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Susan G. Komen Florida Names 2021 Warriors In Pink
Susan G. Komen Florida has announced their 2021 Warriors in Pink. The ten survivors chosen for their passion for defeating breast cancer will serve as ambassadors for Komen and the Susan G. Komen South Florida Virtual 2021 Race for the Cure on January 30, 2021. The thirtieth anniversary of the event will be an engaging online and personal experience in homes and neighborhoods across South Florida to protect the health and safety of participants in the COVID-19 era.
The 2021 Warriors in Pink demonstrate the disease can strike anyone, regardless of family history, age, ethnicity, race or gender. They will carry their message of breast cancer awareness to their own communities and take action collectively to create a groundswell of support in South Florida for Komen's 360-degree approach to the fight against breast cancer by taking action, focusing on research, connecting people to care, and impacting communities in need.
The 2021 Komen Florida Warriors in Pink are:
Joanne Ambrosino, 51 from Lake Worth Beach, FL is a three-year breast cancer survivor. She makes herself available to others with breast cancer to offer information and be a source of comfort when they need to express their fears. She believes sharing her experience helps others to know they are not alone. She also advises calling Komen. It was the first thing she did when she received her diagnosis to ask every question she could think of, believing information is power.
Cassandra "Casey" Bartlett, 38, from Delray Beach, FL, is a four-year breast cancer survivor. She shares with other patients the power of positivity and the importance of a strong support system. To serve as a support system for others, she and her "breasties" have started a WhatsApp group chat and Facebook dinner group with breast cancer survivors. She is proud to have emerged from her fight as a Warrior and an inspiration to others.
Janie Copes, 71, from Hobe Sound, FL is an eight-year breast cancer survivor. An active tennis player, model, and past president of the Woman's Club of Stuart, she hopes to be a guide for women in their breast cancer journeys and inspire others to work towards a cure.
Lisa Fitter, 55, from Wellington, FL was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2013 and again in 2019. Komen helped Lisa with her bills when she didn't have health insurance and vowed she would do everything she could to help with their mission. Over the years she has lived by that promise. Standing with other women (and men) to tell her story and help raise awareness and funds for breast cancer as a Warrior is the greatest honor for Lisa.
Christopher Gallo, 49, from Rockledge, FL, is a male six-year breast cancer survivor. As a police officer, he found the physical, mental, and emotional compromises during his recovery challenging, but it motivated him to discover the joy of running, crediting breast cancer to helping him discover his personal physical best. Now he competes in triathlons, half marathons and takes part in 300-mile bike rides and shares his story through inspirational running posts and podcasts, helping others going through breast cancer and increasing awareness that men can also get breast cancer.
Carole Hart, 65, from Boca Raton, FL, is a five-year survivor of stage two HER2 positive breast cancer. Her fight made her realize she has more strength than she ever thought possible. She has an extensive family that rallied around her more than she ever could have hoped for through what she calls "the Power of the Pink." She hopes to give back by helping someone else who receives a diagnosis.
Michelle Maynor Hendricks, 57, from Palm Beach Gardens, FL, is a six-year survivor of triple positive breast cancer. Her treatment regime included a relatively new medication for HER2 positive patients that greatly reduced risk of return, making her see that significant strides are occurring to prolong life thanks to Susan G. Komen and the Race for the Cure's fundraising efforts. She has grown from keeping her diagnosis private to shouting about the victories by participating in breast cancer support teams, mentorships and educational programs.
Alicia Palelis, 42, from Pembroke Pines, FL, is a seven-year breast cancer survivor. After a diagnosis at 34-years-old and having a "miracle baby" three years later, she wants to bring hope to other women that there can be life after cancer. Having helped to create breast cancer support groups at two South Florida hospitals, she is paying forward her Warrior experience by helping other women through their journeys.
Jessica Patykula, 39, from Jupiter, FL, hopes her story inspires young mothers, and young women in general. She wants women to know that cancer doesn't discriminate based on your age, ethnicity or gender. She was a young, healthy, and active 37-year-old when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. It can happen to anyone.
Lisette Usborne, 55, from Lake Worth, FL, is a metastatic forever fighter and thriver six years after her breast cancer diagnosis. Until recently, she raced with the Lighthouse Dragons dragonboat team, and had served as captain. She was an inspiration to her team as she encouraged her fellow breast cancer survivors and their supporters with songs and chants and overall positivity, so that others could see that she could still participate, even with Stage IV metastatic cancer. She hopes that her story may help calm and inspire women who are afraid of their cancer metastasizing.
The 2021 Warriors in Pink will share their experiences with the community throughout the year and have a special role during the Susan G. Komen South Florida Virtual 2021 Race for the Cure on January 30, 2021.
"The personal triumphs these women and men have realized on their breast cancer journeys is nothing short of amazing," said Sean Gross, Susan G. Komen Florida Executive Director. "As Warriors, they are doing in their own communities what Komen strives to do all across world—take action, connect with others, and impact lives."
To learn more about the Race for the Cure and Warriors in Pink, visit komen.org/race.
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Susan G. Komen® is the world's leading nonprofit breast cancer organization, working to save lives and end breast cancer forever. Komen has an unmatched, comprehensive 360-degree approach to fighting this disease across all fronts and supporting millions of people in the U.S. and in countries worldwide. We advocate for patients, drive research breakthroughs, improve access to high-quality care, offer direct patient support and empower people with trustworthy information. Born out of a promise between two sisters, Susan G. Komen remains committed to supporting those affected by breast cancer today, while tirelessly searching for tomorrow's cures.
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3 Insights on Community Engagement
June 6, 2018 | Lexipol Team
Your department likely has a community engagement initiative—maybe it involves social media outreach, activities like Coffee with a Cop and National Night Out, or an advisory committee that meets regularly. Whatever the form, common factors unite successful community engagement programs. Following are insights from three community/police engagement approaches outlined in a recent webinar hosted by Lexipol's Gordon Graham.
Own the Problem
Officer Ryan Tillman and Lt. Rodney Lombard of the Chino (Calif.) Police Department started the Breaking Barriers United (BBU) program following the events in Ferguson, Mo., in 2014. The program focuses on interaction with adults and youth in a way that allows community members to air grievances and helps them experience what it's like to be in a police officer's shoes.
Officer Tillman, who overcame negative adolescent interactions with law enforcement to become a police officer, understood from the beginning of the program that transparency was key. For that reason, BBU presentations incorporate an approach that may be uncomfortable for some officers: an apology. "We tell our audience members that we're sorry about some of the things they've seen in law enforcement," Officer Tillman says. "And the reason we do that is we don't realize how much hurt is actually occurring to some people … Many of our audience members have had tragic experiences" that have involved law enforcement officers.
BBU's success is deeply rooted in this bold transparency. "Dialogue has to be transparent, because we don't want it to be another dog-and-pony show," Lt. Lombard says. "The only way to break the barrier down is to a) recognize that there have been some wrongs done on behalf of law enforcement and b) to be bold enough to confront some of those wrongs, to give the community members a voice." That includes allowing community members to share negative experiences they've had with law enforcement. "Once we do that, it has the tendency for those community members to begin to let their guard down, to be more willing to engage and to start that dialogue," Lt. Lombard says.
In addition to the public apology, the Breaking Barriers program uses real-world scenarios, with audience members playing the role of the police officer, to initiate a discussion about police use of force. "We do that so we can humanize the badge," Lt. Lombard says. "We want them to see that police officers, despite the fact that we wear the badge and carry a gun, there's a human side to us, we experience human emotion just like anyone else."
Through pre- and post-program surveys, Lt. Lombard and Officer Tillman can tell they're making a difference. After the program, about 85 percent of the students express interest in being mentored by a law enforcement officer, and the number of students expressing interest in a law enforcement career rises significantly in the post-program surveys. "Not only are we educating the community about what it is we do in our profession, what we're realizing is this has actually turned out to be a great recruitment tool," Officer Tillman says. "On one hand we're changing the perception of law enforcement, and on the other hand we're getting more kids interested in an Explorer program or a cadet program."
Use Data and Resources to Micro-Target Problem Areas
Menlo Park, Calif., is best known as the home to Facebook, but it also features one of the most culturally and economically diverse populations in Silicon Valley. And when Chief Robert Jonsen joined the department in 2013, Menlo Park's Belle Haven neighborhood was plagued with gang violence and associated crime. "Belle Haven was seeing about 10 to 12 gang-related shootings a year, something that had been going on for several years," Chief Jonsen says. "It was one of the first things I knew I had to address. The trust between that community and law enforcement was somewhat strained, because they didn't feel we were addressing their needs."
After forming a community advisory group that included at least one representative from each of the city's 20 neighborhoods, the department conducted a comprehensive analysis of crime data to determine where to focus resources. "The results were shocking," Chief Jonsen says. "The vast majority of those shootings were connected in one capacity or another to three distinct properties. Residents were either victims of the crime, or connected to the crime, or in some cases suspects in the crime."
Following this discovery, the department zeroed in on these three properties, making a concerted effort to work with the landlords, who had very little contact with their tenants and were oblivious to the crime problem. "We assigned personnel specifically to those properties, to work with the landlords, work with the residents," Chief Jonsen says.
Additional resources dedicated to the Belle Haven neighborhood included a new police substation and surveillance cameras on the main corridor. The department also started using license plate readers. "It's nearly impossible to say what exactly contributed to the reduction of crime because we had so many things implemented at once," Chief Jonsen says. "By reducing the fear in the neighborhood … the lines of communication opened." And the impact was undeniable: Menlo Park has not experienced a gang-related shooting since November 2013, and there has been a 47 percent decrease in crime in the Belle Haven neighborhood.
Ditch the "Handle the Pending Calls" Mentality
The Columbia (Mo.) Police Department had a similar "hot spot" in its community—a 6-acre park that saw a lot of calls for service, mainly for assaults and drug activity. Following a comprehensive analysis that included factors such as crime rates, poverty level, school failure rates and free lunch program participation, the department dedicated two officers to the neighborhood and began engaging the community in earnest.
For Sgt. Michael Hestir, the biggest lesson from these efforts was the need to dedicate the appropriate time to each call and interaction so that true relationships could develop. As a patrol officer, Sgt. Hestir notes, he believed community policing meant stopping to talk with kids or other community members on the street. "But people in poverty need more than just drive-by compassion," he says. "They need a partner, they need a relationship."
Two factors proved key in building those relationships. The first was to "meet people where they're at, instead of asking them to come to you," Sgt. Hestir says. So the department hosted barbeques and meetings at people's houses, and went into the schools regularly. "There's a lot of hurt and misunderstanding, so we tried to be better listeners. We got out on foot, started meeting people on their blocks, and started to attend to the things they brought us," Sgt. Hestir says. "When we arrest the people they have identified, that goes a long way toward building trust."
The second factor was deepening the focus on each community interaction, with the intent of solving problems rather than just clearing calls. "We got so busy in law enforcement, we thought we had to get to the next call, and meanwhile citizens are experiencing a crisis that's important to them," Sgt. Hestir says. "It looks pretty uncaring if you focus on the least time you can invest because you have to go to another call." He admits the time investment is a political risk. "No administrator wants to say it took us 30 minutes to get to these calls. But if you spend extra time on calls that deserve it, those other calls will go down," he says. "And more importantly, when you have the big call, you have people right there willing to help, and to talk."
In Columbia, the results speak for themselves: a 38 percent reduction in "shots fired" calls, and double-digit declines in rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny-theft and vehicle theft.
Law enforcement engagement with the community is nothing new—in fact, it was woven into Sir Robert Peel's 9 Principles of Policing developed in the early 1800s. Departments that recognize community engagement is built into the very foundation of our policing culture keep striving to find new ways to build trust and improve relationships between community members and law enforcement officers. Admitting there's a problem, identifying the exact geographic location where the problem exists and flooding it with resources, and taking the time to listen—rather than just clear the call—are three good places to start.
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You can always tell when you're a clothes lover. The temperature drops and we grab our teddy jacket like it's a friend we missed catching up with. Personally I've been into the bomber styles a lot. They're the in between buffer of not cold enough for a full length cloaking and practical enough for drivers (no need to constantly remove). Also they are part retro if you style them that way. Just thinking of old seventies TV series and the men in their leather bombers, slim hips and straight but flared trousers in every shade of brown and beige. It's an eternal silhouhette that fashion keeps referencing and the teddy jacket is the easiest one to try.
Darker jackets go with everything like this Monki teddy jacket or an investment black teddy jacket from Staud looks so damn luxe. If they're boxy enough, I'd try layering a denim jacket under.
I love a lighter teddy jacket because the details stand out. Bonus points if there's a contrast colour theme going on. Mine is from &OtherStories last year and is a reminder that perseverance wins; it was sold out for days but I kept refreshing the page (sad I know) and one day a random sized popped up. You have never seen someone check out so fast before!
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In this example, a menu is added, a footer is added without any extra code being added to Menu.jsp.
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In your web folder, usually called WebContent, create a folder called data. Inside of data create or download (menu.jsp hours.jsp) these 2 simple html pages.
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By Jane Adler
Social media is more than a way for students to connect with their friends on campus. Colleges and universities are taking a cue from their young customers and using social media to recruit applicants and engage with those already enrolled.
Karina Gandhi, a sophomore at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), regularly checks the business school's app on her phone for upcoming events. She recently found a career fair through the app, which listed all the employers that would be attending the event.
Gandhi was able to connect with an executive from Morningstar at the fair and learned about a human resource internship at the company. She even got the executive's email address, which could help her snag an interview.
"UIC Business is really progressing with the times," Ghandi says, referring to the school's use of social media. "That's cool."
Aiming to meet students where they are, colleges and universities are greatly expanding their use of social media. Popular platforms are the ones students like most: Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube and Twitter. Schools also use Facebook and LinkedIn, despite their stodgier image, because they're popular with parents.
Phone apps also drive engagement. The business career center at UIC has its own app. Students can apply for jobs through the app, make appointments with counselors, and find out when recruiters will be on campus. "The landscape of social media is always evolving," says Alanna O'Connor, assistant dean for student recruitment at UIC Business. "Ensuring a presence on social media is essential to universities in this competitive digital age."
Social media also plays a key role in recruitment and admissions.
About two-thirds of a student's decision on where to enroll is influenced by social media, according to research cited by Grand Valley State University, a public four-year institution in Allendale, Mich. "We are mindful of that," says Leah Twilley, communications specialist, who leads the school's social media program. "We are the front door to Grand Valley."
Grand Valley posts videos on social media, always with the young audience in mind. "We have fun with it," Twilley says. One video followed the university's president as he went through all the preparations for the graduation ceremony, poking a little fun at the formal process.
Other videos spotlight the school's mascot, Louie the Laker, a giant fisherman. In one video, he's shown sprucing up campus, washing windows and cleaning the pond, getting the place ready for new students. It's not only fun, Twilley says, it's a way to showcase different parts of the campus.
Creative Approaches
Northern Illinois University (NIU), DeKalb, produced a series of videos posted on YouTube to highlight the opportunity for undergraduates to conduct research. Students developed an elevator pitch—given in an actual elevator—about their research projects. The videos of the pitches were posted on the home page of the school's website and shared via other social media channels. "We got good engagement," says Taylor Hayden, assistant director of digital content at NIU.
A powerful strategy colleges are using lately is to recruit a current student to produce a day-in-the-life video to be shared on social media. NIU launched a student-run Instagram account, Huskies of NIU, named after the school's mascot.
Each week, a different student takes over the account. The student tells about his or her background and interests, and then takes viewers on a video tour of their classes and activities for a week.
"Ensuring a presence on social media is essential to universities in this competitive digital age." -Alanna O'Connor, assistant dean for student recruitment at University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) Business
"We focus on creating content that is authentic," Hayden says. She explains that today's students are savvy about slick marketing pieces, and prefer approaches that are more real.
Authenticity is part of NIU's brand, Hayden says, adding, "Our students provide the best testimonials about what it's like to go to NIU."
Carthage College lets students take over the school's Instagram account (#Carthageviews). They manage it for a week, posting selfies and pictures of their activities. They also upload lots of photos of the beautiful campus that sits on shores of Lake Michigan in Kenosha, Wisc.
"Instagram is popular because it tells a story," says Ashley Hanson, associate vice president of admissions at Carthage College, a liberal arts school that offers 50 majors and programs.
Positive Outreach
Social media helps make faraway schools feel less distant. Saint James School of Medicine has campuses on the Caribbean islands of Anguilla and Saint Vincent. The school offers five semesters of medical science classes on the islands. Coursework is followed by clinical training at hospitals throughout the United States and Canada.
Because of the school's location, students who enroll may not have the chance to visit the island before classes start. "Social media is crucial to us," says Raj Mitra, vice president of enrollment and marketing at the managing office of Saint James, in northwest suburban Park Ridge. "Social media is a tool that brings the Caribbean and the experience of Saint James closer to the prospective students."
Mitra likes the fact that social media platforms provide feedback in real time. "Students can interact with us," he says.
Facebook is the school's main social media platform. It allows extensive posts that can give prospective students, and their parents, an idea of what the school is like. They can ask questions and interact with teachers and current students.
Instagram is popular with students at Saint James. It's not as official as the Facebook page, but allows students to interact in a more informal way, Mitra says. "It gives them the chance to explore school life and different aspects of the islands."
Facebook is the best way to reach parents, school administrators say.
Carthage College uses Facebook to micro-target certain geographic areas and age groups. Messages can be directed to parents, or students, for example, in a particular zip code.
At NIU, Facebook was used as part of a family connections program which recently hosted a family weekend. A few hours were set aside on a Sunday to offer free, professional family portraits. The pictures were posted on Facbook, which helped drive traffic to the page.
Families could share the photo with friends, download it, and select it for their profile page. "We started this last year and it was so successful we did it again this year," NIU's Hayden says. "Who wouldn't want a free family portrait?"


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Do you guys think this will be used for toy animal replicas in the future. The colors in the example don't hold up to handprinted models, but as technology advances perhaps this could be an option for highly detailed patterns on mass produced figures?
Very interesting. I think that some companies will use it in the future if it results to be cheaper than handpainting.


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Jefferson Davis: The Essential Writings
By Jefferson Davis, Published in 2004
Categories: Confederacy, Confederacy, Nationalism, Political Theory Tag: Jefferson Davis
Jefferson Davis is one of the most complex and controversial figures in American political history (and the man whom Oscar Wilde wanted to meet more than anyone when he made his tour of the United States). Elected president of the Confederacy and later accused of participating in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, he is a source of ongoing dissension between northerners and southerners. This volume, the first of its kind, is a selected collection of his writings culled in large part from the authoritative Papers of Jefferson Davis, a multivolume edition of his letters and speeches published by the Louisiana State University Press, and includes thirteen documents from manuscript collections and one privately held document that have never before appeared in a modern scholarly edition. From letters as a college student to his sister, to major speeches on the Constitution, slavery, and sectional issues, to his farewell to the U.S. Senate, to his inaugural address as Confederate president, to letters from prison to his wife, these selected pieces present the many faces of the enigmatic Jefferson Davis.
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Mars InSight Lander's Heat Probe Has Been Stuck for a Year – But NASA Has a New Plan
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By Jet Propulsion Laboratory February 21, 2020
NASA InSight recently moved its robotic arm closer to its digging device, called the "mole," in preparation to push on its top, or back cap. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Engineers have a plan for pushing down on the heat probe, which has been stuck at the Martian surface for a year.
After nearly a year of trying to dig into the Martian surface, the heat probe belonging to NASA's InSight lander is about to get a push. The mission team plans to command the scoop on InSight's robotic arm to press down on the "mole," the mini pile driver designed to hammer itself as much as 16 feet (5 meters) down. They hope that pushing down on the mole's top, also called the back cap, will keep it from backing out of its hole on Mars, as it did twice in recent months after nearly burying itself.
Part of an instrument called the Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package, or HP3, the mole is a 16-inch-long (40-centimeter-long) spike equipped with an internal hammering mechanism. While burrowing into the soil, it is designed to drag with it a ribbonlike tether that extends from the spacecraft. Temperature sensors are embedded along the tether to measure heat coming deep from within the planet's interior to reveal important scientific details about the formation of Mars and all rocky planets, including Earth.
The team has avoided pushing on the back cap until now to avoid any potential damage to the tether.
This test using an engineering model of the InSight lander here on Earth shows how the spacecraft on Mars will use its robotic arm to press on a digging device, called the "mole." Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
The mole found itself stuck on February 28, 2019, the first day of hammering. The InSight team has since determined that the soil here is different than what has been encountered on other parts of Mars.InSight landed in an area with an unusually thick duricrust, or a layer of cemented soil. Rather than being loose and sandlike, as expected, the dirt granules stick together.
The mole needs friction from soil in order to travel downward; without it, recoil from its self-hammering action causes it to simply bounce in place. Ironically, loose soil, not duricrust, provides that friction as it falls around the mole.
This past summer, the InSight team started using the robotic arm's scoop to press on the side of the mole, a technique called "pinning" that added just enough friction to help it dig without coming in contact with the fragile science tether connected to the mole's back cap.
While pinning helped, the mole popped back out of the Martian soil on two occasions, possibly from soil building up from beneath. With few alternatives left, the team has decided to try helping the mole dig by carefully pressing on its back cap while attempting to avoid the tether.
It might take several tries to perfect the back-cap push, just as pinning did. Throughout late February and early March, InSight's arm will be maneuvered into position so that the team can test what happens as the mole briefly hammers.
Meanwhile, the team is also considering using the scoop to move more soil into the hole that has formed around the mole. This could add more pressure and friction, allowing it to finally dig down. Whether they pursue this route depends on how deep the mole is able to travel after the back-cap push.
JPL manages InSight for NASA's Science Mission Directorate. InSight is part of NASA's Discovery Program, managed by the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Lockheed Martin Space in Denver built the InSight spacecraft, including its cruise stage and lander, and supports spacecraft operations for the mission.
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If you have yet to discover AMC's Mad Men, it's not too late.
Mad Men is a television show set in the early 1960s at a New York City advertising agency on Madison Avenue. The show brilliantly explores the sensibilities of a bygone era in our not too distant past. The characters are vivid, the writing exquisite, the music, the sets, the costumes, all come together to remind us how much the world has changed in five decades and how much it hasn't. Some describe Mad Men as a soap opera, and if you're going to watch it you will want to start at the beginning. I think of it more as the best, and perhaps longest, feature film I've ever seen. The quality of the show is that good. Season three finished this fall. The first two seasons are available on DVD and all three seasons are available from iTunes.
Below is an image of the actress Christina Hendricks who plays Joan Holloway Harris, and is one of my favorite characters on the show.


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Mohler JL, Armstrong AJ, Bahnson RR, D'Amico AV, Davis BJ, Eastham JA, Enke CA, Farrington TA, Higano CS, Horwitz EM, Hurwitz M, Kane CJ, Kawachi MH, Kuettel M, Lee RJ, Meeks JJ, Penson DF, Plimack ER, Pow-Sang JM, Raben D, Richey S, Roach M, Rosenfeld S, Schaeffer E, Skolarus TA, Small EJ, Sonpavde G, Srinivas S, Strope SA, Tward J, Shead DA, Freedman-Cass DA. Prostate Cancer, Version 1.2016. J Natl Compr Canc Netw. 2016; 14(1).
Ettinger DS, Kuettel M, Malin J, McClure JS, Smith ML, Zelenetz AD, Stewart FM. NCCN Roundtable: What Are the Characteristics of an Optimal Clinical Practice Guideline? J Natl Compr Canc Netw. 2015; 13(5 Sup).
Mohler JL, Kantoff PW, Armstrong AJ, Bahnson RR, Cohen M, D'Amico AV, Eastham JA, Enke CA, Farrington TA, Higano CS, Horwitz EM, Kane CJ, Kawachi MH, Kuettel M, Kuzel TM, Lee RJ, Malcolm AW, Miller D, Plimack ER, Pow-Sang JM, Raben D, Richey S, Roach M, Rohren E, Rosenfeld S, Schaeffer E, Small EJ, Sonpavde G, Srinivas S, Stein C, Strope SA, Tward J, Shead DA, Ho M. Prostate cancer, version 2.2014. J Natl Compr Canc Netw. 2014; 12(5).
Mohler JL, Kantoff PW, Armstrong AJ, Bahnson RR, Cohen M, D'Amico AV, Eastham JA, Enke CA, Farrington TA, Higano CS, Horwitz EM, Kawachi MH, Kuettel M, Lee RJ, Macvicar GR, Malcolm AW, Miller D, Plimack ER, Pow-Sang JM, Richey S, Roach M, Rohren E, Rosenfeld S, Small EJ, Srinivas S, Stein C, Strope SA, Tward J, Walsh PC, Shead DA, Ho M. Prostate cancer, version 1.2014. J Natl Compr Canc Netw. 2013; 11(12).
Fung-Kee-Fung SD, Porten SP, Meng MV, Kuettel M. The role of active surveillance in the management of prostate cancer. J Natl Compr Canc Netw. 2013; 11(2).
Mohler JL, Armstrong AJ, Bahnson RR, Boston B, Busby JE, D'Amico AV, Eastham JA, Enke CA, Farrington T, Higano CS, Horwitz EM, Kantoff PW, Kawachi MH, Kuettel M, Lee RJ, MacVicar GR, Malcolm AW, Miller D, Plimack ER, Pow-Sang JM, Roach M, Rohren E, Rosenfeld S, Srinivas S, Strope SA, Tward J, Twardowski P, Walsh PC, Ho M, Shead DA. Prostate cancer, Version 3.2012: featured updates to the NCCN guidelines. J Natl Compr Canc Netw. 2012; 10(9).
Mohler J, Bahnson RR, Boston B, Busby JE, D'Amico A, Eastham JA, Enke CA, George D, Horwitz EM, Huben RP, Kantoff P, Kawachi M, Kuettel M, Lange PH, Macvicar G, Plimack ER, Pow-Sang JM, Roach M, Rohren E, Roth BJ, Shrieve DC, Smith MR, Srinivas S, Twardowski P, Walsh PC. NCCN clinical practice guidelines in oncology: prostate cancer. J Natl Compr Canc Netw. 2010; 8(2).
Lee WR, Bae K, Lawton CA, Gillin MT, Morton G, Firat S, Baikadi M, Kuettel M, Greven K, Sandler H. A descriptive analysis of postimplant dosimetric parameters from Radiation Therapy Oncology Group P0019. Brachytherapy. 2006; 5(4).
Teng N, Abu-Rustum NR, Bahador A, Bookman MA, Bristow RE, Campos S, Cho KR, Copeland L, Eifel P, Fiorica J, Greer BE, Kapp DS, Kavanagh J, Koh WJ, Kuettel M, Lurain JR, Molpus KL, Nag S, Partridge EE, Powell CB, Reynolds RK, Small W, Soper J, Tillmanns TD. Cervical cancer guidelines. Clinical practice guidelines in oncology. J Natl Compr Canc Netw. 2004; 2(6).
Gergel T, Proulx G, Leichman L, Nava H, Kuettel M. Diagnostic dilemmas in oncology: case 3. Pericardial effusion after esophageal radiation.. J Clin Oncol. 2001; 19(23).
Gagnon GJ, Harter KW, Berg CD, Lynch JH, Cornell DR, Kuettel MR, Dritschilo A. Limitations of reduced-field irradiated volume and technique in conventional radiation therapy of prostate cancer: implications for conformal 3-D treatment.. Int J Cancer. 2000; 90(5).
Burger AM, Fiebig HH, Kuettel MR, Lautenberger JA, Kung HF, Rhim JS. Effect of oncogene expression on telomerase activation and telomere length in human endothelial, fibroblast and prostate epithelial cells.. Int J Oncol. 1998; 13(5).
Prasad SC, Thraves PJ, Kuettel MR, Srinivasarao GY, Dritschilo A, Soldatenkov VA. Apoptosis-associated proteolysis of vimentin in human prostate epithelial tumor cells.. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 1998; 249(2).
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Wolfson AH, Tralins KS, Greven KM, Kim RY, Corn BW, Kuettel MR, Philippart C, Raub WA, Randall ME. Adenocarcinoma of the fallopian tube: results of a multi-institutional retrospective analysis of 72 patients.. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 1998; 40(1).
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Mordkin RM, Hayes WS, Kuettel MR, Lynch JH. Management of locally advanced prostate cancer.. Oncology (Huntingt). 1996; 10(9).
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Kuettel MR, Schwoch G, Jungmann RA. Localization of cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase subunits in rat hepatocyte nuclei by immunogold electron microscopy.. Cell Biol Int Rep. 1984; 8(11).
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It's always fun to start the week off with a doozy of an idea, so start the week with a doozy of an idea I will.
Super great, right? It's funny, it's clever, and it's terrific content for the holiday break period, which is pretty much deadsville for most everyone in higher ed.
It's proved to be very popular - 53,000+ views in a little over a week - and it's gotten some terrific media coverage... from Washington Monthly to Good Morning America.
Best of all, Truman State has acted quickly to take advantage of a good thing, updating its Facebook cover photo to a video still (or publicity shot they smartly took while shooting, just in case they needed it) that absolutely blew up with likes, shares, and comments... even more than the original video itself.
Just look at those comments! And those shoes!
I would wager a guess that they have also proactively sent this via email to their community as well... striking while the iron is hot and what not.
Obviously, this video works first and foremost because of Troy Paino - who has proved in the past he's totally down to make funny videos and who appears to be a natural in front of a camera - but also because it's a solid idea and very well executed by the team that put it together. You can tell from all the different props and camera angles that this was really planned out. As someone who spends a good deal of my time working on producing videos, I'm obligated to give props to everyone who put in the work behind the scenes to make this happen.
It's funny... in so many ways, this reminds me of one of my favorite things I wrote about in December - Regis University's Christmas video. I remember the first time I watched that one thinking that it would have a story similar to this one - when the students are away, the president will play. But instead, that one zigged instead of zagged, turning disarmingly sweet and sentimental. Very different in tone, but also effective and popular.
Clearly, this is a trope that has produced some really great videos. Might be time to start thinking about ways you can feature your university's president in a video about what happens when the students are gone. It's a terrific way to show students that they are cared for and missed, and also a really neat way to show parents how the university is a good steward of their children. And alumni like it because it takes them back to campus and reminds them of the community they are a part of and feeling nostalgic for the days when they actually had holiday breaks.
Major, major props to Truman State for this great video, and hats off to president Troy Paino for being such a good sport and being willing to put himself out there like this in the marketing of his university. Terrific stuff!
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Pharmaku: A web-based tool aimed at improving outreach and clinical utility of pharmacogenomics
Sumi Elsa John, Arshad Mohamed Channanath, Prashantha Hebbar, Rasheeba Nizam, Thangavel Alphonse Thanaraj, Fahd Al-Mulla
Genetics and Bioinformatics
With the tremendous advancements in genome sequencing technology in the field of pharmacogenomics, data have to be made accessible to be more efficiently utilized by broader clinical disciplines. Physicians who require the drug–genome interactome information, have been challenged by the complicated pharmacogenomic star-based classification system. We present here an end-to-end web-based pharmacogenomics tool, PharmaKU, which has a comprehensive interface easy-to-use interface. PharmaKU can help to overcome several hurdles posed by previous pharmacogenomics tools, including input in hg38 format only, while hg19/GRCh37 is now the most popular reference genome assembly among clinicians and geneticists, as well as the lack of clinical recommendations and other pertinent dosage-related information. This tool extracts genetic variants from nine well-annotated pharmacogenes (for which diplotype to phenotype information is available) from whole genome variant files and uses Stargazer software to assign diplotypes and apply prescribing recommendations from pharmacogenomic resources. The tool is wrapped with a user-friendly web interface, which allows for choosing hg19 or hg38 as the reference genome version and reports results as a comprehensive PDF document. PharmaKU is anticipated to enable bench to bedside implementation of pharmacogenomics knowledge by bringing precision medicine closer to a clinical reality.
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Quentin Tarantino came out of nowhere (i.e., a video store in Manhattan Beach, California) and turned Hollywood on its ear in 1992 with his explosive first feature, Reservoir Dogs. Like Tarantino's mainstream breakthrough Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs has an unconventional structure, cleverly shuffling back and forth in time to reveal details about the characters, experienced criminals who know next to nothing about each other. Joe (Lawrence Tierney) has assembled them to pull off a simple heist, and has gruffly assigned them color-coded aliases (Mr. Orange, Mr. Pink, Mr. White) to conceal their identities from being known even to each other.
But something has gone wrong, and the plan has blown up in their faces. One by one, the surviving robbers find their way back to their prearranged warehouse hideout. There, they try to piece together the chronology of this bloody fiasco--and to identify the traitor among them who tipped off the police. Pressure mounts, blood flows, accusations and bullets fly. In the combustible atmosphere these men are forced to confront life-and-death questions of trust, loyalty, professionalism, deception, and betrayal. As many critics have observed, it is a movie about "honor among thieves" (just as Pulp Fiction is about redemption, and Jackie Brown is about survival).
Along with everything else, the movie provides a showcase for a terrific ensemble of actors: Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Steve Buscemi, Michael Madsen, Christopher Penn, and Tarantino himself, offering a fervent dissection of Madonna's "Like a Virgin" over breakfast. Reservoir Dogs is violent (though the violence is implied rather than explicit), clever, gabby, harrowing, funny, suspenseful, and even--in the end--unexpectedly moving. (Don't forget that "Super Sounds of the Seventies" soundtrack, either.) Reservoir Dogs deserves just as much acclaim and attention as its follow-up, Pulp Fiction, would receive two years later. --Jim Emerson
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In 1864, after Union general William Tecumseh Sherman burned Atlanta, he marched his sixty thousand troops east through Georgia to the sea, and then up into the Carolinas. The army fought off Confederate forces and lived off the land, pillaging the Southern plantations, taking cattle and crops for their own, demolishing cities, and accumulating a borne-along population of freed blacks and white refugees until all that remained was the dangerous transient life of the uprooted, the dispossessed, and the triumphant.
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Some days you feel like you've got your life together and some days you feel like watching Ryan Gosling movies and crying into a tub of ice-cream. Don't worry, we get it.
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Stash your makeup brushes in it, your daily beauty essentials, another tub of ice-cream...the options are endless!


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How much time it will take to learn socket programming in java?
Max to max 1 week.
Socket programming is easy. if you already done this in any language then by just by reading online stuff you can easily get this. Otherwise can take 2 days max if you are familiar with any programming language.
Within a month you can learn all the network programming in Java.
For basic knowledge, around 4-5 days is enough.
It depends on your learning skills and practice. But according to me it will take max 4-5 classes. First two classes for basics and foundation and rest three for practical and practice.
Actually it is based on what is your needs to learn. But generally for introduction 8 hrs are enough for Java programmer. Simple thing is start with any socket programming in Java ppt. To get started.
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Our surrounding woodlands are primed to delight flower lovers during April and May. Pushing their way through the forest floor and opening their blooms are bloodroot and spring beauty in early April, trilliums and Virginia bluebells in late April to early May, and wild geraniums and May apples in May, among many others.
These wildflowers are called spring ephemerals because they bloom in early spring, then disappear almost as quickly as they came. "Seeing the spring ephemerals renews my soul," says botanist Cassi Saari, president of the Northeast Chapter of the Illinois Native Plant Society (Ill-inps.org). "It's almost like I'm coming out of hibernation every year. Today, there are only a few places in the region where you can find them in high abundance and diversity." Habitat destruction and degradation of our local natural areas has caused them to disappear.
Ephemerals, which are native, can be confused with spring flowering bulbs such as tulips or daffodils, which are not native, according to the University of Illinois Extension Service (Web.Extension.Illinois.Edu). Most spring ephemerals die back to the ground after they bloom, but often the leaves of bulbs like tulips remain visible well into early summer.
Saari has special places in the Chicago region to search for specific wildflowers. These include Harms Woods (fpdcc.com/harms-woods), in Glenview, where visitors can view hepatica, wild geranium and trout lily, among others. She visits Lake County to search for great white trillium, which has declined in number because of deer over-browsing, but are now bouncing back due to restoration programs.
Although it's fun to go traipsing all over the region hunting for spring ephemerals, Saari suggests choosing one natural area near home and visiting it once or twice a week throughout April, May and early June. "You learn so much by going to the same place. You see the progression of the wildflowers," she says.
Sandy Miller, president of the Lake-to-Prairie chapter of the Wild Ones (LakeToPrairie.WildOnes.org), visits Reed Turner Woodland Preserve (LGParks.org/visit-reed-turner-woodlands), in Long Grove, in spring to watch the succession of ephemerals blooming, with Virginia bluebells at the beginning of spring and May apples and jack-in-the-pulpit toward the end of the spring. "If we don't have the native flowers growing, then we won't have native birds and insects and other animals," says Miller, a Grayslake resident.
Saari notes that most ephemerals cannot tolerate a lot of disturbance, although spring beauty, one of the hardiest, will even grow in lawns. As climate changes and temperature and moisture change from year to year, the peak blooming times can vary for spring ephemerals. Fifty or more spring ephemeral species can be seen in our area. Below is a list from earlier to later of some of the more common bloomers in northern Illinois. Peak blooming times vary from north to south, plus wildflowers overlap in blooming time.
Sheryl DeVore writes nature and science articles for national and regional publications, and has written four books on birds and nature. Contact her at Sheryl.Devore@comcast.net.
To see photos of the region's wildflowers including spring ephemerals, visit Extension.Illinois.edu/wildflowers.
Here are four wildflowers walks to attend. Registration is required. Call first.
April 20 – 1 p.m.
Sagawau Environmental Learning Center 12545 W. 111th St., Lemont. Free.
April 28 – 2-4 p.m.
May 11 – 9:30-11 a.m.
May 11 – 1-3 p.m.


In the months leading up to Continental and United finalizing their merger, the two companies aligned many of their fees and policies. However, they did not align all policies in advance, which left many of us guessing which policy would prevail post-merger: the Continental policy, or the United policy. One of the areas in which the two airlines never shared the same policy was holding award tickets prior to purchase. I love placing hold on award tickets. It lets me firm up travel plans while keeping the tickets safe for a few days.
Prior to the merger, United allowed you to hold award tickets (over the phone) for three days if you had enough miles in your account to book the tickets. Continental allowed you to hold award tickets for three days if you did not have enough miles in your account to book the tickets. Over the past few months it was easy enough to game the system since you could hold with one or the other depending on whether or not you had the miles ready. However, we now live in the days of the New United, so only one policy could prevail.
Last night I went to hold some award tickets for my husband's 20th high school reunion (um, when did we get this old?). As is common, fares for a direct flight from Houston to Wichita are absurd, and since Little C is traveling with us, there is no way I am turning what should be an easy hour and forty minute flight into a several hour affair by throwing in a connection. So, instead of paying several hundred dollars each for a short flight, we spent 10,000 MileagePlus miles each to get the flight we wanted at a price we could afford. We are unsure about our plans for the return ticket, and may be flying home out of Kansas City, in which case it will likely be affordable enough to book paid tickets home.
When I went to hold the tickets, it became clear that the winner in the award ticket hold category was the Old Continental policy. The award tickets could only be held for free for 72 hours if I did not have enough miles in my account to book them.
Here is the view from my account that did have enough miles in it. I had no free hold option – though paying a few dollars really isn't bad if you need to hold the tickets.
Here is the view from my husband's account who did not have enough miles to book the tickets. He had a free hold option.
Instead of holding the tickets, I went ahead and booked them. I could have held them from my husband's account if I'd been really unsure about our plans since he didn't have enough miles. I could then transfer in miles from our Ultimate Rewards account when it came time to book, or possibly called in and paid for the tickets using my miles. I can't swear that works now with the new United, but I had done it before the merger.
In this case, since on United you can change the time/date of your award ticket without penalty until 21 days before departure, there really wasn't a huge risk in booking the tickets. I know for sure we are going – I just wasn't 100% about the exact time/date that worked best for us. In case you are looking for a comprehensive list of award hold policies on various airlines, check out Lucky's post on Travelsort regarding award ticket hold tips. The Continental/United info on that post is now a bit outdated, but the rest of the info still should be pretty relevant.
Are you happy to see the old Continental policy win out, or do you miss the old United policy?