I got my start in palliative care because of an early career development award through the Open Society Institute. The support and shared experiences of peers trying to advance access to quality palliative care across the country was the essential catalyst for overcoming the sense of isolation, burnout, and discouragement that often accompanied this work, especially in the early days of the field.
I told that story to my colleagues at the Cambia Health Foundation several years ago and they decided to invest in a similar leadership development initiative: Cambia Health Foundation Sojourns Scholar Leadership Program. Since then more than forty individuals from diverse geographies, clinical settings, disciplines, specialties, and career paths have benefited from two years of generous salary support, protected time, and an incredibly generative and stimulating peer group. In my work at the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC), I have also learned that the essential ingredient in successful, sustainable, and high-quality clinical, training and research programs in palliative care comes down to the effectiveness of the leadership. There is no more urgent priority for our field than investing in and nurturing the next generation of leaders.
What follows is an interview with three current Sojourns Scholars about the experience in the program and their own development as leaders.
How has the Cambia Health Foundation Sojourns Scholar Leadership Program impacted your career?
Dr. Matthew Gonzales (MG): The program has allowed me the space to be able to take a step back and have a goals of care conversation with myself about my own career and reflect on the question: "What is my highest and best use in palliative care?" For now, my answer lies in the intersection of humanistic medicine and technology. The power to affect large-scale change and incline health care towards palliative care principles relies in part on the future ability to combine these two seemingly disparate fields. As a former software engineer, I recognize that insufficient emphasis has been placed on fostering the growth of technology in this way. Since becoming a Sojourns Scholar, I've been able to focus my efforts on this problem, utilizing my unique experience in both technology and palliative care.
Constance Dahlin (CD): Leadership has always been a focus of my career, particularly because I am not part of an academic institution (e.g., medical center, school of nursing, or school of medicine). This includes developing the HPNA Palliative Nursing Leadership Position Statement, and implementing its concepts. Being a Sojourns Scholar has validated the necessity for investing in nursing leadership in palliative care. Additionally, the recognition and peer support has provided me the courage to challenge established academic and clinical education perspectives, weaving together important concepts: leadership, nursing, palliative care, intraprofessional collaboration, and education.
Dr. Phillip Rodgers (PR): Since starting the program in October 2017, I've already experienced positive influences in my professional life, including, but not limited to: additional time, expanded leadership skills, and a supportive community. Focusing on time, which the program has awarded me with, thanks to salary support, I've had the bandwidth to engage key aspects of both my advocacy work and leadership development, in ways that were not possible before.
My specific project focuses on advancing palliative care in value-based payment models, which present unprecedented and rapidly evolving opportunities to expand the reach of community-based palliative care teams. Seizing those opportunities takes precious time for everything from conference calls, policy research, and writing, to coalition building, in-person advocacy, and networking. The kind of energy and focus I can now place on these key tasks has already made a significant difference in both what I can produce, and in what I can become.
Can you share one critical learning that you've picked up from this program?
MG: Through this journey, I've learned a lot about myself, leadership, and the importance of focusing efforts on something that's meaningful to you. This program has profoundly enhanced my path, and I'm sure will continue to do so.
Being a Sojourns Scholar has also benefited my health system, Providence St. Joseph Health (the third-largest health system in the country). Under my guidance and in close coordination with information technology colleagues, our team at the Institute for Human Caring created a robust architecture for recording and easily finding goals of care conversations in the electronic health record (EHR). Furthermore, our team has been able to extract this valuable data from the EHR and can determine not only when and where goals of care conversations are happening across our health system but also have the ability to explore the quality of these conversations. Displaying these data intuitively in online automated visual reports has helped us to drive practice change. Due to this, Providence St. Joseph Health is now adopting a new quality standard that focuses on ensuring patients and families who experience an ICU stay longer than five days have a goals of care conversation.
CD: Thanks to this program, I've learned that leadership comes in many forms, and requires skills well beyond traditional management skills. Moreover, various leadership styles and skill sets are essential to influence palliative care across all dimensions. As a Sojourns Scholar, I have examined my own leadership skills and style to hone patience, tenacity, and, above all, willingness to take risks. Review of the business literature has been instrumental in helping me to evaluate and prioritize the maximal impact of my interests and skills in the next stages of my own career path.
I have distilled and crystallized my professional passions, best use of self, and how I believe I can best contribute to the field and to the care of those with serious illness—through education. I believe education is a powerful vehicle for leadership and change; whether formal or informal, it has been undervalued as a potent medium to challenge the current health care environment and ultimately change the status quo. My project has affirmed the power of education in facilitating and promoting change as Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRNs) consider palliative care issues within workforce development, health care systems, finances, and patient care, as well as other areas often beyond intended boundaries.
PR: Beyond the opportunity for additional bandwidth, the program's high priority on leadership development has pushed me to catalyze my growth, and challenged me to do better. Through pairing the hard work of creating my own leadership development plan with the program's resources and mentorship, I've developed and refined leadership skills that will serve me well beyond my project and throughout my career to come.
Since becoming a Sojourns Scholar, have you been presented with new opportunities, whether professionally or personally?
MG: In order to more fully realize my potential, this program has helped me to focus time on my own personal growth as well. To better collaborate with IT colleagues, I have engaged in further software and database training. In recognition of the fact that a flexible informatics framework could be adopted by others, I've engaged the community of Cambia Scholars and mentors to help me to refine ideas. To equip myself better for sharing and disseminating our successes, I've also undergone both public speaking and media training.
CD: The visibility of being a Sojourns Scholar has offered me myriad opportunities. For instance, collaborating with Patrick Coyne, I created the Palliative Nursing Leadership Intensive, a course for nurses at all levels to learn concepts and skills, identify their area of passion for leadership, and create a plan for leadership development. Collaborating with colleagues at five sites, I developed The Palliative Care APRN Externship for APRNS to implement essential principles of palliative care – understanding the patient as a person and what is most important; supporting family caregivers; addressing all sources of distress and suffering – in their practice and setting to promote better quality of care for all people living with a serious illness and their families. Finally, by collaborating with interdisciplinary colleagues, two leadership articles, Palliative Care Leadership and The Palliative APRN Leader were published.
PR: Being a Sojourns Scholar has allowed me the opportunity to join the amazing community of Sojourns Scholars and leaders, which I value tremendously. It's perhaps the most enduring value of the program; simply becoming familiar with the incredible diversity of their work and leadership has been eye-opening. I look forward to enjoying their peer-support, encouragement, and collaboration well into the future.
What do you enjoy most about working in the field of palliative care?
MG: In the rush of human existence, it's easy to get lost in the daily grind. As palliative care clinicians, one of our jobs is to provide a moment of reflection for patients to shift focus from the daily to the big picture with questions such as, "If time is short, what matters most to you?" Why are these goals of care conversations so important? As time dwindles, these conversations remind us to bring those things that are deeply meaningful into the foreground.
Do you have any advice for others interested in applying to be a Sojourns Scholar?
PR: When I first learned of the Cambia Health Foundation Sojourns Scholar Leadership Program, I didn't think I was the type of candidate that the Foundation was looking for. As a mid-career clinical faculty physician with an interest in health policy and advocacy, no record of research funding, and just a few publications, I felt 'too old' for a career development award, and too unaccomplished academically to advance an already successful career. After meeting with members of the leadership team, and talking about what I wanted to accomplish and my vision for leadership development, I felt supported and encouraged; the team was clearly committed to investing in the breadth of palliative care leadership, including someone with my background and interest in policy. I applied and was thrilled to join the 2017 cohort, which has positively influenced my professional development, including the opportunity for time to focus and get things done, my own leadership development, and joining a community of scholars.
Do you have any final words that you'd like to share about the program?
MG: Through this journey, I've learned a lot about myself, leadership, and the importance of focusing your efforts on something meaningful to you. This program has profoundly enhanced my path, and I'm sure will continue to do so.
CD: This program is an undeniable honor and privilege. The many thoughtful and influential conversations and interactions with fellow Sojourns Scholars, and Cambia Health Foundation staff have been inspiring and thought-provoking, resulting in the motivation to create system and policy changes in palliative care locally, regionally, and nationally and ultimately improve the care of all people living with serious illness.
PR: This program offers a unique opportunity for interdisciplinary palliative care professionals to build the leadership skills and advance the work necessary to carry our field into the future. I am deeply honored to count myself among the Cambia family, and deeply grateful for the opportunities it has, and will continue to, provide me and many other leaders.
Additionally, I am thrilled to see that the Foundation has made the wise decision to expand the program to include interdisciplinary professionals beyond medicine and nursing to include social work, psychology, pharmacy, spiritual care, and others. This will enrich the community and inspire truly interdisciplinary leadership for our field.
These and other Sojourns Scholars, as well as Peggy Maguire, President, Cambia Health Foundation and Elyse Salend, Program Officer, Cambia Health Foundation will be at the upcoming CAPC National Seminar, November 8-10, to talk with you about the program and answer questions about eligibility, timing, and next steps to apply. For more information about the Cambia Health Foundation's Sojourns Scholar Leadership Program, click here.


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The Lighthouse by Wendy Steele
Ben seeks solitude in a lonely lighthouse, but the island and its violent sea hide a frightening secret; by Wendy Steele.
Abraham Davies shut the door behind him, allowing his ears to acclimatise to the relative quiet. He'd struggled to hold his lantern upright as he performed his circuit, the gusts at the top of the lighthouse, unpredictable at this time of year. The glass was clean though rain lashed and the warning beam shone into the dusk. All was well on his island home.
Ben Hughes packed away his sodden tent as the morning brightened. He'd risen with the cows and, in exchange for help mucking out, had partaken of a particularly good cooked breakfast. He was glad of the warmth in his belly after a disturbed, damp night. Rucksack and saddle bags balanced, he climbed on his bike and set off on the coastal path. Mist hung around leisurely as he cycled the undulating terrain, standing on the pedals on the hills, determined to be on the jetty by midday.
As Ben climbed aboard, the boat's engine sprang to life, rocking the boat so he almost fell on his bike. A hand came out to steady him and he nodded gratitude to a sexless figure dressed top to toe in waterproofs. Ben dumped his rucksack on the deck and sat on a bare plank beside it. While his night had been blighted by water, Ben's day was plagued by air as flurries and gusts sped across the water and battered his body from all directions. He tried his thickest jumper over his zip up fleece but this buried his hood so, holding his breath, he removed both before redressing with jumper against T-shirt. Warmer in the body, he fought to keep the fleece hood up as his ears reddened, and all around him the sea horses jumped and galloped.
As Ben pulled his waterproof from his pack, the boat tipped and he was showered with water from behind. The sky turned from blue to gunmetal, the clouds rising like breakers on the shore, and rain fell like diamonds.
"Get in here! Over here! Bring your stuff!"
Ben tried to hurry towards the voice but the pitch of the boat pushed him back. Two hands grabbed an arm each and he was propelled forward into the cabin. The captain laughed, shaking his head while manoeuvring his craft like a punt on a boating lake. The two other travellers helped Ben to his feet.
"Can catch you out, this stretch of water," said the waterproofed man, pulling back his hood. "Our Jack knows how to ride the eddies on this pond but not everyone can stay upright when he does!" The man's face was young, made a little older by a neatly trimmed beard.
Ben sat on the bench opposite. "Do you live on the island?"
"No, we visit when we can. Who could keep away from such a magical place?"
"Sorry?"
"We're artists." The man indicated the other figure who had not removed its waterproof covering and whose hood string was pulled so tight only dark eyes were visible. "And you?"
"I've come to see the lighthouse," said Ben.
Some children want to be firemen, astronauts or footballers. Ben wanted to be a lighthouse keeper or a cloud spotter or a nature photographer. He was popular at school, excelled at tennis and got on as well with his older brother, Jonny, as any second son could, but he enjoyed his own company. His mother wanted him to pursue a career in medicine. She had pushed Jonny to take law and though the older child had resigned himself to this chosen life path, Ben had rebelled. Recently finishing a natural sciences degree, exploring earth sciences as well as archaeology and biology, he was taking a year off to decide his future.
There was no town on the island. A group of buildings on the quayside housed biologists studying the bird and marine population while six houses on the hillside, a hall that was both chapel and tavern, and a metal barn that dealt with goods in and out, akin to a shop, were the extent of the rest of the island. Apart from the lighthouse. No one knew who owned the nineteenth century structure yet tourists regularly booked to spend a week or, in Ben's case, a fortnight, to live alone at the top of a tower, above a wild and merciless sea.
Provisions in the 'shop' were limited and though there was good coffee in his rucksack, he was surprised that there was no milk.
"No cows here, mister," said a young man, whose face looked like century old leather and whose single tooth hung like a sulphurous stalactite in his mouth. A filthy scarf was knotted high around his throat.
"I suppose they'd get blown over," smiled Ben.
The young man thought this over before shaking his head. "No, no one keeps cows here."
Ben persisted. "What about goats? I don't mind goats milk."
"No goats here, mister."
Ben gathered up his meagre shopping. His saddlebags were full of potatoes and onions while his rucksack held pasta, tins of tomatoes and two brown loaves. He conceded, as he set off along the back bone of the island, that meals would not be exciting but the whole point of trying this holiday was to understand the monotony and analyse the boredom.
Cycling along the ridge was tricky. If he took his focus from the ground for a second, the bike hit a rock or a divot and he fell off, yet the view was compelling so he contented himself with pedalling for a count of one hundred and then stopping to take in his surroundings. At some stops, the islands came up to meet the ridge. One side was stony, sparsely vegetated with low spiny bushes and tough short grass while on the other, out of the wind, wild flowers were scattered amidst the long grass, and trees of hazel, apple, ash and birch thrived. The 'shop' and houses stood at one end of the ridge while thirteen miles away, at the end of the path, was the lighthouse.
Abraham Davies was used to visitors at the lighthouse. He had his bedding roll, pillow and blanket laid out in his berth so he could rest there when he wasn't making his rounds. Some visitors stayed a night, a few two or more and while some packed up their possessions, most he never saw again once they descended the staircase to the rock. Day and night, Abraham Davies inspected his light and slept his contented naps knowing all was well on his island.
Ben padlocked his bike to the newel at the bottom of the staircase. He wasn't sure why but a part of his brain insisted that it was a long walk to the harbour.
The living quarters were compact but clean, if a little old fashioned, but there was coal and wood to heat a small burner and oil for a stove, just as the advert had said. He lit the burner before stripping to his boxer shorts, pulling on dry jogging bottoms, socks and t shirt, shivering in the cold musty air.
While the kettle boiled, Ben ascended a sturdy wooden ladder to the lantern room. Though he'd set off early this morning, he could see streaks of the setting sun, merging with cloud and foam just above the horizon. An eerie light filled the glass panelled room. The original lantern stood inanimate and cold within its crystal casing. Ben stared at the Argand lamp and peered at the reservoir above it. As the light left the sky, strange shadows were cast around him as he hurried down the ladder towards the welcoming amber light of his gas lamp.
Ben sipped his mug of black coffee while he cut potatoes into chunks and dropped them in a pan with the remaining hot water. He rescued two eggs, wrapped in socks in his spare shoes, and added them to the pan before returning to his room to unpack the rest of his belongings. Double packed in plastic, his notebooks, reading books and clothes had survived the soaking but his rucksack, tent and clothes and shoes from today were soaked through. Once he was in bed he would hang up his clothes and leave them to suck the heat from the burner. Tomorrow he would work out how to dry the rest.
A clang sounded in Ben's dream and as he stirred, it rang again. It sounded like rigging on a ship, restless in the wind and yet when he sat up, the noise had stopped. Grabbing his wind up torch, Ben stood up, cracking his tousled blond head on the low wooden ceiling. He sat down until the ringing left his ears. Winding up the torch, he rose slowly but hearing no further noises, he climbed back into bed. In moments, his dreams were awash with a green rugged landscape that he flew over like a raptor before folding back his wings and diving into the icy depths of the sea.
Though his sleep had been sporadic, Ben rose the next morning looking forward to exploring the immediate environment adjacent to his holiday let. His clothes were half dry so he revived the fire from its embers, turned his clothes on their travel hangers and propped his rucksack nearer the burner. Suitably attired with waterproofs and a knitted hat, he picked up the empty coal bucket to fill from the bunker by the front door, and set off to explore.
The lighthouse stood on a jut of land, linked to the ridge path by a series of rocky islands. At low tide you could walk across to the lighthouse but when the tide was high the lighthouse sat on its own island. He climbed around the rock that supported the building, glad of his strong fingers as he clung to the slippery surface, waves beating below his feet. He made his way to a particular rock he'd seen from the lantern room, shaped like a chalice, tapering to its base. Once inside, though he heard the thunderous power of the sea below him, he felt protected by the ancient rock. Peace spread over him like a warm fleece blanket. He saw the sea, its power evident on the ravaged stone, and watched every facet of its nature, from monstrous wave to sparkling spray. He saw the sky change its hues in response to the metamorphosing cloud that streaked across it, sometimes hurtling by like angry ashen tumble weed while other times meandering like the stripes of a zebra. He heard the cries of birds as they flew above the water. Hunger forced him back to the lighthouse.
As Ben heaved the coal bucket into the room, cold air met his face and then seemed to pass through him. He peeled off his waterproofs and hung them on the hooks on the back of the door. Stepping back, he felt something bump his arm, as if someone was climbing the ladder behind him. His eyes travelled upwards as the trapdoor to the lantern room opened and a saffron glow filled his vision before the trapdoor fell shut. He couldn't answer the questions that bombarded his brain so he put the kettle on the stove, stoked the burner and made two sandwiches, while his ears strained for the slightest unusual sound. Part of him wanted to climb up to the lantern room but most of him didn't.
Ben warmed his nose beneath the duvet but he couldn't sleep, so he heard the door opening and footsteps descending to the rock. He shuffled to the door and pointed his torch through the crack to see the door of the living quarters standing open, salty smells reaching his nostrils.
Ben saw a figure on the rocks below the lighthouse, holding a lantern before him. While Ben was fully clothed and waterproofed, the man wore a black jacket over trousers and a shirt and a flimsy yet colourful scarf flapped at his neck. As the man clambered on towards the chalice rock, Ben followed him, his head torch lighting his way. He wanted to call out but was afraid to startle the man and contented himself instead with the knowledge that he wasn't going mad and someone else had been in the lighthouse.
He could sense the sea around him but the black of night disguised its position and rogue waves crashed at his knees, taking his breath away. As he neared the rock he heard, above the percussion of the waves, a sultry voice rising on the wind and sweeping around the lighthouse. A woman rose from the cauldron rock and hung above the water, her naked curves highlighted by her dark snaking tresses. She sang and her voice echoed off the rocks, joining with the waves and the rain.
Ben approached and felt heat emanating from the woman, filling his mind with passion and desire. Thoughts of the other man left him until the woman swooped towards the figure on the edge of the rocks.
"Watch out! She'll knock you in!"
Ben tried to run towards the man but the treacherous rocks robbed him of his balance and before he could reach him, the man had disappeared and Ben fell backwards into the sea. Instead of the blast of icy water he expected, strong arms caught him and he felt his body being righted, as the man with the beard from the boat flew backwards and watched him, grinning.
It took a moment for Ben to realise he was hanging in the air. As he began to wobble a hand touched his arm, and with the fire that passed through his body came a compulsion to fly. With a push of his feet, he lifted himself to the lantern room of the lighthouse before turning and descending to the figures above the chalice rock.
They hung as if in their own bubble of time as the sound of the sea disappeared. Ben could hear their words but was unable to move or speak.
"You should be dead," said the bearded man, "and yet, though we're denizens of the underworld, we do have a heart of sorts. It was sweet of you to be worried about the old man, even though he's been our lure for years."
"He's too pretty to eat," said the succubus, "Can we have a taste and then keep him to play with?"
"We need to eat something, my love," said the demon, as fire sprang from his fingertips.
The succubus shrieked and dived towards her toy as the demon flew towards his prey.
The last thing Ben remembered was the light from the lantern room of the lighthouse, piercing the inky black night with a beam of shining light.
Labels: creepy stories, short stories, Wendy Steele Posted by Charlie Fish at 8:00 AM
Certainly scary! Strange world's collide in this story. I liked the gradual dislocation of Ben from his known environments. A fluid sense of dreaming propelled this tale. Many thanks,
Ceinwen
Thanks for your feedback Ceinwen. Glad you enjoyed it:-)
I felt a chill go up my spine as I read your strange and scary story. Many questions lay unanswered, but I love a good fright, and your piece gave me one. Thank you,
L.S. Sharrow
A well-told ghost story. Even when I thought I had it figured out, it still surprised me.
Thanks Hart, glad you enjoyed it:-)
Your story sent shivers up my spine. I enjoyed being pulled along by wanting to know who and what Abraham Davis was and what was going to happen to Ben. The ending was a complete surprise.
Jason Chapman December 6, 2015 at 6:18 PM
well done Wnedy
Nancy Lane December 7, 2015 at 10:33 AM
Just as we feel we know and like Ben, he is snatched from us by demons. Quite a surprise! I enjoyed the lead up to the final outcome. The descriptions of the environment lull the reader into different expectations. Nicely done.
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DALLAS, TX, September 14, 2018 — Dr. Michael A. Savin is a native of San Francisco, CA and has fond many memories of his childhood in the Sun Valley. He was embraced by love and observed how others showed genuine concerned for one another. As a child, he recalls the family doctor who made house calls and remember shadowing him on weekends that perhaps was the initial spark of interest in the field of medicine. After high school, he was invited to join a group of trainees under the wings of Dr. Arthur Selzer, a cardiologist, and was fortunate to observe firsthand the heart surgeon at work. It was conceivably this pivotal moment in time that Michael knew that his destiny was on the platform of medicine rather than on the stage of a rock band.
Dr. Savin is a highly trained and esteemed oncologist with over 40 years in practice and expertise in the areas of hematology, oncology and breast cancer. His educational background includes graduate study at the University of Pittsburg School of Medicine (1969) with his subsequent internship and residency (1973) at Duke University Medical Center. His fellowship in Hematology (1975) was at the University of Washington.
Dr. Michael A. Savin is certified by The American Board of Internal Medicine in Medical Oncology (1977), Hematology (1976), and Internal Medicine (!974). He is also licensed to practice in the states of California, New York, Oregon and Texas.
Dr. Savin has worked in private practice settings in Dallas, Texas for over 29 years, treating patients with blood disorders and a variety of cancers. While he continues today to treat patients with many kinds of cancer, a major part of his practice has been in the care of people with breast cancer.
Dr. Savin currently serves the clinical medical director of the Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) Knight Cancer Institute. As an active clinical researcher for many years, Dr. Savin has worked in the design of clinical trials and management of a large clinical research program in a private practice setting. He developed a breast cancer chemotherapy regimen and helped design the clinical trials leading to its acceptance as one of the standard treatments to help prevent recurrence of the disease. Dr. Savin also enjoys sharing his knowledge while serving as a full-time faculty member at OHSU School of Medicine.
On a more personal note, Dr. Savin enjoys spending time with his wife, Dr. Juliette Wait, a pulmonary physician, and their two sons, daughter and grandchildren. Dr. Savin undeniably loves music. As a child, he studied the violin and attended a music camp to discover his advancement was on a different level. Nevertheless, his love for the string instrument and music never died. He enjoys playing the guitar – whether it is acoustic, electric or folk and is an avid fan of live music and the opera.
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• 29 citationsRadiation microsphere-induced GI ulcers after selective internal radiation therapy for hepatic tumors: an underrecognized clinical entity.Konda, A., Savin, M.A., Cappell, M.S., Duffy, M.C.; Gastrointest Endosc. 2009-09-01.
• 296 citationsDocetaxel With Cyclophosphamide Is Associated With an Overall Survival Benefit Compared With Doxorubicin and Cyclophosphamide: 7-Year Follow-Up of US Oncology Research…Jones, S., Holmes, F.A., O'Shaughnessy, J., Blum, J.L., Vukelja, S.J., McIntyre, K.J., Pippen, J.E., Bordelon, J.H., Kirby, R.L., Sandbach, J., Hyman, W.J., Richards, …; J Clin Oncol. 2009-03-10.
• 111 citationsPhase II study of weekly albumin-bound paclitaxel for patients with metastatic breast cancer heavily pretreated with taxanes.Blum, J.L., Savin, M.A., Edelman, G., Pippen, J.E., Robert, N.J., Geister, B.V., Kirby, R.L., Clawson, A., O'Shaughnessy, J.A.; Clin Breast Cancer. 2007 Dec.
• 311 citationsPhase III trial comparing doxorubicin plus cyclophosphamide with docetaxel plus cyclophosphamide as adjuvant therapy for operable breast cancer.Jones, S.E., Savin, M.A., Holmes, F.A., O'Shaughnessy, J.A., Blum, J.L., Vukelja, S., McIntyre, K.J., Pippen, J.E., Bordelon, J.H., Kirby, R., Sandbach, J., Hyman, W.J…; J Clin Oncol. 2006 Dec 1.
• A phase II study of a novel anti-tubulin, E7389, in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).Das A, Spira A, Iannotti N, Savin M, Zang E, Datta K, Shapiro G, Patturajan M, Silberman S; J. Clin. Oncol.. 2006-06-20.
• 16 citationsPeritoneal ports for treatment of intractable ascites.; J Vasc Interv Radiol. 2005 Mar.
• Long term disease control in taxane-refractory metastatic breast cancer treated with nab paclitaxel.Blum JL, Savin MA, Edelman G, Pippen JE, Robert N, Sandbach J, Carrasco S, O'Shaughnessy JA; J. Clin. Oncol.. 2004-07-15.
• 30 citationsPlacement of vena cava filters: factors affecting technical success and immediate complications.Savin, M.A., Panicker, H.K., Sadiq, S., Albeer, Y.A., Olson, R.E.; AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2002 Sep.
• 2 citationsTransplant glomerulopathy contribution to the decline of renal function in chronic rejection of renal transplants.Savin M, Blagojevic R, Djukanovic L, Sindjic M, Radivojevic D, Hadzidjokic J; Transplant. Proc.. 1995-02-01.
• 56 citationsFlexible tantalum stents implanted in aortas and iliac arteries: effects in normal canines.Barth KH, Virmani R, Strecker EP, Savin MA, Lindisch D, Matsumoto AH, Teitelbaum GP; Radiology. 1990-04-01.
• 46 citationsGadolinium enhanced MR imaging of vascular stents.Matsumoto AH, Teitelbaum GP, Carvlin MJ, Barth KH, Savin MA, Strecker EP; J Comput Assist Tomogr. 1990-01-01.
• Tantalum vascular stents: in vivo evaluation with MR imaging.Matsumoto AH, Teitelbaum GP, Barth KH, Carvlin MJ, Savin MA, Strecker EP; Radiology. 1989-03-01.
• Mucosal iron transport by rat intestine.Savin MA, Cook JD; Blood. 1980-12-01.
• 63 citationsGrowth suppression of human leukemic cells in vitro by L-ascorbic acid.Park CH, Amare M, Savin MA, Hoogstraten B; Cancer Res.. 1980-04-01.
• 33 citationsImproved growth of in vitro colonies in human acute leukemia with the feeding culture method.Park CH, Savin MA, Hoogstraten B, Amare M, Hathaway P; Cancer Res.. 1977-12-01.
• 6 citationsAdjuvant chemotherapy with doxorubicin and cyclophosphamide in women with rapidly proliferating node-negative breast cancer.Jones, S. E., Clark, G., Koleszar, S., Ethington, G., Mennel, R., Paulson, S., Brooks, B., Kerr, R., Denham, C., Savin, M., Blum, J., Kirby, R., Stone, M., Pippen, J.,…; Clin Breast Cancer. 2002 Jun.
• 75 citationsFeasibility of quantifying the effects of epoetin alfa therapy on cognitive function in women with breast cancer undergoing adjuvant or neoadjuvant chemotherapy.O'Shaughnessy, J. A., Vukelja, S. J., Holmes, F. A., Savin, M., Jones, M., Royall, D., George, M., Von Hoff, D.; Clin Breast Cancer. 2005 Feb.
• 346 citationsBlinded, randomized, multicenter study to evaluate single administration pegfilgrastim once per cycle versus daily filgrastim as an adjunct to chemotherapy in patients…Holmes, F. A., O'Shaughnessy, J. A., Vukelja, S., Jones, S. E., Shogan, J., Savin, M., Glaspy, J., Moore, M., Meza, L., Wiznitzer, I., Neumann, T. A., Hill, L. R., Lia…; J Clin Oncol. 2002 Feb 1.
• 21 citationsLow proliferative rate of invasive node-negative breast cancer predicts for a favorable outcome: a prospective evaluation of 669 patients.Jones, S., Clark, G., Koleszar, S., Ethington, G., Mennel, R., Paulson, S., Brooks, B., Kerr, R., Denham, C., Savin, M., White, C., Blum, J., Kirby, R., Stone, M., Pip…; Clin Breast Cancer. 2001 Jan.
• 184 citationsComparable efficacy and safety profiles of once-per-cycle pegfilgrastim and daily injection filgrastim in chemotherapy-induced neutropenia: a multicenter dose-finding …Holmes, F. A., Jones, S. E., O'Shaughnessy, J., Vukelja, S., George, T., Savin, M., Richards, D., Glaspy, J., Meza, L., Cohen, G., Dhami, M., Budman, D. R., Hackett, J…; Ann Oncol. 2002 Jun.
• 61 citationsReduction of metastatic load to liver after intraarterial hepatic yttrium-90 radioembolization as evaluated by [18F]fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomographic im…Wong, C. Y., Qing, F., Savin, M., Campbell, J., Gates, V. L., Sherpa, K. M., Lewandowski, R. J., Nagle, C., Salem, R.; J Vasc Interv Radiol. 2005 Aug.
• 8 citationsPhase II evaluation of carboplatin and VP-16 for patients with metastatic breast cancer and only one prior chemotherapy regimen.Barker, L. J., Jones, S. E., Savin, M. A., Mennel, R. G.; Cancer. 1993 Aug 1.
• 21 citationsPemetrexed in relapsed small-cell lung cancer and the impact of shortened vitamin supplementation lead-in time: results of a phase II trial.Socinski, M. A., Raju, R. N., Neubauer, M., Smith, D. A., Richards, D. A., Savin, M., Ruxer, R. L., Reynolds, C. H., Zhan, F., Bromund, J. L., Chen, R., Obasaju, C.; J Thorac Oncol. 2008 Nov 01.
• 3 citationsFluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography predicts extrahepatic metastatic potential of colorectal metastasis: a practical guide for yt…Wong, C. Y., Gates, V. L., Tang, B., Campbell, J., Qing, F., Lewandowski, R. J., Thie, J., Ho, C. L., Savin, M., Salem, R.; Cancer Biother Radiopharm. 2010 Apr.
• 420 citationsAdenovirus-mediated p53 gene transfer in advanced non-small-cell lung cancer.Swisher, S. G., Roth, J. A., Nemunaitis, J., Lawrence, D. D., Kemp, B. L., Carrasco, C. H., Connors, D. G., El-Naggar, A. K., Fossella, F., Glisson, B. S., Hong, W. K….; J Natl Cancer Inst. 1999 May 5.
• 4 citationsY-90 microsphere therapy: prevention of adverse events.Schultz, C. C., Campbell, J., Bakalyar, D., Beauvais, M., Feng, W., Savin, M.; Cancer Biother Radiopharm. 2009 Aug 01.
• 163 citationsTreatment parameters and outcome in 680 treatments of internal radiation with resin 90Y-microspheres for unresectable hepatic tumors.Kennedy, A. S., McNeillie, P., Dezarn, W. A., Nutting, C., Sangro, B., Wertman, D., Garafalo, M., Liu, D., Coldwell, D., Savin, M., Jakobs, T., Rose, S., Warner, R., C…; Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2009 Aug 01.
• 28 citationsRegional yttrium-90 microsphere treatment of surgically unresectable and chemotherapy-refractory metastatic liver carcinoma.Wong, C. Y., Savin, M., Sherpa, K. M., Qing, F., Campbell, J., Gates, V. L., Lewandowski, R. J., Cheng, V., Thie, J., Fink-Bennett, D., Nagle, C., Salem, R.; Cancer Biother Radiopharm. 2006 Aug.
• Greenfield filter fixation in large venae cavae.Savin, M. A., Shlansky-Goldberg, R. D.; J Vasc Interv Radiol. 1998 Jan 01.
• 51 citationsA pilot study of intraarterial chemotherapy with cisplatin in locally advanced head and neck cancers.Cheung, D. K., Regan, J., Savin, M., Gibberman, V., Woessner, W.; Cancer. 1988 Mar 1.
• 1 citationBlood back flow into angiographic catheters.Savin, M. A., Bush, W. H., Starr, F. L., Schmiedl, U. P., Nelson, J. A.; J Vasc Interv Radiol. 1995 Sep 01.
• 9 citationsClinical response to immunization with Cendehill strain rubella vaccine.Rogers, K. D., Ramirez, G., Cortez, M., Michaels, R., Savin, M., Montgomery, R., Welty, T., Taylor, F., Hingson, R. A.; Pediatrics. 1971 Jan 01.
• 56 citationsPrediction of chemotherapy response in human leukemia using an in vitro chemotherapy sensitivity test on the leukemic colony-forming cells.Park, C. H., Amare, M., Savin, M. A., Goodwin, J. W., Newcomb, M. M., Hoogstraten, B.; Blood. 1980 Apr.
• 27 citationsComparison of titanium and stainless steel, Greenfield vena caval filters.Greenfield, L. J., Savin, M. A.; Surgery. 1989 Nov.
• 87 citationsExpandable tubular stents for treatment of arterial occlusive diseases: experimental and clinical results. Work in progress.Strecker, E. P., Liermann, D., Barth, K. H., Wolf, H. R., Freudenberg, N., Berg, G., Westphal, M., Tsikuras, P., Savin, M., Schneider, B.; Radiology. 1990 Apr.
• Allograft instability with frequent acute rejections and early chronic transplant glomerulopathy related to suboptimal doses of cyclosporine A.Savin, M., Petronic, V., Djukanovic, L., Dujic, A., Stojkovic, D., Sindjic, M.; Transplant Proc. 1997 Nov.


For Jennifer Bauldic, launching Jetstream Administration in the summer of 2008 was a dream come true. Armed with just a laptop and a hunger for success, she took a giant leap of faith.
She knew the kind of client she wanted to work with: entrepreneurs – like those she had been employed by for years – she was inspired by their vision and their courage to pursue results and build valuable relationships. Yet, how she worked in the early days was very different; she would routinely visit clients in their offices and prepared 100 percent paper-based bookkeeping.
At the foundation of everything Jennifer and her Toronto-based team does is QuickBooks® Online Accountant (QBOA), and now, the new Practice Management feature. With Practice Management, she uses weekly projects as their main template to meet existing deliverables, providing weekly business snapshots to clients, in order to envision key business metrics and tailor to their specific needs. A typical project includes tasks such as routine bookkeeping: processing payables via Hubdoc; issuing payroll; or completing bank and credit card reconciliations. Other tasks include schedule communications for resolving outstanding questions and for reviewing results with business owners. In addition, she has regular internal team meetings where they review the customer files to identify opportunities that may better serve the business, such as tapping into powerful apps.
Practice Management doesn't just help Jennifer's clients; it also helps her and the team work better together.
Jennifer knows that if you ever have plans to run or grow a business, you absolutely must have something to manage your workflows and deliverables. Practice Management does just that.
With Practice Management, all checklists are in one location which is streamlined and efficient. For example, Jennifer says Practice Management has allowed her to re-direct the time previously spent managing workloads towards building and growing her business. This can add up to hours each week!
Jennifer is also currently tapped into Practice Management's duplication feature, which has simplified her setup process dramatically. Because she tends to package her services to her clients, she set up a template "project" that can be duplicated for creation when bringing on new clients. In addition, this capability has served as a checklist for her proposal documents.
Having this foundation in place is important, but it's also Jennifer's guiding principles that have brought her company to where it is today.
Using the Kaizen approach of continuous improvement, Jennifer and her team make it their responsibility to regularly search for new and better ways for their clients to achieve their goals, and sometimes surprise them with new ways of adapting to changes. It's a never-give-up mentality to provide continuous improvement and solutions to take her clients' businesses to the next level.
Complementing this approach is Jennifer's love for technology. She stays actively involved in a number of in-person and online communities, where she shares best practices, emerging technology and favorite apps. This depth ensures that they are ready to solve problems and implement improvements as they are identified and become available.
"We look forward to tomorrow and to evolving our Practice Management process to keep pace with the growth and changes in our industry and cloud technology," says Jennifer.


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Russia registers 1st case of omicron coronavirus variant
Latest on coronavirus outbreak
10 more people infected with virus waiting in observation center for discovering their strain of coronavirus
Elena Teslova | 06.12.2021
Russia on Monday reported its first two cases of omicron coronavirus variant.
The cases were detected from the two people who arrived in Russia from South Africa last week, the country's sanitary watchdog Rospotrebnadzor said.
Ten more people with positive COVID-19 tests are waiting in an observation center for discovering their variant of the illness, said Rospotrebnadzor's statement, without specifying the nationality of the infected people.
The World Health Organization on Nov. 26 declared the new strain "a variant of concern," and named it omicron.
The WHO warned that the novel variant has a large number of mutations, some of which provoke concern as they may affect the effectiveness of vaccines.
South African scientists on Nov. 24 announced that they had discovered the variant, which has several mutations. Cases of the variant have since been found in a number of countries worldwide.
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India's S-400 missile system to go live in April: Report
Pakistan announces 'successful' trial of Chinese medicine to treat COVID-19
Scholz warns Russia of serious consequences of military aggression in Ukraine
UK supplies light, anti-armor defensive weapon systems to Ukraine
Omicron dominates new COVID-19 cases in Bangladesh
German foreign minister urges Russia to choose diplomacy on Ukraine


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Q: Heroku gets error with Ruby Mongrel gem Can't quite find the answer for my error in related posts.
I'm working my way through the on-line version of the Ruby on Rails Tutorial, Chapter 2
http://ruby.railstutorial.org/chapters/a-demo-app#top
and I'm near the bottom where I've created a small 2-table database and committed it to git. But it fails when I try to deploy with 'git push heroku master'. The same command worked previously before I added the tables to the app (and before I got Mongrel to work on the demo_app, I think).
My bundle includes Ruby 1.8.7, Mongrel 1.1.5 and sqlite3 1.3.3. I'm getting the line:
Installing mongrel (1.1.5) with native extensions /usr/ruby1.9.2/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/installer.rb:483:in 'rescue in block in build_extensions':ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. (Gem:Installer::ExtensionBuildError).

How do I get around this problem? Can Heroku handle Mongrel at all? Or is it due to having a sqlite3 database? Why does the error mention Ruby1.9.2 when that's not in my bundle?

A: You don't need to use mongrel at all, and should simply remove it from your Gemfile. Whenever you see a reference to starting mongrel in your tutorial, just use ./script/server instead (or rails server if you're on Rails 3). It will run WebBrick, and that's good enough for development work.
If you really want to retain mongrel for local use you can group it as follows in Gemfile.
group :development do
  gem "mongrel"
end

Note that you will likely still have to tell Heroku to not bundle your development gems or you'll run into the same error. If you're on the Cedar stack, then just get rid of the mongrel gem entirely.

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Photographic Expeditions See Norwegian Arctic in The Best Light
Late season voyages to Svalbard in the Norwegian Arctic offer ideal light conditions in which novice and expert photographers alike may capture images of the unusual icy landscapes and captivating wildlife. Specialist polar tour operator Swoop (tel: 0117 369 0296; https://www.swoop-arctic.com) is offering two 10-day, small-ship expeditions to the Svalbard archipelago during September 2020 to take advantage of the amazing light. Both trips are for just 12 guests each and both are accompanied by special photographic guides.
September is the last month in the Svalbard season, when the period of 24-hour sunlight has passed, leaving visitors with fewer daylight hours but a greater contrast in the light conditions provided by the sunrises and sunsets.
The outline itinerary for Svalbard – a Small Ship Itinerary – which, naturally, has to be flexible according to ice and weather conditions – aims to include several stops of interest during the voyage. They hope to include the northernmost international scientific research village of Ny Alesund, as well as Bird Mountain, where thousands of nesting birds can be seen, and Bourbonhamna off the west coast of Spitsbergen, which is popular with beluga whales.
Each day of the expedition the photography guides will maximise the opportunities to spot wildlife, assessing the climate and often taking zodiac excursions in to massive fjords, closer to stunning, sculpted glaciers or in order to access the flower-covered Arctic tundra.
Every day the group will scout for polar bears, both on land and on the ice and, with a stable population of between three and four thousand, there's every chance that they will be successful. Other wildlife may include reindeer, seals, walruses and the odd Arctic Fox.
Departing on 7th September 2020, guests will be accompanied by Ben Osborne, a wildlife and landscape photographer for more than 35 years, who has worked regularly for the BBC – including on documentaries such as Life in the Freezer, Planet Earth and Blue Planet – and who is also a qualified Polar Tourism Guide and experienced photography coach.
Travellers who choose the second Svalbard expedition cruise departing on 17th September 2020, will be joined by two expert photography guides, Norwegian Tommy Simonsen and Australian, Rod Thomas.
Tommy has been travelling to and photographing Svalbard since he fell in love with the destination 20 years ago and his knowledge of the archipelago is, arguably, unrivalled. Rod also brings a wealth of photographic experience, having lead groups for the past seven years to destinations as far and wide as Slovenia and the US, Norway and New Zealand.
The photographic guides will be on hand throughout to give advice on how best to photograph the glorious polar Autumnal scenes in a warm glow as the sun sits low in the sky.
Both of Swoop's Svalbard photographic expeditions depart from and end in Longyearbyen. Passengers travel on board the newly-refurbished R/V Kinfish, an ex-research and rescue vessel with all the comforts of a larger ship but small enough to navigate narrow inlets that are inaccessible to the bigger cruises, giving it an air of exclusivity.
Prices start from £7,420pp based on two people sharing a twin cabin and include the 10-day cruise as outlined, all meals on board, plus wine and beer with lunch and dinner, expedition guides and zodiac excursions.
For further information visit: https://www.swoop-arctic.com/cruises/svalbard/small-ship
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Bhubaneswar: Human Rights activist Subash Mohapatra filed a caveat before the Supreme Court today requesting to get informed beforehand of any hearing against the instruction of National Green Tribunal (NGT) to remove Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) and Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS) from forest land.
Notably, NGT Eastern Zone, situated at Kolkata, on March 21, had instructed the Odisha Chief Secretary regarding the removal of the institutions from forest land. The Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) of Chandaka Forest Division, Khurda District Collector and Forest and Environment Department have been instructed to identify the 18-acre land at Pathargadia here, enclose it and take its custody.
NGT had given the instruction after conducting a hearing on the petition of Mohapatra. He had informed that KIIT had formed Kalinga Relief and Charitable Trust on forest land without taking the permission from the Ministry of Environment & Forests (MoEF).
However, KIIT authorities refused to give any reply regarding NGT's instruction.


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ESI Supports the Main Aeronautics and Space Centers in France
Announcing a new strategic office in the Toulouse region
Paris, France – December 12, 2017 – ESI Group is a leading innovator in Virtual Prototyping software and services for manufacturing industries, announces the opening of its new office in Colomiers near Toulouse, France. Following the strengthening of its presence in the Silicon Valley (USA), the group now expands in the South West of France, reflecting its growing presence in the aeronautics industry.
ESI opens a new office in the Toulouse region
Present in France since its creation, ESI Group continues its expansion in the country by opening this 7th office, adding to those near Paris, Bordeaux, Lyon and Nantes. ESI is continuing to amplify its business in France, making strategic investments including opening the new office to be close to important aeronautics and space industry sectors key players.
A strategic hub for France and Europe, the Toulouse region houses the headquarters of major OEMs and suppliers in the aeronautics and space sectors, including Airbus, ATR, Thales Alenia Space, Latécoère, Stelia Aerospace and also Safran, Daher, Ratier Figeac or Figeac Aero… Moreover, the region welcomes many engineering and services companies and provides 40% of the French aerospace workforce. Main aeronautics and space R&D centers are located in the South West, where we also find a strong Research and Education network, that makes it an ideal place for ESI to develop its activities.
While strengthening its links with the South-Western ecosystem from its new site, ESI France will provide demonstrations and ensure the commercialization of its latest solutions including Virtual Reality with ESI IC.IDO. The team in Toulouse will also support clients and amplify the Group's commercial relations with aerospace and space OEMs, building on the numerous Research & Technology (R&T) projects already on-going, specifically in the field of Simulation of manufacturing processes.
The MOISE project, for example, implemented with IRT Saint Exupéry, is a first success in local synergy. The IRT Saint Exupéry has been launched by the French government within Investments for the Future Program to boost high value competitive technological sectors in Aeronautics, Space and Embedded Systems. This Institute of Technology combines resources from public and private partners to lead R&T activities. As part of the MOISE project dedicated to system engineering based on extended enterprise models, IRT Saint Exupéry is working in partnership with ESI Group to integrate its System Simulation, ESI's SimulationX and 3D environment simulation solutions of sensors from ESI Pro-SIVIC in the aeronautics development processes. Calixte Champetier, Head of Embedded Systems at IRT Saint Exupéry, asserts "The introduction of a player such as ESI Group in the Toulouse eco-system is a springboard to new successful collaborations for the IRT Saint Exupéry ".
This new implementation will help accelerate the industry digital transformation, which is the cornerstone of ESI Group's innovation and support strategy for its customers.
For more ESI news, visit: www.esi-group.com/company/news
ESI Group – Media Relations
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STEM is a curriculum based on the idea of educating students in four specific disciplines - Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics — in an interdisciplinary and applied approach. Learning is collaborative and project-based; as students work together in a hands-on way to solve real-world problems. The opportunity to learn problem-solving skills whilst developing creative, critical thinking is aligned to the challenges of 21st century learning.
In the teaching of Mathematics our focus is to develop the 9 core problems solving strategies that promote analytical thinking. This is done with the use of interactive demonstrations and real-life examples. In this manner students are able to see and understand Mathematics in the world around them.
Our school-wide approach to STEM includes the annual STEM Competition which requires students to work in teams to identify real-world problems and design science based solutions. At Secondary and A level, students also participate in the Cambridge Science Competition. In the third term of school we host the annual STEM Challenge, which is a house based competition that is focused on problem solving skills.
We have integrated STEM Learning Journeys into our curriculum which provides students an opportunity to link classroom learning with real world applications of scientific concepts. These STEM Learning Journeys take students from Year 1 all the way through to A levels to different outdoor and industrial locations, where they get to see science in action.
As part of our STEM Programme we have developed strong partnerships with institutions of higher learning. University Technology Petronas (UTP) and University Tunku Abdul Razak (UTAR) both sit at the doorstep of WIS. We have collaborated with both these tertiary institutions to provide opportunities for our secondary and A level students to engage in scientific research in world class laboratories. Students experience simulations and experiments in controlled environment. Both these universities offer Mentorships and Industrial attachments to high performing students from WIS.


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Tennis | ATP Challenger & ITF Round Up | Anton Matusevich takes ITF title in Madrid
Anton Matusevich claims ITF title in Spain
Unseed Brit dropped only one set en route
GETAFE, MADRID – Anton Matusevich claimed the ITF singles title. The Brit was unseeded and only dropped one set en route to the title.
Anton Matusevich entered the ITF event in Madrid and was unseeded. In the first round the Brit was against Alvaro Blanco Damea. Matusevich was able to obtain the break of serve in both sets, whilst the Spaniard was unable to break back. The Brit moved into the second round in straight sets 6-4, 6-3.
The second round saw Matusevich against American Nicolas Moreno De Alboran. The Brit continued in the form from the first round. Moreno De Alboran had nothing to bother the Brit with. Matusevich was soon ahead in both sets, and moved into the quarter-final in straight sets 6-4, 6-4.
In the quarter-final the Brit was against the second seed Carlos Boluda-Purkiss. The Spaniard tried hard to stay with Matusevich, but could not stop the break of serve in both sets. The Brit moved on to the semi-final and had yet to drop a set, the score 6-3, 6-4.
The semi-final saw the Brit against Alejandro Garcia. The Spaniard got off to the better start and surprised Matusevich, breaking serve. Garcia took the first set and the lead. The Brit fought back hard in the second set and broke in the second set to force a decider. In the final set both players went toe to toe until the very end, when the Brit secured the necessary break to move into the final 2-6, 6-3, 7-5.
In the final the Brit was against Nicolás Álvarez Varona. The Spaniard forced Matusevich to play his best tennis, before finally securing the break required. Álvarez Varona was unable to break back and the Brit was in the lead. The second set saw the Brit break again and lift the title as the Spaniard could not get back in the game. Matusevich took the title 7-5, 6-4.
Evan Hoyt was defeated by Jelle Sels in the first round in Ismaning 7-6(2), 6-4.
Jan Choinski was defeated by Daniel Altmaier in the first round in Ismaning 4-6, 6-4, 7-6(8).
James Ward was defeated by Yannick Hanfmann in the second round in Ismaning 7-6(2), 6-3.
Lloyd Glasspool was defeated by Emilio Gomez in the second round in Las Vegas 6-2, 6-7(2), 6-3.
Jack Draper was defeated by Ryan Peniston in the first round in Las Vegas 7-5, 7-6(3).
Ryan Peniston was defeated by Christopher O'Connell in the third round in Las Vegas 6-3, 5-7, 6-2.
Liam Broady was defeated by Mitchell Krueger in the second round in Las Vegas 6-4, 6-2.
Amanda Carreras was defeated by Eva Guerrero Alvarez in the second round in Spain 6-4, 2-6, 6-2.
Joshua Paris was defeated by Duje Ajdukovic in the first round in Tunisia 6-1, 6-1.
Paul Jubb was defeated by Rinky Hijikata in the first round in USA 5-7, 7-5, 6-3.
Jonathan Gray was defeated by Alex Rybakov in the first round in USA 6-1, 7-5.
Mark Whitehouse was defeated by Barnaby Smith in the first round in USA 6-3, 6-1.
Barnaby Smith was defeated by Jordi Arconada in the second round in USA 7-6(4), 6-2.
Aidan McHugh was defeated by Matias Soto in the quarter-final in USA 7-5, 7-6(5).
Jodie Burrage was defeated by Lorraine Guillermo in the first round in USA 6-0, 6-4.
Emily Appleton was defeated by Leylah Annie Fernandez in the first round in USA 6-0, 6-2.
Alicia Barnett was defeated by Katie Swan in the second round in USA 6-3, 6-2.
Katie Swan was defeated by Catherine Harrison in the quarter-final in USA 4-6, 7-5, 6-2.
Tara Moore was defeated by Hanna Chang in the second round in USA 7-5, 6-2.
Harriet Dart was defeated by Peangtarn Plipuech in the first round in China 6-3, 2-0 RET.
Emily Webley-Smith was defeated by Peangtarn Plipuech in the second round in China 7-6(0), 6-4.
Mukhtar Andu was defeated by Michael-John Every in the first round in Nigeria 6-2, 6-2.
Darryl Hale was defeated by Courtney Lock in the first round in Nigeria 6-3, 6-3.
Gabriella Taylor was defeated by Magdalena Pantuckova in the final in Turkey 6-3, 6-1.
Next week Brits play in Basel, Vienna, Traralgon, Brest, Hamburg, USA, Tunisia, Czech Republic, Egypt, Turkey, Australia, Canada, China, Portugal, Norway & Sweden.
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Picked up at Laocai Station early in the morning by our bus. Arrive at Sapa round 8:00 AM.
After have breakfast. Our tour start at 11:00 AM by jeep to the first village of the black H'mong (Cat Cat village ), walk around visiting people in the village and the hydroelectric power station built by the French in the old days. Take the paths along the valleys between mountains to get to Laochai village. Enjoy the overall pictures of the villages among terraces. Visit the H'mong living in wooden and bamboo houses.
Continue going to Tavan village to visit the Dzay minority. Stay the night in Tavan village at a Dzay family. Picnic lunch on the way and dinner at the home-stay.
Get up early in the morning to enjoy the daily life of the ethnic minorities in the village. Have breakfast with speciality; and then take the road to GiangTaChai village of the Red Dzao minority via the paths between terraces and through bamboo forests.
Visit silver waterfall and suspension Rattan Bridge, visit the people in the village and then cross MuongHoa River up to the mountain to visit the last village of the trek - Supan village of the H'mong. Get back to Sapa by jeep. Free time for shopping in Sapa market .Dinner and stay overnight in Sapa Town.
7h00 transfer to Can Cau market. It takes more than 2 hours to get to Can Cau - a small market situated in a valley surrounded by mountains and only 7 km from China. The market deeply shows the typical cultural features of the minorities in remote mountainous areas in Vietnam. Further more, you can enjoy seeing boys and girls in colourful costumes - different colours of the mountains. They attend the market in the hope of finding "the other halves of their lifves" and this is also the time for them to chat, to exchange everything among different ethnic peoples through cups of wine sold in the market.
A walk to Bac Ha market. Visit one village and an old building called The H'mong king's house. Have breakfast and the beginning of the day on which you visit a big market filled with many different hill-tribe peoples. This is the most colourful market in North Vietnam. At the market, you have chance to enjoy BacHa people's simple but unique kinds of food with special wines made from rice, cassavas, corn and different sorts of fruits such as plumps, apples, peaches... talking to the minorities through the guide's interpretation.
Leave the market for the H'mong King's house (King Hoang A Tuong) built by the French colonists and the Chinese in 1920. Return the town for lunch. In the afternoon, spend time visiting another village (BanPho village) Say good bye to BacHa and get back to Sapa. On the way back, drop in to see the Vietnamese and Chinese Harbor Mouth in LaoCai . Overnight Train back HaNoi .
Arrive Ha Noi at 5 h00 . End of great trip.
- Jeep go and back as timetable.


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Q: Basic auth server response as unauthorized I am new to android, i am using server call for signin with Basic Auth, its all works fine if i login with more than 45 letter in userid server response as Unauthorized. if user id is less than 45 letters its accepting
my server call as follows
HttpURLConnection conn=null;
URL url = new URL(url string);
conn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
conn.setRequestMethod("POST");
conn.setDoOutput(true);
conn.setReadTimeout(60000);
String basicAuth = "Basic " + new String(Base64.encode(Username+":"+Password));
conn.setRequestProperty ("Authorization", basicAuth);
conn.connect();

Here conn.connect(); itself throws 401 : UnAuthorized

A:    HttpURLConnection conn=null;
   URL url = new URL(url string);
   conn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
   conn.setRequestMethod("POST");
   conn.setDoOutput(true);
   conn.setDoInput(true);
   conn.setReadTimeout(60000);
   String publicKey = "Username:Password";//getting your key
   String encodedString = Base64.encodeToString(publicKey.getBytes(), Base64.NO_WRAP);
   String basicAuth = "Basic "+ encodedString; //space after Basic is matter.
   //setting header for authentication purpose, should use authorization as keyword it you change this it won't work anymore
   conn.setRequestProperty("Authorization", basicAuth);
   conn.connect();

A: Code as below:
String credentials = String.format("%s:%s", "username", "password");
String basicAuth = "Basic "+ Base64.encodeToString(credentials.getBytes(), Base64.NO_WRAP);
HttpURLConnection conn=null;
URL url = new URL(url string);
conn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
conn.setRequestMethod("POST");
conn.setDoOutput(true);
conn.setReadTimeout(60000);
conn.setRequestProperty ("Authorization", basicAuth);
conn.connect();


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New Interstellar Trailer is Epic In Its Awesomeness
Posted by S. A. Young on July 31, 2014
"Why the hyperbole," you ask? Because, it requires superlatives, but all of the others have already been used. At last weekend's San Diego Comic Con, the star of Christopher Nolan's first post-Batman film, Matthew McConaughey, told the audience that this is "by far" Nolan's most "ambitious". The Bat Cycle aside, Nolan likes to push, not only the envelope, but also his audiences to think, so I can only imagine, based on this newest trailer, that that statement is true.
What I think I can be virtually certain of, is that Interstellar has the warmth and the heart that Alfonso Cuarón's technically brilliant Gravity lacked. While I have no doubt that this, too, will be a technical marvel, it is ultimately about love and family. But that is also, obviously a distillation. McConaughey plays a former pilot who wants to fly again, and gets his chance as part of the greatest rescue mission in the history of mankind. There is a lot going on here.
"A group of explorers make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage."
Nolan has cited 2001: A Space Odyssey as the single greatest inspiration for the film. And considering that forty five years after its release, that film is not only still relevant, but the benchmark for movies about space exploration, I think that's a good choice.
Along with McConaughey, Interstellar has a phenomenal cast, including Anne Hathaway (who appears to be playing a real adult person here, not a princess or a waif or a victim. We'll see.) Jessica Chastain as Mackenzie Foy's "Murphy", all grown up, Wes Bentley, Casey Affleck, Topher Grace, Ellen Burstyn, William Devane, David Oyelowo, John Lithgow, and Nolan staple, Michael Caine.
The movie arrives to kick-start awards season on November 7 in the US and the UK. I'd start saving my pennies for IMAX if I were you. Shot on an IMAX camera with an ambitious sound mix, Nolan claims to want to"give audiences an incredible immersive experience. The technical aspects are going to be more important than any film I've made before." I can't wait.
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Directed by Arpan Thapa Sunkesari tells the story of an Australian palace constructed around 1880 AD and how it is converted into a boutique hotel and the strange tale of the supernatural beings that live among the hotel's corridors.
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Serguéi Fiódorovich Kirsánov (en ruso: Сергей Фёдорович Кирсанов; Sebastopol, URSS, 2 de enero de 1963) es un deportista soviético que compitió en piragüismo en la modalidad de aguas tranquilas.

Representó a la Unión Soviética en los Juegos Olímpicos de Seúl 1988, obteniendo una medalla de plata en la prueba de K4 1000 m. Ganó siete medallas en el Campeonato Mundial de Piragüismo entre los años 1986 y 1991.

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Lista de medallistas olímpicos y mundiales en piragüismo (1936-2007): parte 1, parte 2. Federación Internacional de Piragüismo (en inglés).

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Stability, Protocol and Tradition
By Hon. Sir Geoffrey Henry, KBE Prime Minister, Cook Islands
Recently, I received the following written request from a local journalist: "Should not our own queens/paramount chiefs come before the Queen of England [in matters of protocol]?" Apparently, there has been some talk back radio discussion on the subject, which I view as a healthy interest in both our own traditions and in our relationship to the Commonwealth and to Queen Elizabeth II in particular. Let me respond with three points: historical, legal and personal.
In the late 1880's, France had annexed what is now French Polynesia, a move in keeping with the colonial posture of the times. There was armed resistance by our brothers to the east, but they were outgunned and lost. A French warship approached Rarotonga, apparently with the intent of annexing it, too, but is said to have turned back when a hastily sewn Union Jack was raised on a flagstaff.
Well aware of these events, the traditional leaders on Rarotonga made initial overtures to the British for protection and, as we all know, both the Northern and Southern Groups were included within the boundaries of New Zealand on 8 October 1900. New Zealand law took effect here a year later.
The point is that, unlike Tahiti, Hawaii, New Caledonia, Fiji, Vanuatu, PNG and the Samoas, the colonization of the Cook Islands was instigated at our request. And, 65 years afterwards, our continuation in a special relationship with New Zealand -- and hence continuation in the Commonwealth -- rather a form of independence such as Samoa's was -- also, by our own choice.
Having chosen on two occasions -- in 1900 and 1965 -- to swear allegiance to the British Royal crown in its role as Head of the Commonwealth, our Ui Ariki also agreed to a protocol that placed both the British Crown and its representative ahead of themselves. And subsequently, when we took our place among the world's nations as a parliamentary democracy, we again made a choice, namely to accept an elected person, first a Premier, later Prime Minister, as our senior authority after the Queen's Representative and ahead of those traditional leaders who are not elected but inherit their titles and rights.
It is right and proper that we should continue to respect and honor our own traditional leaders, whomever they are. It is equally right to recognize that history is a voyage, not a harbor. Time does not stand still. Events occur, new concepts of governance emerge and some change is inevitable. What a healthy society seeks is a balance between the old and the new. What especially allows a society to thrive is stability – and that includes financial, political and cultural stability.
There will always be a radical or a thoughtless element that agitates for change only for the sake of change. And, apparently, the Cook Islands harbors a minority that would blindly alter that which has contributed to a century of enviable stability. Throw over protocol, they seem to say. Reject the benefits of our tried and true allegiances. In a world of rapid globalization and shifting alliances, they would rather go it alone.
While I respect the extremists' willingness to ask questions and explore options, I personally think any overt sign of disrespect to Her Majesty the Queen Elizabeth II and His Excellency the Queen's Representative to be arrogant, irresponsible and unacceptable. Let us be proud of whom we are and mature in our respect for all traditions, both ours and theirs.
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We love how the actress kept it simple and elegant without going overboard with her hair or the makeup. Her hair is styled in a thick braid with gajra and the simplicity is heartwarming. As for the makeup, Namrata Soni opted for soft pink lips, smokey eyes and a winged eyeliner.
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