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Volume 116, Issue 2
April 2007, pages 81-169
pp 81-98 April 2007
Impact cratering – fundamental process in geoscience and planetary science
J K Pati W U Reimold
Impact cratering is a geological process characterized by ultra-fast strain rates, which generates extreme shock pressure and shock temperature conditions on and just below planetary surfaces. Despite initial skepticism, this catastrophic process has now been widely accepted by geoscientists with respect to its importance in terrestrial – indeed, in planetary – evolution. About 170 impact structures have been discovered on Earth so far, and some more structures are considered to be of possible impact origin. One major extinction event, at the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary, has been firmly linked with catastrophic impact, but whether other important extinction events in Earth history, including the so-called "Mother of All Mass Extinctions" at the Permian–Triassic boundary, were triggered by huge impact catastrophes is still hotly debated and a subject of ongoing research. There is a beneficial side to impact events as well, as some impact structures worldwide have been shown to contain significant (in some cases, world class) ore deposits, including the gold– uranium province of the Witwatersrand basin in South Africa, the enormous Ni and PGE deposits of the Sudbury structure in Canada, as well as important hydrocarbon resources, especially in North America. Impact cratering is not a process of the past, and it is mandatory to improve knowledge of the past-impact record on Earth to better constrain the probability of such events in the future. In addition, further improvement of our understanding of the physico–chemical and geological processes fundamental to the impact cratering process is required for reliable numerical modeling of the process, and also for the correlation of impact magnitude and environmental effects. Over the last few decades, impact cratering has steadily grown into an integrated discipline comprising most disciplines of the geosciences as well as planetary science, which has created positive spin-offs including the study of paleo-environments and paleo-climatology, or the important issue of life in extreme environments. And yet, in many parts of the world, the impact process is not yet part of the geoscience curriculum, and for this reason, it deserves to be actively promoted not only as a geoscientific discipline in its own right, but also as an important life-science discipline.
pp 99-111 April 2007
Quasi-static deformation due to two-dimensional seismic sources embedded in an elastic half-space in welded contact with a poroelastic half-space
Sunita Rani Sarva Jit Singh
The Biot linearized theory of fluid saturated porous materials is used to study the plane strain deformation of a two-phase medium consisting of a homogeneous, isotropic, poroelastic half-space in welded contact with a homogeneous, isotropic, perfectly elastic half-space caused by a twodimensional source in the elastic half-space. The integral expressions for the displacements and stresses in the two half-spaces in welded contact are obtained from the corresponding expressions for an unbounded elastic medium by applying suitable boundary conditions at the interface. The case of a long dip-slip fault is discussed in detail. The integrals for this source are solved analytically for two limiting cases: (i) undrained conditions in the high frequency limit, and (ii) steady state drained conditions as the frequency approaches zero. It has been verified that the solution for the drained case (𝜔 → 0) coincides with the known elastic solution. The drained and undrained displacements and stresses are compared graphically. Diffusion of the pore pressure with time is also studied.
pp 113-124 April 2007
Neotectonic aspects of the northern margin of the Adana–Cilicia submarine basin, NE Mediterranean
E Ozel A Ulug B Pekcetinoz
The sedimentary basins that dominate the north-eastern Mediterranean (Adana–Cilicia basins in the west and Iskenderun basin in the east) are located on the flanks of a partly submerged positive structure (a part of the Africa–Eurasia convergence zone) along which strike-slip faults are evident. This study summarizes the findings of two seismic surveys carried out in the Alanya– Mersin offshore region. Some 850 km of geophysical survey lines were compiled on these cruises. Based on the results determined from these surveys, the north and central part of Adana–Cilicia basin can be subdivided into eastern, central and western structural sub-basins separated by the Ecemiş fault complex in the east and the Anamur–Kormakiti structural high in the west at the same time. Results of this study also indicate that Ecemiş and Anamur–Kormakiti faults are active. Late Miocene regional compression was responsible for the compartmentation of this complex into the present arrangement and has initiated the rotational regime which has governed subsequent tectonic developments, notably the extensional behaviour of the NE–SW trending Ecemiş and Anamur–Kormakiti faults and the transpressive behaviour of the NNE–SSW trending border fault complex.
Depositional conditions of the coal-bearing Hirka Formation beneath Late Miocene explosive volcanic products in NW central Anatolia, Turkey
Mehmet Şener
This work focuses on the relationship between the coal deposition and explosive volcanism of the Miocene basin, NW central Anatolia, Turkey. The coal-bearing Hirka Formation was deposited over the Galatian Andesitic Complex and/or massive lagoonal environments during the Miocene. The investigated lignite is a high ash (from 32 to 58%) and sulphur (from 1.43 to 3.03%) lignite which is petrographically characterised by a high humunite content. The mineral matter of the studied lignite samples is made up of mainly clay minerals (illite–smectite and kaolinite), plagioclase and quartz in Bolu coal field, clay minerals (illite–smectite, smectite and illite), quartz, calcite, plagioclase and gypsum in Seben coal field, quartz, K-feldspar, plagioclase and clay minerals (kaolinite and illite) in Kıbrıscık, and dolomite, quartz, clinoptilolite, opal CT and gypsum in C¸ amlıdere coal field. The differences in these four types of lignite with specific mineralogical patterns may be due to the explosive volcanic events and depositional conditions which changed from one coal field to the others. There is a zonation from SW to SE in the studied area for zeolites such as Opal CT+smectite-clinoptilolite-analcime-K-feldspar. Carbonate minerals are commonly calcite in Seben and Kıbrıscık coal fields. In Bolu, coal samples are devoid of calcite and dolomite. These analyses show that there is an increase in the amount of Mg and a decrease in the amount of Na from the northwestern part to the southern part in the study area.
Volatile displacement of Meghalaya coals – A pointer to explore low sulphur coals
P Behera
Volatile displacement, which measures the difference between calculated and experimental volatile matter, is indicative of abnormality in coals which may be related to petrological or chemical parameters. The volatile displacement (𝛿 $v$) values of Meghalaya coals were calculated from their chemical analyses. Correlations of volatile displacement ($\delta v$) with parameters such as carbon, hydrogen, moisture, oxygen, oxygen plus sulphate sulphur, oxygen plus pyritic sulphur, oxygen plus organic sulphur and total sulphur were studied. An approximately linear relationship exists only between $\delta v$ and moisture, and $\delta v$ and total sulphur, and not between other parameters. Plots on Seyler's chart indicate the coals as perhydrous to orthohydrous. The linear relationship with total sulphur indicates that the coals may have become abnormal mainly due to the marine environment of deposition and weathering.
Vesuvianite–wollastonite–grossular-bearing calc-silicate rock near Tatapani, Surguja district, Chhattisgarh
S C Patel
This paper reports the occurrence of vesuvianite + wollastonite + grossular + diopside + microcline + quartz assemblage in an enclave of calc-silicate rocks occurring within quartzofeldspathic gneiss near Tatapani in the western part of Chhotanagpur Gneissic Complex. The enclave contains phlogopite-absent and phlogopite-bearing calc-silicate rocks, the latter being much more abundant than the former. The above assemblage occurs in the phlogopite-absent rock. Phlogopite-bearing rock contains the assemblage phlogopite + salite + microcline + plagioclase + quartz. A strong schistosity is developed in both the calc-silicate rocks and the minerals are syntectonic with the major foliation-forming event in the area. The vesuvianite-bearing assemblage is formed by amphibolite facies regional metamorphism of a calcareous protolith at pressure > 4 kbar and $X_{CO_2}$ (fluid) > 0.15.
The role of low-frequency intraseasonal oscillations in the anomalous Indian summer monsoon rainfall of 2002
S Sajani S Naseema Beegum K Krishna Moorthy
We analyze the dynamical features and responsible factors of the low-frequency intraseasonal time scales which influenced the nature of onset, intensity and duration of active/break phases and withdrawal of the monsoon during the anomalous Indian summer monsoon of 2002 – the most severe drought recorded in recent times. During that season, persistent warm sea surface temperature anomalies over the equatorial Indian Ocean played a significant role in modulating the strength of the monsoon Hadley circulation. This in turn affected the onset and intense break spells especially the long break during the peak monsoon month of July. Strong low-frequency intraseasonal modulations with significant impact on the onset and active/break phases occurred in 2002 which were manifested as a good association between low-frequency intraseasonal oscillations and the onset and active/break spells. Further, SST anomalies over the equatorial Indo-Pacific region on low-frequency intraseasonal time scales were found to affect the equatorial eastward and thereby off-equatorial northward propagations of enhanced convection over the Indian region. These propagations in turn modulated the active/break cycle deciding the consequent severity of the 2002 drought.
Sensitivity of surface radiation budget to clouds over the Asian monsoon region
S Balachandran M Rajeevan
Using the ISCCP–FD surface radiative flux data for the summer season (June to September) of the period 1992 to 1995, an analysis was done to understand the role of clouds on the surface radiation budget over the Asian monsoon region. At the top of atmosphere (TOA) of convective regions of the Asian monsoon region, the short wave radiative forcing (SWCRF) and long wave radiative forcing (LWCRF) do not cancel each other resulting in occurrence of the net cloud radiative forcing values exceeding $−$30W/m2. This type of imbalance between SWCRF and LWCRF at TOA is reflected down on the earth surface–atmosphere system also as an imbalance between surface netcloud radiative forcing (NETCRF) and atmospheric NETCRF.
Based on the regression analysis of the cloud effects on the surface radiation budget quantities, it has been observed that generally, the variance explained by multiple type cloud data is 50% more than that of total cloud cover alone. In case of SWCRF, the total cloud cover can explain about 3% (7%) of the variance whereas the three cloud type descriptions of clouds can explain about 44% (42%) of the variance over oceanic (land) regions. This highlights the importance of cloud type information in explaining the variations of surface radiation budget. It has been observed that the clouds produce more cooling effect in short-wave band than the warming effect in long-wave band resulting in a net cooling at the surface. Over the oceanic region, variations in high cloud amount contribute more to variations in SWCRF while over land regions both middle and high cloud variations make substantial contributions to the variations in both SWCRF and NETCRF.
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Analysts React To Oracle's Court Victory
Predictions include the unlikelihood of an appeals court overturning Judge Walker's decision and the deal finally closing at somewhere in the mid-$20s-per-share range.
Industry and financial analysts are reacting to the decision Thursday by U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker, who sided with Oracle against the Department of Justice, ruling that Oracle's bid to buy PeopleSoft Inc. does not violate antitrust laws.
The Justice Department said Thursday it was considering its options. While an appeal is possible, Merrill Lynch analyst Jason Maynard issued a report saying that it's unlikely that an appeals court would overturn Walker's decision, given that the ruling "was emphatically in favor of Oracle and ripped apart nearly every argument presented by the DOJ."
While that might discourage Justice from making an appeal, Maynard notes that other major obstacles in closing the transaction are PeopleSoft's "poison pill" clause in its bylaws and whether or not the European Union would give a thumbs-up to the acquisition. Still, with Walker's clearance, the likelihood of the transaction closing increases. Maynard doesn't expect Oracle to raise the bid above $21 per share, which Merrill Lynch believes represents a fair offer to PeopleSoft. Because of the ruling in Oracle's favor, Merrill Lynch is raising its rating on PeopleSoft to neutral from sell.
Maynard says the ruling is good news for the software industry because it keeps the avenue of consolidation open. A victory by the Justice Department, he says, would have had a negative impact on other mergers and acquisitions.
Analyst Neil Herman at Lehman Brothers points out that if the EU doesn't make its own decision or resolve potential antitrust concerns with Oracle, within six weeks of Oracle reopening discussions with it, it could be years before the matter would even come to trial, effectively killing the deal. But Herman assigns a 60% probability that Oracle will surmount any appeals or antitrust obstacles raised by the EU. The deal, he expects, would be done at a final bid of somewhere in the mid-$20s per share.
At ARC Advisory Group, VP John Moore says PeopleSoft's board is unlikely to remove its poison-pill provisions for anything less than $26 per share. "There is also the potential that a white knight may arrive on the scene and scoop PeopleSoft from the clutches of Oracle, but few have the resources (or the desire) to do so," he writes. "Likely candidates would include IBM, Microsoft, and even SAP, but each of these also have reasons for not rescuing PeopleSoft."
Moore says that at the end of the day, the real winner is SAP, "who continues to do quite well selling into this confusion." Indeed, says analyst Jim Shepherd in a new AMR Research report, SAP will be the safest choice for application buyers, if Oracle succeeds in the acquisition, thereby accelerating the consolidation that's under way in the application market.
"This ruling has many implications for PeopleSoft customers," he writes. The uncertainty of the outcome already has affected IT deployment strategies and purchase decisions, and they might be delayed for some months more. J.D. Edwards' software customers should perhaps brace for Oracle selling that business, if it succeeds in its bid.

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NICOLE SABA WRITES – Imagine watching the evening news. With no warning and no disclaimer, a video of a woman committing suicide is aired. In a span of less than three minutes, you see a woman threatening to kill herself, while her husband, who is filming it all, pants and pleads for her to reconsider.
MTV Lebanon, a news-broadcasting channel with no association to MTV (Music Television) in the United States, did just that. Amina Ismail was filmed by her husband, Kifah, as she sat on the edge of her eighth floor balcony in Ramlet al Baydah, Lebanon. After Kifah was heard pleading with her to reconsider, the camera moved away, and Amina plunged to her death, with the only audible sound being that of her husband's screams. Kifah then posted the video on Youtube, where MTV got a hold of it. The husband claims he filmed it for his own safety, as not to be targeted as a suspect in the case. Thus, after being questioned, he was released from police custody. The couple had only been married for six months and had just moved to Lebanon from Belgium. But why would a seemingly happy newlywed would give up her life? Preliminary lab reports and investigations have concluded that Amina was suffering from a fatal disease, though she was not on any medications or sedatives.
Ghayath Yazbeck, the head of news and political programs at MTV argued that the scene was not violent, as, "we didn't do a live standup in front of a bleeding corpse." Furthermore, he explained that such a story should not be blown out of proportions, as MTV did not film the video, but merely, "took it off social media." However, media experts in Lebanon don't share the same view. Tony Mikhael, a media expert with the Maharat Foundation in Lebanon, noted that the professional media should have shed light on the story, with care and caution, rather than use it as an "audience grabber." This is certainly true, as the media should raise awareness about issues pertaining to suicide and death, yet they must do so with the utmost sensitivity, especially since children may be watching the show.
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TAYLORS—A challenge was issued to several hundred men recently to fulfill what each has been called to do as a Catholic: be good fathers and husbands.
"You have been given a gift," Father Jeffrey Kirby told nearly 400 men who gathered on March 4 at Prince of Peace Church for a day of reflection and fellowship at the fourth annual South Carolina Catholic Men's Conference.
"It's an important responsibility you have been given," Father Kirby said, one that, like a parish priest, requires effort.
This is a challenge that has become easier than ever today, given the multitude of resources readily available. With that knowledge, fathers can lead their children and family, Father Kirby said.
All photos Miscellany/Terry Cregar: Stephen and Janet Ray greet attendees during a break.
Stephen and Janet Ray, one-time Protestants, both converted to Catholicism in 1994. Since then, the couple has been writing, speaking, producing Catholic films and leading numerous pilgrimages to the Holy Land.
Looking back, Ray said he's surprised he didn't convert sooner.
"The Catholic Church is the best-kept secret in the world," Ray said, adding that he relishes his role as a Christian apologetic defending the Catholic faith for 20-plus years.
"It's fundamental to defend what you believe in," he said.
During the afternoon session, Ray urged the men to remain strong in their faith during difficult times, asserting that the U.S. is slipping back into the paganism of the early Christian community.
"We have to live like those early Christians. We have to fight the pagan culture," he said.
William Thierfelder, president of Belmont Abbey College in North Carolina, also addressed the men's conference, and spoke at a short women's session held March 3.
The former Olympian and two-time NCAA Division I All-American in track and field said men who participate in sports, whether they're players or coaches, have responsibilities as Catholic men.
The men's and women's conferences are sponsored by the Knights of Columbus South Carolina State Council in support of the Diocese of Charleston. Bishop Robert E. Guglielmone opened the men's conference with a morning Mass, where he offered praise and encouragement.
"You're gathered here this day to focus on how you, as Catholic Christian men, can more fully lead your lives in conformity with what God wants from us," the bishop said.
Living in conformity with God leads to that sense of fulfillment and joy, he added, which in turn leads to strong family ties and good parenting.
"The Lord calls us together for occasions such as this," Bishop Guglielmone said.
John Olson, Grand Knight of Council 9184, said the conference helps reinforce what Catholic men are currently doing and inspires them to want to do more.
"Many of us live hustle-and-bustle lives, and events like this give everyone a chance to relax and socialize, to be able to talk and listen to people from other parishes and councils, and to use what we learn in our everyday lives.
"For me, as a Grand Knight, this is where it all starts from the perspective of building on what we do as Knights and helping the parish," Olson said.
Top photo, Miscellany/Terry Cregar: Father Jeffrey Kirby signs one of his books during a break at the annual South Carolina Catholic Men's Conference held March 4 at Prince of Peace Church in Taylors.
Hundreds of men gathered for the annual men's conference.


We talk a lot in this blog about where the radio industry is headed. The business as we knew it is in a much different place than it was just a couple years ago.
Technology, digital media, new platforms, and partnerships are now part of the everyday lexicon. Broadcasters aren't just interested in innovation and the future – they are now actively attempting to redefine it, using the foundation of radio to transform their traditional media businesses.
Once unheard of, industry partnerships and cross-purchases are now becoming common. Hiring new people, opening up new divisions, and looking for synergies has now become part of industry's new marching orders. Yesterday's announcement that Scripps had purchased Triton may have surprised many industry observers, but in many ways, it is becoming indicative of the new ways of thinking about the legacy business.
In just the past few days and weeks, Cox has launched its own analytics platform, Beasley has jumped into the eSports arena, and iHeart – while still in bankruptcy – spent $55 million on a major podcast publisher, Stuff Media.
The radio industry has become bullish on technology – podcasting, smart speakers, and streaming. And not a day goes by where new announcements underscore this new-found commitment.
Even with the financial burdens that have plagued the company during this past decade or more, iHeart has still been the straw that stirs the industry drink. And while other companies have made their moves in recent years, reshaping the business, it is iHeart and Pittman who are in the crosshairs.
While Pittman's resume includes running Six Flags, AOL, and of course, iHeart, it's the MTV Era that has defined his career – and his operating philosophy.
Speaking at Interbrand's Best Global Brand's Summit, Pittman gave attendees a crash course in the power and potential of building killer brands. As the title of Deighton's story suggests, iHeart's chieftain isn't just focused on building great brands – he's obsessed by them.
Like building a monument, it takes time – Pittman says it requires 5-7 years and $1 billion of earned or unearned media to truly create a brand that stands the test of time.
You can look at any number of decisions that have shaped iHeart's trajectory since he took over less than a decade ago, but perhaps one of the most impactful was when in 2014, he scrapped the old line Clear Channel moniker that screamed AM Radio, and bet his fortunes on the company's technical wing, iHeartRadio. Becoming iHeart Media – or just iHeart – the company's focus has shifted to one of that's about entertainment – not just radio.
At the time, the company's branding makeover may not have seemed like a big deal. But, in fact, it helped accelerate its trajectory.
And as he explained at the conference, it's about growing both "identity and awareness," while giving brands a "human-like" quality.
From Tom Freston in the corner office to Marshall Cohen in research to Lee Masters (better known now as Jarl Mohn) and Judy McGrath in programming to Martha Quinn and Mark Goodman in front of the camera, everyone understood the essence of the brand and the culture – and they treated it with the respect and reverence it deserved.
You'd often hear the phrase, "No, that's not us" when an idea, concept, or innovation came along that just didn't have that ring of authenticity or fit. It had to pass the MTV litmus test of cool, fun, crazy, and cutting edge.
Pittman traces the demise of the network to the reality that many of those "brand stewards" eventually left the company, draining it of the culture that once made "I want my MTV" a household phrase.
Today, you can see the same schematic taking shape at iHeart, and it very much reflects the bones of MTV. Pittman now faces renewed competitive challenges from bigger, smarter, savvier radio broadcasters, focused on building entertainment companies that transcend towers and transmitters.
Whether it's the VMA Music Awards or the iHeart Music Festival, allowing the audience to touch and participate with the brand is part and parcel of the umbrella philosophy of entertainment that Pittman takes with him wherever he goes.
And now the challenge is to get it right at iHeart, another brand-building project. Pittman embraces the value of his company's identity, something that other radio companies are struggling to do. It's one thing to make acquisitions, create partnerships, and launch new initiatives. It's another to build a great company brand.
I'm betting that Pittman thinks less and less about other companies rooted in radio. Instead, his focus is on Amazon, Google, Apple, and the other media and technology behemoths – and building the iHeart brand into one that can stand toe-to-toe with any of them.
Pittman's Playbook isn't a well-guarded secret. It's an open book that has worked at myriad companies, and Pittman is convinced it will work again.
The question is whether media observers – and more importantly, the public – will one day think of iHeart in those terms.
It will be all about building the iHeart brand – for consumers, advertisers, and investors.
It is well documented; a brand is a feeling. How listeners connect with you in an emotional way is the most crucial question to be answered.
It's so true, Bob. Your comment made me think of my favorite radio station growing up. I didn't think of it as "just" a radio station that happened to play the music I liked. I thought of it and the people I was listening to–and even other listeners–as friends. It may be radio's greatest strengths. If people think of you as friend, they will naturally want to spend time with you. Thanks, Bob.
Dave, and inherent in that friendship is a sense of trust. You don't support a brand you don't trust. And if a beloved brand breaks that trust bridge, it is a feeling of betrayl. As Pittman notes, brands are organic entities that need tending and stewardship.
Absolutely, Bob. It is about emotional connections with brands, as we see vividly with Apple, Starbucks, Nike, Harley-Davidson, and so many others.
Good posting, Fred! Oh, the good old days! I can say, from the front lines, that your insights doing research for MTV were in instrumental in its development. Then, as now, a sage.
Many, many thanks, Steve. Your trust in me from the outset (and thanks, Steve Goldstein) opened some important doors. I appreciated it then as I do now.


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What happens after death catholic
What happens when a Catholic person dies?
They believe in immortality and that in death a person may be judged to go to Heaven, Hell, or Purgatory. Unlike some Protestant beliefs, Roman Catholics are not assured before death that they will go to heaven, and so mourners pray for their deceased loved one's entrance into heaven.
Where do we go after we die?
Answer 1: Heaven and hell After the death of your body, your soul lives on in a world beyond the physical world.
What does the Catholic Church say about heaven?
Roman Catholicism The Catholic Church teaches that " heaven is the ultimate end and fulfillment of the deepest human longings, the state of supreme, definitive happiness". In heaven one experiences the beatific vision. The church holds that, by his death and Resurrection, Jesus Christ has 'opened' heaven to us.
What happens after death religion?
So, beliefs about life after death for most religious people are about fairness and justice. Whether karma decides the next life or God sends a soul to a place of reward or punishment, most religions teach everyone will face consequences for how they have lived, and no one will escape justice in the afterlife .
Do we go straight to heaven when we die Catholic?
Individual judgement, sometimes called particular judgement, happens at the moment of death when each individual will be judged on how they have lived their life. The soul will then go to Heaven , Hell or Purgatory depending on whether their actions have been judged as being in accordance with God's teachings or not.
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Can Catholics get cremated?
Rome (CNN) The Vatican announced Tuesday that Catholics may be cremated but should not have their ashes scattered at sea or kept in urns at home. According to new guidelines from the Vatican's doctrinal office, cremated remains should be kept in a "sacred place" such as a church cemetery.
Does dying hurt?
Reality: Pain is not an expected part of the dying process. In fact, some people experience no pain whatsoever. If someone's particular condition does produce any pain , however, it can be managed by prescribed medications. Myth: Not drinking leads to painful dehydration.
Where does the soul go after it leaves the body?
"Good and contented souls " are instructed "to depart to the mercy of God." They leave the body , "flowing as easily as a drop from a waterskin"; are wrapped by angels in a perfumed shroud, and are taken to the "seventh heaven," where the record is kept. These souls , too, are then returned to their bodies.
What do you think happens when we die?
Both will eventually happen when someone dies , it's just a matter of what happens first. The brain remains momentarily active after a circulatory death. "But if it's a sudden cardiac arrest, the brain could go on a bit longer. It can take a minute or two minutes for brain cells to die when they have no blood flow."
What are the 3 levels of heaven?
According to this vision, all people will be resurrected and, at the Final Judgment, will be assigned to one of three degrees of glory, called the celestial, terrestrial, and telestial kingdoms.
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Who will enter heaven?
The World English Bible translates the passage as: Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will . enter into the Kingdom of Heaven ; but he who. does the will of my Father who is in heaven .
How many heavens are there Catholic?
In religious or mythological cosmology, the seven heavens refer to seven levels or divisions of the Heavens ( Heaven ).
What happens immediately after death?
After death , the cells are depleted of their energy source and the protein filaments become locked in place. This causes the muscles to become rigid and locks the joints. During these early stages, the cadaveric ecosystem consists mostly of the bacteria that live in and on the living human body.
Do you know you're dying when you die?
The dying person will feel weak and sleep a lot. When death is very near, you might notice some physical changes such as changes in breathing, loss of bladder and bowel control and unconsciousness. It can be emotionally very difficult to watch someone go through these physical changes.
How long does your brain live after you die?
Bone, tendon, and skin can survive as long as 8 to 12 hours . The brain, however, appears to accumulate ischemic injury faster than any other organ. Without special treatment after circulation is restarted, full recovery of the brain after more than 3 minutes of clinical death at normal body temperature is rare.
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SanDisk has come up with a tweak for solid-state drives that, it claims, will accelerate SSD random write speeds by a factor of 100.
Dubbed ExtremeFFS, the technology is a Flash file management system that decouples physical and logical storage, allowing data to be written to a drive randomly yet very quickly. Essentially, individual writes are cached in virtual storage - Ram, presumably - then written en masse, a sector at a time, to the optimum location in the Flash bank, chosen by the wear-leveling algorithm.
This hides the actual to-Flash write from the write operation instigated by the OS, in turn, creates the illusion of that apparent 100x increase in random write speed. Writing a sequence of data to an SSD is much faster than writing it randomly, bit by bit.
This paging approach can be adjusted to suit the host operating system, allowing SanDisk to overcome the performance problems it earlier this year laid at the door of Windows Vista.
But it all works independent of the OS, which just thinks it's talking to a regular hard drive.
ExtremeFFS also allows NAND Flash data channels to operate independently, allowing some to be read while others are writing.
SanDisk said the system also allows data to be written to specific parts of a disk, allowing content to be localised according to how frequently it's used. This, it suggested, will make for better longevity that current write-leveling techniques.
ExtremeFFs is actually a version of TrueFFS, a Flash file management system developed by M-Systems - which SanDisk now owns - more than a decade ago for mobile phones. Ironically, Microsoft built TrueFFS into Windows 95 to support PC Card Flash storage.
SanDisk said the technology will return to the PC next year, as it rolls out SSDs with ExtremeFFS on board. Since TrueFFS has been around since 2004, why wait that long? Indeed, why didn't SanDisk use this system sooner?


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Newman Athletics has reached an agreement with Rocking M Media to be the official broadcast partner of the Jets, allowing the university's brand to be broadcast across the state of Kansas for the length of the three-year contract.
As part of the deal, Newman will be the exclusive sports property on a flagship FM station originating in Wichita, which will carry all Jet basketball games at home and on the road, as well as home Heartland Conference baseball games, select other Newman sporting events and a weekly coaches show.
In addition, Newman will benefit from Rocking M's statewide network of nearly 30 stations, which will help promote the only private NCAA Division II university in Kansas to a wide audience.
"We're thrilled for the possibilities of this partnership to be realized," Newman Director of Athletics and Vice President for Student Affairs Vic Trilli said. "Being able to showcase what makes our university unique to an audience across the state is an awesome opportunity, as is broadcasting all of our basketball games, much of our baseball schedule, and more to an audience in Wichita.
Rocking M immediately stepped up to be a major contributor to Newman Athletics, agreeing to sponsorship agreements for the Jet Open golf tournament, Wichita Gladiator Dash and Newman Athletics Hall of Fame for the length of its contract with the Jets, which runs through the end of the 2019-20 school year.
"Rocking M Media is a Catholic family-owned, Kansas-based business development company, and we're thrilled to be the new home for Newman Athletics in Wichita," said Rocking M President Christopher Miller. "We'll be broadcasting all of the Jets' men's and women's basketball games this year, as well as all home conference baseball games and even some away games.
The 2017-18 Newman sports season begins in three weeks, with the women's soccer team heading to Oklahoma Baptist. That kicks off 36 weeks of action that will see the 18 Jet programs play in 100s of contests through next May.
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The New York State Education Department has approved the proposed change of the doctoral program in Medieval Studies. The new degree name on diplomas will be: PhD in Late Antique, Medieval and Early Modern Studies. Students who enrolled under the old name will graduate with the old name. Those who will enroll under the new name (those who have applied/are applying this year) will graduate with the new name. Thus applicants who will be accepted this academic year should already receive an enrollment letter with the new degree name on it.
Viktor Kazai, a doctoral student at the Department of Legal Studies, represented continuing students at the university's Opening Ceremony on September 18, 2017. His remarks are below. Read more about the Opening Ceremony here. Dear citizens of the university! Thank you very much for this honor and the opportunity to speak at the Opening Ceremony. Congratulations to the incoming students on their admission to CEU!
Associate Professor Dorit Geva of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, represented the CEU faculty at the university's Opening Ceremony 2017. Her remarks are below. Read more about the Opening Ceremony here. Thank you [Provost/Pro-Rector Liviu Matei] for your kind introduction. Thank you also to our student speakers, whose energy and excitement is inspiring to all of us.


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Stamps honor first landing's 50th anniversary
The 1969: First Moon Landing stamps show astronaut Buzz Aldrin on the moon's surface and the moon with a dot to indicate the landing site of the Eagle lunar module.
The Postal Service is marking the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing with two stamps that will be released Friday, July 19.
NASA's Apollo 11 mission was launched from the John F. Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 16, 1969. Neil Armstrong served as the flight commander, Buzz Aldrin was the pilot of the lunar module Eagle and Michael Collins was the pilot of Columbia, the command module.
The crew achieved lunar orbit three days after launch. On July 20, with Armstrong and Aldrin aboard, the Eagle separated from Columbia and began the descent to a predetermined landing site in the Sea of Tranquility.
Armstrong managed a gentle touchdown at 4:17 p.m. EDT and sent a radio message to NASA's mission control: "The Eagle has landed."
More than 600 million people were watching the television broadcast when Armstrong stepped onto the moon's surface at 10:56 p.m. EDT and famously said, "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."
During a little more than two and a half hours outside the lunar module, the astronauts took photographs, collected lunar rocks and soil, and deployed several scientific experiments. They also raised the U.S. flag.
On July 21, the Eagle lifted off the moon to dock with Columbia. The three astronauts returned to Earth on July 24, just four days after landing on the moon.
One of the two 1969: First Moon Landing stamps features the iconic photograph — taken by Armstrong — of Aldrin in his spacesuit on the surface of the moon.
The second stamp, designed by Antonio Alcalá, a USPS art director, is a photograph of the moon taken in 2010 by Gregory H. Revera showing the landing site of the lunar module.
The stamps will be available at Post Offices and usps.com.


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The Ear: Sound surveillance project
This project is about the creation of a listening surveillance device, an ear prosthesis that can collect voices, transcribe them to text, and then return it to sound.
The piece is based on a parabolic dish, that has the quality of detecting sound on a long distance. This shape has its references in the Acoustic Mirrors, created and used by the British Army after the First World War to detect airplanes, and also in a long list of listening devices projects, both artistic and scientific created with the purpose to extend the biology capacities of the human body.
This device of this project is always rotating searching for sounds, looking for sound events or natural/mechanical, human or animal, and when the system detects some sound (in this proposal, specifically the human voice) the parabolic stops and starts to collect the sound. Then, the system transcribes to text the human voice collected and stores it on a database, generating in many cases strange and incoherent text. After that, the system returns the information to sound through text to speech.
In this sense the piece could be an ironic idea of the surveillance system, in some points it is not perfect, and those mistakes create probably wrong information, therefore a lot of electronic trash, and a process degradation of the information. The object tries to show how the human voice could be transformed into a digital object and could be analyzed, recorded, transformed, and stored. The object tries to interpellate the privacy and the freedom concept, the relevance of the information collected in surveillance systems, and the ethical and political limits in this kind of device.
Technical approach: Interaction stage
Searching: The parabolic is rotating in 180º, in this stage the microphone is closed, just it is analyzing the environment. That is mean, the software filtering the background environment.
The filter is optimized to get the human voice using the Google API TEXT TO SPEECH.
Collecting: When the program detects any human voice, the motor stops in the position that the parabolic detected the sound and during the system starts to record, store and transcribe to text the voice collected.Text to speech: In real time, the system transform the text generated on speech
Conceptual ideas
In the 1970s, Michel Foucault expressed the concept of biopolitics, as a form of power and social control through rules and policies that states exercise to discipline the social body, establishing a relationship between biology, life and politics. In this way, Foucault (1978) in the book "The history of sexuality" argues that this society is built with different and complex humans, who must be controlled and regulated to improve the efficiency of life, "This power over life it is the axis of biopolitics, on the other hand, the control of the body of the population as a species through regulatory mechanisms." Therefore, according to Foucault, this concept of biopolitics has contributed to the development of capillary society and its control institutions in the search to improve the effectiveness and benefits of countries.
Different events throughout history have created the perfect context to change the meaning of control systems. It seems that while society is in a potentially dangerous situation, states create strong political policies on control and surveillance systems. this has been the case from the world wars to our times - Btihaj Ajana (2005), professor at King's College London, UK, analyzes how some historical events provide a new perspective on the function of control systems, "With the increasing Post-September uncertainties Globally, the issue of surveillance receives renewed importance through speeches surrounding the proliferation of "control" technologies and the rhetoric of (in) security that permeates contemporary politics. Electronic technologies are seen as intensifying the "capacity" and ubiquity of surveillance by creating "new" forms of social control". Ajana, therefore also establishes a relationship between the new contexts and the technologies that provide technical advances in accordance with biopolitical objectives. For example, after the first World War, between 1915 and 1935, Great Britain created a military architectural structure, based on a concave parabolic design, that detects a possible aeronautical threat at long distance. In addition to these "acoustic mirrors," English designer Tucker developed several listening systems that aimed to track, control, and protect the sovereignty of the nation.
Technology has emerged as a major factor in the way surveillance systems enter life. Concept as a privacy, private property are resignified with the new uses of technological devices. In this sense, in the current management of the COVID-19 pandemic it seems that a new paradigm shift is coming. South Korean philosopher Byung-Chul Han, poses that due how the Asian countries are controlling the pandemic, apparently successfully, the control and surveillance technology system used by those countries could be importing to the western countries, putting in conflict two extreme vision of the world. This is because Asian countries have a different concept of public space and private property. In this sense, the surveillance system used by Asian governments provides the necessary data to control the population, and does not constitute a violation of their rights. The interesting issue is this new order is about thee manage of the information, the data of the population, and the technologies could provide this power:
"However, due to data protection, a digital virus combat comparable to Asia is not possible in Europe. Chinese mobile and internet providers share sensitive customer data with security services and with ministries of health. The State therefore knows where I am, who I am with, what I do, what I look for, what I think about, what I eat, what I buy, where I go. It is possible that in the future the State will also control body temperature, weight, blood sugar level, etc. A digital biopolitics that accompanies the digital psychopolitics that actively controls people" (Byung-Chul Han, 2020).
Understanding biopolitics as a way to establish control over the power of bodies and life, and finally technological advances as biopolitical purposes: How the human-biological limits allow creating new devices to reach the impossible? How the digital-electronic bodies-devices be transformed, analyzed, and used to face us to the concepts of surveillance, privacy, freedom, and voyeurism?
In 2007, the post-humanist artist Stelarc said "The body is obsolete". Since 1970, Stelarc has been using his body to do experiments asking what the body's capabilities are at this time and whether it is possible to survive only on human features.
The condition of human machines, cyborgs and new possible humanoids, propose us to reflect on how to understand the body in technological times, how to face life with human limitations and capabilities. Beyond reflecting on whether technologies provide new perspectives and expand our biological abilities to reach complex objects, resistance is also an attitude of how we are managing our lives in relation to the technologies that are fostering us in our daily lives. In Byung-Chul Han words, who has the data is who controls sovereignty. In this sense, the new devices based on human capacities-limitations provide a new order in our life, allowing us to reflect on the individual, the collective, privacy and freedom, changing the perspective of our behavior and, therefore, about our culture and human relations.
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John Patitucci, Daedalus Quartet combine forces in latest LiveConnections concert at World Cafe Live
STORY WRITTEN BY FERN BRODKIN
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LiveConnections is all about breaking down musical boundaries and creating multi-genre collaborations. This nonprofit organization sponsors the educational Bridge Sessions for school students and also curates a concert series that features cross-genre collaborations, typically between classical musicians and artists in another genre. The intent is to inspire the artists to go outside their comfort zone as well as to reach new audiences.
The next concert in LiveConnections' 6th concert season will feature internationally renowned bassist John Patitucci and the Daedalus Quartet. Patitucci is known for performing both jazz and classical music. But what will make this concert most interesting is adding improvisation — an important part of the jazz idiom — into chamber music.
What: LiveConnections Presents John Patitucci and Daedalus Quartet
When: Tuesday, April 18 at 7:30 p.m.; doors open at 6:30.
Where: World Cafe Live, 3025 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA
Tickets: $20; $14 for students with ID at www.worldcafelive.com or by calling 215-222-1400
Info. about LiveConnections: www.liveconnections.org
Artists' websites: www.johnpatitucci.com and www.daedalusquartet.com
I spoke to Tom Kraines, cellist for Daedalus Quartet, from his home in Philadelphia. He has been performing with the quartet for about 5 years. He had been approached by Mary Javian, LiveConnections Presents Curator, about doing something for the series. Kraines had previously worked with Patitucci and the two wanted to collaborate on something. LiveConnections became the perfect vehicle.
Kraines said he first met Patitucci 8 or 9 years ago, through a mutual musician friend, and they performed some chamber music concerts together. They enjoyed the experience and wanted to work together again, yet with scheduling issues this is the first opportunity they will have.
"As a quartet, we're always looking to expand our boundaries so we play a lot of new music," said Kraines. "This is in some way an extension of that. It's more jazz-inflected than a lot of the stuff we do… but it's not too far outside of our comfort zone. As a group we all feel it's important to keep exploring, and this is one of the directions we were interested in."
Patitucci is well-known for performing and composing both jazz and classical music. In a phone interview from his home in New York, he discussed his musical history as well as his desire to collaborate with Daedalus Quartet.
"I have a hybrid past," explained Patitucci, who said he grew up listening to R&B, soul and rock & roll music… "I was a classical double bass major in college. I was a studio musician as well. My teachers were pushing me into a career as an orchestral bass player and I ran from that at age 19 and started going on the road playing other kinds of music. I wasn't ready to give up all these other kinds of music that I loved."
He added: "In those days there was really quite a divide and I think they really made you choose between the musics maybe more than they do now."
About 25 years ago Patitucci returned to the world of classical music, both as a performer and a composer. His interest in working with Daedalus Quartet was sparked by his friendship and musical connection to Kraines as well as his desire to write a piece to perform with the quartet.
Daedalus Quartet
Photo by Lisa-Marie Mazzucco
"For me, this was an opportunity to write a piece for the bass as a soloist," said Patitucci. "After 25 years of writing some things… I feel like I'm in a different place and I'm learning how to balance between writing something that's enough of a composition so the string quartet gets to participate in the music in a meaningful way and not just be a backdrop to the bass… and at the same time, have enough of a window in the music.
"I got this term from Miles Davis, because I worked with Wayne Shorter for many years and Miles Davis used to say (this) to Wayne about writing crossover music, because Wayne writes a lot of music. I play with (Wayne) and we do a lot of stuff with big orchestras as well, and Miles would say to Wayne 'Make sure you put a window in the music.' That window in the music is a very important thing for an improviser, and I'm an improviser. So, it's important for there to be a space in the music, even though it's chamber music, because there's a jazz connection. I need a space for me to improvise within the structure."
The program will also include Mozart's "Divertimento" for string quartet and bass. Kraines said he thought of the piece because of its inventiveness and energy. It was written early in Mozart's career and he thought it would be a great fit for Patitucci.
John Patitucci
Photo by Gus Cantavero
"I think it's going to be very exciting," said Kraines. "We're not going to jazz up Mozart; it will be a pretty traditional performance. But I think there will be something really cool about what he's going to bring to it."
In addition they'll be performing another piece that Patitucci wrote for a different string quartet as a tribute to his mother. The Daedalus Quartet will perform other selections from their repertoire as well.
Although Kraines said he would certainly welcome more opportunities to perform with Patitucci, especially after working so hard to prepare for this premiere, this could very well be your one and only opportunity to hear this music.
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Q: ios CGPointMake error - Fatal Exception NSRangeException I got this error from Crashlytics.

Fatal Exception NSRangeException
  * -[__NSArrayM objectAtIndex:]: index 0 beyond bounds for empty array

I looked into my code, it happens at this point as below:
CGPoint targetOffset = CGPointMake(currentEpisodeCellNumber * 90, 0);

I think if CGPointMake(0,0), I got a crash. But I am not sure this is main problem.
I cannot figure out how to fix this problem.
I added my codes
if (self.episodeNumber > 1) {
    sceneNumber = [[[episodesArray objectAtIndex:1] objectForKey:@"scene"] intValue];
}
else {
    sceneNumber = [[[episodesArray objectAtIndex:0] objectForKey:@"scene"] intValue];
}

currentEpisodeCellNumber = self.episodeNumber - sceneNumber;

CGPoint targetOffset = CGPointMake(currentEpisodeCellNumber * 90, 0);

I got error at this point, sceneNumber = [[[episodesArray objectAtIndex:0] objectForKey:@"scene"] intValue];

A: It looks to me like the crash you are getting from Crashlytics is not your CGPointMake function call.
The crash message is telling you that your are trying to fetch object 0 in an empty array. That's pretty clear. Your CGPointMake call does not reference any arrays. You need to look again as to the source line that's causing your crash.


After the web interface, the ownCloud desktop client is probably the most important tool for using ownCloud. Unobtrusively running the background, many users rely on it to sync their files. There is a big new release coming: the ownCloud Desktop Client 2.0, introducing multi-account support and more. To help get this release stable and release-quality as possible, we ask you to help test it!
We have released the first beta of the desktop client. The big highlight with this release is the support for multiple accounts as well as the ability to define a size for folders that need confirmation before the client will sync them ("confirm feature"). In addition, 2.0 also supports long paths on Windows.
We encourage everyone to test, especially because the multi account feature, while providing great value, required some pretty significant changes.
You can grab the client on the ownCloud testing download page.
New in ownCloud test land is the Testpilot client, designed specifically to test ownCloud without using your primary account. This way you can have a test ownCloud server running, ideally a copy of your production system – and run the test client against that. Grab packages for: Windows, OS X and Linux.
The more testing the client can get over the coming weeks, the faster the release can come and the more stable it is – so jump in!
Is it planned to make it available on the Debian packages? Currently it is only available for Ubuntu.
Thanks for your work. Support for multiple accounts is an awesome feature.
For Debian users like me, you can use Ubuntu repository. It works fine.
A good step forward from 1.x with the main bonus for myself (and probably many others) being the multi-account feature.
There does seem to be an issue with what's sync'd. When asked which dirs I want to sync, I select the ones I want, but the client also downloads all files in the root dir too, with no option to enable / disable this behaviour. This can result in a lot of files being downloaded that are not required to be sync'd with the client.
I should note that this is with the windows client.
It should not be any different to the behaviour of 1.8.4 client.
It is faster, especially if you use it with ownCloud 8.1.1 – it uses multiple connections better than ever before.
Good work so far, very pleased with the new enhancements in v2.0!
seems to return exit code 1223 while performing a silent installation (ownCloud-2.0.0.5423-setup.exe /S) on windows 7 and 8.1 systems.
Installation itself succeeds without any problems despite the exit code.
1223: "The operation was canceled by the user".
I've just installed owncloud client 2.0.1. However, I can't see any of the mentioned features. No option to add another account, or set these limits. The UI looks different, but functionally it's still the same.


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Bingil Bay is a coastal town, locality and bay in the Cassowary Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. In the  the locality of Bingil Bay had a population of 427 people.

Geography

The locality of Bingil Bay is bounded to the east by the bay of the same name with Ninney Point () on the north-east coast. A long sandy beach extends south from Ninney Point along the coastline. The town is in the south-eastern corner of the locality.

The land use is a mixture of residential, growing tropical fruit), and grazing on native vegetation.

History

The name Bingil is believed to be an Aboriginal word meaning a good camping ground given to the area by Frederick Cutten, a pioneer settler in the area.

In 1884, the Cutten brothers (Frederick, Leonard, Sydney and James) established the first commercial tea plantation in Australia on their Bicton estate at Bingil Bay, also growing coffee, mangoes, bananas, pineapples and other tropical fruit. At that time, Bingil Bay was only accessible by boat. Most of the Bicton estate was destroyed by a cyclone in 1918 and although the homestead was rebuilt the remainder of the estate was never restored. The descendants of the original tea plants were rediscovered in the rain-forest by Dr Alan Maruff in 1958 and seedlings from these plants formed the basis for the Nerada Tea plantations.

In 1921, an overland connection was created from El Arish (a distance of  away) but it was only usable by a dray and the journey took most of the day.

The area was formerly known as Clump Point (the name of a nearby headland) until 1929 when a post office called Bingal Bay was established.

On 9 July 1936, the road from El Arish to Bingil Bay was finally completed, reducing the travel time to 30 minutes. It was officially opened by Percy Pease, the Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Herbert.

The Bingil Bay Lifesaving Club opened in 1936.

Around 1966, then Prime Minister of Australia, Harold Holt and his wife Zara Holt, owned a holiday cottage they called "The Shack" at Bingil Bay. It sat high on the hill with views as far as Dunk Island. The couple were keen spearfishers. The cottage did not have a telephone.

In the 2011 census, Bingil Bay had a population of 369 people.

In the  the locality of Bingil Bay had a population of 427 people.

Heritage listings

Bingil Bay has the following heritage sites:
 405 Alexander Drive and Esplanade (): Ninney Rise
 Holt Court (): Cutten Brothers' Graves

Education
There are no schools in Bingil Bay. The nearest government primary schools are Mission Beach State School in Wongaling Beach to the south and El Arish State School in El Arish to the west. The nearest government secondary school is Tully State High School in Tully to the south-west.

Amenities

Bingil Bay Cafe has meals and basic groceries. It is at 39 Bingil Bay Road ().

References

Further reading

  — available online

External links

Towns in Queensland
Cassowary Coast Region
Coastline of Queensland
Localities in Queensland
Cassowary Coast Local Heritage Places

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In the book "Damned Lies and Statistics: Untangling Numbers from the Media, Politicians, and Activists," sociologist Joel Best makes the case that good statistics require good data; clear, reasonable definitions; clear, reasonable measures; and appropriate samples." Unfortunately, what we often find are "mutant statistics," comparisons of "apples and oranges," and "stat wars" as stakeholders try to sway public and political investment toward their viewpoint. AnneMarie Ciccarella of the blog Chemo-Brain explains how breast cancer survival statistics are used to promote a form of awareness that has little to do with ending breast cancer and everything to do with branding the diagnosed.
Do the statistics represent good data?
Is the information inclusive of all available data, including any footnotes, asterisks or parenthetical remarks?
What is the motivation behind the party quoting the statistic?
Using these criteria, it is easy to see that statistics are not created equal. Small surveys are conducted but do not represent the population they claim to represent. Absolute numbers are skewed. Words like median and mean are used casually to make some grand point. Percentages are averaged over time or include combinations of disparate information. Statistics are generally quoted with an eye toward punctuating an agenda. When this is done in the world of breast cancer, people will often repeat statistical sound bites to make it look like we are making great progress. Are we?
For example, I hear 5-year survival statistics a lot in the cancer world, especially that famous statistic that 98% of people treated for "very early" breast cancer are alive at 5 years. Sounds wonderful, but it is misleading and inaccurate. What about the estimated 20% to 30% of women who have a recurrence of breast cancer and still go on to die from the disease? What about those who are "alive" but not cancer free, or those who are "alive" but suffering from serious side effects, or those who are "alive" but in treatment for the rest of their lives, or those who are "alive" but not "cured"? There is such hype and tremendous overuse of the word "survival" and the survival statistics fuel it.
The word "survival" seems to indicate success in the so-called war against breast cancer. It's an attempt to show progress and usually to promote mammography screening as early detection. But too many people then attempt to turn that progress into a bridge between survival and cure. This is a false premise. I may be alive right now, but I am not cured. There is no cure for breast cancer. You don't just "stop having cancer" when you are finished with active treatment, if you're even lucky enough to finish active treatment.
I resent the presumption in "breast cancer awareness" campaigns that because I am alive (i.e., a survivor) that I have beat my disease, that I no longer "have cancer." I have completed a number of surgeries, eight rounds of chemotherapy, and have been on estrogen suppressing medication for four years. It's likely that I will remain on these drugs for six more years. I will be monitored closely for many years after that. None of this guarantees that I will remain cancer free. Right now I statistically have an excellent prognosis to remain cancer-free. Yet I am acutely aware that I may not remain that way.
That's the thing with statistics. You never know which group you'll end up in, the 90% who had "X" or the 10% who had "Y." I had a rare form of breast cancer so I already know what it's like to pull the short straw. I was told that, "less than 10% of the time these things are problems." Then my biopsy results revealed that, lucky me, I was in that "less than 10%" group. On any given day, any one of us who has been labeled a "survivor" can have that label stripped away. Treatment advances are slight, and for those of us who have undergone these treatments, they are ultimately insignificant. We are still being slashed, burned, and poisoned. This comes at a tremendous cost to us physically, emotionally, intellectually, professionally. Too many people are still living with distant organs diseased with breast cancer. Far too many will die. The "no evidence of disease" status does not translate in any language under any circumstances to CURE.
Breast cancer awareness campaigns continue to ignore or downplay this fact by focusing on those optimistic "survival statistics" and the quest for better detection and kinder, gentler poison. This is not the answer. Why is this the focus? From my perspective it's because of stagnancy. We are stagnant because we are SO "aware." Dr. Love and Dr. Len are correct when they say that the breast cancer movement is a victim of its own success. Awareness has become our worst enemy. If October continues to be about the breasts, the ribbons, the brand, and the absurdity of items packaged in pink, nothing will change. Being aware does not mean we are educated, and being a survivor does not mean we are cured.
Let's learn, let's cure, and most of all, let's find the cause so we can prevent this horrendous disease from affecting one more generation of women. I am not a Brand. I am a woman who has breast cancer.
AnneMarie Ciccarella is a five-year breast cancer survivor with a significant family cluster of disease. She is suffering from long term / late term difficulties that are a direct result of her cancer treatment. This forced AnneMarie to step down from a high functioning accounting position. She began to reach out to other women in similar situations. Presently, AnneMarie writes the blog Chemo-Brain and is utilizing social media to raise awareness about the lack of progress in the treatment of breast cancer despite the billions of dollars spent each year in the name of a cure. AnneMarie resides in a suburb of New York City.
I just saw that one slogan used by the Keep A Breast Foundation (the "I Love Boobies" rubber bracelet folks) is "Prevention IS The Cure." Sweet heaven help us. They think they have figured out how to PREVENT breast cancer. No doubt they equate "early detection," or perhaps eating well, exercising, etc., with prevention. It's horrifying how organizations are allowed to spread this malarkey, dressed up as "awareness" and feminist "teaching young women to love and accept their bodies" so that nobody dare question it, lest one look like a big meanie. Oh, and their latest promotion for October? Getting bodacious actresses to make videos of their bare breast being molded in plaster and put them on YouTube.
Excellent essay. Thanks for pointing out the many pitfalls the breast Cancer Industry uses to promote the effectiveness of their platform. I wish you a healthy body, a sound mind, and a joyous life.
Thank you, thank you AnneMarie, for expressing my thoughts exactly. Your focus on questionable statistics, "cures" and prevention are spot on. We need a serious reality check on the methods used to deceive the public into thinking more progress has been made, than actually has been. Anyone who has or is going through treatment, must be made aware that you are required to "choose your poison" I am one of those big "meanies" who have questioned the "I love boobies" and "save the ta-tas" campaigns. How about a "Save the nuts" campaign for testicular cancer? Wouldn't that go over big with the male population?
AnneMarie, you know how I feel about this … I am behind you 100%. Fantastic post!! You rock. Thank you for writing it. And thanks to Gayle too — for giving AnneMarie another platform in which to share her bold and brilliant points.
Terrific post!! I think that too often when people use the word "survivor," it seems to signify that the cancer is behind us. Breast cancer is never behind us — physically, psychologically, spiritually. Chemotherapy leached a lot of bone and launched me into premature menopause, causing me to lose even more bone density. And we know that breast cancer can return — or never really go away in the first place.
I'm not a fan of statistics either. Before being diagnosed with cancer, doctors told me the odds were in my favor, 1 out of 12. Well, I was that one. I was told during my chemo treatments that only 1 percent of women with my treatment had premature menopause as a result. Guess what, short end of the straw again!
Great job putting into words how so many of us feel about these two words being thrown around so loosely. They most certainly are not interchangeable. Sadly, there is no cure for breast cancer. That's why it's not possible for us to simply move on or get on with it when treatment ends. I'm not a statistics person either, but I do know that 98% survival rate after five years is completely misleading. Thanks for writing such an important post. Well done.
Thank you so much for expressing my feelings. Two years ago my then 10 yr old daughter was diagnosed with stage 3 ovarian cancer. She had a complete hysterectomy and chemo. Her doctor tells us the cancer is gone, but like most people, she suffers greatly from the effects of surgery, chemo and the cancer. (I try real hard to ignore ovarian cancer stats…) I get so ANGRY at people who tell me not to dwell on it; to be grateful she's alive. They seem to have no empathy for the physical and emothional pain that lingers. And they sure don't want to hear about the realities of the cancer industry. Thank you for reminding me we are not alone. Group hug everybody!
Bingo! Love it, Anne Marie.
Statistics are great, but first we have to really understand what Is being measured. There has been a lot of misleading this year.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts with me. It seems we all have similar feelings about every aspect of this disease. The fear, the emotional toll, the physical issues caused by treatment that hasn't changed much in 24 yrs. Shortly after I wrote this I began looking through my moms medical records only to see that my treatment in 2006 was a mirror of hers in 1987. All the money raised under the pink ribbon and this is progress? If we all stick together, we can change the conversation and make a real difference. Noteworthy? I had the misfortune of timing with my initial and all follow ups in October. This year, I didn't see a pink ribbon ANYwhere at Sloan Kettering. Not even on the dedicated breast cancer floors or buildings. That's a start.
And again, Gayle…..thank you for shaing my thoughts with your readers.
I am SO glad you commented on this post now. First of all, I was honored that Gayle invited by to share my thoughts on her blog. To read the comments from everyone meant so much to me. Today, it means that much more as I see both Rachel and Susan commented on this same post. I feel somewhat comforted to see this all in one place…..


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Grieving Illinois father to attend White House meeting Friday
Tessa Tranchant, 16 and Ali Kunhardt, 17, killed by drunk illegal in 2007
In the midst of one of the nation's most heated, emotional discussions over children being separated from their parents when being caught illegally attempting to enter the United States, the White House is calling a roundtable discussion Friday that will include Ray Tranchant of downstate Catlin, Illinois.
Tranchant's 16-year-old daughter Tessa and her 17-year-old friend Ali were instantly killed eleven years ago while sitting at a Virginia Beach stop light. The drunk driver that hit the girls was in the US illegally and is now serving 40 years in prison for manslaughter.
The grieving father told Illinois Review that the White House discussion he will be attending is expected to include officials from Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. He expects the current controversy over separating children from parents entering the country illegally to be central.
Tranchant had an opinion about the situation.
"Those kids will be joined again with their parents if that is who brought them," Tranchant said. "They are communicating with them as well. I will never get that opportunity with my daughter who was killed by an illegal alien, nor will her friend Ali Kunhardt's parents. That is the ultimate in breaking up families, brought on by people who should not be here illegally!"
Tranchant has been encouraged by President Trump's strong stance to protect the southern border.
"The adults that bring their children in harm's way by desert, coyote, in harsh conditions without food, supplies and water endanger the children's lives. That is assuming that the children are family members which has not been verified until they are separated and processed," he said. "America does not want to keep their kids, they want them safe. They also want to verify that they are not a part of child trafficking.
"If Americans did the same as the illegal aliens do to their kids, they would most likely get a prompt visit from Human Services, which are there to protect the children. This situation is the same. It may also discourage the migrant from beginning the process all together," Tranchant said.
Tranchant has not been so encouraged by Illinois Democrats and Republican Governor Bruce Rauner's actions in protecting illegals in Illinois from law enforcement queries. He voiced concern about the effort last year.
He appealed to the governor not to sign HB 31 last year, and was one of the families that was hoping the governor would call before making his final decision to sign the "sanctuary state" proposal into law. Governor Rauner did not reach out to any of the grieving families before signing the bill at a celebratory rally with immigrant groups.
Tranchant and his wife met with President Trump last year at the White House. Tranchant, who hopes to meet once again with other families from Illinois who have lost loved ones to illegal aliens, says he has prepared comments for Friday's meeting. The thoughts he hopes to share with the president conclude with, "I'm hoping what happened never happens again and that we learn from our mistakes."
President Trump, Mr. & Mrs. Ray Tranchant last year in D.C.
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