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Timing of surgery and the role of cytoreductive chemotherapy in patients with advanced ovarian carcinoma
E. Negretti, M. Zambetti, L. Luciani, L. Gianni
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We retrospectively selected 27 consecutive patients with advanced ovarian carcinoma (15 stage III, 11 stage IV and 1 relapse) who had an unresectable intraabdominal tumor at presentation and prospectively evaluated the overall treatment outcome. Patients were initially treated with chemotherapy consisting of cisplatin-containing regimens in 20 cases, adriamycin and cyclophosphamide in 5, and melphalan in 2. Treatment was continued until maximal tumor response or progression. Following a median of 6 cycles of chemotherapy, all patients underwent debulking surgery. Six women were without evidence of disease and 13 had minimal residual disease after surgery, for an overal 70% rate of optimal debulking. Patients with evidence of disease at laparotomy were treated with 5 additional cycles of chemotherapy, and response was then assessed at laparotomy except for patients with progressive disease. Nine (33%) patients were pathologic complete responders at the end of the entire treatment program. Overall median survival time was 26 months, with a median relapse-free survival of 33 months. Tumor responses were not associated with any particular chemotherapy regimen. The results achieved in this series of patients together with the data from the literature suggests that use of a cytoreductive chemotherapy of short duration has the potential of increasing the rate of optimal debulking surgery. Furthermore, it may contribute to a better disease control in women with bulky ovarian carcinoma compared to the present strategy, which consists of surgery followed by chemotherapy.
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Negretti, E., Zambetti, M., Luciani, L., & Gianni, L. (1988). Timing of surgery and the role of cytoreductive chemotherapy in patients with advanced ovarian carcinoma. Tumori, 74(5), 567-572.
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Negretti E, Zambetti M, Luciani L, Gianni L. Timing of surgery and the role of cytoreductive chemotherapy in patients with advanced ovarian carcinoma. Tumori. 1988;74(5):567-572.
Negretti, E. ; Zambetti, M. ; Luciani, L. ; Gianni, L. / Timing of surgery and the role of cytoreductive chemotherapy in patients with advanced ovarian carcinoma. In: Tumori. 1988 ; Vol. 74, No. 5. pp. 567-572.
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Korea Maintains Lead At 11-Under-Par 421 After Third Round
By btsay
Antalya, Turkey (29 September) – Defending champion Republic of Korea maintained its lead after the third round of the 2012 Women's World Amateur Team Championship (WWATC) with a 54-hole total of 11-under-par 421 at Gloria Golf Club.
The Koreans are five strokes ahead of New Zealand (6-under-par 426) and six strokes in front of Canada and Australia (427).
Hyo-Joo Kim, No. 3 in the Women's World Amateur Golf Ranking (WAGR), shot a 2-under 70 on Gloria Golf Club's Old Course and teammate Kyu-Jung Baek posted a 1-under 71. Kim, 17, won the Suntory Ladies Open on the Japan LPGA Tour in June with a final-round 61 and finished fourth at the Evian Masters in 2012.
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during the third round at the 2012 Espirito Santo Trophy at Gloria Golf Club in Antalya, Turkey on Saturday, Sept. 29, 2012. (Copyright USGA/Steve Gibbons)
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Korea's Hyo-Joo Kim has helped her team maintain the lead at the 2012 WWATC. (Steve Gibbons/IGF)[/caption]"Today was not as good as we had expected," said Korean captain Hyung-Mo Kang. "Everybody will play better tomorrow but today, we missed a lot of putts. The greens are hard to read."
The Women's World Amateur Team Championship is a biennial international amateur competition conducted by the International Golf Federation, which comprises national governing bodies of golf in 126 countries and international professional tours. The competition, which is being held for the 25th time, is rotated among three geographic zones: Asia-Pacific, Americas and Europe-Africa.
This year's event is hosted by the Turkish Golf Federation. The teams play for the Espirito Santo Trophy. The IGF is the international federation for golf for the International Olympic Committee and will conduct the Olympic golf competition in Rio de Janeiro in 2016.
In each round, the total of the two lowest scores from each team constitutes the team score for the round. The four-day (72-hole) total is the team's score for the championship.
Korea is vying to become the first team to win consecutive championships since the USA in 1988 and 1990. Korea's 54-hole lead is not as large as it was in 2010 (13 strokes) and Kang fully realizes the team's work is not complete.
"In a team competition, you never know," Kang said. "Even if it is 10 strokes, you never know, it is never safe."
Second-place New Zealand posted a 5-under-par 67 from 15-year-old Lydia Ko, No.1 in the WAGR. The reigning U.S. Women's Amateur champion and winner of the LPGA Tour's Canadian Open hit all 18 greens for the second consecutive day, but did not make a birdie until the ninth hole.
"She had to be very patient today and she responded with birdies on the last three holes," said New Zealand captain Libby Steele.
Despite trailing the defending champions, Steele understands the task at hand.
"We never leaderboard-watch," she said. "You just stay with your game plan and your swing processes. Then you hope the putts drop because this tournament is won on the greens."
Spain and the USA are tied for fifth at 428. The Americans shot 137 – the second-lowest third-round score in Espirito Santo history – thanks to a 5-under-67 from Lisa McCloskey and a 2-under 70 from Erynne Lee.
Lisa McCloskey of the USA fired a 67 to move the team to a tie for fifth after three rounds. (Steve Gibbons/IGF)
"I am quite thrilled we are getting to the form that I expected from them earlier in the week," said USA captain Carol Semple Thompson. "Fortunately, they came crashing through today."
Germany holds seventh place at 429 with Finland and Japan tied for eighth at 430 and France in 10th at 431.
The host team from Turkey stands in 38th.
The upper half of the draw will play Gloria Golf Club's New Course in the fourth round and the lower half will play the Old Course.
For complete results, visit www.internationalgolffederation.org and click on the Golfstat icon.
Story written by Pete Kowalski, WATC Media Officer
Copyright © 2012 International Golf Federation. All rights reserved.
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Apple's OS X Mountain Lion launched Wednesday, so it's a good time for Windows users to peer across the border at what features in Mountain Lion might prove useful.
Note that Windows 8 is a complete overhaul, while Mountain Lion is more of a refinement. Yet the Apple update adds lots of new features that would fit in nicely on Microsoft's OS. In hopes of keeping alive the tradition of stolen OS features, here are five aspects of OS X Mountain Lion that we'd like to see in future versions of Windows.
Windows 8 will have pop-up notifications that slide onto the top-right corner of the screen, which are useful for noticing new messages, calendar appointments, or other important updates.
But Windows 8's notification system is still missing a list view for all the updates you might have missed, similar to Notification Center in Mountain Lion. This would be especially helpful if you didn't want pop-ups to interrupt your work, but still want to glance at a list view of notifications periodically.
Microsoft knows that PC-to-TV connectivity is going to be huge, which is why the company will release a SmartGlass app that lets tablets send content to Microsoft's Xbox 360. Still, we know very little about how this app will work.
Meanwhile, OS X Mountain Lion will allow full AirPlay mirroring to Apple TV boxes. It'd be nice to have similar mirroring capabilities between Windows 8 PCs and the Xbox.
Although Mountain Lion users won't be able to send and receive all their text messages on the Mac, they will have access to all iMessages, which come from other iOS and Mac users.
Microsoft could offer even deeper message syncing between Windows Phones and PCs, so users wouldn't have to answer messages on a tiny screen when they're at a full-sized computer.
The Windows Store will likely offer several third-party notes and reminders apps that can sync data across devices.
With Mountain Lion, these features are built in, so your notes and reminders are automatically available on any Apple device. Sure, Microsoft has a more advanced note-taking product in OneNote, but a more simple--and free--solution as part of Windows 8 would be helpful.
In Windows 8, voice dictation is available as an accessibility feature, and as such, it's buried behind several menus and not intended for general use.
Mountain Lion makes voice dictation easy to use from any application--you just press the Function key twice, and start talking.


Can You Do Estate Planning for Your Farm?
Succession planning is one of the most important aspects of passing on a farm to future generations, but having a conversation about it is not always easy. Jolene Brown, an Iowa farmer and professional speaker, and Nelson Schoon, certified financial planner and owner of Financial Framing, weighed in on some of the do's and don'ts of succession planning.
Estate planning doesn't concern itself only with financial savings or your home. It can also include your property and land. And in no other industry is land more valuable than farming. By building and implementing an airtight estate plan, farmers and ranchers can ensure a smooth transition of land ownership and management when the time comes. An estate plan can provide for the needs of all family members, even those who aren't actively engaged in its daily functions. It also can help mitigate the risk of high inheritance taxes on land that is made more valuable by inflation. And because land is not a liquid asset, an estate plan is important in stemming and addressing any potential settlement problems.
When thinking about the estate tax, the first thing that comes to mind is probably not the moon. However, one pundit, made an interesting connection between the two.
Bill Maher is a well-known liberal pundit who is often at the center of controversy over his statements. Consequently, it should come as no surprise that he recently addressed the estate tax.
Maher took on the claim that the estate tax hurts small farmers.
Maher declared that more Americans have walked on the moon than farmers who have paid the estate tax in 2013.
Is this just hyperbole or is in fact?
According to a recent article in Pundit Fact, titled "Bill Maher says more Americans have been to the moon than farmers who paid the estate tax in 2013," there may be some truth to Maher's claim.
More Americans have not walked on the moon than farmers who paid the estate tax. However, if you add up all of the Americans who have walked on the moon and who have orbited the moon, then Maher's claim turns out to be true.
To date, 24 Americans have walked on or orbited the moon, while 20 small farmers paid the estate tax in 2013.
Of course, just because Maher's statement happens to be somewhat accurate does not mean that it is a telling statement.
The real question is whether the 20 small farmers who paid the estate tax should have had to have paid it.
Read the original article for a good overview of the estate tax/death tax issue.
Reference: Pundit Fact (April 23, 2015) "Bill Maher says more Americans have been to the moon than farmers who paid the estate tax in 2013,"


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Calif. court rejects lawsuit against tax increases
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An anti-tax group will consider new legal action after a California appeals court tossed out a lawsuit that sought to block tax increases passed by Democrats in the state Legislature, the group said Thursday.
Citing separation of powers, the state's 3rd District Court of Appeal in Sacramento ruled Wednesday it could not intervene because Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger had not signed the bill into law.
The lawsuit was filed by the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, with support from most Republican state lawmakers. It argued that the Democratic majority acted illegally when it passed the tax increases because it did so with a simple majority vote.
The state Constitution requires a two-thirds majority for tax increases.
John Coupal, president of the taxpayers association, said the group was considering an appeal to the state Supreme Court and a new lawsuit in federal court because the vote violated the constitutional rights of the Republican minority members.
"We are still looking at this case for potential appeals because we believe this issue needs to be resolved," he said.
Schwarzenegger vetoed the $18 billion proposal, which included a mix of tax increases and spending cuts as a way to start closing California's $42 billion budget deficit. The governor said the package didn't make enough labor and environmental concessions.


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Feds said manatees weren't endangered — now they're dying in droves
Craig Pittman
In cold weather, manatees in Florida cluster together and seek warmer water. Credit: Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission
Two months ago, everybody got pretty excited when a Citrus County boat captain snapped photos showing some prankster had scraped out five letters in the algae growing on a manatee's back. The letters spelled out the name of a certain former president now residing in Palm Beach.
Amid the widespread outrage, people suggested various punishments for the prankster. My idea was to scrape another five-letter word into his or her forehead: IDIOT.
Now, nobody suggested that the guy whose name was on the manatee had actually done the deed, signing it like a work of wicked art to be hung in an Evil Louvre. But from what I've been hearing this week, that guy, the former Oval Office occupant, did something even worse, and to far more than one manatee.
Four years ago, a few months after the start of his administration, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that manatees — which had been on the endangered list since the first endangered list was drawn up — were now doing much, much better.
In fact, the feds said, they were doing so well that they could be taken down a notch. Instead of "endangered," they would be reclassified as "threatened."
A Florida manatee. Credit: Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission
"While it is not out of the woods, we believe the manatee is no longer on the brink of extinction," Larry Williams, head of the agency's South Florida office, said during a news conference that day in March 2017. (Ironically, the agency announced this step the day after celebrating "Manatee Appreciation Day" on social media.)
The feds promised that no one would even notice the change. They promised that manatees, Florida's official marine mammal, would still get the same level of protection they had enjoyed before.
Fast forward to this month. Over the past couple of weeks, headlines have been trumpeting the fact that more than 400 manatees have died in just the first two months of the year, an alarming spike that's well beyond what's considered normal. As of March 5, the total was 435 and still climbing.
Such a spike, according to a Fort Myers News Press story, means we're on pace for a year in which total deaths could top 2,000, or roughly a third of the total manatee population.
Usually, state wildlife experts go out and rescue manatees in distress and pick up the carcasses of those that die, so they can determine the cause of death. This year, because of the pandemic and the state's budgetary limitations, they have only been able to get to about a third of the dead. The rest have been left to rot, which I'm sure really impresses the tourists.
Still, the experts have got a good idea of what's driving this.
The largest number of manatee deaths so far — 179 — occurred in Brevard County, and specifically in what was once one of the most productive estuaries in North America, the Indian River Lagoon. There was a time when the 156 miles of the lagoon boasted more than 600 species of fish and more than 300 kinds of birds, not to mention dolphins and manatees galore.
Cold snaps such as the ones we had this winter drive manatees to huddle together in warm-water refuges like the shallows of the lagoon. Without a refuge, the cold water can kill them. But their survival in these refuges hinges on them finding enough seagrass to eat to sustain them until the weather warms up.
Take a wild guess what else has been wiped out in the Indian River Lagoon.
Since 2009, 58 percent of the seagrass in the lagoon system has disappeared, killed off by excess fertilizer from people's lawns, the stinky excess of leaking septic tanks, and other nutrient pollution that fueled repeated toxic algae blooms. Over the past decade, dolphins, pelicans, and yes, even manatees, have perished there as a result, and now it's happening again.
"Environmental conditions in portions of the Indian River Lagoon remain a concern," the state wildlife commission reported on its website. "Preliminary information indicates that a reduction in food availability is a contributing factor."
In other words, so many thousands of acres of seagrass have been killed by human carelessness, stupidity and greed that the desperate manatees starved to death. The condition of the dead shows they were suffering from "severe malnutrition," said Patrick Rose, longtime executive director of the Save the Manatee Club.
This wasn't supposed to happen — at least, according to the federal wildlife agency in charge of protecting them.
Playing the data game
First, a little history lesson: In 1967, when biologists at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service were drawing up the first endangered species list, they weren't sure if manatees qualified.
They consulted with an expert from Florida: Craig Phillips of St. Petersburg, a biologist who at the time was the head of the National Aquarium and had previously served as the first curator of the Miami Seaquarium.
I interviewed him once. He was in his 80s then but still sharp, especially when it came to the subject of manatees. He had not only displayed manatees at the Seaquarium but had actually tasted manatee meat once. He described it as delicious (no, I did not ask for the recipe).
In 1967, Phillips told the federal wildlife biologists that he was convinced manatees deserved to be classified as endangered, but not based on their numbers. They spent so much of their time underwater that counting them with any accuracy was all but impossible, he explained.
Instead, he said, manatees should be considered endangered because of the threats they faced from humans, particularly from speeding boats and waterfront development that wiped out their habitat and polluted the water.
Phillips' argument proved persuasive, and so manatees were put on the list. There they remained for a solid five decades — until, in 2017, the agency concluded that the 6,000 or so swimming in Florida's waters no longer met the definition of "endangered."
Usually, the only way for a species to leave the endangered list is if the dire circumstances that landed them on the list have abated. But this time, the feds — facing a lawsuit from a libertarian group called the Pacific Legal Foundation — chose to do things differently.
The threats from boats and loss of habitat had not disappeared or even been much alleviated. In fact, boaters had killed a record number of manatees the year before, topping 100 for the first time. (The number of boating deaths has broken the previous year's record every year since then, by the way.)
But that's OK! According to a computer model created by a U.S. Geological Survey scientist, manatees were about to bounce back! They were going to overcome all obstacles and swim into a rosy future. Their population would even double to 12,000 over the next 50 years. Woo-hoo! Drinks all around!
"This is truly a success story," Williams said then.
But there were a few problems with this rosy scenario.
One was that outside scientists who reviewed the proposal to take manatees off the endangered list said it was a bad idea. One said that, instead of science, the agency's proposal "seems to be based on hope." (The scientists were ignored.)
Another was that the public opposed it. During the 90-day public comment process, 72 people said they thought knocking manatees down a notch on the list was a good idea. Meanwhile, nearly 87,000 comments and petition signatures said, "No way, don't you do it to those lovely old sea cows!" (The public was ignored.)
Another was that the Save the Manatee Club and other environmental groups strongly objected, arguing the government should not base such a big decision on a computer model that had already had to be tweaked a number of times in the past because of, well, let's just say failures to jibe with reality.
"I don't think it captures what is happening or what is likely to happen in Florida," Rose said then. (The Save the Manatee Club was ignored, too.)
You see, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service was at the time under the control of an anti-regulation, anti-environment, pro-business real estate developer with no love for the Endangered Species Act. Thus, the agency plunged ahead with its decision to "downlist" manatees from "endangered" to "threatened."
As with anything involving a computer model, what determines the outcome is what you feed into it. The USGS scientist who created the computer model, Michael Runge, spelled out in a scientific paper that he had made a number of assumptions that were key to his findings.
One of his assumptions, he wrote, concerned the "extensive loss of seagrass habitat … in the Indian River Lagoon," which had led to a lot of manatees dying of starvation in 2011 and 2012. The assumption Runge made was this: "The phenomenon in the IRL is a short-lived event that will not persist as a chronic source of mortality."
"Can I reasonably say, 'I told you so,' now?" Rose asked me this week. He contends the feds could have done much more to help the state save manatees but withheld support because of the prior administration's policies.
I emailed Runge about the current die-off. In his reply, Runge said the 2017 model "still contains a great deal of relevant information that management agencies can refer to." But he also told me, "This winter's IRL die-off does raise questions about whether the assumptions in our baseline scenario were correct."
Time to reconsider?
This has all been coming for a long time. The boating industry began pushing for manatees to be taken off federal and state endangered lists as far back as 1999.
The boat manufacturers and sellers' motive was simple. They believed that if they could knock manatees off the list, then boaters wouldn't have to put up with all the regulations that made them slow down. Because driving your boat really fast is a constitutional right covered by the First Amendment's guarantee of free expression or something.
The industry nearly succeeded in 2007, when the state wildlife commission stood on the verge of voting for the change. But then-Gov. Charlie Crist, an avid boater himself, stepped in and told them not to do it. Turns out he's a big manatee fan (not to mention a fan of Jimmy Buffett, co-founder of the Save the Manatee Club).
Now Crist is a congressman representing St. Petersburg. In light of the big die-off, he's officially requested the federal wildlife service reconsider its 2017 decision on the manatee's status.
"It's disturbing to me" what's happened, he told me. "Manatees are such a beloved creature. They're in the heart and soul of everyone in Florida."
Crist and Rep. Stephanie Murphy of Orlando, both Democrats, are also calling on the federal agency to officially declare this an "unusual mortality event." Such a declaration would prompt a full-fledged investigation aimed at determining the cause, minimizing more deaths, and examining environmental factors.
I tried contacting the wildlife service to ask them about what Crist and Williams were requesting, but they failed to respond. They may be squirming too much to talk on the phone. Any such federal investigation would wind up pointing the finger squarely in the mirror. And then someone's going to need to scrape a certain word onto their foreheads.
by Craig Pittman, Florida Phoenix
Craig Pittman is a native Floridian. In 30 years at the Tampa Bay Times, he won numerous state and national awards for his environmental reporting. He is the author of six books, including the New York Times bestseller Oh, Florida! How America's Weirdest State Influences the Rest of the Country, which won a gold medal from the Florida Book Awards. His latest, published in 2021, is The State You're In: Florida Men, Florida Women, and Other Wildlife. In 2020 the Florida Heritage Book Festival named him a Florida Literary Legend. Craig is co-host of the "Welcome to Florida" podcast. He lives in St. Petersburg with his wife and children.
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Sanctions on North Korea Are a `Lose-Lose' Strategy
Playing the waiting game is much more effective, and safer
By Ralph A. Cossa. Ralph A. Cossa is executive director of the Pacific Forum CSIS in Honolulu. Opinions expressed are his own.
THE time has come for the United States to do something bold and innovative regarding the standoff in Korea, something that will finally get North Korea's attention. In short, it's time to do ... nothing.
This means no more direct dialogue with the North. No more offers of rewards to get Pyongyang to do what it had pledged to do. No more cancellations of military exercises or of deployments of defensive missile systems that pose no threat (other than to incoming missiles).
It also means no sanctions, threats, or efforts to militarily preempt or eliminate North Korea's suspected nuclear program.
If North Korea is determined to develop nuclear weapons at any cost, then efforts to prevent this, short of a military invasion, will fail. If they are bluffing or are trying to play the only card they have - the nuclear option - it's time to call their hand.
I have no clues about what is behind North Korea's actions (and am suspicious of anyone who claims to). What is clear is that Pyongyang faces a lose-lose situation: It can attempt to remain a hermit kingdom and collapse of its own weight, as forecasts suggest. Or it can attempt to save its economy by gradually opening its society, thus risking the fate of the East European communist systems and leaders.
In either case, Pyongyang is compelled to explain to an increasingly deprived people that continued suffering is necessary despite the absence of any legitimate threat. Whatever else the current crisis does or does not accomplish, it provides the Pyongyang regime with patriotic justification for asking its people to make more sacrifices. Stepping back from the crisis stops handing North Korea this excuse.
Sanctions (gradual or otherwise) will likely prove counter-productive for several reasons. First, they create yet another source of tension between the US and both China and Japan, relationships that need fewer not more points of contention. Second is the more familiar argument that sanctions won't work, especially if the PRC and Japan fail to vigorously enforce them. More important is the possibility that, international precedents notwithstanding, sanctions in this instance might actually work.
North Korea is already on the brink of economic collapse. What happens if sanctions succeed in driving it over the edge? One of the two most likely outcomes is implosion - an internal collapse, possibly to include anarchy, civil war, and the need for someone (South Korea, the US?) to come in, restore order, and bail out the North. The other is explosion - a desperate military thrust south toward Seoul, a move that would be destined to fail but would cause untold death and destruction before it was over.
This is a lose-lose situation for North Korea, the US, and all of Northeast Asia.
If all that is desired is for North Korea to gradually feel enough pressure to come to the conclusion that an opening to the West is the only way out, then a return to a policy of containment and isolation seems more effective than the current brinkmanship.
But, you may ask, how do you deal with North Korea's threat to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty or its recent decision to withdraw its International Atomic Energy Agency membership (two interrelated events, since NPT signatories agree to accept IAEA safeguards)? The answer is: you don't. In fact, North Korea should be expelled if it fails to follow through on its threat to withdraw. North Korea's leaving the NPT is not going to cause the international agreement to collapse. Allowing Pyongyang to stay in and openly flout its rules and international norms could. Instead of arguing over sanctions, the United Nations Security Council should make it clear to North Korea that continued refusal to cooperate with the IAEA means continued isolation and that any attempt to test, deploy, or export nuclear weapons would result in expulsion from the UN. It also needs to reinforce President Clinton's message that any use of such weapons would result in North Korea's destruction.
There is no reason China or other sanction opponents would not go along with such an initiative. They could also be more easily convinced to privately increase pressure on Pyongyang once the spotlight is turned off. This action denies Pyongyang the limelight and leverage it desperately seeks, and serves notice that North Korea can expect nothing until it follows international standards. It also avoids idle threats that perpetuate an atmosphere of crisis. The Opinion/Essay Page welcomes manuscripts. Authors of articles we accept will be notified by telephone. Authors of articles not accepted will be notified by postcard. Send manuscripts by mail to Opinions/Essays, One Norway Street, Boston, MA 02115, by fax to 617 -450-2317, or by Internet E-mail to OPED@RACHEL.CSPS.COM.
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The Battle for the Soul of English Education
At an ordinary school, sitting and watching a Christmas production is not often an appealing prospect. As Sartre probably should have put it, Hell is other people's children in nativity plays. But we weren't sitting in an ordinary school. By the time a group of outrageously talented ten-year-olds from the Bronx in New York had rapped and joked their way through a production worthy of Broadway, nobody doubted their closing number's assertion that "there ain't no stopping us now", or the journalist Jay Townsend's view that this was one of "the most promising schools in America".
That school, KIPP Academy, is part of the Knowledge is Power Programme (KIPP), a network of 109 charter schools (publicly-funded schools free from the local school district's control) which has transformed education for students from poorer families across the United States. Charter schools have had a mixed record in some states, but KIPP's remarkable schools, with 85 per cent of their pupils on free or subsidised meals, have proved, once and for all, that poorer pupils fail in education not because they have inferior talent, or even because they grow up in inferior socioeconomic environments, but because they attend inferior schools. Instead, however, of uniting the country behind the challenge of raising school standards for the poorest, the success of KIPP and other charter schools has ignited a ferocious battle for the soul of American education.
At KIPP Academy, situated in one of America's poorest school districts, 75 per cent of pupils achieve above the national average in maths and reading. This educational alchemy is repeated across America, as KIPP schools from Houston (where more than 97 per cent of eighth-graders passed their state reading and maths exams in 2009) to Colorado (where the Sunshine Academy in an impoverished neighbourhood is a state centre of excellence) achieve outstanding results in communities where schools had failed for generations. Only 41 per cent of pupils from the poorest quartile of families go to college in America, a fact which epitomises stagnant social mobility. Among KIPP pupils it is 85 per cent.
At least at presidential level, the necessity of school reform is one of the few things Republicans and Democrats can agree on. George W. Bush made charters central to his "No child left behind" bill. Barack Obama introduced a "Race to the top" programme that explicitly linked state funding to removing the barriers to charter schools. KIPP has received the backing of high-profile figures, including the founders of The Gap, Doris and the late Don Fisher (who have given around $65 million over the last decade), and Bill and Melinda Gates, who pledged $10 million to the chain two years ago through the Gates Foundation that only funds projects which have demonstrated their effectiveness.
KIPP's success has been achieved through a radically new approach to education. Old theories about the silver bullets of more money or smaller class sizes have been discarded in favour of a relentless focus on accountability and achievement. KIPP recruits elite teachers who work much longer days in a much longer school year (7.30am-5.30pm with a reduced summer holiday and regular Saturday school). In a symbol of their all-encompassing commitment, staff give pupils their mobile phone numbers in case they need any help with homework.
Teachers are paid by performance (bonuses can be 10 per cent or more of salary), and action is taken rapidly if expected standards aren't met. Principals walk the corridors, entering lessons unannounced and asking to see lesson plans with no notice (in England headteachers in state schools are banned by union agreements from observing their teachers for more than three hours a year). This is all supported by professional and leadership training at the high-quality KIPP Foundation.
The strong demands KIPP places on teachers are matched by its very high expectations of pupils. In a country where a young black man is more likely to go to prison than to college, KIPP's mainly black or Latino pupils are in year groups named after the year they will enter higher education, while teachers decorate their classrooms with banners from their own college days. Just in case pupils are in any doubt about expectations, motivational messages on classroom walls remind them. The most common reads: "THERE ARE NO EXCUSES."
Excuses are also running out for those who defend a status quo in which the college completion rate for low-income pupils is just a quarter of that achieved by KIPP students. For decades the message from the education establishment was that until socioeconomic disadvantages were removed children from poor families were destined to fail. This was aptly termed "the soft bigotry of low expectations". KIPP, and other successful charters, have torpedoed this position with the hard facts of high attainment.
As the black mayor of Newark, New Jersey, Cory Booker, has noted, we are presented with the perverse situation of organisations opposing schools because they have been successful in circumstances where others had failed. At the centre of this opposition are the immensely powerful teaching unions, who by negotiating teacher contracts running to hundreds of pages have successfully dominated school life. These contracts have made it nearly impossible to fire teachers. In an extreme example, a teacher who had been videoed putting a child's head down a toilet was reinstated. With back-pay. As the teacher union leader Albert Shanker is said to have remarked, "When children start paying union dues, I'll start representing the interests of children."
This union power has been integral to creating a system based on a belief in ever-greater centralisation and teachers' job security. Children are allocated places by the central school boards and the content of their education is dictated by negotiation between politicians and the unions, giving parents no choice and schools no incentive to innovate or improve. Teachers achieve tenure (permanent employment) after three years of service, and are then paid and promoted based on years of service. One state has actually made it illegal to use student performance as a factor in rewards. The abysmal results of this system are explained away by socioeconomic factors.
By challenging this ideology successful charter schools have run headlong into vituperative opposition from the education establishment, buttressed by the enormous power of the teaching unions. They are the largest political campaign contributors in the US and use their financial muscle to support sympathetic politicians or, more importantly, oppose candidates who challenge their ideology or threaten their domination.
In May this year the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) joined with the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP) to file a lawsuit to stop the opening or expansion of 20 charter schools in New York. This lawsuit caused widespread confusion over what schools 7,000 children would attend after the summer break and provoked a march of 2,500 mostly black parents demanding people stop playing politics with the life chances of their children. Their response demonstrates the irrationality of the anti-reform position.
Staff at KIPP Academy described how unions had filed a grievance against the school without the solicitation or consent of the teachers, who were forced to issue a statement which pointed out that in their view this union's action could "compromise the strong environment of communication and collaboration that is integral to the success of our schools".
A recent film, The Lottery, documented the difficulties faced by another successful charter school, Harlem Success Academy. The school, which has won widespread praise for its incredible performance in an area of long-term education failure, was blocked from moving into new premises by a union-backed lawsuit. At public hearings the school's founder was subjected to remarkable levels of abuse from union-organised campaign groups and from elected politicians allied to them. She admits on film that she has even faced death threats, all because she wanted to expand a school which has been improving the life chances of local children.
KIPP schools have been forced to respond to this opposition. KIPP Academy's staff filed for the union to be decertified as their negotiating representative and staff at KIPP AMP Academy Brooklyn have also voted to cut union ties. Reform-minded politicians are beginning to heed the advice of the former New York schools chancellor, Joel Klein, and take on the education establishment. Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey condemned their "political thuggery". Washington DC's former schools chancellor, Michelle Rhee, last year successfully overhauled tenure laws, introduced merit pay and fired incompetent teachers. This robust response is, in Klein's view, the only response since "collaboration is the elixir of the status quo crowd".
Last month, the first of 24 free schools opened in England. Like charters, they are state-funded but independent of local authority control and regulations, and are beginning to evoke the same kind of opposition from the education establishment.
The government has already enabled existing schools or their replacements to convert to academies, giving them the same freedoms as free schools. So many have taken advantage of this that their opponents have had no time to mobilise. With more than 1,000 academies now established (including nearly 40 per cent of secondary schools), the Education Secretary Michael Gove's goal of making academy status "the norm" will soon be a reality.
The opponents of school reform, however, have turned their attention to what they correctly see is now the more important battleground, free schools. Academies tend to use their independence to make smaller or more gradual innovations (with exceptions like the Ark or Harris chains). As free schools become more numerous (50-100 may open next year and potentially more than 100 per year from 2013), their capacity for radical innovation poses a huge threat to the status quo.
This opposition is led by the two main unions (the NUT and the NAS/UWT), the Anti Academies Alliance, and the recently formed Local Schools Network. The latter, headed by Fiona Millar, has condemned the free school movement and encouraged legal challenges against schools converting to academy status. Despite couching their arguments in the same language as those who nobly champion the many successful maintained comprehensives in England, they are in fact defending schools which have failed poor children for decades. Most worryingly, however, Nick Clegg has recently expressed scepticism regarding greater independence for free schools. This indicates that the Left of the Liberal Democrats (whom Clegg is under pressure to placate) might be willing to join the Left of the Labour Party in opposing education reform.
That someone as intelligent and reform-minded as Nick Clegg should want to place further restrictions on free schools demonstrates the fragility of the progress made in English education over the last decade. Academy schools have achieved remarkable results (this year one of the first, Mossbourne Academy, which serves a downtrodden area of Hackney, sent nine pupils to Oxbridge). Free schools can build on this progress and enact a change more substantial, radical and lasting. It is this that poses such a threat to the vested interests which oppose them.
As the Bronx nativity play drew to a close, one parent recounted, with a broad smile, how her older child has just started at an elite Ivy League college after attending KIPP Academy. She simply could not understand why anyone would oppose the school which had changed her child's life. But many do, vehemently, and the same opposition is already mobilising to undermine free schools in England. Whether it is between unions and free school providers, or around the Cabinet table between ministers, the battle for the soul of English education has begun.


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In Illinois more than 281,000 car crashes were reported in 2011 and approximately 1,100 were related to texting while driving while nationally, more than 3,300 fatal accidents involved a distracted driver.
In fact, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) texting and driving is six times more dangerous than drinking and driving and a recent study by AT&T found that about 49% of adults and 43% of teens admitted to texting and driving—despite nearly all respondents knowing how dangerous it was to text and drive.
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Furthermore, there are more than 70 communities that do not allow drivers to use hand-held devices and throughout the state it is prohibited in school zones and highway construction zones. The use of hand-held cell phones may be completely prohibited as soon as 2014.
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Throughout Missouri, while there are more and more states placing restrictions on cell phone usage in motor vehicles, currently Missouri's cell phone laws do not prohibit such use.
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Taking your eyes off the road to read or send a text on average takes about 4.6 seconds and if a person is traveling at 55 miles per hour they could travel the length of a football field in those few seconds. When a driver is distracted they cannot appropriately react to difficult situations including the need to suddenly stop or swerve to avoid hitting another vehicle.
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Roxarsone was used as a coccidiostat in poultry for 50 years. Using recent advances in instrumentation, FDA detected very low concentrations of carcinogenic inorganic arsenic in the livers of Roxarsone treated chickens. By combining these residue data with a prospective risk assessment, FDA concluded that the future cancer risk to consumers of Roxarsone-treated poultry was very low yet avoidable. The manufacturer initiated actions to suspend Roxarsone use in the United States. Anticipating public concern, USDA conducted a risk assessment based on historic poultry consumption and arsenic residue data to estimate the magnitude of cancer induced by consumption of inorganic arsenic residues in poultry meat prior to the termination of Roxarsone. USDA concluded that historic use of Roxarsone resulted in negligible public health risk. This presentation discusses the risk communication challenges associated with this situation and the inter-agency coordination that resulted in successful risk communication to the public.


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LONG ISLAND AND THE HAMPTONS
MORe: NEW YORK
There is a New York east of the East River. It's taken me much longer to "discover" Long Island then I'd like to admit. The discovery typically begins by exploring Brooklyn, then Queens but while both of these boroughs are technically on Long Island, they really aren't Long Island. Between the Hamptons and several other high end "escapes" Long Island feels a bit of a playground for the rich and famous to an outsider. The area is home to many year round locals, although, after many searches I have no idea where they eat breakfast.
THE NORTH SHORE
SAGAMORE HILL - OYSTER BAY
Sagamore Hill was the residence of one of America's greatest presidents, Teddy Roosevelt. The home has been preserved and left just as it was at the time of his death. That means there are animal furs on every floor, animal heads on every wall, and elephant tusks at several entrance ways. I learn something new every time I visit the residence. It turns out Teddy Roosevelt founded the NCAA. He also drank upwards of twenty cups of coffee a day - a habit he started as a youth to address his asthma.
Given the popularity of Roosevelt it's a good idea to reserve tickets to the house prior to arrival. In addition to the house tour there's a museum on the south side of the property that chronicles Roosevelt's life. The only drawback to the visit is that there's not a good place for breakfast in Oyster Bay.
SANDS POINT PRESERVE
Sands Point Preserve is the former compound of the Gould and Guggenheim empires. Today their estates have been turned into a preserve that is open to the public. There's greenspace and hiking trails. The main attractions are the former homes - the first home after the entrance is Castle Gould, modeled after Ireland's Kilkenny Castle. After completing Castle Gould, Gould's wife realized she did not want to live in a castle so they built Hempstead House. Hempsetead House is a couple hundred yards away and located right on the bay. Falaise, the Guggenheim's home, is the third mansion in the Preserve. Tours are infrequently available so if you are interested in seeing the inside of the house check the Sands Point Preserve website in advance.
The Hamptons. A mythical fantasy land that Jerry and George escaped to a few times over the life of Seinfeld. A wonder world and playground for the super wealthy. One of the things that constantly amazes me with the U.S. is the diversity and how it's possible to travel a few miles and feel like you are in a different world. A weekend in The Hamptons feels like you've traveled to an alternative universe. For a few fleeting days The Hamptons provides a glimpse of an alternative world where drivers don't need to stop at stop signs. Where servants wait in line at restaurants. Where those with the means enjoy the spoils of life. Located on the eastern end of Long Island, The Hamptons offers access to an inaccessible world.
With a five am start, it takes a little over three hours to reach Love Lane Kitchen in Mattituck, NY from Bucks County, PA. Mattituck is on the northern fork of Long Island. Per the reviews Love Lane Kitchen offers one of the best breakfasts in the area. The breakfast was good but it's no Fred's. The restaurant is located on a tree-lined commercial street and provides an idyllic introduction into Long Island life.
There are various must stop locations in Long Island. One of them is Briermere Farm. Briermere Farm may have great produce but it's the pies with the fruit fillings that are legendary. Arrive when they open, buy a pie made fresh that morning, and leave happy.
The Hampton's NIMBYism goes to extremes. On the positive side the communities have done a great job of preserving traditions and the communities local feel - there are a few Starbucks and CVSs, however, the rest of the towns are void of any signs of corporate America. A bit of a paradox given that the many of the residents here run the Fortune 500 companies that have expanded throughout small towns across America. As you may suspect there are a few high end boutiques and art galleries as well.
We made Sag Harbor our home for the weekend. There's limited hotels in the Hamptons so the best bet is to find a place on AirBnB. We enjoyed the experience on the water and cooking our own meals. The Hamptons dining experience seemed to be lacking a little bit considering all the money that's in the area. Staying away crowds and traffic of Southampton, Bridgehampton and East Hampton help us appreciate the area a little more and feel more in place. We ventured down to East Hampton at night and it felt like a world away.
The Hampton's is renowned for their lobster rolls. A search for the best yields a list of several places - all with long waits and all a little disappointing - a combination of over-hyped expectations and over priced food.
The dining scene reminded me of Los Angeles where there are a few "name" places, such as Scoop Dujour and Estia's Little Kitchen that attract huge crowds. Unlike Los Angeles there's not a number two or three place on the list of ice cream or breakfast places visit. Estia's is a truly Hamptons experience. It's about an hour wait for a decent meal - if you are a local just send your Filipino helper to reserve your place. If you're not they at least have some chairs and coffee while you wait.
Besides lobster rolls the Hamptons is a place of day drinking. Up and down Route 27 on the way to and from Montauk there are plenty of bars - some in the open some hidden. Unfortunately there's not too many places where the general public can access the beach. The NIMBYism has run rampant in beach access as well. Most of the beaches are private. Those that are open to the public charge a hefty entrance few and offer limited parking. We waited until after the sun set, then parked illegally to access a stretch of the beach.


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Bellmansro var en restaurang norr om Oakhill på Djurgården i Stockholm med anor från 1828 då hovkonditorn S.D. Carlmark där öppnade en serveringslokal. Restaurangen fick senare sitt namn med anledning av närheten till Bellmansbysten. Stället brann ner 1955. Platsen där nu endast bysten finns kvar kallas fortfarande Bellmansro.

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Konditorn Carlmark hade redan 1827 skaffat sig ett serveringstillstånd för ett "förfriskningsställe" nära den plats där Bellmansbysten skulle resas. Hans serveringsställe var då ett schweizeri i ett enkelt lusthus som kallades för Carlmarks. Efter invigningen av Bellmannsbysten blev Carlmarks ett mycket populärt ställe under sommartid, speciellt på Bellmansdagen som firades varje år den 26 juli. 1833 byggdes lusthuset om till en paviljong där Carlmark drev sin verksamhet i flera decennier.

Rörelsen övertogs så småningom av konditorn Sundberg som förvandlade det lilla konditoriet till ett utvärdshus under namnet Bellmansro. Han drev Bellmansro på 1860- och 1870-talen och efterföljdes av källarmästaren Mårten Nilsson. Han lät bygga om Bellmansro med bland annat pampiga trappor och större terrass samt snyggade till trädgården. Inför Stockholmsutställningen 1897 väntade han en invasion av gäster och byggde även om inomhus.

År 1905 sålde han Bellmansro för 200 000 kronor till en fru Thèrese Hacksell. Hon  inrättade "chambres séparés" i huset och  restaurangen fick ett svajigt rykte, och kunde till och med omnämnas som ett "osedlighetsnäste". Hon häktades 1914 för "hållande av hus där otukt bedrevs". Hon klarade sig med böter men händelsen vållade stor uppmärksamhet i pressen.

Sin sista glansperiod fick restaurangen i krögaren och konstmecenaten Sten Hellbergs regi. Han förvärvade stället 1936 och förvandlade det till lyxrestaurang med dyrbar inredning och plats för 500 personer inomhus och 2 000 personer om man inräknade uteserveringen. Bellmansro hörde då till Hellmans restaurangimperium som även omfattade Brända tomten och Bäckahästen. När Hellman avled 1947 övertogs rörelsen av Knut Lindqvister som kort därefter sålde Bellmansro vidare.

Byggnaden fick avsevärda rök- och vattenskador vid en brand den 13 maj 1952. Ruinen blev stående utan åtgärd i ytterligare flera år tills en ny brand utbröt den 17 augusti 1955, denna gång främst i en tillbyggnad. Först därefter jämnades byggnaderna med marken.

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 Wärdshuset Bellmansro, Allmänna gränd 6.
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What Core prof was on the radio to talk Xmas carols?
Over at SoundCloud, the good folks of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation have posted an audio interview with one of their hosts asking a certain familiar Core personality all about a certain familiar holiday song… can you guess who it was? Can you guess what song? Give up? It's Professor Hamill! It's "Jingle Bells"! Minds are blown!
Earlier this month, Prof. Hamill — who in addition to teaching humanities at BU is a key member of the Medford Historical Society — was a call-in guest, talking to the CBC's Chris walker about the strange history of the song "Jingle Bells" — a song never intended, by its creators, to be associated with the Christmas holiday; a song with roots in a pub in New England and a church in Savannah; a song that, believe it or not, has even been to outer space. (Professor Marscher, do you know anything about this?)
Happy listening, Core-kateers.
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I see every word you write for me. Your "Dear David" posts are a good read, and not just from my perspective. You make every person feel like you are speaking to them, directly. Being a twin is an odd life experience, partly because it is not one, confined event. To me, it is living with a built in safety net. We know every facet of the the other, so being alone is a luxury you and I will never have.
So when you write of just that, loneliness. I believe what you mean is complacency.
The two of us will always find routine comforting, but (from recent experience I can tell you) never satisfying.
My moving to Seattle has been a true testament to the wide breadth of things we have not seen growing up in a small Mississippi town. I have driven through Texas, to the Mexican border, through deserts of rolling sand and cacti standing in surrender. I drove through flat Arizona and saw nothing but the orange glow of a sleepy Sun as it hid behind a mountain. I saw gorgeous California beaches and drove through Kardashian country, where I saw the backs of expensive headlights for longer than I wanted to. I even drove across that big red bridge, the one we saw on TV for years. And through the mountains of Oregon, my breath taken away, my only reference to this state being an educational video game in elementary school. I drove all that way fueled by the dreams I had been stacking for over a decade.
It was in high school that I first watched Sleepless in Seattle. First and foremost this a movie made for David and Micah Winter. Inherently upbeat but still hitting you in the feels while showcasing Americas coolest cities. I looked at it and then looked at my surrounding and went to bed that night dreaming of a house boat in Seattle.
In my mind Seattle was the perfect city, one with cool temperatures and foggy skies. One with the hustle and bustle of the Big Apple, but the storybook landscape of Jessica Fletcher's Maine.
I built this town up to be the very thing they put on postcards here, The Emerald City.
Then I finally was rewarded the opportunity to come here, and without ever as much as spending a day to feel it out, I moved Sight.Un.Seen.
They call that wanderlust. Yet it's really naive.
The days leading up to my cross country drive I decided to work overtime at my assignment in Houston. I worked for 15 days in a row. And for a nurse doing 13 hour shifts, that's unheard of. But I was determined, and every bit of my off time at work, any break I had I googled the small apartment I secured downtown in the world of Oz.
I would use google maps to navigate around the buildings and "walk" from my new place in the heart of it all to Pike Place Market, or Lake Union, or to the quirky coffee shop in the alleyway.
I could not contain the feeling inside me. That feeling you have when you know a dream is about to be realized, that hard work MIGHT actually pay off this time.
Then came the day I arrived. Grant called, he had made it before I did with a U-Haul of our belongings from Memphis. He could not make it up the hill to our apartment with the U-Haul. So when I got there we moved all of our belongings UP HILL!
But that couldn't get me down we had made it! We were in the city Tom Hanks had made for me in my mind to be the greatest there is.
They next day we spent exploring the city. Our apartment, being "in the heart of everything" actually proved quite difficult to navigate around. It was not the heart of Seattle, yet the heart of Seattle Tourism. We had chosen to live in an Amusement park. Pike Place Market is the most walked area in Washington State. Thousands of people pour into this area to see men throw fish and to buy local jams and bouquets of flowers.
The headache only grew from there. I made it to the coffee shop I had Google walked to so many times before I made it here, it's a small, closet of a place in the alley by the Gum Wall. I got up to the cashier and shared my story of just having moved here and dreaming of ordering coffee at this exact, quirky little spot. And before I could hardly finish, the girl behind the counter, eyes half-mast said "that's great, were you gunna order something...or...?"
I walked down the alley feeling kind of defeated. That 'kind of' only lasted until the next day, my first day at work. I had decided to work outside of Seattle at a hospital 30 miles from where I lived. Little did I know until I looked up my route, that 30 miles is actually a 2 hour drive here on I-5. But still that would not get me down, I happily got dressed and rushed out the door, found my car on the street and hopped in and pressed start.
It wasn't until this point that I looked to my right and saw the millions of tiny pieces of glass where my nurse bag had been. I just rested my head on my steering wheel for a moment and breathed in and out and went off to work.
I say all this to prepare you to be pushed out of your complacency. I worked hard to make a long held passion and dream a reality and even though it has been the most enriching thing I have done, there is no comfort in change. The world heard I was ready to make a move in my life and decided to test me. Don't let yourself be burdened by failure. Put your head on the steering wheel, breath in and out and move forward. There is a world you have not seen, and as your brother it is my duty to make sure that it happens for you.
I love Seattle now. Fell back in love, I guess I should say.


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The much anticipated Aliann Pompey Invitational lived up to and exceeded expectations as personal records (PR) were achieved and qualifying standards were met and records were broken in front of thousands of vocal fans at the National Track & Field Facility, Leonora West Coast Demerara.
won the Men's 800m in 1:52.48. The running brave athlete recovering from a season plagued with injuries ran a very passionate race with the full support of the crowd to hold off the challenge of Paul Sterlen (1:53.30) of Trinidad & Tobago (T&T).
Guyana's Olympic Games qualifier (100 and 200m) Brenessa Thompson was at her ruthless best, smashing the 30 year national record in the Fly Jamaica Women's 100m in a time of 11.14. The previous national record was 11.26 ran by Jennifer Innis in 1984. The Olympic qualifying mark for the event is 11.32.
Sprinting in second was Reyare Thomas in 11.22 followed by Tawanna Meadows of the United States (US) in 11.37.
Thompson would return to complete the double by claiming the Digicel 4G 200m in a very fast time of 23.08. Guyanese, Kadecia Baird finished second in 23.38 while Tawanna Meadows had the third fastest time of 23.45.
Winston George, who is set to represent Guyana at the Rio Games in the 400m, had to settle for a very close second (45.84) in his favoured event which was won by (US) Bryce Spratlin in 45.84.
George would return to avenge and make amends by winning the Quality Plus 200m in 20.76 ahead of Bryce Spratlin (20.88) and the impressive Guyanese Davin Fraser (21.26).
Kadecia Baird won the women's 400 m in a very fast time of 52.26, missing out on Olympic qualification by 0.6 of a second. Ashley Kelly of the BVI was second in 53.24 followed by Guyanese Olympic qualifier Aliyah Abrams in 53.53.
The Digicel 4G Men's 100m was won by Phil DeRosier in 10.25 followed by Kyle Greaux (10.28) and Tre Houston of Bermuda also in 10.28. Guyanese Rupert Perry just out on a podium finish placing fourth in 10.29.
Cleveland Ford returned to form by winning the Men's 5000m in 15m 53. 62 ahead of the inform Winston Missigher (15:57.93) in a exciting last 200m sprint finish.
Women's Triple Jump First – Natricia Hooper (12.69), Second – Natrena Hooper (12.70) Third – Chantoba Bright.
Sponsors of the event included Digicel 4G, Fly Jamaica, Quality Plus Fast Foods and Bakery, Ramada Princess Hotel, GUYSUCO, Banks DIH under their Rainforest water and Powerade sports drink brands and Star Party Rentals.


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Four CF-188 Hornets arrived in Mihail Kogalniceanu Air Base, Romania, to participate in NATO's enhanced Air Policing.
Canadian CF-188 Hornet fighters (Photo: CAF)
The news had appeared on the web a few months ago, the Sanicole Airshow had already announced its presence at the event to take place in September and now the NATO command has formalized the deployment of the Canadian CF-18 Hornets in Europe.
According to NATO HQ Aircom media release, four Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) CF-188 fighter aircraft arrived at Mihail Kogalniceanu Air Base, Romania on August 20 for a four-month deployment under NATO's enhanced Air Policing mission taking over responsibility from the Royal Air Force. The RAF Typhoons have just completed their service started in April (More details here).
Together with their Romanian colleagues flying MiG-21s, Canadian pilots will secure the skies over Romania, sending a solid signal of NATO's resolve, commitment and solidarity. The Canadian detachment consists of 135 personnel drawn from across the Canadian Armed Forces.
Photo: Jimmy Wise, Royal Air Force
"An Air Task Force is an agile and flexible organization that is always ready to employ air power and provide support wherever and whenever Canada requires. Our Air Task Force in Romania is proud to participate in the cooperative defence activities that support NATO's enhanced Air Policing," said Lieutenant-Colonel Mark Hickey, commander of the detachment.
"The RCAF has ample experience deploying under NATO Air Policing missions. It deployed CF-188 jets to the Baltic States and Iceland in support of the long-standing routine NATO mission," he added.
Romania conducts its own Air Policing, safeguarding NATO airspace. Across the south of NATO territory, Combined Air Operations Centre (CAOC) Torrejon, Spain is responsible for all Air Policing on behalf of NATO's Allied Air Command.
Until the end of the year jets from both air forces will conduct sorties in concert with one another. For the next days, the Canadian F-18s are scheduled to conduct familiarization flights before starting their mission.
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Canada's PM to shuffle Cabinet, set to drop foreign minister | Reuters
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OTTAWA Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will shuffle his Cabinet this week and is set to move Foreign Minister Stephane Dion, who ran into political trouble last year, a person with knowledge of the matter said on Monday."Dion is out," said the person, who requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation.The Canadian Press, which initially broke the story, said the move was scheduled for Tuesday and would involve at least six people.The shuffle would be the first time Trudeau has made major changes since his Liberals took power in November 2015, allowing him to recast his Cabinet ahead of Donald Trump's inauguration as U.S. President.Relations with the United States will be crucial over the next four years and Trudeau may have decided he needs a better communicator than Dion, a French-speaker and former professor who sometimes stumbles when speaking English.
Trump's vow during the campaign to either tear up or renegotiate NAFTA could have calamitous consequences for Canada, which sends 75 percent of its exports to the United States.One leading candidate to replace Dion would be Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland, an author and former reporter who worked for several years in the United States and has good connections in Washington.
Such an appointment would be complicated as Trudeau wants to improve ties with Russia, which banned Freeland - who is of Ukrainian descent - in the wake of Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014. Freeland, who is sometimes pictured in Ukrainian national dress, has been harshly critical of Russian President Vladimir Putin.Trudeau and Dion's offices declined to comment. Freeland's office did not respond to requests for comment.
Dion, 61, a former Liberal leader who held ministerial posts in previous governments from 1996 to 2006, was widely criticized last June for not defending a reporter when China's foreign minister berated her at a news conference.He also came under fire for the government's handling of a controversial arms deal with Saudi Arabia. (Additional reporting by Leah Schnurr; Editing by Peter Cooney and Sandra Maler)
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Are you looking for more than just a great coffee? Portland, Oregon known for its quaint and quirky places does not leave restaurants out of this equation. Today there are chapels, schools, and coffee shops converted into tasty cafes and restaurants. One rising star is Coquine, a local coffee shop turned gourmet café.
Belly up to the bar and place your order for some amazing farm to table seasonal food. With sparse décor, earth toned tapestries and a coffee shop feel you can enjoy breakfast, lunch or dinner at Coquine. While famous in Portland for their smoked almond, salted caramel, chocolate chip cookies, you can dine on amazing food before satisfying your sweet tooth with dessert.
Recently, I shared a winter lunch with my friend Cheryl Padula, owner of Bateaux winery in Toledo. We went full force and ordered Coquine's Perfect lunch for two. Lunch included a savory kale salad tossed in tahini-yogurt dressing, our choice of two sandwiches, corona beans, two cookies, and the most amazing pumpkin soup I have ever had. To wash down the meal the waitress delivered a bottle of Maylandie Rose to our table.
A Trained and Avid Foodie.
As a graduate of a small culinary school in San Francisco, I consider myself an educated and experienced food connoisseur. Everything we had for lunch that day was delicious, but the soup…oh the soup. I have certainly eaten and created my share of pumpkin soups, but after experiencing Chef Katy Millard's nothing else compares.
This soup was smooth sweet perfection, topped with brown butter croutons and pepitas providing a needed crunch. While savoring the soup, I detected back notes of cheese. Maybe it was a rind of Parmigiano-Reggiano steeped in the broth during the cooking process. After discussing the matter with Cheryl, I asked the waitress if she knew the secret. She revealed that a cheese known as Mimolette was a key ingredient in the soup.
Where Can I Find this Unknown Cheese?
Portland supports many artisanal shops. Two days after our lunch, I decided to check out Cheese Bar located down the street from Coquine at 6031 SE Belmont. As fate would have it they did carry Mimolette cheese. I purchased a wedge and went home ready to make the delicious soup. I have to say mine turned out great, but I still give chef Millard first prize.
Each segment of our lunch was enjoyable.
Take my advice before the weather warms up and head over to Coquine, order a bowl of the amazing pumpkin soup, and don't leave without a few of their famous cookies. Coquine is located at the top of Mt. Tabor, at SE 69th and Belmont in Portland, Oregon.


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Securing an internship in high school or college is an excellent way to learn more about a career path and make invaluable contacts. As someone who benefited from a college internship, I highly recommend the experience to all students.
Sure, some internships involve little more than fetching coffee but, every now and then, you might actually have the opportunity to do some real work. It's all about what you put into it. Just ask Wolf Cukier. He made the most of his internship at NASA, and then some.
The 17-year-old high school senior from Scarsdale, NY interned at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD last summer. While there, Wolf was asked to analyze variations in star brightness with data gathered by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). After only three days on the job, Cukier made a rare discovery: a planet orbiting two stars.
Wolf found the planet inside the constellation Pictor, which is about 1,300 light-years from Earth. It's 6.9 times larger than Earth and is the only known planet inside the TOI 1338 binary star system.
The discovery was announced at the 235th American Astronomical Society meeting in Honolulu this month. For now, the planet is simply known as TOI 1338 b, but it seems like NASA should eventually name it after its young discoverer. In any case, this is an impressive accomplishment for someone who isn't even old enough to vote yet.
I'm guessing that colleges and universities have been throwing scholarship offers at Wolf Cukier. And NASA probably wouldn't mind having him back again this summer. See? Internships.
TESS Satellite Discovered Its 1st World Orbiting 2 Stars
Researchers working with data from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have discovered the mission's first circumbinary planet, a world orbiting two stars. The planet, called TOI 1338b, is around 6.9 times larger than Earth, or between the sizes of Neptune and Saturn. It lies in a system 1,300 light-years away in the constellation Pictor.
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Angelika Noack ( born October 20, 1952 in Angermuende ) is a former rower from the GDR. 1980 she succeeded in foursomes with control women's Olympic victory.
Angelika Noack was 1970 DDR junior champion in four. The rower from SC DHfK Leipzig won at the European Championships 1971 bronze medal in the quad, even though they had been sitting in the GDR championships still in the second Leipzig boat. 1972 was followed by her first DDR titles and silver at the European Championships, both medals she received in 1973. Occurred in 1974 at the World Championships in Lucerne first wife boats at world championships. Sabine Dähne, Renate Schlenzig, Angelika Noack, Rosel Nitsche and control Christa Karnath were the first World Champions in the four with coxswain.
From 1975 Sabine Dähne and Angelika Noack competed in two without coxswain. The two won in 1975 and 1977 at the World Championships in the Olympic debut of Frauenruderns 1976 in Montreal subject to the two rowers the Bulgarian boat with Sika Kelbetschewa and Stojanka Gruitschewa.
1978 Angelika Noack returned back into the quad. The World Rowing Championships 1978, the East German foursome with Kersten Neisser, Angelika Noack, Marita Sand, Ute Skorupski and control Kirsten Wenzel won. In the same occupation, the boat was in 1979 GDR champion and finished at the World Championships in second place behind the boat from the Soviet Union. At the Olympic Games in 1980 the foursome came with a different line to Ramona Kapheim, Silvia Cheerful, Angelika Noack, Romy Saalfeld and Kirsten Wenzel won with just over a second ahead of the Bulgarians, the Soviet world champions finished third. It was 1974 and 1976 awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze and 1980 silver.
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