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I've just purchased Accordance 9.2.1 (February 2011) and have it up and running really well under Debian Gnu/Linux! At this point I just have the starter set of packages installed while I wait for my media to arrive in the post .
However, I can't get printing working.
I get the same result under both Linux and Windows 7 (both 32 bit installs). And it doesn't seem to matter whether I use Print-To-PDF or the Adobe PostScript Printer driver with a Virtual Printer (my preferred option, as fonts are included in the PostScript file), or the Apple LaserWriter 8 driver (printing to file).
(For reference, the windows set up I tried is from the download from accordancebible.com. No changes were made to OSDRIVE.HFV in order to reproduce the crash using Print-To-PDF. Accordance itself is on a separate virtual disk which was copied as is from Linux to Windows)
It's not a general printing problem, since printing does work from SimpleText and Finder.
This is what happens:
- I highlight some text
- I select "Print selection..."
- The print dialogue appears
- I choose all my options (I've tried lots of combinations)
- I select save
- I choose a location to write the file out (doesn't matter where I choose)
- The Mac complains that AppleTalk isn't available and asks me if I want to print later (this happens in SimpleText too, not sure if it is related, or how to fix it... Why is network access required to print to a Virtual Printer???)
- I elect print later
- The emulator crashes
- No print file is produced
I built Basilisk II from source with debugging symbols to see if I could see what is happening.
The exception occurs in do_get_mem_word in sysdeps.h:
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x780a3ecf in do_get_mem_word (a=0x71a461a2) at sysdeps.h:424
424 static inline uae_u32 do_get_mem_word(uae_u16 *a) {uint32 retval; __asm__ ("movzwl %w1,%k0\n\tshll $16,%k0\n\tbswapl %k0\n" : "=&r" (retval) : "m" (*a) : "cc"); return retval;}
This is the backtrace:
#0 0x780a3ecf in do_get_mem_word (a=0x71a461a2) at sysdeps.h:424
#1 0x780a3f70 in get_word (addr=1638162850) at ../uae_cpu/memory.h:129
#2 0x780a5cc5 in op_3010_0_ff (opcode=4144) at cpuemu.cpp:9110
#3 0x78081dcb in m68k_do_execute () at ../uae_cpu/newcpu.cpp:1367
#4 0x78081e1a in m68k_execute () at ../uae_cpu/newcpu.cpp:1384
#5 0x7807e55d in Start680x0 () at ../uae_cpu/basilisk_glue.cpp:146
#6 0x7804bd7b in main (argc=1, argv=0xbffff574) at main_unix.cpp:816
It appears the pointer a (0x71a461a2 in this case) is invalid. The debugger can't read it's contents.
I haven't bothered to build from source under windows, but the crash occurs in the same place, so it seems to be platform independent.
Although I have a reasonable idea about C/C++, this is probably beyond me (and I don't know any assembler).
So, now for some questions:
- Can anybody else reproduce this?
- Any guesses as to whether the problem lies in the Emulator or in Accordance?
- Can someone shed light on the AppleTalk requirements for print to file using a virtual printer?
Look forward to hearing from anyone on how to make some progress!


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Mary's Bridal Beloving Collection Quinceanera Dress Style 4791
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It's a smart lightbulb. What's all the hue and cry for? LightFreq is much more than that – it packs a Bluetooth speaker and mic into a colour-changing, connected bulb that pumps out 800 lumens in 16 million colour combinations.
Why would I want my lights to make noise? You can play your tunes through your light sockets! Who wouldn't want to do that? Lightfreq reckons you'll be able to sync up to 50 of their bulbs together – using their built-in Follow Me feature, your music will follow you around the house, if you're carrying your mobile or tablet with you.
Nice – but I'm not sure I need 50 of them. Fair dos. Even one LightFreq pumps out impressive HD audio through its 5W speaker – we know, we've heard it in action. Though if you want more sound, we'd recommend hooking two up using the A2DP Bluetooth protocol for stereo audio.
Sweet, I'm having a party. You've come to the right place; using the LightFreq app's Party Mode, you can sync up the light and sound for your very own home disco. LightFreq will even change up the colours and tempo of the light show based on the genre you're listening to.
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Eventually, our species will die out and a new race will arrive to inhabit the planet. This race will have a giant mess to clean up—all the stuff that human beings accumulated in pursuit of pleasure and profit, but for which these new beings will have no use. Huge mounds of motorboats, football stadiums, air-conditioners, sunblock, and other absolute necessities of life as we once conceived it will rise to the skies. One towering, teetering pile will consist of books with mostly blank pages—some of them ordinary notebooks, some expensive leather-bound volumes, some with decorated covers and hand-pressed leaves, some with tiny locks for tiny keys and little loops into which a special, ultra-thin pencil might fit. The new beings will not understand what these objects were for, or why they found so unbelievably many of them in drawers and trunks and attics, everywhere they looked. But we know what they are: they are unused and abandoned personal diaries.
The impulse to keep a diary is to actual diaries as the impulse to go on a diet is to actual slimness. Most of us do wish that we were slim diarists. It's not that we imagine that we would be happier if we kept a diary; we imagine that we would be better—that diarizing is a natural, healthy thing, a sign of vigor and purpose, a statement, about life, that we care, and that non-diarizing or, worse, failed diarizing is a confession of moral inertia, an acknowledgment, even, of the ultimate pointlessness of one's being in the world. Still, rationally considered, what is natural or healthy about writing down what happened every day in a book that no one else is supposed to read? Isn't there something a little O.C.D. about this kind of behavior? Writing is onerous (especially with an ultra-thin pencil)—writing feels like work because it is work—and, day by day, life is pretty routine, repetitive, and, we should face it, boring. So why do a few keep diaries, when diary-keeping is, for many, too much?
Three theories immediately suggest themselves. They are theories of the ego, the id, and the superego (and what is left, really?). The ego theory holds that maintaining a diary demands a level of vanity and self-importance that is simply too great for most people to sustain for long periods of time. It obliges you to believe that the stuff that happened to you is worth writing down because it happened to you. This is why so many diaries are abandoned by circa January 10th: keeping this up, you quickly realize, means something worse than being insufferable to others; it means being insufferable to yourself. People find that they just can't take themselves seriously enough to continue. They may regret this—people capable of taking themselves seriously tend to go farther in life—but they accept it and move on to other things, such as collecting stamps.
The id theory, on the other hand, states that people use diaries to record wishes and desires that they need to keep secret, and to list failures and disappointments that they cannot admit publicly have given them pain. Diary-keeping, on this account, is just neurotic, since the last thing most people want to do with their unconsummated longings and petty humiliations is to inscribe them permanently in a book. They want to forget them, and so they soon quit writing them down. Most people don't confess; they repress.
And the superego theory, of course, is the theory that diaries are really written for the eyes of others. They are exercises in self-justification. When we describe the day's events and our management of them, we have in mind a wise and benevolent reader who will someday see that we played, on the whole, and despite the best efforts of selfish and unworthy colleagues and relations, a creditable game with the hand we were dealt. If we speak frankly about our own missteps and shortcomings, it is only to gain this reader's trust. We write to appease the father. People abandon their diaries when they realize that the task is hopeless.
These are powerful, possibly brilliant theories, and they account for much. But, though they help explain why people generally don't like to write diaries, they do not explain why people generally do like to read them. The obvious assumption is that we read diaries because we want to know what the diarist was really like as a person, but how plausible, even in the case of famous diarists, is this? It's true that we read the diaries of Virginia Woolf because they were written by Virginia Woolf, who, in addition to being an interesting novelist, was an interesting character. But (a paradox of representation) we would actually feel that we had a more intimate sense of Virginia Woolf if we read about her in someone else's diary. Woolf described from the outside by another person is likely to give us a more vivid picture of what Virginia Woolf was really like than Woolf described from the inside by herself. Introspection is not as reliable as observation. (That's why we have shrinks.)
Inside, everyone sounds, more or less eloquently, like the same broken record of anxiety and resentment. It's the outside, the way people look and the things they say, that makes them distinct. We read Woolf's diaries so that we can see other people through Woolf's eyes:
Pale, marmoreal Eliot was there last week, like a chapped office boy on a high stool, with a cold in his head, until he warms a little, which he did. We walked back along the Strand. "The critics say I am learned & cold" he said. "The truth is I am neither." As he said this, I think coldness at least must be a sore point with him. (February 16, 1921.)
Edith Sitwell has grown very fat, powders herself thickly, gilds her nails with silver paint, wears a turban & looks like an ivory elephant, like the Emperor Heliogabalus. I have never seen such a change. She is mature, majestical. She is monumental. Her fingers are crusted with white coral. She is altogether composed. (July 23, 1930.)
Dr. Freud gave me a narcissus. Was sitting in a great library with little statues at a large scrupulously tidy shiny table. We like patients on chairs. A screwed up shrunk very old man: with a monkeys light eyes, paralysed spasmodic movements, inarticulate: but alert. (January 29, 1939.)
Woolf was one of those writers who keep the instrument in tune: she wrote, sometimes, just to be writing, whether there was anything of significance to write about or not. So a reader of her diaries (of the five-volume complete edition, anyway) has to wade through a fair amount of rote record-keeping, panning for the nuggets:
Brain rather dried up after 6 days strenuous London. Tuesday dinner to meet Duff Cooper; Wednesday Ethel Smyth; Thursday Nessa & dressmaker; Friday Harcourt Brace. So I'm running in a circle, having got on to the university chapter [of "Three Guineas"] a difficult one. Very very hot. Very noisy. The hotel dancing; buses everywhere. (June 11, 1937.)
"Never discriminate, never omit" is one of the unstated rules of diary-keeping. The rule is perverse, because all writing is about control, and writing a diary is a way to control the day—to have, as it were, the last word. But diaries are composed under the fiction that the day is in control, that you are simply a passive recorder of circumstance, and so everything has to go in whether it mattered or not—as though deciding when it didn't were somehow not your business. In a diary, the trivial and inconsequential—the "woke up, got out of bed, dragged a comb across my head" pieces—are not trivial and inconsequential at all; they are defining features of the genre. If it doesn't contain a lot of dross, it's not a diary. It's something else—a journal, or a writer's notebook, or a blog (blather is not the same as dross). For a diarist, if nothing important happened, it's extremely important to say so:
In the morning, before I went forth old East brought me a dozen of bottles of sack and I gave him a shilling for his pains.
Then I went to Mr. Sheply; who was drawing of sack in the wine-cellar to send to other places as a gift from my Lord, and told me that my Lord hath given him order to give me the dozen of bottles.
Thence I went to the Temple to speak with Mr. Calthropp about the 60_l:_ due to my Lord; but missed of him, he being abroad. Then I went to Mr. Crew's and borrowed 10_l:_ of Mr. Andrewes for my own use; and so went to my office, where there was nothing to do. (January 2, 1660.)
These are the words of the most famous diarist in English, Samuel Pepys, who maintained his diary for only nine years, from 1660 to 1669, when he quit, because he thought he was going blind. He did not go blind, and lived until 1703, but he never recommenced the diary. It was first published, in abridged form, in 1825, and then in many editions thereafter. Its popularity is a phenomenon of the nineteenth century.
Pepys was a busy and highly placed administrator in the Royal Navy, and he was witness to a lot of history. The charm of his diary, though, which is preserved in the various abridgments (the whole thing is available in eleven volumes, published by the University of California), is the conviction that missed dates, boring days at the office, and troubles with the maid are as worthy of record as affairs of state—a conviction that presumably helps explain his appeal in a century devoted to the ennoblement of bourgeois satisfactions.
Dined at home in the garret, where my wife dressed the remains of a turkey, and in the doing of it she burned her hand. (January 1, 1660.)
So to bed, where my wife and I had some high words upon my telling her that I would fling the dog which her brother gave her out at the window if he pissed the house any more. (February 12, 1660.)
Slept pretty well, and my [wife] waked to ring the bell to call up our maids to the washing about 4 a-clock and I was, and she, angry that our bell did not wake them sooner, but I will get a bigger bell. (October 6, 1663.)
There are also the choice offhand judgments (Pepys was a cultivated man):
And then to the King's Theatre, where we saw "Midsummers nights dreame," which I have never seen before, nor shall ever again, for it is the most insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life. (September 29, 1662.)
Meanwhile, the Restoration of Charles II, the Great Plague, the Great Fire of London, and the Second Anglo-Dutch War are taking place.
The memorializing of the mundane is part of the flattening of foreground-background contrast that makes diaries different from memoirs and other forms of historical narrative. It's also a sign of the diary's absolute fidelity to the present. You would read a published diary that you knew had been abridged (most have been), but you would not read a diary whose entries you knew had been altered or updated. You wouldn't read it as a diary, anyway. The just-the-facts elimination of perspective, discrimination, and reflection, and the sense of bathos and non sequitur that sometimes results, fits certain personality types beautifully.
Back to Wash. Nancy went to L.A. & then to Phoenix so I'm here alone. I'm watching the Rose Bowl—U.C.L.A. 45 Ill. 9—so far. (January 2, 1984.)
A really easy day. NSC—Cap getting ready to release study by commission investigating Beirut massacre of our Marines (241). They are going to charge there was negligence on part of officers regarding safety precautions. I'm worried about the effect of this on families that lost loved ones. Another briefing in situation room on Soviet nuclear arms & the almost impossibility of verifying whether they are cheating or not. Did year end interview with 4 wire services. Had a haircut & upstairs. (December 23, 1983.)
From the diaries of Ronald Reagan. Compare, as a matter of tone, Andy Warhol:
We went to Castel's (taxi $4). The same old crowd was there, having Caroline of Monaco's secret engagement dinner to Philippe Junot. We weren't asked. (June 3, 1977.)
Found out that after I left Halston's, Rusty discovered a fire that'd started in a fireplace and gone to a Marisol sculpture and into a closet, and if Rusty hadn't noticed it, Halston's would have burned.
I'm giving everyone framed underwear for Christmas. Went up to 86th Street and then down (cabs $5, $4).
Jon called, said he was back in town. (November 26, 1982.)
Complete irony and the complete absence of irony ultimately meet in the same place.
With Reagan, though, you never see other people. He was just not concretely interested in other people, and so his diaries are not interesting. Warhol, on the other hand, liked to watch—he was, socially and sexually, a voyeur—and so his diaries are:
When we left the Shivas, Bianca wanted to stop back at Halston's to pick something up. When we got there, there was a pretty boy in a fur coat standing outside, and when we walked in, there was Liza Minnelli talking to Halston. She wanted to know if she and Baryshnikov—it was him outside—could spend some time at his place. So we weren't supposed to see this. And Liza and Baryshnikov were taking so much cocaine, I didn't know they took so much, just shoveling it in, and it was so exciting to see two really famous people right there in front of you taking drugs, about to go make it with each other.
Liza is just back from the rest cure in Texas, and she's going to start doing "The Act" again. (January 28, 1978.)
At least one person has read the entire "Journals: 1952-2000," by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. (Penguin; $40), from start to finish, and this person can report that the work yields the exact degree of pleasure that can be derived from standing on a moving sidewalk: it's painless, you don't want it to stop, and there is not a single surprise in it. Apart from mostly harmless gossip, there is little that might not have appeared, without embarrassment or embellishment, in a Times Op-Ed piece (and Schlesinger wrote his share of those). If Schlesinger had secrets, he kept them.
Schlesinger was convivial and gregarious, a two-Martini-lunch man. He was a confidant of the Kennedys, an adviser to many of the other Democratic politicians of his day, and, after he left Harvard and the Kennedy White House, a socially active Upper East Sider. He knew a large number of people within his social comfort zone, which was the comfort zone of a nineteen-sixties liberal with nineteen-fifties tastes, and (on the evidence of the journal that has been published, cut from some six thousand pages) he seems to have disliked only those whom he suspected of disliking him. But he was a golden retriever: he liked being liked much more than he disliked being disliked, and his greatest happiness was the recognition of his fellow-establishmentarians. In 1998, when he was eighty-one, he testified, before a House committee, against the impeachment of Bill Clinton:
The Times made the hearings its lead story the next morning (Tuesday the 10th)—a very good story by Linda Greenhouse. C-Span and CNN had carried the hearings, and for a few hours I became a local hero. People stopped me on the streets, and I was almost applauded when I entered the Century Club. (November 12, 1998.)
There is something sweet and a little heartbreaking about that "almost."
The reader of Schlesinger's diary does see other people through Schlesinger's eyes, but those people appear uncannily as advertised. The life that Schlesinger observed from inside the Kennedy Administration—"Caroline, an enchanting little girl, dashing in and out carrying a football" (December 1, 1960)—was not very different from the way the rest of the world imagined it. One sometimes has to fight off the sense that Schlesinger never actually met these people, and is making it up. Jack is always debonair and cool. Bobby is savvy, caring, and intense, with a hint of sadness and rue. Jackie is utterly beautiful, utterly charming. Teddy is a lot more impressive than one might have expected.
And so it is with nearly everyone Schlesinger meets: the insights won by personal acquaintance accord with the conventional judgment. You could almost guess the identities from the descriptions:
He has a natural and honorable dislike of the kind of speech which seeks to buy votes by making promises. But he recoils from this with a political puritanism which regards any popular position (at least on the liberal side) as somehow immoral. (August 11, 1952.)
That is Adlai Stevenson, for whom Schlesinger wrote speeches before he defected to Kennedy.
His flow of talk was incessant, almost compulsive. The language was vivid and picturesque but unforced. One got the sense of a man who exists almost completely in the realm of tactics, a virtuoso in senatorial operation; yet with a nostalgic identification of himself as a liberal and a desire, other things being equal, to be on the liberal side. While plainly intelligent, he seemed little concerned with the merits of issues. On questions of parliamentary manipulation and of the personalities of his colleagues, he seemed enormously astute and perceptive. I found him both more attractive, more subtle and more formidable than I expected. (March 30-31, 1957.)
L.B.J., who would force Schlesinger out of the White House after Kennedy's death.
I do not think I have seen anyone so beautiful; I was enchanted by her manner and her wit, at once so masked, so ingenuous and so penetrating. But one felt a terrible unreality about her—as if talking to someone under water. (August 6, 1962.)
Marilyn Monroe, for whose attentions, Schlesinger says, he and Bobby engaged in friendly competition at a party. No record in the diary of which man was the winner.
He is a stocky, bluff, humorous, robust fellow, fresh after a long hot day; a natural pol and demagogue, earnest and rather naïve; a shock of well-combed white hair; ruddy face; likable but not especially impressive; certainly no alternative to Gorbachev. (September 11, 1989.)
Boris Yeltsin.
Cool, composed, amusing and extremely sympathetic. Her public appearances yield an impression of bluestocking severity; but, as Jackie told me at the Academy luncheon earlier in the day, she has an excellent sense of humor and is great fun. (May 23, 1993.)
Hillary Clinton.
Very graceful in body movements when he danced. (December 22, 1983.)
Mick Jagger.
Of course, people famous for their personalities just have those personalities. They aren't faking it. But an observer can tweak the image freshly or not, and Schlesinger does not. He is happy when celebrities act like themselves, and he is therefore rarely disillusioned. In the circumstances, it's something of a relief to read the following:
Lollobrigida was a disappointment. (July 13, 1960.)
"I must say that I adore sitting around hotel rooms with politicians and newspapermen exchanging gossip over drinks," Schlesinger wrote in the spring of 1960, when Kennedy and Humphrey were fighting for the Democratic Presidential nomination; and, though it may be a fluke of the abridgment, it is striking how much day-to-day politics dominates his journals. Schlesinger rarely records thoughts about the books he is reading or writing, except to note how far behind he is and to regret that his addiction to politics and parties keeps distracting him from his work. He is sorry that he did not produce more books. (His history of the New Deal and his autobiography were both left unfinished.) Anyone who reads the "Journals," though, will feel that he had nothing to be sorry for. Life is only once, and Schlesinger had the good fortune to enjoy his in company that gave him pleasure. The world has plenty of books.
Schlesinger makes a brief appearance in "The Grand Surprise: The Journals of Leo Lerman" (Knopf; $37.50). He turns up in Lerman's sharp and entertaining account of Truman Capote's famous Black and White Ball, at the Plaza in 1966, "the party of the century":
Jerome Robbins embellishing the Peter Duchin beat, with the special Robbins-syncopated beat while dancing Lauren Bacall across the floor, only to be cut in on by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., who after a moment of staid Harvard hopping abruptly left Miss Bacall on the floor, rushed up apologizing to Mr. Robbins, explaining that he hadn't realized. The new Astaire-Rogers resumed the Robbins-Duchin beat. (December 1, 1966.)
This gives, naturally, a much more vivid idea of what Schlesinger was really like than anything in Schlesinger's own journals.
Lerman was a New Yorker—he was born in 1914 in what is now Spanish Harlem, into a lower-middle-class Jewish family—who had a long career as an editor, consultant, and writer at glossy magazines, principally Mademoiselle and Vogue. He served as editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair for eight months, in 1983. It was the high point of his career, but he was sixty-nine, and his health was never good. He was replaced by Tina Brown, and he died in 1994. Lerman operated in the shadow of Alexander Liberman, the editorial director of Condé Nast and his great rival. But he was the sort of person without whom magazines like those could not exist: a gay man whose evenings were free to be spent at openings and parties, who went everywhere and knew everyone, backstage as well as onstage, and who could tell you whose star was about to rise, whose was falling, and who was about to go into treatment. Publishing a successful monthly magazine means being able to guess which names everyone will want to be reading about many weeks down the road, and you need scouts to do that. Lerman was a born scout.
He had literary ambitions—he dreamed of writing a novel like Proust's—but, despite a fair amount of self-laceration, recorded in these journals, he never made much headway. (Not many people who have that particular dream do make much headway.) Instead, he kept a journal. According to his editor, Stephen Pascal, "The Grand Surprise" amounts to a tenth of the total. (There are also excerpts from letters.) And it is a surprise, on two counts. First, as an edition. Schlesinger's journals were edited by his sons Andrew and Stephen; both are historians, but they provide virtually no annotation, and they manage to misspell names: Walter Lippmann, Alvin From, Roger Straus, Claus von Bulow, Daryl Hannah. "The Grand Surprise," on the other hand, is an editorial labor of love. The volume aspires to re-create the mid-century transatlantic world of art and letters, and the annotation is quite fantastic, as though Pascal (who was Lerman's assistant for many years, and who had the help of several people close to Lerman, including his longtime partner, Gray Foy) knew every affair, mariage blanc, and nom-de-travail of every artist, émigré, poseur, and arriviste in that scene—great figure-cutters in their day, most of them now long forgotten. Pascal's footnotes, identifying names in Lerman's text, are keyholes onto that vanished life, almost like miniature movie treatments:
Rudolf Kommer (1885-1943) had begun as director Max Reinhardt's managing agent, parlaying very little expertise into a web of influence. By the time of his death in wartime New York, Kommer was Alice Astor's business manager and rumored to be a Nazi spy.
Baron Federico von Berzeviczy-Pallavicini (1909-89), a Swiss-born set designer and magazine art director (Flair), started out in the twenties dressing windows at the luxurious Viennese confectionery Demel. During the thirties, he made a mariage blanc with the niece of Demel's Jewish owners, which allowed her to enter a convent under his name and survive the war. She died in 1965, leaving Demel to Pallavicini.
The other surprise in "The Grand Surprise" is Lerman himself. His tastes were the predictable tastes of a gay cultural butterfly of his era: he was fascinated by Marlene Dietrich, Maria Callas, most of Balanchine's principal dancers, Margot Fonteyn, Judy Garland, Garbo, Jackie O., and he knew several of them quite intimately. A certain amount of gushing is mandatory at this level of world-class entertainment, as well as a certain amount of cattiness. No doubt Lerman was an accomplished companion to the divas. But he had a cool eye as well. He knew that Dietrich was ruining herself by endless self-imitation in a nonstop cabaret act, that Callas could produce ugly sounds and was a fool to be besotted with a vulgar billionaire like Onassis. He also knew where a performer's special magic lay, and he had a deft, pen-and-ink style of portrait sketching. He's an image tweaker. At the ballet, in London, in 1955, two years after Gielgud had been arrested for "cottaging"—cruising a public lavatory—in Chelsea:
John Gielgud and two young fellows (very sissy) sat next to us and we talked and he sent love to Karen Blixen [Isak Dinesen, whom Lerman had befriended]. "I'm just in the throes of Lear," he said to me, ". . . in the throes." Later he strode away, incredibly slender in a dark straight coat and black homburg, a flower in the coat and a handkerchief jutting from its pocket, a general air of being Graham Robertson [subject of a Sargent portrait]. The two sissies ran along, one in front and one behind. It was like a Beardsley as they vanished down a little Covent Garden street. (May 13, 1955.)
Baryshnikov in 1974, the year he defected to the West, being photographed by Richard Avedon for Vogue:
He could be any boy on a street corner—pale, stockyish, blond, retiring, but friendly, slight. If he were in a room with other people, he would not be noticed save for his deep-set, heavily shadowed, sad, somewhat doomed blue eyes—eyes curiously related to Marlene's now that she is old and lost, her world gone quite awry. His dancing strength comes from his feet—beautifully shaped feet of enormous strength and flexibility. You feel that he could write with his feet. (Rudi's dancing strength comes from his buttocks, Eddie Villella's from his thighs.) When this boy stands on the floor, peering into a long glass, warming up, he becomes noble romantic—a tremendous presence, not flashy but magical. Then suddenly he is airborne: There is no visible preparation. He is so masculine that there is a sort of feminine quality that flavors his dancing. (August 1, 1974.)
Capote was a close friend, Vidal less so. In Venice, 1975:
After our long day's enchanting rest, yesterday we went down and found Gore—big, complacent, pompous, assured that his every platitude is an apothegm, a witty wisdom. But despite this lifelong dry rot, he has charm and a certain attractiveness. He said that he didn't eat much, but drank a lot. "I'm an alcoholic . . ." (July 29, 1975.)
"At least we know that the only happiness is acceptance," Lerman wrote to a friend in 1948. Thank God that's not completely true, but acceptance is one source of happiness, anyway. Did Lerman feel accepted? It's hard to say. There is a lot of self-doubt, and even self-pity, in the journals, and he might have reflected, on occasion, that famous artists returned his phone calls because they were phone calls from a man who worked at Mademoiselle and Vogue. But everyone has reflections of that kind. Only a few think it's a good idea to store them up in a diary. ♦


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Always! No, really. Proper backups are like brushing teeth and flossing. Doing it regularly keeps you healthy! The IBM Business Process Manager system has three components that you should backup regularly: profile (file system), database, and applications. Backing up each of these components is critical for the emergency we hope to never face. Application roll outs, interim fix installs and version upgrades should all work the first time and deliver the desired results. As we all know, there are times when the install fails and we need to roll back. Thankfully rolling back is easy when you take proper backups.
Some fixes and fix packs for IBM Business Process Manager require profile and database upgrades. In the interim fix installation, it is stated to backup your profile and backup your database. The profile is located in the installation directory at [install_dir]\profiles using the backupConfig command or just a simple .zip file of the profile is a good backup. Contact your database administrator about backups before installing interim fixes that require upgrade_7x. This step is critical because if any part of the install process fails, the system can be restored to a known state. This best practice has saved many customers from disaster.
What about after the fix is successful? The fix installs without errors, the server starts up without errors, and you test the basic functionality and run through a user acceptance test or load test of your application. The results are all clear and any issues you have are resolved or the new desired functionality works. Should you take a backup now? YES! Why? One basic reason is this is now a good known working condition. Consider the following scenario. You encounter a known problem and apply the interim fix to resolve the problem. The system now works as expected and development continues. Some time passes and the system starts to exhibit problems. Having a backup after the interim fix install enables you to roll back the system and avoid having to re-install the interim fixes.
Databases are often on a daily or weekly backup cycle depending on the nature of the system (Test vs. Production) and company policies. The database is the heart of the IBM Business Process Manager system; it contains all of the data for tasks and instances and the application solutions. As the administrator of the IBM Business Process Manager system, be sure you know when the database is backed up and how to reach the database administrators to restore databases in case of an emergency.
For the process applications, export your application at major milestones to a safe location outside of the Business Process Manager system. The production environment has all of your business data, but the applications are the key source code to those applications. The Process Center is the repository. If for some reason the Process Center becomes corrupted in some way, you have an external backup of your application code and could easily make a new Process Center with the applications that are in production. Treat the process application exports like source code and keep them stored in another location in case they are needed.
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Hot Spots: Storage services groups
Being in tune with your company's initiatives can help you stay afloat in the tidal wave of trends.
Storage services groups have two main goals: to offer great storage services to business units and end users, and to cut IT costs. Although achieving these goals should be a primary focus, the storage group doesn't work in a vacuum. Storage service plans need to be well coordinated with overall IT strategy, direction and initiatives. This is exactly where things get dicey. Years of hype, technology churn and marginal ROI are driving major changes in IT departments. Outside influences like regulatory compliance and security threats will receive more and more IT attention. And budget dollars, which once ran like water, will continue to be tight for a long time.
Before proceeding with any independent plans, storage service managers need to prepare for these impending changes. Three of the most important trends to get ready for are IT governance, security strategy and the budget crunch.
Restoring sanity in IT governance
Let's face it, the period of time from 1995 through 2000 amounted to a five-year fire drill. Those days are gone forever. CIOs realize that they need a much stricter regimen of processes and procedures to improve operations, lower costs and cope with complexity. IT governance defines every day processes and procedures like configuration management, change management, incident management, availability management, capacity management and service-level management in a step-by-step, detailed manner. The two most popular IT governance models are the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) and the Control Objectives for Information and Related Technologies (CobiT).
These best practices aren't the sexy part of IT that vendors and analyst tend to talk about, but they do help companies improve upon IT services and reduce costs. The results can be impressive. After adding ITIL standards to IT operations, Proctor & Gamble reduced its IT operating costs by 8%, while Help Desk calls declined by 10%.
Before putting your own operations plan in place, storage service managers should find out if the company is planning on moving toward an ITIL or CobiT model. If the answer is yes, structure the storage operations processes and procedures with this in mind. This will require a full understanding of what information needs to be collected and documented, what metrics will be required and which other groups within IT the storage services group will be working with. Training will also be important. The CIO will probably foot the bill for global ITIL or CobiT training, but the storage services group may want to customize a training class for its own purposes.
If your firm has no plans to move toward formal corporate governance, it's still worthwhile to look at the ITIL and CobiT specifications as a potential best practice model. After a review, storage service managers may come up with a few good ideas of their own. After all, these are widely supported international standards.
Security concerns
Companies have embraced the Internet as a vital business and communications tools but these benefits come with a price--greater security risk. According to the CERT Coordination Center, a center of Internet security expertise, computer viruses alone cost companies $15 billion in 2001. Many firms felt this pain directly by way of unwanted guests like Code Red or Nimda.
In a recent Morgan Stanley survey of 225 CIOs, security was their number two priority. This is especially true for companies in regulated industries. For example, the Graham-Leach-Bliley bill places new security requirements on financial services firm, while the Health Insurance Portability and Accounting (HIPPA) Act of 1996 creates pressures on healthcare providers.
When it comes to information security, many companies and IT departments are in transition. In the past, security was viewed as a technology problem that firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and virus protection could address. Numerous firms now realize that a technology-based view of security was too narrow and have expanded their efforts to include a combination of physical security, corporate security policies, and cultural changes. Like corporate governance, companies look to outside standards such as ISO 17799 for guidance in this area. ISO 17799 is a comprehensive set of security best practices including business continuity planning, system development and maintenance, physical/environmental security and security policy.
What has all this security activity have to do with storage services? Plenty. Just as with ITIL and CobiT, security is bound to introduce the need for new processes and skills within the storage group:
- Storage devices and software will need to be tested and monitored for security vulnerabilities;
- When any vulnerability arises, devices will need to be assessed for risk and patched as necessary, which may mean taking storage offline at a moment's notice;
- The storage team will be required to participate in a security emergency response team to isolate problems, minimize damage and perform computer forensics;
- Physical security may need to be enhanced and supported by sophisticated authentication technologies like biometrics;
- Due to the sensitive nature of the corporate data, managers may be required to do extensive background checks on potential hires; and finally
- If your company plans on implementing ISO 17799, the storage services group will have to coordinate with the security officer on a whole new set of guidelines for business continuity planning.
If your company has a chief information security officer, (CISO) make sure you open communications with them to understand any impending changes that will impact the storage group. If there is a plan to go forward with ISO 17799, get familiar with the specification and get involved with the planning effort. Upfront planning will help the storage services group adjust strategy, amend budgets and factor new costs into its service offerings.
Welcome to the crunch
The days of double digit growth in the IT budget are gone for a while--if not forever. Recent surveys by Forrester Research and IDC project that IT budgets will remain flat in 2003. Given the uncertain economy and geopolitical instability, only a fool would venture a guess at what will occur in 2004. This means CIOs must do more with less and increase the efficiency of IT. In an Information Week survey of IT executives, 85% of CIOs said that getting better return on IT capital investment was among their top five priorities.
These financial trends have several important ramifications for storage services. First, storage service groups are competing for precious budget dollars with networking, application development, security, etc. According to Morgan Stanley, storage is low on the list. In its survey of CIOs, storage hardware ranked as their 12th priority, while storage software ranked 23rd.
To deal with this reality, make sure that plans for storage requirements, capacity growth and staffing are conservative and rigorous. Remember: There won't be any money in the kitty for surprises down the line. You should select key vendors and work with them for discount and financing options.
One other thing to bear in mind--the storage services group isn't in it alone. Every functional area within IT is impacted by the new fiscal policies. While this will drive competition for budget dollars, it also means that other groups will be developing similar service models to drive efficiency out of their own groups.
Smart storage service managers will check with peers to explore for new ideas and common ground. How will the networking group do its billing? What metrics will the systems group use to gauge customer satisfaction? How will telecom do reporting? The answers to these questions may help deliver storage services faster and cheaper while they establish consistency across disparate IT services.
The structure of IT is transforming and priorities are radically changing. This transformation will take place on a consistent shoestring budget for some time to come. Savvy storage service managers will stay ahead of these trends through a continuous effort of planning, training and cooperation with their peers.


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"LensCulture's Emerging Talent Awards 2015 is our 3rd annual call to discover the world's best emerging photographers. Our international jury will select 50 outstanding emerging photographers — from all cultures, all points of view, with no age limit.
We invite you to enter one of the best opportunities for career-changing exposure to our global audience of over 1.4 million, worldwide recognition, an exhibition in San Francisco, projections at photo festivals worldwide, $20,000 in grants, and much more.
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What is Caregiving and Who are Caregivers?
Caregivers are individuals who provide care to chronically ill or disabled family members or friends. It is estimated that more than one quarter of the adult population, or more than fifty million people, have been caregivers. Men now make up 44% of the caregiving population; and family caregivers provide, for "free", an estimated $257 billion per year in services. The role of caregivers is expected to increase as the population ages; however, the number of individuals available for caregiving will diminish.
Effective Caregivers
Helping someone go through a cancer diagnosis, treatment, and recovery requires understanding, encouragement, patience and energy. Caregivers become part advocate, nurse, organizer and financial analyst in addition to maintaining their other responsibilities. Caring for someone with a life-threatening disease can be emotionally and physically draining. Caregiver burn-out can occur even when caring for a dearest loved one. For this reason, you are encouraged to:
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"Broken On All Sides is a compelling documentary addressing racial inequities within our criminal justice system and its devastating collateral consequences. It is an excellent resource to use in educating, motivating, and empowering your group, organization, or community on this critical issue." - James E. Williams, Jr.
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Sorry to keep bothering y'all but I had something happen today at work that is either me being "sensitive" or just plain common sense (probably the latter).
On Oct. 22 there was a tragedy in a nearby city. A man apparently killed his pregnant wife then killed himself. I had to report it and said a few passing words of condolence to the family of one of the deceased. But the issue bugged me for a while. Authorities were hesitant to rule murder/suicide because of family out cry and the investigation dragged on.
I hadn't thought about the issue for a while cause I know it takes time for the inquest. Then today out of the blue I was walking a hallway at work and the case popped in my mind. I made mental note to call the justice of the peace or sheriff's office for an update but got busy and forgot.
Got home late and surfed the local news sites and lo and behold there's a story (form other media), quoting the JP, who ruled the case murder/suicide.
Anyway, did I think about the case, out of the blue, because subconsciously I knew it would be about time to make a followup call or was it something else that made me think about this poor couple today?
I'm going to try and remember to document these coincidences to see if it's just a gut feeling or not. It's just that it hits when I'm NOT thinking about the topic.
Thanks for the help.
What does this mean?
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Posted 25 November 2010 - 08:11 PM
Thats great that you are going to document and I believe that you will see that things aren't just coincidence and in fact, when you are more aware it will begin to increase.
Don't let the subtle messages pass you by.
Don't let the subtle messages pass you by.
I am more than my physical body.
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No Doubt just pulled an about-face.
The California rockers have yanked their new "Looking Hot" video off YouTube after getting complaints from Native Americans who said the clip's cowboys-and-Indians imagery made a mockery of their culture.
No Doubt addressed the controversy on their website Saturday, writing:
No Doubt unveils cowboys-and-Indians themed music video for "Looking Hot"
"As a multi-racial band our foundation is built upon both diversity and consideration for other cultures. Our intention with our new video was never to offend, hurt or trivialize Native American people, their culture or their history," said the band in a statement.
They continued: "Although we consulted with Native American friends and Native American studies experts at the University of California, we realize now that we have offended people. This is of great concern to us and we are removing the video immediately. The music that inspired us when we started the band, and the community of friends, family, and fans that surrounds us was built upon respect, unity and inclusiveness. We sincerely apologize to the Native American community and anyone else offended by this video. Being hurtful to anyone is simply not who we are."
No Doubt replaced the video on their YouTube channel with a cover of their new album, Push and Shove, from which the new single came.
Watch No Doubt's music video for "Settle Down"
Many of the comments were divided, however, between those who felt the "Looking Hot" clip was offensive and those who felt singer Gwen Stefani and company were bowing to political correctness.
"Why can't people make videos without playing dressup in someone else's culture?" complained a Netizen with the handle Adirgeforher.
"Freedom of speech and expression no longer exist. Really sad!" wrote another commenter named Shaun Osborn.
No Doubt meanwhile is currently across the pond gearing up to perform on "The X Factor" UK tonight.


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Paris police have detained 12 Greenpeace activists who dumped a truckload of coal at the doorstep of France's presidential palace, hours before a visit by German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
The activists also said the truck had two containers of nuclear waste with radioactive tritium inside them.
While the water inside containers had far-above-normal levels of radioactivity, it was not a threat to clean-up crews or police as long as it wasn't spilled, Greenpeace activists said.
Police blocked the road and hauled off the activists, and clean-up crews with shovels quickly removed the coal from the street.
The publicity stunt was aimed to send a message to French President Francois Hollande and Merkel "to abandon energies that are considered dangerous – coal and nuclear – and to finally commit to a real energy transition", Greenpeace activist Sebastien Blavier said.
The group wants European countries to commit to raising their percentage of renewable energy use to 45 per cent by 2030.
At present, France gets at least two-thirds of its electricity from nuclear power, which is one of the highest such proportions in the world. Germany, meanwhile, slightly increased its share of electricity generated from coal in 2013 to about 45 per cent.
Environmentalists have criticised the increasing use of coal, saying it is a dirty source because of the large amount of carbon dioxide released when it is burned.
The stunt was bound to raise new questions about security at sensitive sites in France. Greenpeace France has recently carried out acts including peaceful invasions of French nuclear sites in a bid to expose security dangers.


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Houston police say 52 Hoover Crips gang member raped 67-year-old
A reputed gang member is behind bars, accused of raping a woman with a heart condition at her southwest Houston apartment in May, Harris County prosecutors said.
The victim, 67, told police that someone knocked on her door on May 14, and thinking it was her neighbor bringing fruit and groceries, she answered, according to a criminal complaint filed Aug. 27.
A man wearing a navy-blue 'do rag' and carrying a backpack forced his way into the apartment on Wallingford Drive, struck her in the head with his hand and sexually assaulted her, Houston police said.
After the assault, the victim asked the assailant for a nitroglycerin pill she had in the apartment, and he handed the medication to her.
When a noise outside the apartment drew his attention, she told him, "That is my roomate, she is coming back," the complaint states.
Before he fled on foot, the stranger told her, "I will kill you and kill her too. I will be back."
When she realized the suspect wasn't returning, the victim ran to a neighbor's for help. She was treated at Memorial Hermann-Memorial City Hospital, where DNA evidence was collected from the assault, according to police.
On July 30, the Texas Department of Public Safety Crime Lab shared some news: a match of the DNA was found.
John Hayward Milstead, 27, of Missouri City, is being held at the Harris County Jail in lieu of a $100,000 bond, charged with two felony counts of aggravated sexual assault of an elderly or handicapped person, court records show.
He is scheduled to appear Oct. 10 before state District Judge Denise Bradley of the 262nd District Court.
Investigators said that Milstead is a member of the 52 Hoover Crips, a Houston street gang.
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In case you haven't been inside a gym lately, musclemen in tight tank tops and ripped female athletes aren't the only ones lifting weights. Now you're just as likely to see a 40-year-old mom pushing against a leg press machine or a 70-year-old retiree hoisting dumbbells. For good reason: Researchers now know that building — and maintaining — muscle is necessary for all of us, especially as we age.
Although it does improve appearance, building stronger muscles isn't just about vanity. Strength training stops bone loss and can even build new bone — reducing the risk of fractures from osteoporosis down the road. It improves balance, boosts energy, builds confidence, combats depression…and the list goes on. Actually, researchers seem to constantly find new reasons to strength-train: The more muscle men have, the lower their risk of death from cancer, and men who have limited muscle mass are particularly vulnerable to heart failure. If you're going to start a strength training program, it's important to know what (and how much) to do, plus how the foods you eat will hurt or help your efforts.


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A dead body on a gurney fell out of a coroner's van when a door malfunctioned, sending the corpse into the middle of a busy roadway in Pennsylvania.
The Bucks County Courier Times reports the accident happened around noon on Friday near a shopping center in Feasterville, Pennsylvania.
A photo on the newspaper's website shows the corpse, wrapped in what appears to be a white sheet, lying in the street as cars buzz by. The Bucks County Coroner's Office says the driver realized immediately that the door had opened and retrieved the body within minutes. The office says it "deeply regrets" the incident.
A passer-by who helped get the body into the van says he thought it was a prank, calling it "the most bizarre thing" he'd ever seen.


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A Romantic Garden Wedding at Fishermen's Inn in Elburn, Illinois
Ashley Marrin's (28 and a landscape architect) job ultimately inspired her and Tim Rysavy's (29 and an electrical engineer) lush, enchanted garden aesthetic. Florals were the focal point of the late summer fete, with bright seasonal blooms mixed with cascading greenery to bring a fresh pop of color to the rustic interiors of the Fishermen's Inn. "Our guests said they felt like they were in a forest," Ashley says of their overgrown design approach. Ashley carried a nearly 15-pound bouquet filled with succulents and her favorite flower, green amaranthus. Adding to their garden theme, she and Tim potted a "unity plant" to mark their union during the alfresco ceremony. "The plant is something that will always be flowering around our anniversary to remind us of our special day," Ashley says. Antique bird cages, moss-filled terrariums and miniature glass cloches made for whimsical décor items. After serving a savory spread with bacon-and-cheese-stuffed mushrooms and barbecue pork during cocktail hour, Ashley and Tim cut into a lemon-filled cake topped with buttercream and fresh flowers.


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Military health care must be revamped
The American Legion is calling for a significant expansion of health care systems administered by VA and DoD.
In resolutions adopted by its National Executive Committee, The American Legion reiterated its long-standing positions affecting the funding of VA health care and extending its coverage to veterans' family members.
Specifically, the Legion favors, in the words of its resolution, "allowing Medicare Reimbursement for VA as a realistic health-care coverage for enrolled, Medicare-eligible veterans seeking treatment of non-service-connected medical conditions in VA health care facilities." This would not only benefit a greater number of veterans, but provide VA with an additional revenue stream.
The Legion also encourages Congress to "allow all eligible veterans, dependents and beneficiaries, especially those who are either uninsured or under-insured, to enroll in the VA's integrated health-care delivery system."
In its resolution, adopted during the organization's annual convention meeting this week in Louisville, Ky., the Legion emphasized that it considers VA health care "the best care anywhere."
VA Secretary Eric Shinseki is expected to discuss the Legion resolution with National Commander David K. Rehbein when the two meet tomorrow. Shinseki is also scheduled to address convention attendees tomorrow morning.
DoD's Medical Health Care System was the subject of another similar Legion resolution. Recognizing the high quality of military health care, the Legion favors expanding it, too, and "supports health-care reform that assures all active-duty servicemembers, members of the Reserve components, military retirees to include Temporary Early Retirement Authority (TERA) and Chapter 61 retirees, and their families, especially those who are uninsured or under-insured, have timely access to quality health care within DoD's Medical Health Care System."
Each resolution concludes with an admonition to avoid absorbing the veterans or military systems into any national health-care reform program. Rehbein got a personal promise to that effect when he met with President Barack Obama on Aug. 4.


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This information is produced and provided by the National Cancer Institute (NCI). The information in this topic may have changed since it was written. For the most current information, contact the National Cancer Institute via the Internet web site at http://cancer.gov or call 1-800-4-CANCER.
Fever, sweats, or hot flashes may be side effects of cancer or its treatment.
In patients with cancer, fever may be caused by infection, a tumor, or reactions to drugs or blood transfusions.
Sweating is the body's way of lowering body temperature by causing heat loss through the skin. In patients with cancer, sweating may be caused by fever, a tumor, or cancer treatment.
Hot flashes can also cause too much sweating. They may occur in natural menopause or in patients who have been treated for breast cancer or prostate cancer.
Fever, sweats, and hot flashes affect quality of life in many patients with cancer.
A treatment plan to help manage fever, sweats, or hot flashes is based on the patient's condition and goals of care. For some patients, relieving symptoms and improving quality of life is a more important goal than treating the fever to prolong life.
This summary describes the causes and treatment of fever, sweats, and hot flashes in cancer patients.
Fever is a rise in body temperature caused by the body's response to illness.
Normal human body temperature changes during each 24-hour period according to a definite pattern. It is lowest in the morning before dawn and highest in the afternoon. Temperature control actions in the body keep the amount of heat that is made equal to the amount lost. This keeps body temperature normal.
An abnormal rise in body temperature is caused by either a condition called hyperthermia or fever. Hyperthermia is caused by a breakdown in the body's temperature control actions. In fever, the temperature controls in the body are working as they should, but body temperature rises as the body responds to illness.
There are three phases of fever:
Certain problems are more likely in older people or the very young. In older people, the temperature control centers in the brain may not work the way they should and can lead to hyperthermia. This may cause irregular heartbeat, lack of blood flow to parts of the body, confusion, or heart failure. In children between 6 months and 6 years old, high fever may lead to seizures.
There are many possible causes of fever in patients with cancer.
The main causes of fever in patients with cancer are reactions to:
Other causes of fever in cancer patients include:
Patients with fever need to be checked carefully for signs of infection.
The doctor will ask questions about past medical problems, check all medicines the patient is taking, and do a physical exam to look for the cause of fever. Patients, especially those who have fever and neutropenia (a very low white blood cell count), will have a complete checkup for signs of infection. Some of the areas the doctor will check include:
Patients with neutropenia may not show the usual signs of infection. These patients need to be checked often and should see their doctor if they have a fever.
Treatment for fever depends on the cause, stage of the disease, and goals of care.
The symptoms of fever in very weak cancer patients include fatigue, muscle pain, sweating, and chills. Fever may be controlled by treating the cause of the fever. Intravenous (IV) fluids and nutrition support or other measures can also help make the patient more comfortable. The specific treatments depend on the stage of cancer and the kind of care the patient wants. For example, some patients who are near the end of life may decide not to be treated for the cause of the fever, such as pneumonia or other infections. Instead, they may want to receive general comfort care.
Fever caused by infection may be treated with antibiotics.
Antibiotics may be used to treat fever caused by bacterial infection. Antibiotic therapy may be given by IV in the hospital or at home, or may be given by mouth. Drugs to treat fungal infections or viral infections may be added if needed.
Fever caused by tumors may be treated with antitumor therapy or drug therapy.
Fever caused by tumors is called paraneoplastic fever. This fever may occur when substances released by cancer cells affect the way nearby cells and tissue work. Fever caused by tumors may come in a pattern at certain times of day, or on and off for days or weeks. This fever is usually treated with standard treatment for the specific type of cancer. If the treatment doesn't work, takes time to work, or is not available, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) may be used.
Fever related to drugs may be treated in different ways.
Sometimes fever may be caused by a reaction to drugs given to treat the cancer or prevent infection. Drugs that are known to cause fever include some types of chemotherapy, biological response modifiers, and antibiotics. There may be a period of time between when drug therapy starts and when fever begins. This can make it hard to find out what is causing the fever.
The doctor may control the fever by changing how and when the drug causing it is given. Acetaminophen, NSAIDs, and steroids may also be given before the patient receives the drug that causes the fever.
Fever related to a transfusion may be prevented.
Cancer patients may have a fever caused by a reaction to blood products (for example, receiving a blood transfusion). Acetaminophen or antihistamines are sometimes given before a transfusion, to help prevent fever.
Supportive care measures help relieve the discomfort of fever.
Along with treatment of the cause of fever, comfort measures may also help relieve the discomfort that goes along with fever, chills, and sweats.
The following may help relieve fever:
The following may help relieve chills and sweats related to fever:
NSAIDs or acetaminophen may be used to relieve fever in some patients.
Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) or acetaminophen may also be prescribed to relieve symptoms. Aspirin may help lower fever, but should be used with caution in patients with Hodgkin lymphoma and cancer patients who have an increased risk of thrombocytopenia (low blood platelets). Aspirin is not recommended in children with fever because of the risk of Reye syndrome.
In patients with cancer, sweats and hot flashes may be caused by the tumor, its treatment, or other conditions.
Sweating happens with disease conditions such as fever and may occur without disease in warm climates, during exercise, and during hot flashes in menopause. Sweating helps balance body temperature by allowing heat to evaporate through the skin.
Sweats and hot flashes are common in patients with cancer and in cancer survivors. Sweating is more common in certain types of cancer, such as Hodgkin lymphoma, pheochromocytoma, and some neuroendocrine tumors.
Many patients treated for breast cancer and prostate cancer have hot flashes.
Menopause in women can have natural, surgical, or chemical causes. Chemical menopause in women with cancer is caused by certain types of chemotherapy, radiation, or hormone therapy with androgen (a male hormone).
"Male menopause" in men with cancer can be caused by orchiectomy (surgery to remove one or both testicles) or hormone therapy with gonadotropin-releasing hormone or estrogen.
Treatment for breast cancer and prostate cancer can cause menopause or menopause-like effects, including severe hot flashes.
Certain types of drug therapy can cause sweats.
Drugs that may cause sweats include the following:
Sweats are controlled by treating their cause.
Sweats caused by fever are controlled by treating the cause of the fever. (See the Treatments to Relieve Fever in Patients with Cancer section for more information.) Sweats caused by a tumor are usually controlled by treatment of the tumor.
Hot flashes may be controlled with estrogen replacement therapy.
Hot flashes during natural or treatment-related menopause can be controlled with estrogen replacement therapy. However, many women are not able to take estrogen replacement (for example, women who have or had breast cancer). Hormone replacement therapy that combines estrogen with progestin may increase the risk of breast cancer or breast cancer recurrence.
Treatment of hot flashes in men who have been treated for prostate cancer may include estrogens, progesterone, antidepressants, and anticonvulsants. Certain hormones (such as estrogen) can make some cancers grow.
Other drug therapy may be useful in some patients.
Studies of non-estrogen drugs to treat hot flashes in women with a history of breast cancer have reported that many of them do not work as well as estrogen replacement or have side effects. Megestrol (a drug like progesterone), certain antidepressants, anticonvulsants, and clonidine (a drug used to treat high blood pressure) are non-estrogen drugs used to control hot flashes. Some antidepressants may change how other drugs, such as tamoxifen, work in the body. Side effects of drug therapy may include the following:
Patients may respond in different ways to drug therapy. It is important that the patient's health care providers know about all medicines, dietary supplements, and herbs the patient is taking.
Drugs that may relieve nighttime hot flashes or night sweats and improve sleep at the same time are being studied in clinical trials.
If one medicine does not improve symptoms, switching to another medicine may help.
Comfort measures may help relieve sweats related to cancer.
Comfort measures may be used to treat sweats related to cancer. Since body temperature goes up before a hot flash, doing the following may control body temperature and help control symptoms:
Herbs and dietary supplements should be used with caution.
Studies of vitamin E for the relief of hot flashes show that it is only slightly better than a placebo (pill that has no effect). Most studies of soy and black cohosh show they are no better than a placebo in reducing hot flashes. Soy contains estrogen-like substances; the effect of soy on the risk of breast cancer growth or recurrence is not clear. Studies of ground flaxseed to treat hot flashes have shown mixed results.
Claims are made about several other plant-based and natural products as remedies for hot flashes. These include dong quai, milk thistle, red clover, licorice root extract, and chaste tree berry. Since little is known about how these products work or whether they affect the risk of breast cancer, women should be cautious about using them.
Acupuncture may be used to treat hot flashes.
Several studies have looked at the use of acupuncture to treat hot flashes. Results are not clear and more studies are needed. (See the Vasomotor symptoms section in the PDQ summary on Acupuncture for more information.)
Check NCI's list of cancer clinical trials for U.S. supportive and palliative care trials about fever, sweats, and hot flashes, neutropenia, hot flashes and hot flashes attenuation that are now accepting participants. The list of trials can be further narrowed by location, drug, intervention, and other criteria.
General information about clinical trials is also available from the NCI Web site.
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