats. They also include the somewhat more ideological self-styled progressives, a very large group that vacillates between principle and politics, a group that we might have considered on the "true left" under Bush and that today, on paper, still seems to be the "true left" based on its responses to what it thinks of war and civil liberties. But this camp has not held Obama nearly to the same standard as Bush, although it has strictly speaking been critical. It has decried the marijuana raids, Guantanamo, and the Afghanistan war—but it will still vote for Obama, in many cases with some sickening degree of enthusiasm.
The movement of the progressive camp from an anti-regime stance to a pro-regime stance, even as it claims to stand for peace and civil liberty, is a very real phenomenon that has transpired under Obama. This is the reason I might agree that the left seems to be giving the president a pass.
As someone who finds himself overlapping with the "anti-authoritarian radical" and the "civil libertarian liberal," this post really resonates with me. Have you done anything similar for the right?


Why did I decide to try this wine? We visited Mission Hill Winery in September 2017 so while out in a grocery run the Mr decided to stop by NB Liquor and spotted this bottle of white from the winery. Since we had visited he decided to bring it home for us to try.
Would I prefer one glass or indulge in the bottle? Bottle. I think this wine would pair perfectly with my Gram's Seafood Casserole. I'm adding it to my Christmas wine list for sure since that's when we always eat Seafood Casserole.
What shoes would I wear drinking this wine? I tried this wine the same day has Harry & Meghan's royal wedding so its only suiting that I go with one of the designers' shoes that she wore that day. The flower girls also wore shoes by Aquazzura that day!
How would I describe the wine? This wine ironically has a fresh crisp fall air kind of smell. Maybe I'm just being nostalgic but it brings me right back to the smells walking through the vineyard. the taste is what I would classify as a true pinot grigio – not too sweet, not too bitter with a dry finish leaving you want another sip.


We would like to officially invite you all to participate in the 2018 Kelowna Kata & Kumite Cup Series.
When: April 7th, May 5th & June 9th.
This tournament is an unique experience for all dojos in the Okanagan and beyond. It is an entry-level point for athletes, dojos, officials and volunteers to become involved and explore competition in a friendly & supportive environment. For those looking for higher level competition, we have that too with Karate BC Team athletes and Team Canada athletes competing in several of the older divisions.
Through competing at the three events, everyone is given the opportunity to try new techniques and strategies and have a full month until they can test them in a ring again. Officials have an opportunity to grow and learn from some high-calibre (National and Provincial) certified officials.
3 full 10×10 rings available this year!!
New larger venue!! for the May and June events!
The tournament format is still the same – focusing on development, time-on-mat, experience and enjoyment. Each age division will be split into groups of 4 (equal ability), who will compete in a round robin format thus guaranteeing that each competitor gets 3 kata performances, and 3 kumite matches. Each competitor will receive a medal in this series, in every tournament to promote growth and acknowledging effort.
The tournament continues to grow each with participants from throughout the Okanagan and Vancouver area.
This year all tournament dates are on Saturday we will have hotel information out shortly for those that are traveling from out of town.


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Rundown 11/3
President Obama Faces New Political Reality
President Barack Obama addresses reporters during a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP)
President Obama told reporters Wednesday that voters frustrated by the pace of economic recovery brought about a Republican takeover of the House and gains in the Senate. He said "as president I take responsibility" for failing to restore jobs faster. The next likely Speaker of the House, Republican John Boehner, also spoke Wednesday, promising to reduce the size of government, create jobs and rollback healthcare reform.
We speak to Gail Chaddock of the Christian Science Monitor and Diana Reimer, the national coordinator for the Tea Party Patriots.
Christian Science Monitor: Republicans sweep House Democrats from power
Slideshow: The dawn of a new political landscape
Here & Now: Recap from the Miami Herald's Sergio Bustos
Alaska Senate Race Is Too Close To Call
At center, United States Senator Lisa Murkowski (R) Alaska walks to Anchorage, Alaska's election central with sons Nick, left and Matt. (AP)
It will be a long wait, but early returns suggest Sen. Lisa Murkowski is ahead in the U.S. Senate race in Alaska. She launched a write-in campaign after losing in the Republican primary to Joe Miller, who had support from both Sarah Palin and the Tea Party. Michael Carey, former editorial page editor of the Anchorage Daily News and host of the public broadcasting show Anchorage Edition joins us to discuss that and Sarah Palin's next political move.
Anchorage Daily News: Write-ins favor Murkowski
From Legalizing Pot To Tax Measures, How Did Ballot Questions Fare?
Californians rejected plans to legalize marijuana and also killed a measure that would have suspended the state's clean air laws. Massachusetts voters supported a measure eliminating a tax on alcohol, but rejected a measure cutting the sales tax. Voters in Oklahoma approved an amendment that prohibits courts from relying on Sharia or international law in deciding cases. We speak to Jennie Drage Bowser of the National Conference of State Legislators.
National Conference of State Legislators: Ballot measure news from all 50 states
What Will The History Books Say About The 2010 Midterms?
In this image released by the White House, President Barack Obama makes an election night phone call to Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, who will most likely be the next House Speaker, from the Treaty Room in the White House. (AP)
What is it about presidents and midterms? Bill Clinton lost both houses of Congress in 1994. The same thing happened to George W. Bush in 2006. Yesterday, a Republican wave swept over President Barack Obama, giving the GOP control of the House and slicing into the Democrat's advantage in the Senate. Julian Zelizer, professor of history and public affairs at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School, joins us to put the 2010 mid-terms into historical perspective. His latest book, "Jimmy Carter," is part of "The American Presidents Series."
CNN: Is it 1994 all over again?
Peter Dixon, "Nagog Woods"
Freddie Hubbard, "Little Sunflower"
Paul Simon, "50 Ways To Leave Your Lover"
Talking Heads, "This Must Be the Place"
Moby, "Inside"
Massive Attack, "Future Proof"
This program aired on November 3, 2010. The audio for this program is not available.


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Valeriu Lupu (born 24 January 1991) is a Romanian footballer who plays as a left-sided full back for Liga IV club FC Bolintin Malu Spart.

Career
While playing for Steaua II București, Valeriu was loaned out to Unirea Urziceni. He made his Liga I debut on 11 September 2010, in a match against Steaua București.

Honours

Statistics

Statistics accurate as of match played 14 December 2014

References

1991 births
Living people
People from Bolintin-Vale
Association football defenders
Romanian footballers
Romania under-21 international footballers
Liga I players
Liga II players
FC Steaua București players
FC Unirea Urziceni players
FC Universitatea Cluj players
AFC Săgeata Năvodari players
CS Sportul Snagov players


During the 2013-2014 school year, Burrell School District invited The Arts Education Collaborative, a Pittsburgh-based non-profit organization aimed at making the arts central to learning, to meet with art and music staff and create a plan for integrating the arts into traditional learning. The overarching goal of this partnership was and still is, to make sure that all students have the ability to participate in art and music on a daily basis and to foster each individual student's health and wellness.
With the help of The Arts Education Collaborative, the District was able to take a closer look at how art, music, theater, dance, physical education, and core subjects like English, math, and science could better collaborate to engage and inspire students.
This partnership was so successful that the District asked The Arts Education Collaborative to come back for the 2015-2016 school year to begin implementing this vision within the health and physical education programs for all students in grades K through 12. One way that The Arts Education Collaborative and BSD staff worked to achieve this mission was by securing a grant used for workshops hosted by Pittsburgh's Attack Theatre to help physical education teachers find innovative ways to get students up and moving in a theater-like setting.
As a direct result of these combined efforts, BSD curriculum now has a roadmap to incorporate dance and movement into traditional learning environments that utilize the "Four Cs" of modern learning: critical thinking, collaboration, creativity, and communication.
Parents and community members can help to support this mission by coming out and enjoying the annual BAM! Burrell Arts and Music Night, which will take place on Friday, April 13th from 5 to 9 pm at Huston Middle School.
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Home Cricket Zimbabwe faces PNG in semis after convincing win over USA
Zimbabwe faces PNG in semis after convincing win over USA
Sikandar Raza receives his Man of the Match award from Zimbabwe Cricket's director of cricket Hamilton Masakadza.jpg
Zimbabwe earned themselves an easier semi-final date against Papua New Guinea after finishing top of Group of the ICC Men's T20 World Cup Qualifier with a convincing 46-run victory over USA at Queens Sports Club on Thursday.
After maintaining their 100% record in the ICC T20 World Cup qualifier B group stages Zimbabwe managed to avoid a tricky semi-final clash with Group B winners Netherlands.
Zimbabwe will be looking to book their first World Cup ticket since 2016 if they beat the Group B runners-up Papua New Guinea at the same venue on Friday afternoon.
Papua New Guinea reached semi-finals despite a dramatic last-ball Group B loss to Hong Kong on Thursday.
Wellington Masakadza claimed four wickets for 11 runs inside three overs
On Thursday, Zimbabwe needed a brilliant bowling spell Wellington Masakadza who took four wickets for 11 in three overs to curtail USA's flying start as they chased a competitive 186 run target.
The hosts had won the toss and elected with Sikandar Raza leading the charge with a quickfire unbeaten 82 from 40 balls while Sean Williams (37) and Regis Chakabva (31) were also in good form as Zimbabwe lost six wickets in the process.
Zimbabwe fans wave the national flag during the match against USA at Queens Sports Club on Thursday
Spinner Nisarg Patel was the peak of the bowlers for the USA recording figures of two for 24 while Aaron James bagged two wickets for 37.
USA's run chase had a dream start as they openers Steven Taylor and captain Monank Patel piled on 50 runs in the first five overs for no loss.
But Richard Ngarava removed Patel with the scores on 55 in the final powerplay over and the USA's struggles began.
USA were 79 for two after 10 overs after Williams had sent Jones packing before the Masakadza show began as he took four wickets for just 11 runs in three overs.
Zimbabwe managed to restrict their opponents to 138 for 8 after Ryan Burl and Luke Jongwe grabbed a wicket apiece.
In the other semi-final Netherlands who also managed to maintain perfect record in the group stages entertain USA at Bulawayo Athletic Club.
The teams that make it into the final, scheduled for Sunday at Queens Sports Club, will clinch the two remaining spots at the ICC Men's T20 World Cup 2022 to be held in Australia in October.
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Scientists Study Fossilized Bird With Extremely Long Toe
By Stephanie Mlot 07.12.2019 :: 7:52AM EST 07.12.2019
A reconstruction of Elektorornis chenguangi, showing the possible probing function of the elongate toe (via Zhongda Zhang/Current Biology)
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Nature never ceases to amaze: For its latest trick, researchers discovered a 99-million-year-old bird with toes longer than its lower legs.
The feathered creature, preserved in amber, likely used its hyper-elongated third toe to hook food out of tree trunks.
This is the first time such a foot structure—detailed in a paper published by the journal Current Biology—has been observed in birds, living or extinct.
"I was very surprised when I saw the amber," study author Lida Xing of the China University of Geosciences said in a statement. "It shows that ancient birds were way more diverse than we thought. They had evolved many different features to adapt to their environments."
Without removing the Cretaceous-era fossil from its casing, Xing & Co. scanned the amber with micro-CT and created a 3D reconstruction of the foot.
It turns out the bird's third toe, measuring 9.8 millimeters, is 41 percent longer than its second toe, and 20 percent longer than its tarsometatarsus—the bone in the lower leg of birds.
The team compared those ratios with 20 other extinct fowl from the same period, as well as 62 living birds. None had a foot that resembles the just-named Elektorornis chenguangi.
A nearly 100-million-year-old bird foot, featuring a very long toe preserved in amber (via Lida Xing/China University of Geosciences)
The "amber bird" apparently belongs to a group of extinct creatures called Enantiornithes—once abundant during the Mesozoic era. It is thought that these birds became extinct along with the dinosaurs some 66 million years ago. They have no living descendants.
Smaller than a sparrow, the Elektorornis likely spent most of its time in trees, as opposed to on the ground or in water.
"Elongated toes are something you commonly see in arboreal animals because they need to be able to grip these branches and wrap their toes around them," according to co-author Jingmai O'Connor of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. "But this extreme difference in toe lengths, as far as we know, has never been seen before."
The fossilized tree resin in which the foot was protected comes from the Hukawng Valley in Myanmar. Xing obtained it from a local ambert trader.
Scientists remain stumped as to why the amber bird evolved such an unusual feature. The only known animal with disproportionately long digits is the aye-aye—a lemur that uses long middle fingers to fish larvae and insects out of tree trunks. The team believes Elektorornis may have used its toe for the same purpose.
"This is the best guess we have," O'Connor said. "A lot of ancient birds were probably doing completely different things that living birds. This fossil exposes a different ecological niche that these early birds were experimenting [with] as they evolved."
Moving forward, researchers hopes to extract proteins and pigments from exposed features peeking out from the amber. Such data could help shine a light on the bird's evolutionary adaptations.
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Joe Quek
Joe is a born and bred Singaporean, and like many fellow countrymen of his generation, has seen a huge amount of change to his homeland as it has progressed from Third World to First. Tangible changes include singing 3 national anthems: "God save the King/Queen" (under the British), "Negaru Ku" (when Singapore was part of Malaysia) and since 1965, "Majulah Singapura"!
In a varied career spanning 50 years he has worked in the Singapore Civil Service, had a 25 year career in the Singapore Armed Forces, including 3 tours of duty as a Commanding Officer in the Air Force, and a stint as a stockbroker. His latest passion is Tour Guiding.
Joe is most at home with nature, having grown up in a village on the edge of a mangrove forest, and indulging in such activities as catching crabs and fish with his bare hands and climbing trees like Tarzan (Jane & he get on well!).
He experienced first hand the traumatic days immediately after the Japanese occupation when food was scarce. He was brought up on tales of horror and suffering by village folks who survived the Japanese invasion and the fall of Singapore. This, coupled with his experience in the SAF, enables him to give a consumate and very personal account of events leading to the leading to the Fall of Singapore, and the over 3 years of life under the Japanese occupation.
In addition to exploring the impact of WW2, Joe can show you our "heartlands" including the best places to sample our many & varied cuisines.
Speaks Teochew dialect
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Fantastic Bespoke Tour
We booked a bespoke WWII tour in Singapore through Jane. Our guide, Joe, was a retired officer from the Singapore Air Force. He was knowledgeable and did a great job during the 6 hour tour. This was a custom itinerary, including a visit to the old Ford factory, where the British surrendered to the Japanese. We travelled in comfort in a Toyota minivan with captains chairs.
I highly recommend Janes tours!
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5* Uncovering Singapore WW2 stories
We went on a private WW2 tour with Joe. It covered many places that we didn't know exist in Singapore.
The WW2 stories that Joe shared were also very interesting and we won't know from reading.


Final Fantasy XV feels like a Final Fantasy meant for this time and age. It overcame the linearity of previous installments and leapt over the limitations of traditional JRPG games by honing in on action-based combat rather than the all too familiar turn-based. It finally opened its exclusive anime-nerd doors to action-adventure fans while remaining true to the scope of the Final Fantasy universe. But what consistently frustrates me every single time I return to it is that its story is a fragmented experience that requires an abnormal amount of investment of time and money to get it in its entirety.
I am, admittedly, a rabid Final Fantasy fan. I did my waiting, ten years of it. I have invested in this game. I bought the $90 deluxe edition with the steelbook and Kingsglaive film. I bought the $25 season pass because the collector's edition and deluxe editions didn't come with it. I bought the $8 monthly subscription to Crunchyroll to watch the anime. I even bought the $30 collector's guide and the stupid $6 limited edition dreamsicle Jones sodas from Target (which were very delicious). These fools got me hook, line and sinker for this game. I stopped playing when I realized that I couldn't go back to defeat the Adamantoise after I ran away the first time and didn't feel like doing a new game plus for one achievement. It wasn't because I was necessarily lacking any information. Your girl has got it all, clearly, and my checking account hates me for it.
But here's where it flops: What if you didn't invest like I did? You're missing out on significant story elements from the movie and the anime. I'm not going to spoil what happens in either of them, but you need to know that the movie gives context to the attack on Insomnia, which is completely glazed over in the main game (even though it's the spark that lights the fire of the plot) and the anime gives context to the characters that you're going to be spending at least 30 to 40 hours with to complete the main storyline. Even parts of the DLC chapters rely on minor context these other two experiences provide.
Square's idea of providing extra experiences for long-time and new fans was great in theory. A CGI film, five-episode anime, three major DLC chapters, two mobile games and a VR experience have been planned to release alongside the main game. We're coming up on a year of this game being out, and we're only about half-way through that. Which is fine—it's great to have a steady stream of content to keep a game like this relevant.
And that's not the only occasion. The game consistently jumps to major plot points without filling in the gaps or explaining the motivation behind the character's actions. Ultra-badass mercenary Aranea is the enemy at one point, but by the end of the game, she's totally chummy. Fast-forward a bit and somehow Prompto is a Magitek? Where was the build-up to this? Where was the "Surprise! Your friend wasn't what you thought he was the whole time!" rollercoaster? And how about that time skip? Why was that even necessary? Seeing my friends ten years older doesn't make me love them any more than I already did, and the jump didn't make me feel bad for making them wait. Quite honestly, I pity them. Noctis is not an angsty anime boy worth waiting for.
Many of these holes are filled eventually, but only in content that isn't part of the base game. Episode Gladiolus explains where he ran off to half-way through the game. Episode Prompto explains his origin and why Aranea decided to get cozy with the boys. I assume Episode Ignis is going to explain what happened to him too. This is all fine and dandy, but why couldn't these things have been explained in the game itself instead of just thrown at us randomly with literally no other explanation than, "oh yeah, this happened"?
The point is, you don't get answers to these questions unless you invest. Yes, it's optional, but it's also not. It forces a sale. The base game only ever goes halfway, and will never give you the full answer because it wants you to invest. That's almost as bad as Azura's Wrath's $6.99 "true ending" DLC ridiculousness. It's lazy, and it's deceptive. If I'm paying ~$100 for an epic tale of brotherhood and monster-slaying beyond measure for it to have as many holes as it did, I don't want to pay for band-aids. I want my extraneous experiences to add to the game and its lore, not plug up the holes and expect that to be ok.
There's a huge difference between providing additional content and providing necessary content. Final Fantasy XV makes its "additional content"—the movie, the anime, the DLC—necessary. The only genuinely additional content here is the silly merch and the god-awful kingdom-builder mobile game that just released. That stuff actually adds to the atmosphere and gives rabid fans, like myself, something to hold onto. It's content that isn't integral to the actual story—it adds another element to it.
Probably one of the better examples of this is Skyrim's DLC storylines Dawnguard and Dragonborn. These both added new context to existing parts of the lore, but weren't meant to address questions that weren't being answered. It doesn't try too hard to be metaphorical and mysterious or edit what it already said, but rather opens up a new chapter of the lore and provides clarity to an already very complicated and convoluted story.
With Final Fantasy XV Square handed me a puzzle I desperately wanted to put together and cherish like I have other Final Fantasy titles. The problem is, they took away those small pieces in the middle that contribute to the larger picture. A puzzle isn't finished if there are still gaps and missing pieces—it undermines the whole reason why you spent so much time putting everything together. By splitting its story up this way, Final Fantasy XV similarly undermines the time you spend learning about this world and its characters. I wanted to be able to take all of those little pieces, glue them all together, put them on my wall and say "look at this thing I fell in love with, let me tell you about this adventure I went on." But I can't. I just can't justify exalting a tale that is missing so much.


Market Movers for the Ayr Gold and Silver Gold Cups!
The big field handicap season is well upon us and the big daddy of them all, The William Hill Ayr Gold Cup run over 6 furlongs is the main course on a feast of top quality handicaps at the Scottish track this Saturday. The William Hill Silver Cup also features beforehand for those horses that didn't make the cut for the Gold Cup.
We'll take a look at the more valuable of these enticing betting heats, The William Hill Ayr Gold Cup and single out some of the market movers in the ante post exchanges to see where the value lies. Let the gold hunt begin!
This Roger Fell trained 6 year old has been the subject of some hefty ante post backing this week having been seized upon at 40/1 and now offering best terms at just 16/1 (Coral). At this stage, I'm speculating that punters are latching onto the fact that he is dropping back in distance to 6f after having ran at 7f all season.
The predicted soft ground also looks favourable as the horse's wins have come over good to soft/soft. The trainer's recent form has to be a worry however with no wins out of the last 20 outings.
Terentum Star has also been all the rage, backed into 16's from 33/1 and now best at 20's (Coral). This market move is almost certainly down to the fact that this Kevin Ryan trained 6 year old is featured in the Sporting Life's six to follow in the autumn.
Kevin Ryan's team have also been in tremendous form in the last couple of weeks, having notched up 6 wins. The horse is certainly back at a very favourable handicap mark also as The Sporting Life article suggests.
The current favourite Son Of Rest has also been the subject of some increased market activity. Backed into 11/2 from 7's, The James Stack trained four year old fully justifies favouritism after an eye catching second in Group One company at The Curragh several days ago, albeit over the shorter distance of five furlongs, but he did stay on well.
He has also escaped a penalty at The Curragh, being allowed by the handicapper to run at his previous mark of 101 for the big race on Saturday. He also appreciates a bit of cut in the ground which most likely to be the prevailing going come Saturday.11/2 still available with the race sponsors, William Hill.
Despite being slightly outclassed in the Wokingham at Ascot, Growl has come into the reckoning based on some solid performances over the season, most noticeably in The Stewards Cup at Goodwood where he stayed on well over the six furlongs to take third. Punters have recognised this consistency and have backed him into 9's from 14's. 9-1 still can be grabbed with Coral.
Tim Easterby has two entries for the William Hill Ayr Gold Cup and punters have backed both Flying Pursuit and Golden Apollo considerably with the latter seeing the bulk of the market activity. Backed from 20's into 14's (but still available at 16's with Coral, Betfred and Boylesports), he definitely entered the notebook after finishing 9th in the Doncaster Portland Handicap but kept on well over the 5 ½ furlongs and suggesting that the 6 furlongs is his ideal trip. He's been consistent all season and will not be troubled by any cut in the ground either.
This is one of the most competitive handicaps of the season and represents a colossal conundrum for punters to solve. The favourite Son Of Rest is clearly the form horse but represents poor value at 11/2 and could easily be outstayed by a younger type with less weight to carry. I would prefer a horse with proven credentials on the demanding ground which looks like it will be highly testing conditions.
Therefore, Muntadab looks like a solid each way shot and if you follow the money trail, then this could be a smart choice. This horse has easily been the best backed all week and it might pay to follows the bandwagon on this one! Best of luck and enjoy the race!