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53rd ICAAC Interscience Conference on
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September 10-13, 2013, Denver CO
Raltegravir Top PIs and NNRTIs in Retrospective Look at Cancer Patients
53rd ICAAC, September 10-13, 2013, Denver
Mark Mascolini
Raltegravir-based regimens were 9 times more likely than protease inhibitor (PI) regimens to control HIV in a retrospective analysis of 154 cancer patients at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Texas [1]. Raltegravir and nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTIs) had similar efficacy, but raltegravir was safer than NNRTIs in this population. Raltegravir was the only integrase inhibitor prescribed during the study period.
MD Anderson researchers observed that, 30 years into the HIV epidemic, little is known about which antiretrovirals are most suitable for cancer patients. One reason for that dearth of data is routine exclusion of HIV-positive people from cancer chemotherapy trials. To shed some light on this issue, these investigators retrospectively assessed the efficacy and safety of antiretrovirals in MD Anderson patients who had cancer or hematopoietic stem cell transplantation from January 2001 through December 2012.
This record review considered only patients who had two or more clinic visits in a 6-month period and whose treatment was begun or monitored by MD Anderson infectious disease specialists. The researchers defined efficacy as (1) lack of virologic failure (viral load at or above 200 copies for 6 months or more while on antiretroviral therapy) or (2) lack of virologic rebound (viral load at or above 200 copies after virologic suppression).
The MD Anderson team considered safety and efficacy of four regimens including nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors plus (1) PIs, (2) NNRTIs, (3) strand-transfer integrase inhibitors (which in this analysis included only raltegravir), or (4) any other combination of the above agents.
The analysis included 154 adults, 80% of them men and 51% white. While 30 people took a raltegravir regimen, 57 took a PI, 50 an NNRTI, and 17 some other combination. Most people (58%) had a hematologic malignancy, mainly non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) (42%).
Median age stood at 51 years in the raltegravir group, 50 in the PI group, 48 in the NNRTI group, and 53 in the other-combination group. Hematologic malignancies were more common in the raltegravir group (83%) than in the PI group (42%), the NNRTI group (68%), or the other group (41%) (P < 0.001). Higher proportions in the raltegravir group (50%) and the NNRTI group (46%) had no antiretroviral experience at cancer diagnosis when compared with people in the PI group (33%) or the other group (0%) (P = 0.003).
MD Anderson clinicians prescribed raltegravir significantly more often than PIs (P = 0.002) or NNRTIs (P = 0.026) for patient taking topoisomerase inhibitors. In patients taking alkylating agents, clinicians favored raltegravir over PIs (P = 0.03), NNRTIs (P = 0.04), and other combinations (P = 0.02). Among people taking antimetabolites, raltegravir got prescribed significantly more often than PIs (P = 0.014). No antiretroviral combination got prescribed significantly more often than other combinations for patients taking cytotoxic drugs, taxanes, vinca alkyloids, antitumor antibodies, targeted therapy, corticosteroids, or radiotherapy.
Recorded antiretroviral side effects proved significantly less common with raltegravir regimens (3%) than with PI regimens (35%, P = 0.001) or NNRTI regimens (14%, P = 0.02). Only 1 of 30 people who took a raltegravir combination had recorded side effects (gastrointestinal discomfort and diarrhea). Antiretroviral interruptions proved less frequent in people taking a raltegravir regimen (7%) than in those taking a PI (28%) or an NNRTI (26%).
Raltegravir and NNRTI combinations had equivalent 6-month efficacy (96% and 97%) and significantly greater efficacy than PI regimens (65%) (P = 0.005 and P = 0.001). Among people starting their first antiretroviral regimen after cancer diagnosis, raltegravir regimens and NNRTI regimens both had 100% 6-month efficacy, compared with 60% efficacy among people who started a PI combination (P = 0.02 and P = 0.005).
Multiple logistic regression analysis determined that raltegravir regimens were 9 times more likely than PIs to be effective at 6 months (95% confidence interval 1.6 to 56.2), while NNRTIs were 6 times more likely than PIs to be effective at the 6-month point (95% confidence interval 1.1 to 39.6). Mortality was significantly lower in the raltegravir group (13%) than in the PI group (46%) or the NNRTI group (36%) (P = 0.03).
The MD Anderson team concluded that "administration of an [integrase inhibitor] or NNRTI regimen but not a PI regimen resulted in increased safety and efficacy without causing significant adverse events in HIV- infected patients who have cancer or have undergone hematopoietic stem cell transplantation." But raltegravir was safer than NNRTI regimens. The researchers proposed that integrase inhibitors (which in this study meant raltegravir) "appear to be the antiretrovirals of choice" when interactions are expected with anticancer therapy.
Although this appears to be the largest analysis of concomitant antiretroviral therapy and cancer chemotherapy, the findings are subject to the biases inherent in observational studies.
1. Torres HA, Rallapalli V, Saxena A, et al. Efficacy and safety of antiretrovirals in HIV-infected patients with cancer. 53rd ICAAC. September 10-13, 2013. Denver. Abstract H-1255.
Efficacy and Safety of Antiretrovirals in HIV-Infected Patients with Cancer
Reported by Jules Levin
Harrys A. Torres, Vijayashri Rallapalli, Abhinav Saxena, Bruno P. Granwehr, George M. Viola, Ella Ariza-Heredia, Rina Marfatia, Ying Jiang, Javier A. Adachi, Roy F. Chemaly, Parag Mahale, Samuel A. Shelburne, and Victor Mulanovich Department of Infectious Diseases, Infection Control & Employee Health, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Administration of an INSTI or NNRTI regimen but not a PI regimen resulted in increased safety and efficacy without causing significant adverse events in HIV- infected patients who have cancer or have undergone HSCT.
When interactions of chemotherapeutic and antifungal agents are anticipated, INSTIs (specifically, raltegravir) appear to be the ARVs of choice.


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Children's Health Network
Children's Health Network (CHN) is a clinically integrated network consisting of independent practices and Children's Minnesota, and has been the most complete pediatric care system in the Twin Cities metropolitan area for over twenty (20) years. Approximately 200 primary care pediatricians and nurse practitioners, as well as over 500 subspecialty physicians have helped to build and evolve our organization into a clinically integrated network.
CHN provides an infrastructure to support the overall health of the pediatric population we serve by delivering consistent and evidence-based clinical protocols to guide patient care and establish standards for measuring physician performance. We are leveraging available technologies in the most effective manner possible and enable independent clinicians to partner with CHN to improve quality and reduce cost.
Member clinics within Children's Health Network are available to see children from immunizations to asthma care, from school physicals to cardiac care. Our Quick Lists or Directory Search will help to find the practitioner or clinic in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area that best meets the needs of the families we serve. Primary care providers serve pediatric patients through one of over 40 clinic locations; specialty providers through more than 400 locations. Clinics range in size from single practitioner to clinics with 40 or more physicians.
Children's Health Network also offers a Telephone Nurse Triage Service that has been recognized for its quality of care. Telephone Nurse Triage Services are a 24-hour answering service/triage line established for community pediatric providers and their patients. This is just one example of how working together, pediatricians can raise the standard of care in the community.
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In today's highly connected world, the benefits and widespread adoption of cloud computing are not just limited to enterprises and government agencies; its transformative impact has prompted changes to a variety of businesses across several verticals – both big and small. In fact, a recent study by Emergent Research,"Small Business Success in the Cloud," found that the percentage of U.S. small businesses using cloud computing is expected to grow by more than half by the year 2020, from 37 percent to nearly 80 percent.
The increased momentum toward cloud computing demonstrates that more and more companies are capitalizing upon the cost benefits associated with cloud computing, as well as the ability to streamline and modernize business models. The growing reliance on the cloud to house everything from banking information to other personal data has made the importance of finding a reputable, secure cloud vendor all the more essential. But where do you begin when starting the search?
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At the head shaving fast forward in season 7 on the information plaque it said that shaving of your head is to show gratitude for great fortune, Uchenna and Joyce went on to win the race.
S10 E1someone coming out of the airport says something along the lines of "I'm really hungry". Moments later we find out the next task is an eating roadblock
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tHe_pEsTiLeNcE wrote:Look at the teams with people that account for 25% of their scoring: Kobe on the Lakers, LeBron on the Cav's, Wade on the HEAT... are those teams going anywhere? Are they bound for the NBA Finals? Of course not. They score a ton of points, but they hog the ball and kill any chance of their team chemistry picking up. We've seen slaughters in the NBA Finals because players like Iverson and LeBron can't ballhog their team past an NBA Champion.
I had to jump in here. Lebron is a top 6 passer in the league, the league's most valuable player to his team, and certainly not a ball hog. Only Nash, Paul, and Jason Kidd are significantly better passers than 'Bron, with Baron and Deron about even with him. For a small forward to be able to dish out 8 assists a night is amazing. To call him a ball hog is like saying KG is a bad rebounder.
Well. He always has the ball in his hands though. He's unselfish but so is AI to a degree. He does dominate the team's offense. That is however the only way the Cavs could get anywhere at all since all their players suck except him.


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Visual Studio has a project type called "Database Project" that is used to manage a database schema and allows for easy integration with source control. Visual Studio Database Projects have been known by a few different names down the years such as datadude, DBPro, teamdata, TSData and Visual Studio Team System for Database Professionals.
A database project is what you can use to manage and provide source control on all aspects of a database (sp's, views, tables). You can also manage server objects (login's, server roles).
When using a language like C#, source control is easy as there is only one place to make changes, and that is the source-controlled code itself. But with a live database, you have two places to keep updated: the live database and the source-controlled database project. The two primary methods to keep both places updated:
- In SQL Server Object Explorer (SSOX), edit objects in the database project and use a debug database (which can be a test database using LocalDB that is kept in sync with the live database with test data) to verify changes before checking them in. Then push the change to the live database in your preferred way such as Deploy (called Publish in Visual Studio 2012), Schema Compare, or SqlPackage.exe
- In SQL Server Object Explorer (SSOX) or SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), edit and verify while directly connected to your live database. Once verified, use Schema Compare to pull the changes back into your source-controlled database project. Set up the Schema Compare with the live database as Source and the source-controlled database project as Target. After updating the database project, check it in
Note that during a deployment Visual Studio will examine the target database to see what changes (if any) need to be made rather than simply attempting to create lots of objects; if all the objects already exist nothing will be done. You don't have to determine what needs to be done to change your database schema to the desired state, Visual Studio does it for you. What this means in practice is that you only ever write CREATE … DDL statements rather than IF THEN ALTER …ELSE CREATE … statements.
You can use Visual Studio 2010 (VS2010), Visual Studio 2012 (VS2012), or SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) to create database projects. SSDT is included with VS2012 and can be added to VS2010 as an add-in (but requires Visual Studio 2010 SP1).
Database projects in VS2010 are called "Visual Studio Database Project" and use the Visual Studio menu "Data". SSDT calls it "SQL Server Database Project" and use the Visual Studio menu "SQL". You can install SSDT into VS2010 so you could use both "Visual Studio Database Project" and "SQL Server Database Project". VS2012 uses only SSDT so in VS2012 you will only see "SQL Server Database Project". See SQL Server Data Tools in Visual Studio 2012. The schema compare in "Visual Studio Database Project" can compare SQL Server 2008 R2 and earlier databases (NOT SQL Server 2012), and "SQL Server Database Project" can compare SQL Server 2012 and earlier databases. Confusing, I know! Note that the "SQL Server Database Project" has some additional features over "Visual Studio Database Project" but is also missing some features, such as Data Compare, Dependency Viewer, Database Unit Testing, Data Generation (See How to generate test data using Visual Studio 2012?) and Schema View (See SQL Server Data Tools CTP4 vs. VS2010 Database Projects and SQL Server Data Tools: A Work in Progress). The missing features will be added to SSDT over the next few months (the SSDT December update has already added Database Unit Testing) or added to SSDT Power Tools, which has already added Schema View (update: Power Tools is now part of the SSDT December update instead of a separate install). You can use a "Visual Studio Database Project" to do a Data Compare, but be aware it does not work with SQL Server 2012. So until SSDT or Power Tools is updated to support Data Compare, there is currently no way to compare data for SQL Server 2012 databases.
SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT), which uses the Visual Studio 2010 shell or the Visual Studio 2012 shell, supports database projects (SQL Server 2012 and earlier). The full version of Visual Studio 2010 supports database projects for SQL Server 2010 and earlier, but not SQL Server 2012. However, if you install sp1 for Visual Studio 2010 and then install SSDT (which requires sp1), it does support database projects for SQL Server 2012, and you can in fact share database projects between Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio 2012, and SSDT without needing any conversion. See Visual Studio 2012 New Features: Compatibility (aka Project Round-Tripping). Also check out SSDT – Installation confusion if you don't see an option to create database projects in SSDT. The full version of Visual Studio 2012 supports database projects for SQL Server 2012 and earlier via the built-in SSDT.
In addition to source control I recommend using Continuous Integration (CI) where every time a developer checks-in a piece of code be it a stored procedure, a table definition or whatever, the entire database project is built and then deployed to a database instance. This allows a check of integration errors, for example, changing a table name but not the views that use that table name. See An Overview of Database Build and Deployment. And if using CI I highly recommend using a CI server, such as Hudson or Jenkins or Team Foundation Build, that will orchestrate your whole CI environment. It basically monitors your source control repository and when it spots a checked-in file, kicks off the CI build. It can also synchronize sources, run associated unit tests, perform code analysis, release builds on a file server, and publish build reports.
Visual Studio database projects have many nice features, such as database references, composite projects, code analysis, pre-deployment and post-deployment scripts, refactoring, generate random data, snapshots, and the ability to re-build your database from Powershell using MSBuild.
For source control, my two favorites are Team Foundation Server (TFS) and Subversion (SVN). The Windows client for SVN is TortoiseSVN. And just released is a cloud version of TFS called Team Foundation Service, which is free for a limited time. These products integrate directly into Visual Studio, making it very easy to provide source control for your database schemas.
More info:
Managing Database Change in Source Control
Implementing SQL Server solutions using Visual Studio 2010 Database Projects – a compendium of project experiences
Database Schema Compare where Visual Studio goes that extra mile
Visual Studio 2010 SQL Server Database Projects
SSDT (SQL Server Developer Tool) 2012 (video if using VS 2012/SSDT/TFS)
Visual Studio 2010 Database Development (video if using VS 2010)
What advantages does TFS have over Tortoise SVN in this scenario?
Team Foundation Server vs. Subversion – An Objective Comparison
Videos Demystifying Team Foundation Server Builds and Developer Collaboration with Team Foundation Server 2012 and Taking Your Application Lifecycle Management to the Cloud with the Team Foundation Service and Implementing Scrum Using Team Foundation Server 2012
TFS 2012 install help: Video The Visual Guide for Building TFS 2012 Environments and PDF The Visual Guide for Building Team Foundation Server 2012 Environments
Answers to "What source control system do you use?"
Database Projects – Setting up Source Control
SQL Server 2012 Database Projects
Continuous deployment of SSDT database projects to Windows Azure using Team Foundation Service


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A threat of severe thunderstorms on Saturday afternoon has driven an afternoon voter registration rally to a new outdoor location – The Calhoun Street Promenade – and comes with an indoor backup plan.
U.S. Rep Michele Bachmann, a Minnesota Republican and tea party favorite, and state Sen. Tom Davis, R-Beaufort, are the featured speakers for the 3-5 p.m. event, The Party.
In case of bad weather, sponsors Laura Sterling of Bluffton and Lauren Martel of Hilton Head Island have arranged to move the nonpartisan event to Montana's Restaurant & Grizzly Bar, 16 Kitties Landing (S.C. 46), Sterling said Thursday.
Chris Manley, Montana's director of operations, said the offer is to help the community, not to take a political stand.
"We're very neutral. We're just doing this to help people out in case it rains," Manley said. "I gave them permission."
He said the restaurant could fit "easily over 200" people, and it's during the usually slow time of day.
Organizers will watch the sky and forecast on Saturday to decide when and if to move to Montana's. Sterling asked people to listen to FM radio station 104.9 The Surf for location updates. She also said she would also post a blog at www.blufftontoday.com if there's a switch to Montana's.
The event previously was permitted by the town to take place in Buckwalter Place — home of a Publix, CareCore National LLC and the new town Law Enforcement Center.
But Thomas Viljac of the Old Town Dispensary, a co-sponsor with Kimberly Tatro of the Lowcountry Business Circle, told the Town Council on Tuesday that he canceled the permit on Monday "due to inclement weather conditions" in the forecast. He also said he and Tatro have nothing to do with the rally in The Promenade.
Viljac originally proposed staging the event outside The Dispensary, a tavern and restaurant, at Carson Cottages off Calhoun Street in Old Town.
Tammy Malone, town facilities director and events permitting coordinator, said the original application was submitted in mid-March by Old Town Dispensary and Lowcountry Business Circle "for Buckwalter Place with an expectation of 2,000-3,000 people" attending. "This was after pre-application concerns were raised regarding the ability to hold this event in such a small area as The Dispensary," Malone said. "It was approved April 6 and withdrawn April 11."
Sterling said, "The reason it was moved was because of the potential for bad weather. We decided to minimize it and make it a little bit simpler, and The Promenade was available." She said The Promenade's developer, state Rep. Bill Herbkersman, R-Bluffton, graciously offered to make the green available. The space has been used for holiday-pegged tea party rallies in the past.
And while Bachmann heads the Tea Party Caucus in Congress and Martel is a member of the Hilton Head Island TEA Party, Saturday's rally is nonpartisan, Sterling said.
"This is not a tea party event. It's just a couple of moms and small business owners, we're both self employed, who want to be part of making a difference," Sterling said. "We just want to let people know your vote counts and you can make a difference.
"Our mission is to enlighten and inspire our fellow citizens to become involved in our American political process at the most important level, by voting."
Malone said permitting required paying for police security and insurance.
Police Chief David McAllister said the permit fee came to $1,050 and has been paid by the organizers, who estimated attendance of 200 to 300 people.
"We have a total of 12 officers that will be working the event doing general traffic and security," McAllister said, the same as planned for the prior location.
"The Beaufort County Sheriff's Office will have a unit detailed to her protection alone," he said. Deputies will handle security for other events outside the town, including a 10 a.m. Saturday talk to the Bluffton Tea Party at the Golden Corral on U.S. 278.
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Basic Facts About Cheetahs
The fastest land animal in the world, the cheetah is a marvel of evolution. The cheetah's slender, long-legged body is built for speed. Cheetahs are tan in color with black spots all over their bodies. They can also be distinguished from other big cats by their smaller size, spotted coats, small heads and ears and distinctive "tear stripes" that stretch from the corner of the eye to the side of the nose.
Cheetahs eat mainly gazelles, wildebeest calves, impalas and smaller hoofed animals.
Did You Know?
When cheetahs are running, they use their tails to help them steer and turn in the direction they want to go, like the rudder of a boat.
In 1900, there were over 100,000 cheetahs across their historic range. Today, an estimated 9,000 to 12,000 cheetahs remain in the wild in Africa. In Iran, there are around 200 cheetahs living in small isolated populations.
Historically cheetahs were found throughout Africa and Asia from South Africa to India. They are now confined to parts of eastern, central and southwestern Africa and a small portion of Iran.
Found mostly in open and partially open savannah, cheetahs rely on tall grasses for camouflage when hunting. They are diurnal (more active in the day) animals and hunt mostly during the late morning or early evening. Only half of the chases, which last from 20 - 60 seconds, are successful.
Did You Know?
Unlike other big cats, cheetahs cannot roar. However, they can purr on both inhale and exhale, like domestic cats!
Cheetahs knock their prey to the ground and kill with a suffocating bite to the neck. They must eat quickly before they lose the kills to other bigger or more aggressive carnivores.
Cheetahs are also typically solitary animals. While males sometimes live with a small group of brothers from the same litter, females generally raise cubs by themselves for about a year.
Mating Season: Throughout the year.
Gestation: Around 3 months.
Litter size: 2-4 cubs
Cubs are smoky in color with long, woolly hair – called a mantle – running down their backs. This mantle is thought to camouflage cubs in grass, concealing them from predators. Mothers move cubs to new hiding places every few days. At 5 - 6 weeks, cubs follow the mother and begin eating from their kills.


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|L. J. Holston Jr. WW2 Dog ID Tag
The man (Lemmy) who found the tag in his garden wishes to return it to descendants.
This is Olive Tree Genealogy's Case #9. Can we get it to the "solved!" file?
Once again I'm asking my readers to help send this Dog ID Tag home.
The name on the tag is
L.J. Holston Jr35708257 T 43 45 AR
UPDATE: Leonard's nephew contacted me and provided me with the name and email of Leonard's daughter. Case solved, and on Thanksgiving too!


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BOILING SPRINGS � Gardner-Webb seemed to be successfully manipulating its lineup against visiting Lipscomb University in Wednesday�s non-conference men�s basketball game at Paul Porter Arena.
The Runnin� Bulldogs stretched a 36-29 halftime lead into a 46-30 advantage in the first four minutes of the second half. However, Lipscomb came roaring back with a 20-0 run to take the lead, then eeked out a 66-62 win over the �Dogs.
GWU was playing without 6-11 center Mike Byron, who is out three-to-four weeks with a shoulder injury. Also, 6-3 senior Tashan Newsome was sidelined by back spasms.
"You never go into a game expecting to be down two starters," GWU coach Chris Holtmann said, "but I was proud of the group that played and disappointed we couldn't pull it out.
"I thought we did a good job with our pressure out front, and to force 24 turnovers is a credit to our activity. I also thought we handled the ball well. But we struggled in the halfcourt against a set defense and we're going to have to find a way to get better at that."
When the Bisons fought back, they were able to use a size advantage against the GWU defenders. Lipscomb�s 6-10 Stephen Hurt came on and had eight of his 12 points in the 20-0 run to get the visitors in front.
In the final eight minutes, GWU found itself with its remaining frontcourt players carrying four fouls. The �Dogs also went cold from the field, making only 34.5 percent of its shot after the break.
GWU took its last lead with 2:57 remaining when Donta Harper converted a pair of foul shots. But Lipscomb beat the �Dogs fullcourt pressure for a go-ahead layup nine seconds later by Martin Smith and never trailed again.
Missed free throws and a turnover in the final 22 seconds denied GWU a chance to come back. Lipscomb then sealed it on Deonta Alexander�s two free throws with 11.6 seconds left.
GWU, now 1-2, got 14 points from Harper and 13 by Max Landis. Malcolm Smith led Lipscomb (2-1) with 22 points and 13 rebounds with Hurt finishing with 12 points.
Gardner-Webb has a quick turnaround as it flies to Chicago to face DePaul tonight.


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City ban on neighborhood solicitors shot down
Beaumont City Council won't be stopping solicitors in your neighborhood anytime soon.
A city ordinance banning door-to-door solicitors was proposed by City Council members Mike Getz and W.L. Pate on Tuesday, Aug. 20, but the proposal was shot down without a vote.
Getz said he brought the measure before council due to numerous complaints from at least one neighborhood association in his Ward II.
"They had experienced this first hand," Getz told the council. "They are uncomfortable with it, and they've asked us to try to develop a tool to try and give them a little bit more peace of mind."
At-Large Councilman W.L. Pate said the ordinance would help keep criminals out of neighborhoods where they don't belong and enlisted the help of BPD's Chief Jimmy Singletary in vetting the viability of the ordinance at Tuesday's meeting.
"We have had people knocking on doors trying to impersonate solicitors to see inside somebody's home. There are other ways too, but that's actually been a ploy that some of the burglars and home invaders have used," Chief Singletary said. "But to say that all of them are doing that? No."
The ordinance would not come close to passing "constitutional muster," according to City Attorney Tyrone Cooper, who blasted the proposal.
"The Supreme Court has identified door-to-door solicitation as a constitutional right," Cooper said.
What's more, even if Beaumont were to propose and pass an ordinance, Cooper said the bureaucracy needed to sustain the permitting, licensing and fees associated with a lawful no-soliciting ordinance would be a "headache" for either the police department or code enforcement.
"There is some ambiguity to this ordinance that the courts will wipe out right off the top," Cooper said. "And we've experienced this with protracted litigation when we did the noise ordinance, and I'm not one to put myself in a position, or put you in a position, of having to endure that again."
The ordinance as it was written by Getz would ban soliciting on all national and state holidays and every Sunday. Door-to-door solicitors would also be banned 30 minutes after dusk.
Many council members, including Ward III Councilman Audwin Samuel, poked holes in the proposed ordinance, pointing to charitable organizations such as the Boy Scouts, churches and BISD fundraisers popular throughout Beaumont. Samuel also questioned if the ordinance should apply to certain holidays.
"Would Halloween be one of those nights?" he asked.
In the end, Cooper said the Supreme Court has spoken and Beaumont would essentially have to prove solicitors prowling neighborhoods were actually causing crime in order to not expose the city to needless lawsuits.
"My concern, if the council is of the mind to adopt one of these ordinances, my concern is that it will withstand constitutional attack," Cooper said. "The courts have said that if (the city) has an ordinance, it's not going to stop the criminal. It's not going to stop the burglar. If he's of a mind to go door to door to see who's home, if somebody's there, he will engage you in a conversation that is not covered by this ordinance. He will ask you directions. He'll ask you for a glass of water. He'll ask you if Joe Smith lives in the neighborhood. And you can't enforce this type of ordinance against him, other than he looks suspicious and when the police are in the area, they can deal with him."


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- Ex-MP Sayedee is sentenced to hang for mass killings and rape
- Seven of 10 indicted by the war crimes tribunal are Jamaat-e-Islam leaders
- As many as 3 million people were killed and hundreds of thousands raped in the war
- Jamaat-e-Islam decries what it calls a smear campaign
Every day since early February, hundreds of thousands of demonstrators have massed at an intersection in Bangladesh's bustling capital city. But unlike the Tahrir Square and Occupy Wall Street movements, they're not calling for the overthrow of the government or greater economic equality.
The rallies, led by youths and fueled by social media, are demanding the death penalty for those who took part in war crimes during Bangladesh's bloody battle for independence from Pakistan more than four decades ago.
And in the fourth most populous Muslim country in the world, the peaceful movement is also trying to achieve something remarkable: a ban on extreme fundamentalist parties.
"It's a revolution. A social revolution," says Dhaka resident Shaon Tanvir. "They have been using social media very effectively. A couple of hours' notice, and hundreds and thousands of people turn up."
Parents bring their children, their faces painted red and green in the colors of the Bangladeshi flag. Housewives pack lunches for the demonstrators. Passing motorists honk their horns and flash thumbs-up signs.
"In Bangladesh, we've seen power struggle among the political parties over the years. Now we see the strength of the young generation without any party affiliation," said a college teacher, Saiful Islam, who joined the sit-in.
"They are not violent, but no parties can defy them or ignore the demands."
The genesis
During the nine-month war in 1971, between 1 million and 3 million people were killed, and hundreds of thousands of women were raped. Many of the atrocities were committed by Pakistani forces and their civilian collaborators.
"When the fighting was over, there were vultures almost too fat to fly, and Bangladesh was a land with few of the sinews of nationhood left unsevered," the National Geographic said in a piece soon after the birth of the country.
In 2010, Bangladesh set up a court that it called the International Crimes Tribunal to finally bring to justice those it accused in the massacre.
So far, the court has indicted 10 people. Seven of them are top leaders of Bangladesh's largest Islamist party, Jamaat-e-Islami.
Jamaat acknowledges that it opposed Bangladesh's struggle for independence. But it has decried what it calls a smear campaign. It has also questioned why the ruling party, the Awami League, is only now pressing forward on war crimes trials when it didn't do so while in power during the 1970s and 1990s.
In January, the court tried its first case and convicted Abul Kalam Azad, an expelled Jamaat member who is at large. Azad was sentenced in absentia to death by hanging. The cleric is believed to be hiding in Pakistan.
Another Jamaat leader, former lawmaker Delwar Hossain Sayedee, was found guilty Thursday on eight counts -- out of 20 charges -- involving killings and rapes, and was sentenced to hang.
Sayedee, a two-time member of Bangladesh's parliament, responded that the court "has done injustice" to him. His lawyer, Abdur Razzak, said the sentence would be appealed.
Angry Jamaat supporters clashed with police in demonstrations against the verdict nationwide, while the party blasted the trial as "politically motivated." But Bangladesh law minister Shafique Ahmed said the death sentence reflected people's expectations.
"It's established the rule of law, and the trial process is being continued maintaining international standards," the law minister said.
Widespread demonstrations also followed the life sentence handed down to Abdul Quader Mollah, Jamaat's assistant secretary general, on February 5. That's when the rallies at Dhaka's Shahbag intersection began, as those who thought the sentence was too mild gathered at the intersection to protest.
"For four decades, we have remained quiet with the hope that one day these war criminals will be sentenced to death," said Shoaib, a student of Dhaka University, in a CNN iReport by Aminul Islam Sajib. "We cannot accept their lifetime imprisonment."
The scene
The demonstrations started with a handful of bloggers and college students who took to Facebook and Twitter to ask others to join in the outrage.
Soon the masses swelled -- and cut across economic, religious and ethnic divides.
Fathers stop by with young sons in tow. Office workers show their support at the end of the workday. Rickshaw pullers donate part of their day's earnings for supplies. Even the Bangladesh national cricket team has made an appearance.
The protesters have renamed the intersection "Projonmo Chottor" (New Generation Circle).
Banners are everywhere.
"Humanity dies when war criminals live," reads one. "Justice delayed for 42 years. We can't take it anymore," laments another.
Throughout the day, demonstrators rally with their fists punching the air, hangman's nooses around their necks and deafening chants of "Fashi chai" ("We want them hanged").
On a makeshift stage, the demonstrators read poetry or play music. Elsewhere, they bang on plastic buckets or take turns sweeping up the debris and trash.
"It's not a protest led by any political party," a young protester Asif Islam said. "We're our leaders. We're disciplined by ourselves."
The Bangladeshi community abroad have rallied to the cause as well, particularly students who have held mini-rallies to spotlight attention to Shahbag at dozens of college campuses in the United States.
"Knowing that, 'Yes, we are supported worldwide, and no, we're not alone' gives a lot of inspiration and motivation to keep the movement running, I believe," said Rafiul Alam, a student at University of Texas at Arlington.
Back at Shahbag, silence comes only when night falls.
The demonstrators sleep while thousands of flickering candles cast around them a rapturous glow.
The significance
In a piece published on The Asia Foundation's website, Awrup Sanyal, a Dhaka-based writer, wrote that the Shahbag movement has "opened up space for discussions on subjects that until now were considered taboo or avoided altogether."
Such subjects include, according to Sanyal, fundamentalism in politics; secularism; unaccountability; inclusiveness irrespective of religion and ethnicity; contradictory historical narratives; boycotting of businesses; and the spirit of the 1971 independence movement.
Writer Saad Z. Hossain says Shahbag is a "visceral rejection of fundamentalism."
"Shahbagh is the silent majority," he wrote, "rising up against the use of religion to bully."
The criticism
While the demonstrators have declared Shahbag a politics-free zone and turned away politicians who wanted to use the stage to deliver a speech, the gathering nonetheless has the approval of the ruling party.
As with Cambodia, it has taken some four decades for Bangladesh to address its genocide. The Awami League made the prosecution of war crimes perpetrators a central election plank in its 2008 campaign.
"It is a unique incident. It is a unique uprising that has spread to the villages," Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said of the Shahbag gathering. "The new generation, including the children, has woken up irrespective of their political views."
As the protests grew, the parliament proposed an amendment to the law empowering the International Crimes Tribunal. Under the proposed amendment, the government can appeal any tribunal verdict, and Law Minister Shafique Ahmed said it plans to do so in Mollah's case.
Protesters hailed the proposal, but human rights groups weren't pleased.
"A government supposedly guided by the rule of law cannot simply pass retroactive laws to overrule court decisions when it doesn't like them," said Brad Adams, the Asia director of the New York-based Human Rights Watch.
The amendments "make a mockery of the trial process," he added.
The Awami League has also endorsed the protesters' call for a ban on religious-based political parties -- and Jamaat in particular.
"We're examining all possible ways of doing it," the law minister said.
It's not a surprise, analysts say. Sidelining Jamaat, an opposition party with sizable influence, would play to Awami League's advantage politically.
The ban
But such a scenario "would raise stability risks in Bangladesh," says Romen Bose, deputy head of Asia forecasting at IHS' Exclusive Analysis, an outfit that assesses political and violent risks worldwide.
"For the government to ban Jamaat would mean pushing them against the wall," with the potential for a guerrilla-style insurgency if the party is locked out of politics, he said.
Meanwhile, Jamaat's tactic has been to turn criticism of it into criticism of Islam.
Jamaat has called the Shahbag participants "anti-Islamic atheists" who deserve death for defaming the religion but who are protected by the government.
The party also accuses the protesters of seeking to overturn an independent judiciary.
On February 15, a blogger and one of the Shahbag organizers, Ahmed Rajib Haider, was hacked to death hours after he called for a boycott of Jamaat-affiliated institutions and businesses.
An atheist, he is alleged to have been behind anti-Islamic posts, which protesters contend are part of a cyber war to malign the movement.
The backlash
So far, the Shahbag protesters and Jamaat supporters have not had direct confrontations -- a scenario Bose says would be "disastrous."
But increasingly, the Islamists are letting their presence known with larger and larger rallies and strikes first in cities outside Dhaka and then in the capital city.
On Friday,


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by Naomi Ludeman
Dr. David Cooperman,
professor of sociology at
the University of Minne-sota,
said in last Friday's
convocation chapel that
"anti-Jewishness is a ter-rible
distraction for Chris-tians
of intense critical be-lief."
The discussion was
titled "American Culture,
Anti-Semitism and Chris-tianity."
Cooperman began the
discussion by pointing out
three assumptions. The
first was that "our anti-semitism
is benign com-pared
to European anti-semi
tism." This compari-tive
benigness should,
however, provoke a dis-tinction.
"What, if any-thing,
is there about the
logic of Christianity that
may be conducive or cor-relative
with anti-semi-tism?"
asked Cooperman.
The second assumption
pointed out is that "anti-
Semitic attitudes among
Americans have declined
significantly in the past
thirty years," stated Coop-erman.
The reason for this
decline is "not related to
increasing understanding
of Jews by Christians or
Christians by Jews." Ra-ther,
it is related to in-creased
Jews and Christians are
both coming to a common
social, economic and psy-chological
However, that "can not be
assumed "that anti-Semi-tism
will not grow...it can
be carried by any move-ment
of renewal or moral
Thirdly, Cooperman as-sumed
that "what anti-
Semitism exists is largely
but not totally, unrelated
to Christianity as such
..rather, a residue of what
may be called popularistic
or secular anti-Semitism
reflecting a suspiciousness
and antagonism of outsid-ers,
such as stereotypes of
Although America's ten-dencies
toward anti-Semi-tism
are small, compared
to Europe's, "any amount
is too much," Cooperman
The question that Coop-erman
put forth was
"what, for Christians of
critical belief, should be
the attitude of the believ-ing
Christian toward pop-ulous,
non-Christian anti-
To answer this question
Cooperman discussed the
origin of anti-Semitism
coming from "a historical,
social, or cultural envi-ronment."
"If the range of actions
is so wide then we have
the right, logically, to sus-pect
that such beliefs are
rationalizations and not
logical entailments of Chris-ti
a nit y," said Cooperman.
Cooperman answered
the question with the fol-lowing:
"It is the obliga-tion
of both Jew and Chris-tian
to make the distinc-tion
between forms of an-tagonism,
either Jews to-ward
Christians or Chris-tians
to Jews...it is the ob-ligation
of the religionists,
as well as intelligent hu-manists
of all kinds, to
come to grips with much
more central problems."
May, 1981
Sociology professor Dr. David Cooperman spoke on
anti-Semitism in Chapel last Friday. Cooperman teaches
at the University of Minnesota.
Vol. 56 No. 23
Bethel College, St. Paul, MN
Semitic antagonism
Christians, Jews bear responsibility
Graduation nears with student fears
by Shari Goddard
As graduation creeps
ever closer, many seniors
hold their breath, waiting
for something to go wrong.
For most of them, every-thing
will move smoothly
along. For a few, however,
their nightmares will come
Even now, some stu-dents
struggle to keep
their G.P.A.'s up to stan-dard,
or rush to finish P.E.
skills test, due today. Ten
to 15 students who thought
at the beginning of the
semester that they would
earn degrees this year, will
not receive their diplomas
May 24. A few will nar-rowly
miss graduation
because they did not com-plete
enough P.E. credits.
No one is allowed to go
through commencement
unless s/he has completed
every graduation require-ment
listed in the registra-tion
catalog. "You assume
that every student is ac-countable,"
said Dwight
Jessup, academic adminis-tration
director. He said
the catalog must almost
be a student's Bible. "The
(system) may seem harsh.
And yet, the school is char-tered
to give degrees...it is
a matter of integrity for
the college and should be
for the students, too."
Since first semester,
when students indicated
their wish to graduate this
year, the list of potential
graduates has shrunk from
over 400 to approximately
According to Carl Stein-bach,
recorder for the Re-gistrar,
the reasons her of-fice
takes students off the
list vary widely. Some
students find they did not
meet requirements, while
others elect to stay and use
up their sports eligibility.
Steinbach said the largest
number of last-minute
problems reach the Regis-trar
by May 1.
Jessup said some last-minute
problems stem
from laziness. He said
some students do not take
requirements seriously,
thinking they will not be
held back for lacking only
one thing. Other problems
come from the juggling of
transcripts when students
transfer into the school.
Occasionally students
think special circum-stances
should allow them
time extensions or exemp-tion
from meeting a re-quirement.
Last year a
student's correspondence
professor got sick, delay-ing
testing. The student
was granted five days to
finish his midterm and all
other tests for the course.
By traveling to Iowa, he
made the deadline. If the
by Mary Swisher
Saturday, May 16, is
Bethel's All-School Ban-quet.
It is a semi-formal
affair intended for all Be-thel
students. Each stu-dent
will be given a ticket
compliments of Bethel. (If
students desire extra tic-kets
they will be available
for $7 each.)
Marilyn Starr comment-ed
that the "program com-mittee
is working diligent-ly
and it should be a good
program. Those who don't
come will miss something,
and all are welcome."
There will be three
choices of dining area: the
cafeteria, coffee shop and
gym. Each of the three
areas will be decorated for
the occasion, and the same
Register denies a student's
petition for an exception,
s/he can appeal to the
Curriculum Academic Ad-visory
see page 3
dinner will be served
The dinner will include
entertainment from strol-ling
minstrels. The theme
of the banquet is "Monop-oly,"
a take off on the pop-ular
game. The theme will
be tied in with the decora-tions
of the dining areas
and the program.
Nancy Johnson, junior.
is coordinating the event
with Lori Droogsma and
Tim Sawyer. Campus Coor-dinators
Cindy Stipe and
Frank Sanza are also help-ing
with the program. The
program will begin after
dinner, in the gym. All
diners in the coffee shop
and cafeteria will move to
the gym. Seating will be
All-School Banquet:
theme is "Monopoly"
Volume 56, number 23
May 1, 1981
Bethel College, St. Paul, MN
The Clarion is published weekly
by the students of Bethel College.
Editorial opinions are the sole
responsibility of the Clarion staff.
Letters are welcome, and must be
signed and delivered in P.O. 2381
by the Sunday before publication.
Joy Nannette Banta, editor
Jay Stuart Russell, associate editor
Sharie Goddard, news editor
Ellie Abbott, sports editor
Doug Barkey, photography editor
Mari Broman, copy editor
Art Gibbens, production editor
Suanne Hawkins, business manager
Patty Sutton, editorial assistant
joAnn Watkins, staff writer
Naomi Ludeman, staff writer
Leann Kicker, staff writer
Beth Nystrom, graphics
Ted Lewis, columnist
Juan Ortiz, cartoonist
Kris Bratland, ad sales Orange slices surround the prize-winning cheese cake
developed by Bethel cooks Laurie Jones and Janel McCoy.
Page 2
Better security could combat assault
We have talked about it before and it looks like we
need to talk about it again. The topic: Bethel's security
Two weeks ago a Bethel woman was raped. That
matter has already been dealt with (see April 24
Clarion). But the fact of the matter really rests on why
Bethel's security is not working better.
We are not so foolish as to think that a more substan-tial
security system would eliminate all possibility of
violent acts occurring an our campus. But we are wise
enough to see that theilack of security was a definite
accomplice to the crime. (Yes, it is a crime. Right here on
Bethel's campus.)
Bethel has one outside night watchman and one
inside night guard. The security shack shelters that one
watchman as he cautiously checks each car that enters
campus from Old Snelling. The Highway 51 entrance
remains blocked off only by a chain across the road.
The night watchmen are Bethel Seminary students,
minimally trained in the art of security and defense.
Regularly, the outside guard leaves the security shack
and patrols the campus, leaving the entrance unat-tended.
A total of $23,000 has been appropirated this year for
Bethel's security. $2000, for supplies and expenses,
$2000 for equipment, and $19,000 for student salaries.
More money is put out for paying people who do the
work that is designated for improving security condi-tions.
For example, one security option is a professional
guard patrolling the outer perimeters of the campus
from sundown to sunrise, year-round. Streetlights all
along Bethel Drive and throughout the parking lots - all
of the lots -would hinder hidden movement of unwel-come
Guards at or near each of the dorm entrances at night,
after 10 o'clock possibly, would make it difficult for
strangers to enter residential dwellings uninvited.
Armed security people are also needed within the
college buildings. The million-dollar investments in our
facilities make this suggestion an obvious necessity.
A high wire-link fence would deter would-be crimi-nals
from entering the campus. Admittedly, any
strongly determined thief, rapist or other criminal
would find ways to overcome an obstacle, but at
least the criminal would have to plan and scheme to
commit the crime. It wouldn't be easy to gain access to
the campus and its residents.
It is easy for those divorced from the incident to say
that the rape on our campus was a result of carelessness
on the young woman's part. But the point that needs to
be made is that women cannot be expected to become
night-time recluses simply because the campus on
which they live does not have security that would
hinder violent acts such as rape.
Women live with a constant fear of being assaulted.
Many men, though sometimes unwilling to admit it,
also fear violence that would harm them personally.
Bethel is a community that must stand on its own.
Bethel must realize its responsibility to students,
faculty, administration and staff.
Security is not a game to be played with. It is a matter
of safety and peace of mind. Do we value the individu-als
that call Bethel home?
2 Bethel cooks travel
in Florida for contest
Improvements implemented for handicapped students
by Tim Wilbee
Meeting on a "near-monthly"
basis, the Handi-capped
Students Commit-tee
is an organization de-signed
to meet the needs
of that segment of the Be-thel
population. Led by
Marilyn Starr, the infor-mal
group includes all
handicapped people at the
school as well as others
who are interested or af-fected
by the issues co-vered
by the group.
`We meet as kind of a
support group to take a
look at any kinds of prob-lems
that are on campus,"
said Marilyn Starr. She
mentioned a few things
that have evolved from
the concerns of the meet-ings.
Most students have no-ticed
the most recent de-velopment
on campus, the
placement of cups by drink-ing
fountains. Another
product of the committee's
concern was the renova-tion
of Arden Village West
N-2 for wheelchair access.
The ramp leading up to
the door was made more
negotiable and handi-capped
parking provided
ne~ rby.
"There are little things,"
said Starr, "that to us seem
little, but to them are
The scope of "handicap-ped"
students at Bethel
has included wheelchair
persons, as well as blind,
deaf and other types of
The law requires all
public facilities to be ac-cessible
to handicapped
people. Bethel's totally in-door
campus makes it al-most
ideal. "The campus
had been fairly accessible,"
says junior Greg Barrows.
"There are no major things
that I can think of that
need to be changed."
However, there are al-ways
things to be desired,
as evidenced by several
students' decision not to
attend Bethel because they
felt they could not nego-tiate
the college complex.
The existence of only one
elevator on campus has
caused some inconven-ience,
especially in trying
to reach fourth floor class-rooms
and offices. Also,
the committee has called
for further renovation in
accessible townhouses'
bathroom facilities.
in its last meeting, the
committee worked togeth-er
to produce a brochure
that will be released to the
entire campus next fall. It
is designed to help other
students understand how
to deal with and react to
handicapped students.
Marilyn Starr asserted
that handicapped persons
are very independent and
want others to view them
that way. The brochure
should help people to re-spect
that independence.
The committee was ori-ginally
scheduled to meet
once a month, but has
since met less often.
"There aren't that many
things that come up that
we need to talk about,"
said Barrows. A group of
five or six usually attend
the meetings.
"Fresh Orange Cheese-cake"—
perfected by aux-iliary
cook Laurie Jones in
the Bethel College kit-chens—
is on its way to
Florida for national com-petition.
Nine district winners of
the National Association
of College and University
Food Services will com-pete
at Walt Disney World
on May 5 under the spon-sorship
of Florida Sun-shine
Tree for the the
grand prize citrus recogni-tion.
The grand cham-pion,
selected by a panel
of judges, will receive a
$500 award.
As a regional winner,
Laurie was given $100,
and a trip for twoto Flor-ida
to compete in the bake-off
finals. Janel McCoy,
another Bethel cook, will
accompany Laurie. "Both
of us developed the recipe,"
said Laurie, "but Janel
filled out the entry from
and put my name on it.
Had I filled it out it probab-ly
would have been the
other way around.
Both cooks give credit
to Wayne Erickson, Be-thel's
food service direc-tor,
for suggesting the
cheesecake idea. "And
without his pushing,"
Laurie added, "we
wouldn't have entered the
contest at all."
Business major Laurie Petroski interned with a bus drivers'
union this year. She used her non-partisan objectivity to
help clarify points during contract negotations.
cp, Bethel Budget
Gifts and
Grants 14%
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by Ted Lewis
Internships for Bethel
students provide a solid
learning experience, as for
Laura Petroski, a business
major. Since November,
Petroski has worked with
the Amalgamated Transit
Union in drawing up a
new contract for the Co-lumbia
Bus Company.
The three-year contract,
between the bus drivers'
union and the company,
expired this year at the
end of March. Developing
the next working agree-ment,
which protects the
rights of drivers, required
long hours of strategy ses-sions
and negotiations.
Peter Calhoun, presi-dent
of the bus union and
Bethel alumnus, asked the
business department for a
student to observe the half-year
process. He wanted
an impartial outside person
son to help set up new
proposals and evaluate the
Petroski's advisor, Bob
Weaver, had just heard of
the request by phone when
Petroski entered his office.
She came to tell him she
was looking for a pro-union
As a Teamster member
interested in working with
labor relations, Petroski wel-comed
the chance to see,
first-hand, a union strug-gle
for compromises with
a company. She said she
advocates workers' rights
to voice their concerns
and strike when neces-sary.
After several months of
contract-proposal prepa-rations,
members of both
sides met at McGuire's Inn
for two months of negotia-
Graduates, from page 1
(CAAC). Unless that com-mittee
has flagrantly acted
unfairly, Jessup said the
commit tee is given the fi-nal
word. He said he has
never known of the com-mittee
being overruled.
Al one time Bethel al-lowed
students to partici-pa
te in commencement if
they were two courses
short of graduation. Jes-sup
said that even if we
still allowed students two
credits short to graduate,
I he re would always he
someone wanting to grad-uate
just short of that.
"We're not near as tough
as n lot of other places. Al
he finiversiiy, if you miss
tions. Meetings often lasted
12 to 16 "hours a day, three
to four days a week.
Working side-by-side
with the union executive
board, Petroski was en-couraged
to participate. "I
couldn't speak during the
main negotiations, but I
could during caucus ses-sions,"
she said. Calhoun
said he was pleased with
Petroski's contribution.
She often clarified points
of view, using her objec-tivity
as a member of
neither side.
Compromise, according
to Petroski, was crucial. If
the bus drivers decided to
strike, several schools in
the area would have to
operate without bus ser-vice.
But the parties did
reach an agreement.
As part of her intern-ship,
Petroski must also
write an evaluation of the
communications dyna-mics
of the negotiations.
According to Petroski, the
company used guilt as a
psychological weapon
against the union.
Petroski said that hav-ing
seen from the inside
the "positive power" of
unions in protecting peo-ple,
she is considering a
future in helping to organ-ize
women into unions.
She said she understands
the skills of representing
employees, skills neces-sary
because of visible an-tagonism
toward emplo-yee
"I wish more students
took initiative to get into
an intern program," Pet-roski
said. Students can
get class credit and have
the chance to get off cam-pus
to learn first-hand."
something, there's no win-dow
to knock on," said
In answer to requests
from students who missed
the listed days of P.E. test-ing,
the physical education
department opened ano-ther
day of testing. Next
year a late test will cost a
student $20.
Even with the extra
avenues for help and ap-peal,
some students will
not celebrate graduation
this year as planned. In-stead
they will have to
wail until at least next
May 10 walk across the
singe and out Bethel's
Budget, part 6 in a ser-ies
of 8
Within the past ten
years, enrollment and tui-tion
increases have doub-led,
which would mean
total financial aid dollars
should have probably quad-rupled
to offset the in-creases.
Financial aid has in-creased
ten times in the
past 10 years.
Dan Nelson, director of
enrollment, said financial
aid has increased so rapid-ly
because government aid
programs have increased
their dollar amounts. "It
has grown ten times since
the 1970-71 school years—
that's much faster than
the rest of the school," he
In 1970-71, students re-ceived
$588,000 in aid,
while in 1980 -81, students
received $5,670,000. Much
of the $5.6 million is not
included in actual budget
figures, as monies from
programs such as Basic
Grant and Guaranteed
St udent Loans are chan-neled
through Bethel, with
students receiving all of
I he money.
"We call these wash-outs,"
explained Nelson.
"The money comes in, and
then goes right back out
again. They don't have an
impact on Bethel's budget;
nothing is made, nothing
The financial aid office
budget is listed as having
$1,275,500, or about nine
per cent of Bethel's expen-ditures.
Wash-out monies
make up the difference be-
tween the actual $5.7 mil-lion
figure and the official
budget of $1.3 million.
The largest wash-out
item is the Guaranteed
Student Loan program
(GSL), which accounts for
$2 million in aid. Other
wash-out items include
the Basic and Supplemen-tal
Educational Opportun-ity
Grant (BEOG and
SEOG) programs,
$865,000; National Direct
Student Loans (NDSL),
$525,000; federal work-study,
$330,000; and state
work-study, $70,000.
A few wash-out items
are included in the official
financial aid budget, such
as the Minnesota Higher
Education Coordinating
Board (MHECB), which
by Leann M. Kicker
Every student worries
about grades, the measure
of academic progress. At
Bethel, minimum academic
progress is at least a 2.00
GPA or successful com-pletion
of at least 75 per
cent of courses attempted
in any regular term.
When students do not
make minimum academic
progress they are issued
an academic warning.
Chester Duck, registrar,
says of the warning. "It's
just a nudge to get going.
We're saying hey, you're
not on your toes." Duck
recommends that students
was estimated to bring in
$450,000 for this year's
"They actually gave us
$630,000." Nelson said the
increase resulted from
three factors: more Bethel
students qualified for aid
than was planned, Bethel's
enrollment grew more
than other Minnesota pri-vate
colleges, and the max-imum
award was increas-ed
from $1100 to $1250
this year.
"Students who qualify
for these state grants and
scholarships are usually
eligible for the maximum
amount," Nelson said. The
money is controlled by the
state legislature, and is
available only to needy
Minnesota state residents.
The Allis Foundation is
another wash-out fund
available only to needy
Minnesota state residents.
Besides wash-out monies,
financial aid also comes in
the form of institutional
grants and scholarships,
which are funded directly
by Bethel, from the gen-eral
fund. The general fund
includes revenue received
from all sources.
Nelson said he prefers
to consider the revenue
source for the institutional
grants as coming from the
gift income part of the reve-nue
budget. "To say it
comes from the tuition
part of the revenue would
he like having a form of
socialism, with the wealth-ier
students' tuition sub-sidizing
the needy stu-dents'
scholarships and
who receive a warning see
their advisors for help.
A student can remain
on warning status for only
two terms. If after that
time minimum standards
are not met the student is
placed on academic pro-bation.
"That means your
in trouble and must take
immediate action," said
At the end of the 1980
fall term 215 students re-ceived
academic warn-ings;
22 of those were
placed on probation, three
were continued on proba-tion
second semester and
15 were placed on final
probation. Those on final
probation have some con-ditions
to meet. There
were 12 dismissals. Of
those, four appealled and
three were readmitted.
Student Affairs informs
all students who receive
academic warnings about
academic improvement
groups. These groups help
with time management
and study skills. Of the
215 notified only 14 re-sponded
and formed
groups with faculty
Students who have been
dismissed may appeal to
the Curriculum Adminis-tration
Advisory Commit-tee
(CAAC). The CAAC is
made up of nine people:
faculty, administrators,
and students, Roy Wilbee
is the chairman. Appeals
are made in writing to him.
After the committee has
read the appeal the stu-dent
can appear in person
to answer questions.
Appeals are readmitted
if the committee deter-mines
there were extenua-ting
circumstances, or if
improvement is shown. "If
an appeal is granted,"
Duck said, "they (the
committee) can place any
kind of restrictions on the
student. For example, a
change in living arrange-ments.
It sounds like a difficult
process, but it isn't," said
Duck. "The Committee is
really quite pleasant. They
want the student to make
it," he added.
Students who do not
appeal or who are not
granted appeal may reap-ply
for admission after a
year away. The process is
no different than any other
readmit. "A year out of
school can make a big dif-ference."
said Duck.
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valuable experience
Low GPA's could lead
to academic probation
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Baseball team wins three more
The Bethel baseball team
moved closer to the magic
.500 mark by winning
three of four MIAC con-tests
last week. The team
upped their conference
record to 4-6 and their
overall record to 10- 14
after sweeping Macalester
and splitting a pair with
Against Macalester the
Royals pounded out 17 hits
winning both games by
the score of 10-2. Louie
Schultz tossed a six-hitter
in the opener while Dave
Fauth hit his third home-run
of the year, a two-run
shot over the short porch
in right. In the nightcap,
Rich Graves fired a one-hitter
to pick up his third
victory of the year. The
big righthander lost his
no-hitter if the fifth inning
by Ellie Abbott
The men's track team
placed high in the Bethel
Invitational last Saturday,
placing third out of eleven
teams. St. John's won the
meet with 106.5 points,
while the Royals totaled
The Royals captured
five first places, beginning
with a first place finish in
the 400- meter relay. Be-thel
was clocked at 43.8,
while second place Golden
Valley was timed at 44.1.
In the field events, Jason
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when Ted Fust's double
barely eluded the diving
grasp of rightfielder Jeff
Eklund. Eklund led the
Royal hit parade going
two for three with three
Against the Auggies,
tough luck pitcher Jeff
Wilson lost his fourth
game of the year as the
Royals dropped the opener
by a score of 9-5. The game
was close until the end
with Augsburg leading 4-
3 going into the seventh. A
five-run rally gave the
Auggies a 9-3 lead and the
Royals were unable to
make up the six run dif-ference.
Paul Lindberg's
two-run triple got the Ro-yals
closer but the rally
ended there. Wilson is
second on the team with a
respectable 3.72 ERA but
has not had many breaks
Velgersdyk took first place
in the high jump with e
height of 6'6" while Scott
Lumby placed fourth in
the pole vault jumping
In the springtime events,
senior Paul Otto captured
first place in the 100-
meter dash with a time of
11.29. He also placed first
in the 200-meter dash
clocked at 22.49.
In the 800-meter dash,
Dave Jorgensen and Jay
VanLoon tied for first
place with time of 1:58.10,
while second place was
clocked at 1:58.60.
Tom Plocker managed a
second-place finish in the
grueling 400-meter dash
with a time of 51.10, only
half of a second behind the
first place finisher. Jay
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in the 400 intermediate
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hitting (.464 in 24
games) with a pair of dou-bles
and a RBI. Dave Fauth
went two for two to lift his
average up to the .400
mark and Layne Davis
was two for three includ-ing
a big two-run single
that broke the game open.
Head coach Tom Wol-cyn
will lead his charges
into the meat of the sche-dule
as the team plays
eight games in the next
eight days, including a
doubleheader tomorrow,
at home against St. Olaf,
starting at noon.
and conference champion-ship
meets coming up.
the 440-yard relay, sprint- that event.
ing specialists Danette In the 1500- meter run,
and Jenny Burgess, Lind- Senior Branda Harris was
quist, and Severson once clocked at 5:17, running
again revealed their talent her best race of the year.
by placing third with a Coach Cindy Book corn-time
of 51.4 seconds. mented, "Brenda ran real-
In the field events, Deb ly well and I was pleased
Sension placed second in with her performance."
the high jump with a jump This weekend the track
of 5'2", her highest jump team travels to Moorhead,
this year. Co-captain Sara Minnesota for the state
Barker placed third in the championship meet. They
discus, while Sheila Kroon have trained hard this
placed fifth in the javelin. season and Coach Book is
She was followed by Sen- hoping for everyone to do
sion, who placed sixth in well.
Sprinting specialist Danette Burgess breaks the tape at the
Macalester Private College Invitational last Saturday. Bethel
took eighth place overall (Photo by Don Copeland).
by Ellie Abbott
The women's track team
placed eighth last Satur-day
at the Macalester Pri-vate
College Invitational
The day proved to be
successful with two Be-thel
records broken and
high places despite the
tough competition.
The 880-yard medley
relay team, consisting of
Jenny and Danette Bur-gess,
Sherri Lindquist,
and Lynn Severson broke
a school record breaking
the tape at 1:54.7.
The other school record
was broken by junior Wen-dy
Norberg. Norberg ran
the 5000 - meter run in
18:49, placing sixth in that
event. Her previous
record was 18:54.
Danette Burgess placed
sixth in the 100-meter
dash with a time of 12.9
seconds. This was the
first time Burgess had
broken thirteen seconds in
the 100-meter dash, so it
was a personal best for
In other sprinting e-vents,
co-captain Lynn
Severson placed fourth in
the 200-meter dash with a
time of 27.4 seconds. In
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Author Notes: Please cease with all the sissy pizza recipes! For the uninitiated the authentic article was created in Naples sometime between 1830 and 1860. It was not created in New York or New Haven in the 1950s, and Wolfgang Puck played no role. The authentic pizza Neapolitana was the perfect match, like the one between Sophia Loren and Clark Gable in "It Started in Naples". The tomato arrived from the New World most likely via Spain (Naples was part of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies). There it met Sophia Loren with all the charms of its volcanic soil, water buffalo herds and abundant basilico. There was already a tradition of flat breads as well as a culture of poverty. An ideal match.
To cook pizza the correct way you will need very high oven temperatures or even better, a wood fire that you can stoke with real charcoal wood. The recipe I'm offering employs those things. Not so long ago I purchased a piastra from the cool collection of Mario Batali endorsed products. Essentially it's a big slab of stone that fits perfectly over my outdoor wood grill. You can find them at Sur La Table. If you don't have one of these, at least use a large pizza stone that fits in your oven or at worst a very heavy iron pizza pan. You are going to have to crank the heat as high as it will go. Wood burning ovens can exceed 800, yours can't do that (especially in a New York apartment). That's why the outdoor method is preferred. Yea, Bobby Flay you can throw the dough straight onto the grill grate but the end result is some misshapen thing that has nothing to do with pizza. Don't do that while I'm watching.
Of course the tomato sauce, as well as the cheese, are critical too. I prefer to use canned San Marzano tomatoes (28 oz or 800grm) imported from Italy.* I also use real buffala mozzarella.** Italian tomato or marinara sauce tends to be "looser" than American. Keep that in mind. And by the way, allocate two days to do due diligence to a correct pizza. - pierino
Food52 Review: We can always count on pierino for strong conviction about the right and wrong ways of cooking a dish. When it comes to pizza he is no different, as you can read in his headnote. But we can't always rely on pierino for details in the instructions. For instance, he doesn't tell us how long to cook the tomatoes or what to look for -- we went for pulpy but still loose enough to drop from a spoon. But we still love pierino anyway. His passion translates into a crisp-crusted pie (complete with authentically charred bubbles), topped with smears of buffalo mozzarella, aromatic scraps of torn basil and a kicky, bright tomato sauce. A couple of notes: we weighed 3 cups of flour and ours came out to be 395 grams, so we went with that. The dough is very elastic so you need to be patient when rolling it out -- do your best to get it super thin. The payoff will be worth it! And our pizza took 8 minutes to bake at 500 degrees. - A&M —The Editors
Serves: well, you know
Godfather Part 1, the crust
3 cups (450 grams) high gluten flour
1 tsp active dry yeast
¼ cup warm water
¾ cup cold water
1 tablespoon olive oil
sea salt
Godfather Part 2, the sauce
28 oz can San Marzano tomatoes (or substitute Muir Glen)
clove garlic
¼ cup chopped onion
A good handful of basil (holding some leaves back to finish).
2 really good anchovy filets, salted or jar, just be sure they're quality good
1 1/2
teaspoons Sea salt
3-4 ounces buffala mozzarella, sliced
- Godfather Part 1: Make your pizza dough. In the bowl of your heavyweight stand mixer proof the yeast with that little bit of warm water. You know it's going to work, right? Of major importance (I don't make this stuff up), use a pastry scale to properly tare the flour weight---it does matter.
- Gradually add the cold water and then the flour and salt and mix and dribble in that olive oil. It should be a bit sticky at the end.
- Bench it. Make sure your hands have access to bench flour. Massage (knead) the dough to the protypical baby bottom feel. Bowl it. Cover it with cling wrap. Let it rest for 45 minutes. Yank it out and massage it further on a well floured board. THIS IS ALL DONE BY FEEL AND THE LOVE OF YOUR HANDS. Get it into a big old, tender ball. Divide with a knife or pastry cutter into two parts. Cuddle them and then wrap them in cling wrap. Stick em' in the fridge overnight. The dough, I've discovered, only improves if you let it hang out in cold air.
- Godfather Part 2, Dawn of the Corleones: Make the sauce. Chop your cool-io anchovies into bits. Likewise with your garlic clove.
- Simmer the above (and onions) in 2 tablespoons hot but good olive oil, shimmering but not smoking. Carefully add the tomatoes. You can squish them by hand if you want to help the process move forward.
- Season with salt and pepper to your ownself taste.
- Keep it loose. Push it through the medium plate of a food mill and hold/refrigerate until ready to use.
- Godfather Part 3.01 (Beta): Wake up. Now the good part. Crank up your indoor/outdoor cooking platform to its maximum. Can you handle 600? I can. We mean smoking hot!
- Roll out your pizza dough into round discs (a pastry ring can help you here) that will actually fit on your peel. Give 'em a bit of hand toss to stretch the dough out. Make sure that your pizzas do in fact fit your peel and your cooking stone/lpan. Shape em. You don't have to fling them in the air but sending some centrifugal force toward the outer edges is not so bad. You will want a stretchy middle. I didn't say that this was simple. Brush the outer edges (the "cornice") with just a bit of olive oil.
- Now work fast, really fast; ladle sauce in a spiral pattern starting from the center outward in a circle over your soon to be pizza(s) and then apply thin slices of buffala. Slip that disc of dough upon the stone. Slam the oven door or grill shut. And then you shut up, because I don't want to hear your mouth right now.
- Tear up some basil leaves while you are watching and waiting. After about five minutes of intense heat your pizza is, or should be, finished. But it's okay to look in between.
- A flourish of basil (basilico) and you are done, and Sophia will invite you over for cocktails.
- Notes to cooks: the thing about real pizza and not sissy pizza is heat. I can't emphasize that enough. Get the dough right, get the heat right. Crank it!
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Questions and Answers About Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Cancer Treatment
- What is complementary and alternative medicine?
Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), as defined by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), is a group of different medical and health care systems, practices, and products that are not presently considered to be part of conventional medicine. Complementary medicine is used together with conventional medicine. Alternative medicine is used in place of conventional medicine. Conventional medicine is medicine that is practiced by holders of M.D. (medical doctor) or D.O. (doctor of osteopathy) degrees and by health professionals who work with them, including physical therapists, psychologists, and registered nurses. Other terms for conventional medicine include allopathy; Western, mainstream, orthodox, and regular medicine; and biomedicine. Some conventional medical practitioners are also practitioners of CAM.
This summary answers some frequently asked questions about the use of CAM therapies among the general public and about how CAM therapies are evaluated, and suggests sources for more information.
- What is integrative medicine?
NCCAM defines integrative medicine as treatment that combines conventional medicine with CAM therapies that have been reported to be safe and effective after being studied in patients. In practice, many CAM therapies used in along with conventional medicine have not yet been well tested.
- Are complementary and alternative therapies widely used?
Yes. Many CAM approaches are used by a large percentage of people in the general public and cancer patients.
The 2007 National Health Interview Survey reported about 4 out of 10 adults used CAM therapy in the past 12 months, with the most commonly used treatments being natural products and deep breathing exercises.
One meta-analysis compared CAM use in various countries. On average, over half of all cancer patients use CAM therapies.
One large survey of cancer survivors reported on the use of complementary therapies. The therapies used most often were prayer and spiritual practice (61%), relaxation (44%), faith and spiritual healing (42%), and nutritional supplements and vitamins (40%). CAM therapies are used by 31-84% of children with cancer, both in and outside of clinical trials. CAM therapies have been used in the management of side effects caused by cancer or cancer treatment.
- How are CAM approaches evaluated?
It is important that CAM therapies be evaluated with the same long and careful research process used to evaluate conventional treatments. The National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine (OCCAM) are sponsoring a number of clinical trials (research studies) at medical centers to evaluate CAM therapies for cancer. A listing of these trials is available at the OCCAM Clinical Trials Web page.
Conventional cancer treatments have generally been studied for safety and effectiveness through a rigorous scientific process that includes clinical trials with large numbers of patients. Less is known about the safety and effectiveness of many CAM therapies. Research of CAM therapies has been slower for a number of reasons:
- Time and funding issues.
- Problems finding institutions and cancer researchers to work with on the studies.
- Regulatory issues.
Some CAM therapies have undergone careful evaluation. A small number of CAM therapies originally meant to be alternative treatments are finding a place in cancer treatment as complementary therapies that may help patients feel better and recover faster. One example is acupuncture. According to a panel of experts at a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Consensus Conference in November 1997, acupuncture has been found to be effective in the management of chemotherapy -associated nausea and vomiting and in controlling pain associated with surgery. In contrast, some approaches, such as the use of laetrile, have been studied and found ineffective or possibly harmful.
- What is the NCI Best Case Series Program?
The NCI Best Case Series Program, which was started in 1991, is one way CAM approaches that are being used in practice are being investigated. The program is overseen by NCI's Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine (OCCAM). Health care professionals who offer alternative cancer therapies submit their patients' medical records and related materials to OCCAM. OCCAM conducts a critical review of the materials and develops follow-up research strategies for approaches that warrant NCI-initiated research.
- Are NCI and NCCAM sponsoring clinical trials in complementary and alternative medicine?
NCI and NCCAM are currently sponsoring or cosponsoring various clinical trials to study complementary and alternative treatments for patients with cancer. Some of these trials study the effects of complementary approaches used in addition to conventional treatments, while others compare alternative therapies with conventional treatments. Current trials include the following:
- Effect of Coenzyme Q10 on doxorubicinblood levels in women undergoing treatment of breast cancer (NCT00976131).
- Acupuncture to prevent dry mouth and improve quality of life in head and neck cancer patients receiving radiation (NCT01266044).
- Effect of Tai Chi versus structured exercise on physical fitness and stress reduction in cancer survivors (NCT00246818).
- Acupressure for persistent cancer-related fatigue (NCT01281904).
Patients who are interested in taking part in these or any clinical trials should talk with their doctor.
Several clinical trials databases offer patients, family members, and health professionals information about research studies that use CAM. Clinical trials can be found by searching the following:
- The NCI's PDQ Clinical Trials Database, which can be searched by using criteria such as cancer type, type of trial, geographic region, trial sponsorship, and/or drug name. This information is also available by calling the NCI's Cancer Information Service (1-800-4-CANCER [1-800-422-6237]).
- The NCCAM Clinical Trials Web page, which can be searched by the type of treatment or disease.
- The OCCAM Clinical Trials Web page, which provides links to NCI's PDQ Clinical Trials Database.
- The Clinical Trials.Gov Web page, which can be searched by the type of medical condition or intervention.
- What should patients do when using or considering complementary and alternative therapies?
Cancer patients using or considering complementary or alternative therapy should discuss this decision with their doctor or nurse, as they would any therapeutic approach. Some complementary and alternative therapies may interfere with standard treatment or may be harmful when used with conventional treatment. It is also a good idea to become informed about the therapy, including whether the results of scientific studies support the claims that are made for it. Some resources for this information are provided in Question 9.
- When considering complementary and alternative therapies, what questions should patients ask their health care providers?
- What benefits can be expected from this therapy?
- What are the risks associated with this therapy?
- Do the known benefits outweigh the risks?
- What side effects can be expected?
- Will the therapy interfere with conventional treatment?
- Is this therapy part of a clinical trial? If so, who is sponsoring the trial?
- Will the therapy be covered by health insurance?
Further information on evaluating CAM therapies and practitioners is available from NCCAM.
- What federal agencies can provide more information about CAM therapies?
Patients, their families, and their health care providers can learn about CAM therapies from the following government agencies and resources:
- NCCAM is the federal government's lead agency for scientific research on CAM. NCCAM is dedicated to exploring complementary and alternative healing practices in the context of rigorous science, training CAM researchers, and disseminating authoritative information to the public and professionals.
- TheNCCAM Clearinghouse provides information onNCCAM and on CAM, including fact sheets, other publications, and searches of federal databases of scientific and medical literature. Publications include the following:
- The Clearinghouse does not provide medical advice, treatment recommendations, or referrals to practitioners. NCCAM Clearinghouse Post Office Box 7923 Gaithersburg, MD 20898-7923 Toll-free in the United States: 1-888-644-6226 International: 301-519-3153 Callers with TTY equipment: 1-866-464-3615 Fax-on-Demand service: 1-888-644-6226 E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com Web site: http://nccam.nih.gov
NCI's OCCAM coordinates the activities of NCI in the area of complementary and alternative medicine. OCCAM supports CAM cancer research and provides information about cancer-related CAM to health providers and the general public on the NCI Web site.
- NCI Cancer Information Service
U.S. residents may call the NCI Cancer Information Service toll free at 1-800-4-CANCER (1-800-422-6237) Monday through Friday from 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM Eastern Time. A trained Cancer Information Specialist is available to answer your questions.
NCI's PDQ, a comprehensive cancer information database, contains peer-reviewed summaries of the latest information about the use of CAM in the treatment of cancer. Each summary contains background information about the specific treatment, a brief history of its development, information about relevant research studies, and a glossary of scientific and medical terms. CAM summaries can be found on NCI's Web site.
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
The FDA regulates drugs and medical devices to ensure that they are safe and effective. This agency provides a number of publications for consumers, including information about dietary supplements.U.S. Food and Drug Administration 5600 Fishers Lane Rockville, MD 20857 Telephone: 1-888-463-6332 (toll free) Web site: http://www.fda.gov FDA's Dietary Supplements Web page: http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm153239.htm
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
The FTC enforces consumer protection laws and offers publications to guide consumers. The FTC also collects information about fraudulent claims.Consumer Response Center Federal Trade Commission CRC-240 Washington, DC 20580 Telephone: 1-877-FTC-HELP (1-877-382-4357) (toll free) Callers with TTY equipment: 202-326-2502 Web site: http://www.ftc.gov
CAM on PubMed
CAM on PubMed, a database accessible via the Internet, was developed jointly by NCCAM and the NIH National Library of Medicine (NLM). It contains bibliographic citations (from 1966 to the present) to articles on CAM published in scientifically based, peer-reviewed journals. These citations are a subset of NLM's PubMed system, which contains more than 11 million journal citations from the MEDLINE database and additional life science journals important to health researchers, practitioners, and consumers. CAM on PubMed also displays links to many publisher Web sites, which may offer the full text of articles.
From Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Cancer Treatment, National Cancer Institute


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May 23 and 24th in Lincoln, New Hampshire http://www.lincolnwoodstock.com/events/geocache.php
It looks like fun and I'm planning on going for the weekend. Would anyone like to join in? You could do one day if both won't fit your schedule. I'm intrigued by it because it looks like a nice challenge but there are evidently some really nice prizes involved.
E-mail firstname.lastname@example.com if you are interested, just indicate which day(s) and a possible name for the team.