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Helping Breast Cancer Patients Make Tough Choices
By E.J. Mundell, HealthDay Reporter
TUESDAY, July 27 (HealthDayNews) -- In today's everchanging health-care environment, cancer patients and their doctors are turning to computers and other technologies to help with complicated decisions concerning care.
However, two new studies suggest nothing beats the human touch.
Educational "decision aids" for women worried about breast cancer work just fine but can never replace expert counseling from physicians or other health professionals, such as genetic counselors, the studies found.
"In the ideal world, these things are an educational tool, perhaps for use in a 'pre-counseling' session. But otherwise, trained people absolutely need to be involved," said Dr. Charis Eng, director of clinical cancer genetics at Ohio State University.
The two studies, plus Eng's commentary, appear in the July 28 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
According to Eng, recent advances in diagnostic procedures and treatments, plus a wider understanding of the role of genetics in disease, has made decision-making on the part of patients and their doctors tougher than ever.
Especially in the area of genetics, there simply aren't enough trained genetics counselors like Eng to go around -- only about 400 in the United States.
Nevertheless, "medicine is going to be pervaded by genetics and genomics," Eng said. Relying on one's doctor for up-to-date genetics information is dicey, she said, because medical schools still underemphasize genetics in their curriculum, and "most physicians aren't trained in this field."
Eng said she has seen firsthand the unfortunate results of a lack of good genetics counseling, with some doctors misinterpreting gene test results for women who worry they might have a genetic predisposition to breast cancer. In some cases, these women opt for prophylactic mastectomy -- removal of the breasts to ensure they escape the disease.
In the case of dubious genetic advice from their doctors, Eng said, "some women will call us, just to be sure, and then we pick up the pieces. But many of them have also had their breast removed because their surgeon told them the wrong thing."
Many women with a family history of breast cancer may worry they carry the BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene variants that can raise cancer risk.
In the first study, researcher Dr. Michael J. Green and colleagues at Penn State College of Medicine compared the usefulness of an educational, interactive computer program he created against traditional in-person genetics counseling. The goal: To see how the computer program helped women come to grips with issues surrounding BRCA1/BRCA2.
The computer "decision aid" first outlines the causes of breast cancer, then talks about genetic inheritance of disease in general before focusing on specific genes such as BRCA1 and BRCA2.
"We found that for improving knowledge, the computer program and the genetic counseling were both very effective," Green said. "They both raised knowledge levels considerably."
"On the other hand, knowledge isn't everything," Green added. "For lowering anxiety, counselors did better than the computer. People like talking to a counselor, they like that one-on-one interaction."
The second study, led by Timothy Whelan of Hamilton Health Services in Hamilton, Canada, examined the effectiveness of a "decision board" -- a kind of flip chart -- to help breast cancer patients make informed choices about whether to have a mastectomy or a less-radical lumpectomy.
The decision board guided women through various topics, such as "Treatment Choice," "Side Effects," and "Results of Treatment Choice for the Breast/for Survival."
The researchers found use of the chart "helpful in improving communication and enabling women to make a choice regarding treatment."
But while they may be useful tools, Eng said computer programs or decision boards should not and cannot replace the advice of a well-informed doctor or genetics counselor.
For one thing, she said, "Who's going to keep these things updated?" Genetics research is proceeding at an incredibly fast pace, she pointed out, so what seems like good information today may be obsolete a year from now. The genetics of disease is also becoming increasingly complicated, with malignancies dependent on the interaction of a number of genes, not just a single mutation, Eng said.
Green agreed, stressing that his computer program "isn't designed to give people specific advice."
"It's not a substitute for talking to a health-care professional," he said. "It's designed to provide information -- it doesn't tell them whether or not to get tested, or their specific risks for breast cancer, it's much more general. If they have specific questions they should always talk to a treatment professional."
To learn more about breast cancer, visit the American Cancer Society (www.cancer.org ).
SOURCES: Charis Eng, M.D., Ph.D., professor and director, Clinical Cancer Genetics, Ohio State University, Columbus, and professor, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England; Michael J. Green, M.D., M.S., associate professor, departments of Humanities and Medicine, Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, Pa.; July 28, 2004, Journal of the American Medical Association
Copyright ï¿½ 2004 ScoutNews, LLC. All rights reserved.


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SAF Aerogroup has signed via its subsidiary Aero Support Force an HCare In-Service support contract to cover their fleet of four Airbus H215 family helicopters and one H225 helicopter, operated by their subsidiaries Starlite Aviation and SAF International.
Also signed a second contract to retrofit 15 of its Airbus H125 helicopters with crash-resistant fuel system
SAF Aerogroup has signed via its subsidiary Aero Support Force an HCare In-Service support contract to cover their fleet of four H215 family helicopters and one H225 helicopter, operated by their subsidiaries Starlite Aviation and SAF International. The HCare In-Service package has been tailored to SAF Aerogroup’s specific operational needs, providing them with parts availability by-the-hour services to optimise the fleet’s maintenance and performance. SAF Aerogroup, again via its entity Aero Support Force, has also signed a second contract to retrofit 15 of its H125 helicopters with crash-resistant fuel system (CRFS). The fleet of H125s are operated by SAF Aerogroup’s subsidiaries: SAF Hélicoptères and Helilagon.
Able to retrofit our Airbus Ecureuil fleet at our own facilities with a limited amount of downtime
“In order to deliver on our commitment to provide reliable aircraft services for any call to action - and at a competitive cost - it is fundamental that we have a global streamlined maintenance package that we can depend on and that meets our specific operational requirements,” says Tiago Reis, CEO of Aero Support Force. “Safety is one of our top priorities - and modernising our helicopter fleet with the safest technologies is in line with these values. Thanks to the CRFS kits, we will be able to retrofit our Ecureuil fleet at our own facilities with a limited amount of downtime,” says Tristan Serretta, President of SAF Aerogroup.
“The new HCare offer has been designed with our customers’ unique needs and operational environments in mind. The HCare In-Service package is tailored to provide SAF Aerogroup's entire Super Puma fleet with the optimal level of Part Availability Commitment in the form of a Part-By-the-Hour (PBH) solution in order to best meet their specific operational needs in one single contract,” says Christoph Zammert, Executive Vice President of Customer Support & Services at Airbus Helicopters. “As our primary mission is to help our customers conduct their operations efficiently, safely, and cost-effectively, we’re honoured to be able to help SAF Aerogroup carry out their essential missions.”
A wide array of missions including firefighting, medevac, and rescue & relief operations
SAF Aerogroup is an international company present in Europe, the Indian Ocean and Africa. Its entity Aero Support Force is a service centre which provides maintenance and support for all of SAF Aerogroup’s operators. One of its subsidiaries, Starlite Aviation, operates the fleet of two Puma and Six Super Pumas for a wide array of missions including firefighting, medevac, and rescue & relief operations. Its European heavy-lifting operator SAF International is operating an additional Super Puma configured for delivering proficient aerial work.
HCare In-Service is one of the three flexible solutions included in the new HCare offer, which also includes HCare Initial and HCare Lifetime. For specific fleets, HCare First is available for Airbus Corporate Helicopters (ACH) aircraft and HCare Classics for the out-of-production legacy fleet (H120, Dauphin, Puma and Gazelle).


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In The Glass Swallow Julia Golding revisits the world she created in Dragonfly. This is more of a companion piece than a sequel, however, and tells the story of Rain. She designs the stained glass made by her father’s workshop but the law is clear: girls may not be part of the glassmakers’ guild. To keep her secret she is sent to the nearby country of Magharna, arriving as that society’s structure begins to crumble. She is rescued – twice – by the untouchable Peri, with whom it will ultimately fall to her to rescue Magharna. Julia Golding’s novel is engaging and thought-provoking, telling the story of believable and engrossing characters. A novel to be eagerly read by those who love fantasy and one that will persuade others to give the genre a try.
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Juliet in Publishing by Elizabeth Churchill is a book I’ve added to my collection as an adult and it’s one of my favourite career novels. I don’t have anything else by Elizabeth Churchill and I don’t know if she wrote more.
As we meet her, Juliet has just arrived in England from Australia and is on the train up to London from Southampton. Serendipitously, she finds a job as secretary at the Iliad Press, a small but well-known publishing house. Along with Juliet, the reader is plied with information about the book trade as Juliet moves from post to post. If the book is to be believed, publishing was at a turning point (Juliet was published in 1956) and the Iliad Press, a small family concern is contrasted with the modern, much more commercial Symmons and Symmons.
Naturally, openings for women were few and far between and were mostly secretarial. I’m just of a generation that didn’t expect to find discrimination at work although, of course, it was still there but Juliet, who’d have been ages with my mother, lived and moved and had her being in an altogether different world where successful businesswomen were still regarded with suspicion.
By rights Mimi by John Newman should be a dismal read, recounting as it does the days after the death of Mimi’s mother. Her family is not coping well and Mimi, the youngest, is struggling to make sense of life as she experiences it. However, this is not a maudlin book; it is poignant and funny and real. John Newman handles his subject with insight and sensitivity and manages to keep the resolution realistic as well as positive. Full of a mixture of emotions, the story avoids sentimentality without ever minimising the sense of loss felt by Mimi’s family.
I read this book when it was first published and reviewed it The Scotsman. The book really captured my heart and I’ve been recommending it to children ever since. I commend it now to you!
Philip Reeve was another author I discovered in the course of my duties as a Carnegie Medal judge. Predator’s Gold was longlisted in one of my years and I thoroughly enjoyed it. In fact, I enjoyed it so much that I read all the others in the set. So, years later, I was delighted to read Fever Crumb.
Fever Crumb by Philip Reeve recounts the much earlier history of the world of the Mortal Engines quartet but it doesn’t depend on having read those books. Fever has been brought up by the Guild of Engineers, men who believe in reason not emotion. At the age of fourteen, however, she is sent to work outside the Guild’s precincts and gradually everything she has been taught about the world and herself begins to unravel. Who is she really? And what has she to fear from Charley? This tightly-plotted, fast-paced adventure has all the answers.
When the bank his parents own crashes, Oliver’s life starts to spin out of control. Precipitated into responsibility for a grumpy girl, her unpredictable mother, sixteen camels and a dog, he has to do some fast thinking, creative planning – and difficult sums. Too Small to Fail is another book by Morris Gleitzman and sees him at his clever best. The humorous story has moments of unexpected pathos, a thought-provoking undercurrent and a cliff-hanger ending. Gleitzman’s lightness of touch and awareness of the absurd, not to mention his ability to tell a gripping story, make this a book not to be missed.
I really like the way Morris Gleitzman writes. It feels simple but there’s always a deeper point being made. I could have chosen many of his books for this selection but I enjoy this one for the journey across Australia it takes us on.
I know I’m not alone in having had horrible experiences of being compelled to read books in primary school that I hated. But, hopefully, I’m also not alone in having discovered some great ones. For me The Hill of the Red Fox by Allan Campbell McLean stands out. We read it, I think, in Primary 6 and it stays with me yet. Which is a good thing. On one memorable occasion one of our authors failed to turn up at the Spirit of Moray Book Festival. The audience, however, didn’t! It fell to me to entertain them and I did that by using an excerpt from this book.
It all starts when Alasdair is on the train from Glasgow to Mallaig en route for Skye, the birthplace of the father he scarcely remembers. On board he encounters two men, each chilling in his own way, who leave the train in dramatic fashion and leave Alasdair with a crumpled note saying ‘Hunt at the Hill of the Red Fox MI5’. Allan Campbell McLean’s classic thriller is as exciting today as it was fifty years ago. The Hill of the Red Fox is published by Kelpies Classics.
Two reviews for one today. I’ve added these books to my picture book collection but they’re not simple and they can be enjoyed by fluent readers as well as those we normally think of as picture book consumers.
The Day the Crayons Quit seems like a simple picture book but take a closer look. Debut author Drew Daywalt and celebrated illustrator Oliver Jeffers have produced a sophisticated triumph in technicolour! One day Duncan’s crayons all write him letters that make him re-assess his colouring-in. Drew Daywalt creates unique identities for each crayon in a few well chosen words and Oliver Jeffers brings them expressively to life. Give this book to competent young readers who realise they’re never too old to draw.
The Day the Crayons Came Home is Oliver Jeffers’ and Drew Daywalt’s triumphant sequel to The Day the Crayons Quit. The tale is told through a collection of postcards sent to Duncan by his missing crayons. One by one they tell their sad stories as they prepare to come back. And, full of remorse, Duncan builds them a home. Daywalt and Jeffers collaborate brilliantly to create a funny, strangely heart-warming story of a reunion that children and their parents will enjoy. The premise may be simple but this is a sophisticated book in language and illustration.

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5 Cool Themes For Teenage Girls Bedroom
There are many options to create cool rooms for teenagers. These theme ideas can be taken from movie and story. The key factors here are funny, colorful and beautiful. Six cool rooms for teenagers themes below can be consider to beautify your teenage girls bedroom. These theme are ballerina girls theme, Moroccan theme, carousel theme, celestial theme and fairy theme.
First cool rooms for teenagers theme is ballerina theme. This is about girl dancer. This theme is good to be expressed on white, pink and purple. To decorate bedroom with this theme, several ways can be done: ballerina picture on pink frame, bedding sets with ballerina or piano pictures, wall with ballerina decal or stencil, table lamp with ballerina cloth shape and so on.
Second cool rooms for teenagers theme is Moroccan theme. This theme is inspired from movie “I Dream Of Jeannie”. Bedroom with this theme is looked colorful and exotic. Here are few examples to do it: pillow with colorful satin material, wall with I Dream Of Jeannie decal, bed with valance, Moroccan lantern on ceiling, magic lamp on cabinet and so on.
Third theme for teenage girls bedroom is carousel theme. Carousel is popular playing where this playing can move in circle direction. Usually on this playing is completed with few wood or fiber horses and kids drive these horses. Few examples to decorate bedroom with this theme: wall with carousel pictures decal, bedding sets with carousel pictures, ceiling fan with carousel shape, table lamp with carousel picture on cap and so on.
Fourth theme is celestial theme. On this theme, important picture elements are cloud, sun, moon and star. These elements are shown in funny expression, for example smiling sun and moon. To decorate with this theme: wall is beautified with stars picture decal, bedding sets with sun and moon pictures, table lamp with stars picture on cap and so on.
Fifth theme is fairy theme. Fairy is popular fiction character for girls. This character is described as a girls with wings like butterfly. Wall with fairy decal, poster with fairy picture, mirror with fairy shape frame and bedding sets with fairy pictures are few examples to decorate bedroom with this theme.


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The fact that Texas music titans Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Butch Hancock - on their first go-round as The Flatlanders in 1972 - were completely rejected by the country music establishment is surprising in retrospect but, ultimately, poetic. That each went on to have formidable solo careers is a testament to their talent and determination. Add to this their diverse yet complimentary styles - Joe the street-wise rocker, Jimmie Dale the mystic with the classic country voice and Butch the cerebral folk singer - and you've got a story of one of the most extraordinary kinships in American musical history.
Hancock reflects, "We came together as a bunch of friends who happened to be musicians, too. There's just that crazy Lubbock mystery to it. We've all had our focus on the quality of the songs and the music, instead of any kind of 'me first' thing, or any kind of ego trips. It's almost like the old Marx Brothers thing: Three guys get to the door at the same time, and they all say, 'Oh, no, you go first.' 'No, you go first.' 'No, please, please, you go first.'"
Ely adds, "We've always been close, but now I think that we all realize that this is something that is really special. There are very few people who have remained as close as we have, especially in the music world. There are cases out there where brothers won't even talk to each other because they've been in the music business together. We consider this a real precious thing."
"For it to still be as much fun as it was in the beginning, I feel blessed," says Gilmore. "A lot of musicians don't get that luxury."

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Garam masala, a mix of different spices, roasted and powdered, is an essential ingredient in Indian cooking. It is used for seasoning Indian curries or rice preparation. Variation in flavour occurs across different regional cuisine based on the spices used. Traditionally, the whole spices are roasted to release their aroma and then ground using a pestle and mortar. Learn how to make this popular version called Punjabi Garam Masala at home. Add this garam masala to your next preparation and enjoy the aroma and warmth.
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I recently joined the rarefied heights achieved by The Children’s Museum of Manhattan and Butterball Turkey in being recognized by Pamela Geller as an imminent threat to the survival of Western Civilization, thanks to my recent piece in the Monitor about the #MyJihad campaign. Rather than sitting back and basking in my honor, I would like take this opportunity to respond and correct some of the most egregious insults that the truth suffered in it.
As the nation mourns the senseless violence in Connecticut and politicians in Washington bicker endlessly over the “fiscal cliff,” the #MyJihad public education campaign should have presented an unambiguous bit of good news to a country in sore need of it. Bus ads and Twitter posts promoting peace, tolerance, and understanding; who could possibly object?
According to the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), the summer of 2012 saw one of the “worst spikes of anti-Muslim incidents in over a decade.” The FBI and Southern Poverty Law Center also recently noted that anti-Muslim hate crimes remain near a decade high.
In her article I’m offending ‘savages’? guilty as charged Pamela Geller discusses the release of her anti-Jihad ads that appear in New York, San Francisco, and Washington D.C. The ad reads “In any war between civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad.”


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With solo shelters, it seems we often make big sacrifices. If we want something truly lightweight, we have to sacrifice huge amounts of living space — often to the point that a solo tent feels more like a nylon coffin. Trust, us. You don’t ever want to wait out a two-day driving rainstorm in a shelter where there’s barely room to roll over, much less sit up straight.
But the Big Agnes Copper Spur UL1 provides a great balance of weight savings and comfort. This three-season tent proved to be the perfect shelter for a spring solo trip through the backcountry of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, which included warm, humid nights as well as cool ones with pounding rain.
Weight-conscious backpackers should take note that the tent has a “fast fly” option, allowing users to pitch only the fly and a footprint for a package that weighs 2 pounds, 2 ounces. For our test, we carried the tent body, fly, poles and stakes with no footprint, and the weight was just under 3 pounds. While this is not the absolute lightest way to travel, it never felt like a burden, and over the years we’ve found many ways to shave pounds elsewhere in our packs.
Our favorite aspect of the Copper Spur UL1 is that you get a great living space for the weight. The peak height of the tent body is 37 inches, which allowed our tester (who is 5 foot, 8 inches tall) plenty of room to sit up. Steep sidewalls also help to create a roomy interior. On one side of the tent, the fly extends out 32 inches to create a vestibule that held a backpack, while the fly on the opposite side extends 13 inches to create a smaller space where our tester stored muddy boots. (A small zipper door on this short side provided easy access when he needed to grab his boots for quick trips outside the tent.) Plus, the main body of the tent is 90 inches long, so it will accommodate taller folks.
This tent is not only comfortable, but also easy to pitch. The main set of DAC Featherlite poles has a hub system, so poles snap into place quickly, and there are few loose pieces, which means you’re less likely to lose something along the trail. A second, short pole runs perpendicular to the main set at the top of the tent to raise the sidewalls. The design is fairly intuitive, and the poles attach easily to the main body with a series of clips. One nice detail is that the clips have a slight twist, which reduces the force needed to snap them onto the poles. Basically, you don’t have to struggle to get the thing set up. Also, the buckles that attach the fly to the tent body are color-coded, so you don’t have to waste time guessing which way to situate the fly before attaching it.
Made of silicone-treated nylon, and coated with polyurethane, the fully taped, waterproof fly worked like a champ, shedding water during hours of heavy wind and rain. Our tester deployed the guy lines, and the tent proved to be plenty stable, with no irritating flapping at night to keep a person awake in blustery weather.
The humidity level was pretty high during testing, but it vented well thanks to an ample amount of mesh on the tent body, as well as a high vent that props open. Throughout the hike, there was no condensation inside the tent body, and the waterproof floor, made of the same material as the fly, also remained dry on the inside.
Another thing that stands out with this tent is that Big Agnes put much thought into reducing weight wherever possible. For example, the zipper pulls are made of long strips of durable cloth rather than metal, and the tent stakes are made of extremely lightweight aluminum that’s anodized so the stakes won’t bend easily.
You’d have to think long and hard to find fault with this tent, but the bottom line is it’s a very well-designed shelter created by folks who have obviously taken plenty of solo journeys. Just because you’re hiking alone, it doesn’t mean that you have to give up a good night’s sleep, or sacrifice a comfortable place to while away the rainy hours.
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Keep the software on your Windows computer up-to-date and running smooth.
Samsung, battling to hold on to its lead in the smartphone market, needs to win back consumers from Apple with its next big thing. But will the new Galaxy S6 be big enough?
Update to Apple's mobile OS will add and enhance certain health features as the company gets ready to share more about its Apple Watch on Monday, according to a report.
The next evolution in wireless networking holds promises of self-driving cars and movies that download in the blink of an eye. 5G is big at this year's Mobile World Congress, but don't expect it until 2020.
Is Samsung afraid to commit to one Galaxy S6? The two new models are the same, except for the screen -- and both remove features fans loved. Meanwhile, HTC shows off the Grip fitness band and Vive VR headset.
Finally, an easy way to lower your monthly cable bill. Plus: free stuff!
That's the best deal to date for Google's unlimited-music service. What happens after three months? Let June worry about that.
Microsoft has released a preview of its updated Office suite for Mac OS 10.10 users. The official version is due out around the middle of the year.
It can be hard to catch all the new shows on TV, so Apple's made some premieres free for a limited time. Plus iTunes gets some movies the same time as theaters.
Demonstrations at Mobile World Congress show the growing momentum toward the launch of faster, more responsive mobile networks in 2020.
It's a big round number and all, but in the world of mobile messaging BBM remains one of the smaller players.

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Top Song of 2012 – Readers Poll
All year long we've been working on our list of the Top Songs of 2012, but now it's time to ask for your opinion. Of the dozens of hits that have impacted country radio since January 1, which is the top song of 2012? The tracks included in today's readers poll are ones that have proven themselves on sales and radio airplay charts. They've also become the most requested songs in the country.
The first single from Carrie Underwood's new album seems poised to be amongst the top songs when the year ends, but the superstar is getting strong competition from artists like Luke Bryan, Miranda Lambert and Eric Church. Also included is the fifth single from Jason Aldean's latest album, which proves it's worth every fan and industry accolade he's received.
Is there another song you think should be on this list? Tell us about it in the comments section below.

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An old Spokane park is becoming new again, as Huntington Park, which sits along the Spokane River below city hall, is getting a facelift.
Excavators and dirt piles now sit where the Spokane City Hall parking lot used to be as construction crews are turning the spot into a new plaza that next spring will include two water features, a fire feature and stone benches that will offer unobstructed views of the Monroe Street bridge and the Spokane River.
The new plaza will also offer a gateway to Huntington Park, which was built for Expo '74 but wasn't used much because of its difficult access and it was hidden down along the river.
Named for a former president of Washington Water Power, Huntington Park is getting a new stone retaining wall, lawns, landscaping, sidewalks, and picnic areas.
Avista owns the land and is paying for the renovations. The project is about 80-percent complete and is scheduled to be finished in the spring, just in time for Avista's 125th birthday and the 40th anniversary of Expo '74.
For most people the biggest change with the new park is they've rerouted traffic on Post Street, narrowed it so now it's for northbound traffic only.
- City Council approves $1.75m loan for Ridpath Redevelopment
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Sitting on his bed late one night during his senior year of high school, Pat Connaughton made a decision that shaped the rest of his life. He was supposed to be making his official visit to UCLA that upcoming weekend, but instead he signed up to become “a Notre Dame man.”
“I just decided it was the place for me,” the senior guard/forward from Arlington, Massachusetts, said of the moment at the men’s basketball team’s year-end banquet April 13. “I don’t know what it was, if it was a thought or recollecting on it, but that’s just what happened.”
Four years later, it’s hard to argue with his choice.
Irish senior captain Pat Connaughton greets his teammates during introductions before Wednesday's game.
Playing three years with the Notre Dame baseball team, Connaughton amassed an 11-11 record and 3.03 ERA in 32 appearances, 30 of which were starts. He was drafted by the Baltimore Orioles in the fourth round (121st overall) of the 2014 MLB Draft and pitched for the Aberdeen IronBirds for a couple of months this summer. Out of high school he had been drafted in the 50th round by the San Diego Padres but came to South Bend instead.
After pitching for the months of June and July, Connaughton returned to campus in time to practice with his basketball teammates before their trip to Italy this summer.
“He flat out had his hand on the pulse of this thing as soon as he got back from the Orioles’ rookie ball and in Italy,” Irish head coach Mike Brey said to the sold-out crowd at the banquet. “He had the whole thing handled, and it was amazing to watch. It’s one of the greatest displays of leadership we have ever had at this University, and maybe in the country.”
Coming back for his fourth year was never in doubt, Connaughton said. It’s always been more about the people.
“I love the two sports, obviously, they’re my life, but I think the most important thing to me are the people I surround myself with, whether it’s family [or] friends ... that are family to me because I was an only child,” Connaughton said. “The people enjoyed it. To put a smile on people’s faces because of something you’re fortunate to be able to do [was great]."
The St. John’s Prep product said he and senior guard Jerian Grant were in contact over the summer about returning for one last ride.
“It was something we were always kind of leaning towards,” Connaughton said. “As the season came to an end and as the draft came to an end for me, I was able to work through and get the deal where I could come back and not have to worry about it. We talked, and I knew he was coming back at that point.
“He always made the joke that if I wasn’t coming back, he wasn’t coming back, and we kind of knew we were in it together, and we wanted to make sure we accomplished things together.”
Under the pair’s leadership this season, the Irish won the ACC championship and reached the NCAA tournament’s Elite Eight for the first time since 1979, coming a mere two points from shocking then-undefeated No. 1 seed Kentucky and advancing to the Final Four for only the second time in program history.
“Pat, this season I wouldn’t be where I am without you,” Grant said while addressing those gathered at the banquet. “You helped me lead. You helped me become a better person on and off the court.”
Grant also recalled Connaughton asking him to be a captain with him for the postseason run, bringing Grant with him to the referee meeting at center court before each game.
“I don’t know if that was allowed, but we did it,” Grant said. “My whole career here at Notre Dame, I’ve never been able to go up there with the captains, so for him to ask me to do that meant a lot to me.”
Despite standing only 6-foot-5, Connaughton bulled his way all over the court into leading the team in rebounds (7.4 per game) while also averaging 12.5 points per game, good for third on the team behind Grant and junior forward Zach Auguste.
“That’s a skill that you’ve got to give him a lot of credit for,” Auguste said at the banquet. “Not a lot of [6-foot-5] guys can lead the team in rebounding, let alone be up there in the conference.”
Connaughton was quick to point out this was one of the closest teams he had ever been a part of, which made his job as team captain much easier.
“Obviously on the court, everyone just had the desire to win,” he said. “Personal goals come second. But most importantly as we grew was the off-the-court stuff: we were genuinely friends, we were genuinely family, and that was the most important thing because I didn’t really feel that the three years prior to this. Obviously you feel it with some guys, but I’ve never felt it with all 13 guys, and that’s what eventually put us over the top.”
In his four-year basketball career at Notre Dame, Connaughton appeared in all 139 games the Irish played, starting 123, including the last 120 games of his career. That streak started with one of Connaughton’s favorite memories, a 67-58 win over undefeated No. 1 Syracuse at Purcell Pavilion on Jan. 21, 2012.
“To beat the No. 1 team in the country that was undefeated was the true meaning of court storming,” Connaughton said. “You see them do it now for every little thing, but that was the true meaning of one, and to be a part of it was awesome.”
Reflecting on his senior year on the hardwood, Connaughton said it was only a “stepping stone” for the program.
“Jerian and myself wanted to right the ship, so to speak, and leave a program that deserves so much success in a place where it can attain success on a consistent basis,” he said.
However, Connaughton said Notre Dame had a much larger impact on him than he did on it, teaching him how to be “a Notre Dame man.”
“It’s a phrase that really rings true in this community,” he said. “Being from the Boston area, you don’t hear anyone say, ‘You’re a BC man.’ It just doesn’t sound as good. You’re a Notre Dame man, and that’s something Jerian and myself have learned throughout the four years. I think you come in and you think, ‘Well, I’m at Notre Dame now, I must be a Notre Dame man.’ As you continue to go through you realize you have to go through the four years to learn that.”
As he moves to his post-Notre Dame life, Connaughton said both baseball and basketball are still very much open to him.
“I think for me it’s day-by-day. ... Both are an option as the summer comes along,” he said.
Whatever the future holds, the senior’s impact will be felt long after he receives his management-consulting degree from the Mendoza College of Business at graduation. His coach summarized it best:
“I don’t know if we’ve had a student-athlete like this.”


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With True Blood on a break, we’re seeing the stars pop up all over network television. Joe Manganiello was on last week’s episode of White Collar, Ryan Kwanten will be on New Girl Feb. 14, and now Jim Parrack (Hoyt Fortenberry) will be on Alcatraz!
Parrack is scheduled to star on the Monday Feb. 6 episode of Alcatraz (1×05) as Guy Hastings, an Alcatraz guard who reappears, without having aged, in present day.
Although a good man, Hastings is being asked to do bad things and will come face-to-face with an old acquaintance in the all-new “Guy Hastings” episode of ALCATRAZ airing Monday, Feb. 6 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX.
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Has the Obama administration slacked off on a promise to deport illegal aliens involved in criminal activity — or just having trouble finding any? When running for his second term, Barack Obama responded to pressure from Hispanic voters by promising to end the spike in deportations that had begun under George W. Bush and crescendoed in his first term. On that point Obama has delivered, as the Associated Press reports that deportations have fallen to a nine-year low:
The Obama administration deported fewer immigrants over the past 12 months than at any time since 2006, according to government figures obtained by The Associated Press.
Deportations of criminal immigrants have fallen to the lowest levels since President Barack Obama took office in 2009, despite his pledge to focus on finding and deporting criminals living in the country illegally. The share of criminal immigrants deported in relation to overall immigrants deported rose slightly, from 56 percent to 59 percent.
The overall total of 231,000 deportations generally does not include Mexicans who were caught at the border and quickly returned home by the U.S. Border Patrol. The figure does include roughly 136,700 convicted criminals deported in the last 12 months. Total deportations dropped 42 percent since 2012.
However, at the same time, Obama promised to refocus deportation efforts on criminals and national-security risks. So did Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson last year in a Congressional hearing. How has that worked out?
The biggest surprise in the figures was the decline in criminal deportations. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson last year directed immigration authorities anew to focus on finding and deporting immigrants who pose a national security or public safety threat, those who have serious criminal records or those who recently crossed the Mexican border. The decline suggests the administration has been failing to find criminal immigrants in the U.S. interior, or that fewer immigrants living in the U.S. illegally had criminal records serious enough to justify deporting them.
It’s possible that the result of earlier deportations was to thin out the ranks of criminals among the illegal immigrants that remain in the US. It’s also possible that the DHS isn’t looking too hard for them. The AP’s Alicia Caldwell offers both as a possibility, as well as the fact that it’s easier to deport Mexican nationals across the border than it is to fly home Central American illegals, which is what’s required. Over the last couple of years, illegal immigration across the southern border has involved more of the latter than the former. However, Caldwell also notes that arrests have dropped significantly over the same period, too.
Clearly, though, the White House hasn’t made enforcement a big priority in the last couple of years. Don’t expect it to get much better if the GOP fails to win the presidency in 2016 either, as Hillary Clinton scolded Obama this week for being too tough on enforcement:
Obama started out his presidency by deporting record numbers of immigrants in what ended up being a failed effort to convince Republicans to agree to immigration reform. But in an interview that aired Sunday and Monday with Telemundo News’ María Celeste Arrarás, Clinton said she wouldn’t go that route.
The former secretary of state promised to push for comprehensive immigration reform “as soon as” she gets into office.
“In the meantime, I’m not gonna be breaking up families,” she continued, according to a transcript provided by the network. “And I think that is one of the differences. But I totally understand why the Obama administration felt as though they did what they did under the circumstances. But I think we’ve learned that the Republicans, at least the current crop, are just not acting in good faith.”
Obama made it plain with his executive actions on DACA and DAPA that he won’t be prioritizing deportations, either. Hillary’s promising even less enforcement — and also without Congressional approval.


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From burying communities to building new land, this historic eruption is changing the landscape of Hawai‘i Island.
Meanwhile, some scientists say that the 35-year eruption from the Pu‘u Ō‘ō vent has ended and that the flows since 3 May are a new eruption. Others take issue with this view.
Scientists say the dramatic increase in flows is likely due to the arrival of younger, hotter magma in the system.
Sinking magma levels and rockfalls prompt warnings, flight restrictions, and the shutdown of Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park.
Ocean slicks—naturally occurring bands of smooth water—are home to an astounding diversity of fish larvae and other marine life, researchers show.
By midcentury, the Hawaiian green sea turtle could lose nesting beaches of increasing importance on Oahu, the most populous island in the chain.
Mauna Loa is stirring—is a major eruption imminent? Comparisons with previous eruptions paint a complicated picture.
Volcano seismic waves produce distinct tremor patterns, or "fingerprints," shared by different kinds of volcanoes.
Research shows that a broken lithosphere underneath the island of Hawai'i could explain the island's patterns of seismic activity.
Geophysicists used unique seismic signatures to track the cyclic rise and fall of lava inside Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park's Overlook crater.


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So we learn this week that the countries of Armenia and Azerbaijan are involved in a real shooting war with missiles, aircraft and tanks. It’s all over a disputed territory ('country') called by them Nagorno-Karabakh.
Where? What? Nagorno-Karabakh I learn means ‘mountainous black garden’ but the ethnically-Armenian people living there prefer to call the region by the ancient Armenian name of Artsakh.
My quick geography lesson places Nagorno-Karabakh or Artsakh at the southern end of the Caucasus Mountains, lying south of Russia and Georgia, north of Turkey and Iran, and just to the west of the Caspian Sea. Not an area we habitually think about much.
My quick history lesson found that the mountainous area used to lie entirely within the borders of Azerbaijan. It has a population which is predominantly ethnic Armenian and Christian, as opposed to the predominantly Muslim Azerbaijan. After the break-up of the Soviet Union, and the creation of Azerbaijan as a separate sovereign state, the people of Nagorno-Karabakh or Artsakh rebelled in 1990, and set up what they claimed was an independent country of its own, called The Republic of Artsakh. But this remains unrecognised by the United Nations. The Armenians helped with the revolution, and opened up a corridor of land linking Armenia with their cousin not-quite-so-official country. The people of Nagorno-Karabakh or Artsakh celebrated their 30th anniversary of ‘independence’ earlier this month. Perhaps that was the provocation for the Azerbaijan military strike, and the Armenian response.
All of which begs the question: when should a country be a country? Or more specifically, (and perhaps controversially) should an ethnic nation become a separate country just because of that?
The United Nations was founded after the Second World War on the principle of honouring the internationally-recognised sovereign states that existed before the war – with some notable exceptions. The creation of the State of Israel was one. Since then, the injustice and plain administrative hassles of some hybrid ex-colonial states has resulted in the creation of new countries. East Timor and South Sudan come to mind.
The break-up of the Soviet Union created a bunch of ‘new’ countries, including Azerbaijan in August 1991. But it had been an independent country before in 1918, the world’s first secular Muslim-majority state, before being invaded by the Soviet Red Army in 1920. Lots of oil there, you see. A further geographical complication is that Azerbaijan has a land-locked island province, Nakhichivan, to the west of Armenia.
Earlier, Armenia became its own country too, in 1918 after the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. It was also subsumed into the Soviet Union, and became one of its founding states in 1922. Armenia also achieved a subsequent independence in 1991. They’ve got their own unique alphabet there.
So, it’s complicated. These are three ancient, or very new, or unrecognized countries – depending on how you look at them.
And that’s what intrigues me. How do we look at countries? Generally, they are those that fit within borders we recognize. But is that always right and proper? In the north of Somalia, for instance, roughly corresponding to the area that was the old Italian colony, lies the unrecognized country of Somaliland. Now Somalia is generally recognized as a failed state, with widespread lawlessness and an extensive almost-terminal breakdown of most systems of government – and has been so for some time. Somaliland, by contrast, has functioned peacefully, in autonomy, since 1991 (a date which co-incidentally seems to have spawned a number of new, independent states). Somaliland has its own money, runs democratic elections, offers hospitals and social services, and generally runs as a country should. Entirely unlike Somalia. But nobody wants to know. Least of all the United Nations. Why? That I just can't figure out.
Same with Taiwan. Which, by most definitions, is a relatively successful, independent island country. And most recently, very successful in combatting the Covid-crisis. It declared its independence in 1949, after a Nationalist (not Communist) Chinese government was established there. The island was inhabited already by an ancient indigenous people, who some academics posit were the progenitors of the Polynesians, way back.
But here’s the curious thing. The Republic of China (Taiwan) was a founding member of the United Nations in the immediate post Second World War years, and held the seat of China on the Security Council and other UN bodies until 1971. But then the threat of the much larger Communist China got Taiwan booted out of the UN (resolution 2758), and it’s been in the wilderness ever since, officially ‘unrecognised’ by the UN. But operating on its own, and trading normally with the world, including with New Zealand.
So, what’s fair for a country to actually be a country? At the moment, there are around 50 unrecognised states like Artsakh, Somaliland, Taiwan and Tibet. A lot of them, like the Lakota Nation, which declared its independence in 2007 to supreme indifference from the USA, are based entirely on a single ethnicity and that people's historical range. But there are many functioning mixed nation states among them too.
All I can figure out, after this brief incursion into complicated histories, is that it is not quite so simple to call a country a country. Among all the other things that are uncertain out there. Good luck to us all – including the Artsakhians.

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Album: Carry on Kid
Label: InVogue Records
- Melody, Save Me
- Full Hands, Empty Hearts
- Live For What Lasts
- At Seapoint
- How Do I Look Up To A Man In The Ground?
- Messy Masterpiece
The hardcore scene in general has been a fairly dark place recently. Well known forerunners in the genre like Defeater, Counterparts, and Hundredth have each released amazing records this past year that I personally have been listening to non-stop. The only catch to these releases however, is the fact that lyrically, the subject matter is rather bleak in each record.
While to some, this may not be a hindrance, but to me I tend to get so absorbed into the music that the lyrics can at times take a toll on my emotions.
This is where Worthwhile comes in. They fit the general sound as all the bands previously mentioned, yet have a nearly unmatched joy that shines through their music.
Upon hearing James Teyler howl the opening the inspiring opening line, “Carry on kid!”, I knew this album would be something special – something that would take a different look on the hardcore scene.
Lyrically Homebuilder is different than any other hardcore song I’ve heard. The track has Teyler addressing a father in a way not usually found today choosing to praise the dad for all he has done for the family. Lyrics like, “Thanks for being Dad whose bags aren’t packed, waiting by the door / Looking for the perfect time to go, like I’ve seen in so many other homes.” and “I’m proud to be your boy. I love I bring you joy.” really hit home. Accompanied by subtle melodic leads and driving rhythm, Homebuilder is sure to put a smile on the listener’s face.
Melody, Save Me is another standout track that much like the title suggests, focuses a lot on melody. Much of the guitar is reverb laden which accentuates the leads nicely. Drummer, Luke Teyler makes a great performance as well, pummelling his kit with a variety of beats while his brother shouts, “Never could I tell you what music means to my life /It’s like trying to describe a sunrise.”
At Seapoint breaks the pacing of the album up a bit, choosing to take it’s time to build things up a bit rather than blasting full speed ahead as most of the other songs on the album. The track then bleeds into the soothing instrumental, How Do I Look Up To A Dead Man In The Ground?.
The last three tracks on the album are truly what makes the record shine I believe. Vagrant is one of my favorites, perfectly mixing beauty and hardness. The track absolutely rips for the first half before slowing down to ponder only to rise up again with such power it gives me goosebumps. Teylor also brings forth some of my favorite lyrics on the record, “Something keeps this tired heart going./ It’s in the darkest times, we find ourselves growing. / The mind’s the standard of the man. / I surround myself with those who remind me of who I am.”.
Unlovable sears it’s way into the listener’s eardrums with the fastest and heaviest beats on the whole record. If there is only one song to check out on the whole record this is the song I would suggest seeing as it packs a full punch and explores everything the band’s sound has to offer.
Messy Masterpiece ends the album nearly perfectly with worshipful and heartfelt lyrics that I’ll let speak for themselves:
“Son, you are my song. Let’s hear something beautiful.
As you look upon your messy masterpiece,
my heart beats one step ahead of my feet.
‘No guilt in life, no fear in death from life’s first cry to final breath.
No power of hell, no scheme of man can ever pluck me from my Father’s hand.’
Love of the Father is the only hope for a wayward son.
Blood and water paved the painful road home done.
Grace and mercy come with every single morning dawn.
This heavenly heartbeat is the only reason I can carry on.
Kid, see yourself through your Father’s eyes.
It’s not the same shade as the world cries.
I confess I don’t know much about love,
where it’s from is just so high above.
But until my time arrives, love is the reason I’m alive.
Son, you are my song. Let’s hear something beautiful.
As you look upon your messy masterpiece,
my heart beats one step ahead of my feet.”
The only real negative that I found with this release are that the band seem to still be looking for their signature sound to some extent. They do not quite stand on their own sound-wise and seem to borrow from other well known bands. This is something that will be remedied with time and experience.
Overall: Worthwhile have an extremely bright future ahead of them as they blaze their way into the hardcore scene with a positive outlook and a hopeful message. This band will be around for a long time and soon begin to blaze their own trail as they gain more experience.
RIYL: Defeater | Counterparts | Hundredth


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Duration: 05 Days
Type: Peru Amazon Tours.
Destinations: Iquitos, Cumaceba Lodge, Navegation on the Amazon river, walk for the amazon observing the flora and fauna.
You can visit the cumaceba lodge, build according to the nature, designed to give a nice and a comfortable stay to its visitors.
This Lodge contains a bar, dining room, amacas, handicraft stores, place of games, double rooms, triple rooms, private bathrooms all for your comfort and contact with the wild life; other kind of things that you can do is: lighted night hikes to the banks of the river.
Iquitos Wildlife Iguana Tour is a very beautiful tours on the jungle
Transfer to the dock for boarding our speed boat and visit to Belen floating village on the itaya river. Navegation on the Amazon, watching different villages. Arrival welcome drink in Cumaceba Lodge. Room asigment in private cabins. Little jungle walk observing orchids. Typical lunch self service. Jungle hike knowing the wildlife flora and fauna.
Sunset on the Amazon. Night jungle excursion searching insects, anfibians, tarantulas etc. and talking about Jungle legends. Overnight in Cumaceba Lodge.
Early morning, excursion for bird watching on shansho Cocha. (Hoatzin lake) Breakfast. Visit to the Yagua community, observing typical dresses (grass skirt) native language, life style. Blowgun demostration and the way how they hunt in times gone by, handycrafts comerce or trading.
Typical lunch. Amazon journey for visiting a family conservation animal shelter as: sloths, monkeys, turtles, anacondas and boa constrictors. Grey and pink river dolphins watching.
Night jungle cayman seeking.
Dinner . Overnight.
Breakfast. Amazon trip visiting a private primate conservation project with 5 different endangered species. Family visit that produces sugar cane and processes different products with a sugar cane mill (destillary) sugar cane rum melossas. Lodge return. Typical music performance.
Overnight in Cumaceba Lodge.
Brakfast; and observation of the Amazon water lilies-Victoria Regia. Sport fishing trip for different species-the voracius Pir anhas, cat fish, sardines. Lunch self service. Departure to amazon interior for overnight in hammocks or tents. Night jungle hiking. Night bird excursion.
Overnight. Morning hike. Breakfast.
Basic instructions of jungle survival.
Canoing row (season conditons- dry or rainy) Back to Cumaceba lodge.
Lunch. 14.30 pm. Departure to Iquitos. Transfer the hotel or airport. Back to Iquitos and to the end of your trip with Cumaceba.
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