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From HaskellWiki
A thunk is a value that is yet to be evaluated. It is used in Haskell systems, that implement non-strict semantics by lazy evaluation. A lazy run-time system does not evaluate a thunk unless it has to. Expressions are translated into a graph (not a tree, as you might have expected, this enables sharing, and infinite lists!) and a Spineless Tagless G-machine (STG, G for graph, I suppose?) reduces it, chucking out any unneeded thunk, unevaluated.
1 Why are thunks useful?Well, if you don't need it, why evaluate it? Take for example the "lazy"
-- the first is false, so is the answer, don't even need to know what the other is False && _ = False -- so the first turns out to be true, hmm... -- if the second is true, then the result is true -- if it's false, so is the result -- in other words, the result is the second! True && x = x
This function only evaluates the first parameter, because that's all that is needed. Even if the first parameter is true, you don't need to evaluate the second, so don't (so this version effectively is smarter than the explicit truth table). Who knows, the second parameter may get thrown out later as well!
Perhaps a more convincing example is a (naive but intuitive) algorithm to find out if a given number is prime.
-- the non-trivial factors are those who divide the number so no remainder factors n = filter (\m -> n `mod` m == 0) [2 .. (n - 1)] -- a number is a prime if it has no non-trivial factors isPrime n = n > 1 && null (factors n)
2 When are thunks not so useful?
If you keep building up a very complicated graph to reduce later, it consumes memory (naturally), and can hinder performance, like, (from a blog comment made by Cale Gibbard)
foldl (+) 0 [1,2,3] ==> foldl (+) (0 + 1) [2,3] ==> foldl (+) ((0 + 1) + 2) [3] ==> foldl (+) (((0 + 1) + 2) + 3) [] ==> ((0 + 1) + 2) + 3 ==> (1 + 2) + 3 ==> 3 + 3 ==> 6


text: In case you don't have the ticker for oil prices set in your RSS feeder or a cerebral feed to the 24 hour news channels (I like CNBC for all the pretty colors! — Ed.), you might not know that the price on a barrel of light sweet crude jumped as much as 24% to above $130 per barrell at the New York Mercantile Exchange today, halting trading momentarily as prices exceeded the daily limit. The day ended with prices up 14.78% to a price of $120.00 for October contract expirations. Analysts are naming the cause as either confidence in the economic recovery following the proposed $700 billion plus bailout of the banking system or the runaway inflation that may be a result of the same action. Regardless of the reason, we just ran out and filled up our tanks before the shock hits gas stations, and we'd recommend the same to you if possible — as the gaspocalypse draws ever more nigh. [Marketwatch, Stockhouse]

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Rise in cyber attacks on Australian businesses
Cyber attacks against Australian organisations are rising, with more than one fifth of 255 major companies surveyed for a new government report admitting they were targets in the past year.
Of those, a further 20 per cent said they had experienced more than 10 "cyber security incidents". One organisation reported the theft of 15 years of critical business data.
The 2012 Cyber Crime and Security Survey Report, commissioned by national computer emergency response team CERT Australia and conducted by the University of Canberra, was released on Monday.
The report said those who reported no cyber incidents were likely to not have detected them.
More than half of the affected organisations surveyed believed the attacks on their company to be targeted (rather than indiscriminate), with the majority coming from external sources but 44 per cent originating from within the organisation.
Attacks involved the use of malicious software such as "ransomware" and "scareware", and trojans to steal confidential information, and denial-of-service attacks.
This is despite 90 per cent of respondents reporting the use of anti-virus software, spam filters and firewalls, and 65 per cent having IT security staff with tertiary qualifications.
In late September last year CERT Australia received calls from more than 25 organisations being targeted by ransomware, which involved attackers scaring victims into handing over money or risk losing data.
Another example included in the report was in early last year when CERT Australia received reports from a range of financial companies whose websites were targeted with DDoS attacks, knocking them offline and demanding they make a payment.
"Cyber attacks have shifted from being indiscriminate and random to being more coordinated and targeted for financial gain," Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus said.
"Most attacks occur from outside the business, although it appears internal risks are also significant."
Rob McAdam, CEO of security consultancy Pure Hacking, said every business could now expect to be targeted by hackers in its lifetime.
"It no longer matters whether you are a major corporation, a not-for-profit, government department or small business in the suburbs, every business is a target for hackers and this is not going to change in our lifetime," he said.
"Hackers, cybercriminals and hactivists are able to cause untold damage to a business, its brand and reputation. They steal business intelligence, funds, sensitive customer records, deface websites and freeze applications - even basic internet access and email - to extort money, all of which wreaks havoc with a company's operations."
At a time when it only takes one naive employee clicking on a malicious email attachment to breach a corporate network, the report found "many organisations are not confident that cyber security is sufficiently understood and appreciated by staff, management and boards".
One fifth of the targeted organisations said they did not report the cyber incidents to a law enforcement agency because they feared negative publicity.
The most common way hackers broke into organisations was by using powerful automated attack tools or exploiting software holes or misconfigured systems. A third of attacks involved the theft of notebooks, tablets or mobile phones.
Another survey report released earlier this week found more than 20 per cent of 1500 security professionals surveyed by the global IT association ISACA said their enterprises had experienced an advanced persistent threat (APT) attack of the type designed for specific targets, usually to gather intelligence or steal prized information. According to the study 94 per cent of respondents said while APTs represented a credible threat to national security and economic stability, most enterprises were employing ineffective technologies to protect themselves.
In January, Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced that CERT Australia would soon be part of a new Australian Cyber Security Centre, which aims to develop a comprehensive understanding of cyber threats facing the nation.
However, in Senate estimates last week it was revealed there would be no new funding for the centre, with 95 per cent of staff coming from Defence and no independent leadership.


text: Show Hide image World 9 November 2011 Imran Khan: "I hate US policy, not Americans" The cricketer Imran Khan is now one of Pakistan's most prominent politicians, says Mehdi Hasan. Sign-up Imran Khan is in full flow. "When people don't want to be ruled, you can't rule them," he says. "The Afghans have stood up against every invader. They lost one million men against the Soviet Union. One million!" The cricketer-turned-politician is getting louder and louder as he explains the reasons for his opposition to the west's decade-long war in Afghanistan. "Why do they [the United States and the United Kingdom] think they are going to win?" For Khan, whose own Pakistani family is descended from Pashtun tribesmen, the conflict is "basically a war of independence". He does not accept the arguments about counterterrorism or counter-insurgency advanced by western governments. "The Americans claim that it is because of the Haqqani [militant] groups that they cannot win in Afghanistan," he says. "Are they saying that the three, four or five thousand, maximum, fighters of the Haqqani network are the reason 140,000 Nato troops, part of the greatest military machine in the history of mankind, cannot win in Afghanistan? Because of 5,000 fighters?" Nor is he impressed by Barack Obama's decision to set a timetable for full withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan. "What has he achieved? And what are they doing right now? There have been more night raids this year than ever before. If even Hamid Karzai [the Afghan president] is complaining about night raids, there has got to be something wrong, because they kill innocent people. And they strengthen the Taliban. It's totally counterproductive." He shakes his head wearily. "Obama's biggest blunder is that he fell in the trap of generals and generals always want more troops and more action." In January 2009, after Obama was elected to the White House, Khan wrote an open letter to him in which he pointed out that "the roots of terror and violence lie in politics - and so does the solution". "I told him, 'Do not own Bush's war [in Afghanistan].' I said: 'You're not going to win this.'" Khan and I meet at the home of his former mother-in-law, Lady Annabel Goldsmith. She is trying to quieten three barking dogs as I arrive at Ormeley Lodge, the Goldsmith family's 18th-century Grade II-listed Queen Anne house near Richmond Park in Ham, where Khan stays on visits to London, in an upstairs apartment on the edge of the grounds. Khan and Jemima Goldsmith were married in 1995 and divorced in 2004, when Jemima returned from Pakistan to London with their two sons. Khan writes movingly in his latest book, Pakistan: a Personal History, of how difficult it was to "make our cross-cultural marriage succeed" and accuses "external forces" of attempting "to sabotage our family life". After he entered Pakistani politics, Jemima was targeted by his political enemies and, he writes, "the government-sponsored media". She was attacked for her appearance, her wealth and her Jewish background. "It wasn't the people, it was the political class," he says now. "The people actually loved her." However, he notes: "She went through hell, in the sense that someone who is not used to this becomes a Muslim, first she gets a spate of negative articles here in the UK . . . And then she comes to Pakistan and, though they were fine at first, the moment I enter politics they [the Pakistani establishment] go for her, accusing her of being part of a 'Jewish lobby'. I think it was hard for her, very tough for a young girl." Jemima was 21 when they married - 21 years younger than her husband. Khan came to regret his decision to move her to Pakistan. "I felt I might have been irresponsible. Just because I could deal with the attacks, that didn't mean that she could, too." Perhaps he should have considered moving to London to save the marriage; but Khan says there was "never a choice" about where they would be based. "When I married Jemima she knew that I was going to live in Pakistan. I had made it clear that [Pakistan] is where my life was. When it ended, there was this feeling that I'd given it my best shot." He describes his separation from his sons, who live in England and whom he sees only in the school holidays, as the great "void" in his life. "My children gave me my greatest happiness and fatherhood was the thing I loved most, and so I was deprived of that." He turns to faith for solace. "It is the will of Allah. As the Prophet said, 'Don't fight destiny because destiny is God.' There is an [understanding] that, once you've tried your best, you accept things. At least I have more access to my children than in most cases of divorce." How has he managed to keep such good relations with Jemima and her family? All he will say is that it is "very important for the sake of the children that you have a good relationship". Perched on the edge of a yellow couch, Khan is wearing a tatty red jumper and dark blue jeans, and he has a cold. He is 58 but has the look of someone a decade younger, still physically impressive, with a full head of tousled black hair. He speaks in a deep and commanding voice, and intersperses answers to my questions with verses from the Quran and lines of Urdu poetry. He begins our conversation by explaining that he wrote Pakistan: a Personal History for his two sons, Sulaiman, aged 14, and Kasim, 12. He felt, as a Pakistani, that he "should explain to them what is happening there [in Pakistan]. There is total confusion. The majority of the population is under 30. The young people have no idea what is happening; they are confused about Islam, confused about the west, confused about terrorism." Khan, once a playboy on the London social scene, underwent a spiritual and religious reawakening in the late 1980s after a chance meeting at a dinner party with a Sufi mystic named Hazrat Mian Bashir. These days, he refuses to define his faith according to the usual criteria of Sunni/Shia, conservative/liberal, Islamist/moderate. "I am a follower of Iqbal," he says bluntly, referring to the legendary Muslim poet, philosopher and intellectual of the Indian subcontinent who died in 1938. "He is my role model. The man was a genius. He had so many facets to him." Khan becomes animated. "Iqbal is a notion. Iqbal understood the dynamism of Islam as a religion and as spirituality." The final chapter of his book is devoted to the lessons that modern Pakistan can learn from the great man. Khan describes him as "the undaunted thinker who urged the oppressed [Muslim] masses to revolt against all forms of totalitarianism - religious, political, cultural, intellectual, economic, or any other". However, he is not opposed to the teaching of some of the more austere and literalist brands of Islam, such as Salafism and Wahhabism. His only criterion is that they should not "breed hatred of other human beings, which is anti-Islamic". He accepts that the Pakistani government needs to "clamp down" on the more militant madrasas but argues: "In my opinion, no government which is perceived as a stooge of the Americans can do that." Where some in the west have demanded an "Islamic Reformation", Khan disagrees, distinguishing between the religion and its adherents. "No, not Islam - Muslims! Muslims need to reform themselves," he says. "You need a proper intellectual debate to go on in the Muslim world." What's stopping it from happening? "It doesn't happen any more because of the war on terror: it has destroyed all debate in our country. You don't want to get caught on the 'other' side." In January, Salman Taseer, governor of Punjab Province, in Pakistan, was murdered by his own bodyguard for daring to campaign against the country's blasphemy law. Does Khan fear for his own safety? "I've gone past that," he says breezily. "That's what faith does. There is a verse in the Quran: 'Those who have faith, Allah removes their fears.' So I actually have no fears in life. If I die, if I go" - he pauses - "well, I am trying my best." Khan says his Muslim faith teaches him to accept death, rather than fight it or try to postpone it. He could, however, take precautions, couldn't he? "Well, there is a limit to precautions, Benazir [Bhutto] took precautions . . ." His voice trails off. Writing in his book about Bhutto's return after eight years of exile from Dubai to Pakistan in October 2007, Khan describes the former Pakistani prime minister as "a dead woman walking . . . a target to the militants on one side . . . and on the other side a target to politicians threatened by her, scared they would lose power". She was assassinated the following December. Khan founded his own political party, Tehreek-e-Insaf ("Movement for Justice"), in 1996, and served as a member of parliament between 2002 and 2008. He plans to contest the next parliamentary and presidential elections in 2013. His mission, he says, is to combat corruption in Pakistan. He will not, however, be drawn on the question of his politics. Is he a conservative? A social democrat? A liberal? He shakes his head. "These are just western terms for western parties proposing western solutions. I am completely rooted in Pakistan. I want a welfare state, the rule of law and a sovereign Pakistan - whatever it takes to fulfil these three goals." Critics describe him as an opportunist, willing to appease Pakistan's religious parties in order to win votes and gain popular support. In the words of one newspaper profile of Khan in 2005: "[H]e preaches democracy one day but gives a vote to reactionary mullahs the next." He looks annoyed. "No, no, hold on. What they don't understand is that those were votes against the government. I was against the government. And the mullahs were against the government. The problem [in the west] is that you look upon Muslim societies from a perspective of: 'Either you're with the fundamentalists or with the liberals.'" For him, the only political battle that counts is against the "ruling mafia" in the two major parties, the Pakistan Peoples Party and the Pakistan Muslim League. The mullahs' stance is, therefore, irrelevant. He wasn't always so opposed to the ruling mafia, however, throwing his support behind Pervez Musharraf in the 2002 referendum that allowed the general to stay on as president of Pakistan for another five years. Khan is understandably defensive when I raise the matter. "[Musharraf] came in and he promised us a real democracy instead of sham democracy, so we backed him, but where I made a mistake was backing him in the referendum, which was against the constitution. And I made the mistake because we were so worried about Nawaz [Sharif] and Benazir coming back [to power] that we actually thought that this man [Musharraf] was sincere. So we were fooled, yes. We made a mistake." In subsequent years, he became an outspoken opponent of Musharraf, denouncing his pro-western and pro-war policies. Yet did the general have any other option other than to join with the Americans in 2001? Richard Armitage, the then US deputy secretary of state, is alleged to have threatened to bomb Pakistan "back to the Stone Age" unless it signed up to the fight against al-Qaeda and the Taliban. Khan is not sympathetic to this point of view. "This is where a leader comes in," he says, his voice rising. "You have to be able to take pressure, otherwise you're not a leader. Just because someone threatens you . . . You can fight back and say, 'Why should we do this?' If Turkey could stop the US troops going through Turkey into Iraq [in 2003], how come we destroyed our country and violated our own people's rights for just $20bn [in US aid]?" I wonder whether his approach to the question of Islamist terrorism and violent extremism is too simplistic. Wasn't Pakistan engulfed by sectarian violence and awash with militant groups even before the 11 September 2001 attacks and the launch of the US-led war on terror? "Let's just put it in perspective," he counters. "If you look at the entire history of suicide attacks in Pakistan, there was just a handful before 2001. There have been hundreds since. You don't even report a suicide bombing any more; it gets four lines now [in the press]. How can you compare that era with this one?" He concedes that Pakistan's militant groups were nurtured and sponsored by the Pakistani army - specifically the notorious Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). But does he also believe that the ISI was protecting Osama Bin Laden, who was discovered to be living less than two miles from a prestigious military academy in Pakistan? "God alone knows," he sighs. "Here was the Pakistani army being attacked, soldiers dying - why would they nurture this man who was considered the main brains behind the violence? There is a contradiction in this. So why would they do it?" (In his book, however, he notes the former ISI chief Lieutenant General Ziauddin Butt's claim that Musharraf "kept Osama in the safe house in Abbottabad to milk the US for dollars".) Khan takes a bold approach to the wider challenge posed by the wavering honesty and loyalty of the Pakistani military. "No more aid," he declares, leaning forward in his chair. "This is the answer. What do we learn from being a front-line state? First we created the jihadis and then we killed them for dollars. The common thing was dollars - so no more dollars, no more aid." (It is believed that his position irks senior ministers and civil servants in Britain's Department for International Development.) Khan argues that it is intellectually lazy to describe widespread Pakistani protests against the so-called war on terror, and the associated burning of flags and effigies on the streets of Islamabad and Karachi, as "anti-Americanism". "Why don't people understand that the Pakistanis hate US policies, not the country? In the UK, when you protest, you're not accused of hating your country. The two million people who came out on to the streets to protest against the Iraq war weren't anti-British. They were anti the policy [of invading Iraq]." He is equally keen to defend himself against the charge of anti-Americanism. "I know the west. I understand the west. I have family here in the west. I know that it is a question of interest groups driving the policy, it's not the people; ordinary Americans are as much victims of the policy as we are. The military-industrial complex, which I talk about [in the book], is doing as much harm to them as to us." In May, a poll by YouGov found that two-thirds of Pakistanis did not believe Osama Bin Laden had been killed by US special forces in Abbottabad. "But why do you blame them?" Khan asks. "They're lied to all the time by their leaders. If a society is used to listening to lies all the time, they try to think, what's behind it, what's the truth, and then everything becomes a conspiracy." Khan the politician has faith in his fellow countrymen. He points to two recent polls - by the Pew Research Centre and YouGov - which show Tehreek-e-Insaf enjoying approval ratings of between 60 and 70 per cent. But an official at the US embassy in Islamabad disputes those results and tells me that the embassy's internal polling puts Khan's party much lower - at between 10 and 20 per cent. Nonetheless, 100,000 supporters flocked to a Khan-led rally in Lahore on 30 October. In person, Khan seems naive, innocent, even. I remind him that his party has been nothing but marginal since it was founded in 1996. At the first general election it contested, in 1997, Tehreek-e-Insaf won no seats even though Khan stood in seven separate constituencies. In 2002, the party won 0.8 per cent of the popular vote and secured the election of just one MP - Khan - out of 272 chosen. Then, in 2008, Khan and his party boycotted the elections over Musharraf's decision to place the chief justice under house arrest, leaving them without any parliamentary representation whatsoever. A cynic would say that Pakistan's corrupt, power-hungry political and military elite will never allow Khan to win. Wouldn't they just rig the result, as in countless previous contests? Khan shakes his head. "For the first time, we have an independent supreme court that can supervise the elections." He continues: "Being prime minister for me holds no attraction. Being someone who is a catalyst for change, bringing in a big revolution in Pakistan and changing the way the country is going - that holds an attraction for me." He looks out of the window and into the far distance. "I would only want the premiership if I can then use it to bring about a socio-economic revolution in Pakistan." So does he think he'll win next time? "I have no doubt," he says, with his usual confidence. "It is clear in my mind that there is only one party that is going to win." Imran Khan's "Pakistan: a Personal History" is published by Bantam Press (£20) Mehdi Hasan is the New Statesman's senior editor (politics) Mehdi Hasan is a contributing writer for the New Statesman and the co-author of Ed: The Milibands and the Making of a Labour Leader. He was the New Statesman's senior editor (politics) from 2009-12. Subscribe from just £1 per issue This article first appeared in the 07 November 2011 issue of the New Statesman, The triumph of the Taliban SUBSCRIBE More


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Group visits at Wakehurst
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on the day
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Child (16 and under)
A sample itinerary
10:30am. Arrive at Wakehurst. Join one of our guides and enjoy an hour exploring the collections and history of the gardens. The tour ends at the Millennium Seed Bank where the guide will give an overview of the work carried out there
11:30am. Visit the Millennium Seed Bank exhibition to discover the importance of seed conservation and learn more about the worldwide effort to store and conserve seeds, which Kew is leading
12:15pm. Visit the Mansion, including the Gallery currently showing an exhibition of botanical watercolour paintings
12:45pm. Lunch at The Stables restaurant
1:30pm. Free time to explore the gardens and woodlands, relax near the Mansion or visit the shop and plant sales areas in the Visitor Centre
- Pay in advance: These prices are valid for groups paying 14 days in advance. To book please call 01444 894066 or email: email@example.com.
- Pay on the day: Groups must pay in one single transaction, not as individuals.
*National Trust Members, Friends of Kew, Wakehurst season ticket holders, essential carers and visually-disabled visitors are admitted FREE.
Pre-booked guided tours for groups
Guided walks are available for groups of up to 25 visitors.
- The walks cost £25 per group, payable in advance to secure the services of the guide, and last about one-and-a-quarter hours.
- For groups of foreign visitors requiring a tour, if numbers are greater than 25 the tour operator will need to provide two interpreters.
- We have a limited number of guides available and whilst we endeavour to meet your requirements, at busy periods during the year this may not always be possible: therefore an early booking is advisable.
For information on tours of the garden call 01444 894066 or email email@example.com
Ten things to do on your visit
- Watch science in action at the Millennium Seed Bank
- Enjoy local produce at The Stables restaurant
- Witness recycling on a massive scale at Compost Corner
- See magnificent seasonal displays in the gardens throughout the year
- Walk the woodlands of the world, with trees from every temperate region
- Come in late April or early May and be dazzled by the glorious swathes of bluebells in our woodlands
- Find the rare Wollemi pine, which can be traced back to the time of the dinosaurs
- See Wakehurst's four national plant collections: hypericum, birch, southern beech and skimmias
- Find out how we make our own charcoal, and buy some for your own barbeque
- Take a guided tour around the estate to learn more about our mission
Discover more in our Wakehurst group visits brochure


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20 Games Like Resynth()
EGE DistantPlanet NonXXX
SiFi Interactive Room with integrated VideoPlayer and beautiful Girl who will tell you a story, how humanity went into space.This is VR experience was created to relax and chill out vr User
Sea of Solitude
The second title in the EA Originals lineup, Sea of Solitude is an adventure game where humans turn into monsters if they get too lonely. From the Berlin-based Jo-Mei Games.
Jurassic Park : Aftermath
Aftermath is a one man ,non-profit fan project re-creating a small portion of Jurassic park to explore.
Seers Isle
Seers Isle is a narrative game, set in a fantasy version of medieval northern Europe, where your choices impact the fate of a group of characters.
Pythagoria is a brain-teasing number puzzle game.
60 / 10003.0
Two Point Hospital
Design stunning hospitals, cure peculiar illnesses and manage troublesome staff as you spread your budding healthcare organisation across Two Point County.
Design Your Hospital
Build and customise your hospital - it is yours after all - with specialist diagnosis and treatment facilities, as well as the very latest in ornamental technology!
Cure Your Patients
Feeling light-headed? Just wait until you see the other unusual illnesses afflicting the people of Two Point County. Care for, and profit from, the ill: that seems like it's probably a win-win. They'll need feeding, entertaining and curing if they're going to recommend you to all their equally unwell friends! That cash isn't going to make itself, now.
Manage Your Staff
Hire your staff, juggle their demands and cater to their personalities. Train a crack team that can handle every sickly challenge that's thrown at it, and fire anyone that can't.
Expand Your Organisation
Grow the sickness business across the beautiful Two Point County. Research illnesses and develop new inventions to compete with rival healthcare companies.
Collaborate and Compete with Friends
Once you've conquered the world with your medical empire, contribute to Two Point County's global medical community with collaborative research projects, or demonstrate your medical prowess in competitive multiplayer challenges.
72 / 100143.6
Grandpa - The Horror Game
Grandpa is a survival horror game.
34 / 10001.7
Unforeseen Incidents
Unforeseen Incidents is a classical style interactive mystery set in a beautifully hand-painted world. Join Harper Pendrell and experience a challenging investigation, smart dialog and a rich cast of characters in this thrilling new adventure game.
70 / 10013.5
The Last Journey
The Last Journey is an ultimate post-nuclear exploration game in which you travel the universe to find a new planet suitable for mankind to live on after the Earth was destroyed in a nuclear war.
Daddy's Girls
When Alice and Emma grew older their relationships with their dearly loved daddy turned into something much more.. Something unexpected and yet secretly long wished for..
Chroma Shift
CHROMA SHIFT is a cooperative, side-scrolling puzzle game, where the players utilize different colours throughout the environment to solve challenging puzzles. Players must uncover the secrets of the past and find a way to restore power to their home
60 / 10003.0
House Flipper
House Flipper is a unique chance to become the one-man renovating crew.
Buy, repair and upgrade devastated houses. Give them a second life and sell at a profit!
60 / 10003.0
Game Soup
Master a collection of 46 challenging minigames, including parodies of famous games! Each game lasts just seconds, so act fast!
-Conquer a unique set of randomly-chosen minigames in each run!
-The farther you get in a run, the faster the gameplay (up to and including "ludicrously fast")!
-Unlock faster, more difficult game modes, including an endless mode!
Here are just some of the trials you'll face:
-Run to the right at supersonic speed! (blast processing optional)
-Enter a stranger's home and destroy their priceless pottery!
-Defend against waves of zombies invading your garden!
-Woo your waifu in the world's shortest dating visual novel!
-Use a ball to capture a wild monster pal that fits on your pocket!
-Reload your shotgun before a demon brings about your DOOM!
-Don your best plumbing attire and jump, man!
Infliction is a story driven first person physiological horror experience. Set in a regular suburban home, the story is told over alternating time periods spanning 13 years.
Through environmental storytelling, Infliction tackles taboo subject matter. While you're discovering what has happened over the last 13 years, you're being stalked by an evil entity. Can you learn enough to vanquish the evil that lies within this family home or will you become a victim?
70 / 10013.5
The Key to Home / いえのかぎ
Tens of millions of yen hidden in an Elementary school!? Lies, secrets, and underhanded tactics... Students and teachers struggle against one another. This is a mystery visual novel for every gentlemen and gentlewomen who love little girls!
Brainy Tree
Brainy Tree is a simple, addictive word based game which helps to improve vocabulary with fun.
In this game tree has windows in which cow & other animals stay to help the player by dropping alphabets.
The player has to pick those alphabets to complete word which shown on board within a time limit.
After word completion, meaning of the word gets displayed on the screen which is available in Hindi, Japanese, French, Spanish, Russian, German, Italian language.
How To Play :-
1. Firstly Player has to select the language in which they want meaning of words.
2. After that for each level player have target to complete some words within the time limit. Word count & time limit is different for each level.
3. Animal pops out from windows of tree & drops different alphabets continuously which helps the player.
4. Player has to pick those alphabets to complete word.
5. After word completion, the player is able to see meaning of word.
Features :-
1. Meaning of words is available in Hindi, Japanese, French, Spanish, Russian, German, Italian language.
Crusoe had it easy
"Help! I Have Through No Fault of My Own Found Myself Inadvertently Stranded on a Desert Island in the Tropics with My Hopelessly Hot Cousin"


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Josh Crews needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 32 designs submitted by 6 freelance designers.
I'm a web developer.
The client for this project is a PAC, political action committee, for promoting progressive candidates in Tennessee.
progressives, Democrats, political junkies, donors, general public, Tennesseans, Americans
2 pages, PSDs, and logo needs help
attached pdf has 2 pages, shows basic wireframe with sections.
Front page has
menu that changes color on hover, and active page
slider with a photo and text section
new section below slider, with sidebar
The second page's only difference is has candidate profiles.
Client does NOT want a plain white background.
Client liked design of http://www.iasbweb.org
On Logo, client created something they like; if you can improve it with the same look and feel, please do


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Aerospace Enterprise Student Leader Wins Defense Department Fellowship
By Jennifer Donovan | Published
The US Department of Defense (DoD) is going to help Jeff Katalenich realize his dream of pursuing a graduate degree in nuclear engineering. Katalenich, a fourth year mechanical engineering major at Michigan Technological University, has won a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship that will enable him to attend the University of Michigan graduate program in nuclear engineering and radiological sciences.
The DoD received 2,000 applications for the competitive fellowships this year and awarded 200. The fellowship covers full tuition and fees for up to three years of graduate study.
"I can't think of a student more deserving of an NDSEG Fellowship than Jeff," said his advisor, Brad King, associate professor of mechanical engineering at Michigan Tech. "His credentials and list of accomplishments will certainly impress you, but when you get a chance to work with Jeff, you will really be blown away by his maturity, leadership and work ethic. Michigan Tech is proud to have an alumnus like Jeff Katalenich."
A member of Michigan Tech's Honors Institute and project manager of the Aerospace Enterprise's nanosatellite project--which placed third in a national competition--Katalenich holds a perfect 4.0 grade point average. He participates in the College of Engineeering Research Scholar Program and was the program's only student speaker this academic year.
"Michigan Tech provided me with the intellectual space and resources to obtain an engineering education and to explore my research interests," Katalenich said. "I have received an excellent education in mechanical engineering, and I owe a debt of gratitude to the faculty here for helping me grow and learn."
Katalenich emphasized the value of the hands-on experiences that come with a Michigan Tech education. "While the coursework did a lot to prepare me for my future work, my hands-on experience came from the Aerospace Enterprise and the opportunity I had to lead the nanosatellite program," he explained.
After graduate school, Katalenich hopes to work at a national laboratory or at a company he recently co-founded. His interest focuses on nuclear power sources for remote environments and the detection of nuclear materials.
Katalenich is from Roscommon, Mich.
Michigan Technological University is a public research university, home to more than 7,000 students from 54 countries. Founded in 1885, the University offers more than 120 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in science and technology, engineering, forestry, business and economics, health professions, humanities, mathematics, and social sciences. Our campus in Michigan's Upper Peninsula overlooks the Keweenaw Waterway and is just a few miles from Lake Superior.


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TED KEY is best known as the creator of HAZEL, the strong-willed but warm-hearted maid who debuted as a single-panel cartoon in The Saturday Evening Post in 1943 and was portrayed by Shirley Booth on television from 1961 to 1966. But the California-born cartoonist also wrote for radio, illustrated a line of motivational posters, authored and illustrated books, scripted a movie for The Walt Disney Co. and created the animated cartoon characters Peabody & Sherman for Jay Ward's ROCKY & BULLWINKLE SHOW...
Born and raised in Fresno, Calif., Key graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1933 and moved to New York to try to sell his cartoons to magazines. By the late 1930s, Key was possibly the most published gag cartoonist in America, Richard E. Marshall wrote in The World Encyclopedia of Cartoons. He was also a staff writer for the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency. In that capacity, he wrote the play, The Clinic, which was produced on one of NBCs radio networks and included in Max Wylies anthology, Best Broadcasts of 1939-40.
Two weeks after he sold a cartoon about a maid to The Saturday Evening Post in 1943, the weekly magazine obtained sole rights to the character, which Key subsequently named Hazel. When The Post folded in 1969, King Features Syndicate began distributing the feature to newspapers, which it continues to do to this day. King Features also makes Hazel available on the Web at: http://kingfeatures.com/features/comics/hazel/about.htm.
Hazel cartoons have been collected in a dozen books, the first of which, simply titled Hazel, sold 500,000 copies in five printings for E.P. Dutton & Co. in 1946 and 47.
During Hazels long run in The Post, Key continued selling other cartoons to that publication and other magazines, including Sports Illustrated, Colliers, Look, Good Housekeeping and Better Homes and Gardens. Three compilations of those cartoons were published by Dutton.
In the 1960s, Key also did a two-page cartoon chronicling the adventures of a brother and sister named Diz and Liz for Jack and Jill, a childrens magazine put out by the publisher of The Post. A compilation of those cartoons was published by Wonder Books, as was a Diz and Liz book written by Key and illustrated by cartoonist Colin Allen.
By the time the Diz and Liz books were published in the mid-1960s, Key had written three other books. Two, Som I and Phyllis, were illustrated by other cartoonists, Frank Owen and Shanks, respectively. The one Key illustrated himself, The Biggest Dog in the World, was later made into a movie called Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World, by Walter Shenson, who produced the Beatles' movies A Hard Days Night and Help.
Key also directly contributed ideas to movies, selling three to Disney and writing the screenplay for one of them, The Cat from Outer Space (starring Roddy McDowall). When the feature was released in 1978, Key turned it into a novel that was published in Japanese as well as English.
Although Hazel was Keys best-known creation for much of her 60-year-plus existence, today that honor probably goes to two characters he came up with for a childhood friend and UC Berkeley classmate of his brother, Leonard. In the late 1950s, Jay Ward was trying to get the go-ahead to do an animated TV show centered on two characters created by Alex Anderson: a flying squirrel named Rocky and a moose named Bullwinkle. Ward needed other characters to make the show a full half hour long. To help him, Key created a time-traveling dog scientist and his faithful boy. Peabody and Sherman appeared in two shows of Wards, Rocky and His Friends and The Bullwinkle Show, which have been shown on TV many times since they first aired from 1959 to 1964. Despite creating Peabody and Sherman, Key never wrote for the shows.
During his career, Key also did work for many corporate clients. He illustrated magazine ads, booklets on dog training for the maker of Ken-L® brand dog food and on highway accident data for The Travelers Insurance Cos., and a billboard campaign for Pure Oil Co., among other things. A discussion with a neighbor at a party led the two to create a line of sales-advice pamphlets illustrated with Keys cartoons. Each pamphlet was called A Sales Bullet and the line was published biweekly by The Economics Press Inc. in the 1950s and 1960s. Its success led to a line of motivational posters called Positive Attitude Posters, which consisted of short pieces of advice that Key illustrated with cartoons featuring children. That was published biweekly by The Economics Press from the 1960s into the 1980s.
Keys books are out of print, although they frequently turn up on eBay, along with magazine ads he illustrated and original artwork by him. The movies he sold to Disney -- Gus (starring Don Knotts), The Million Dollar Duck (starring Sandy Duncan), and The Cat from Outer Space (starring Roddy McDowall) -- are now available to a new generation on DVD, as is the first full season of the HAZEL TV shows.
A collection of Keys work can be found at the Special Collections Research Center of the Syracuse University Library. The Ted Key papers contain artwork, manuscripts, fan mail and memorabilia from 1942 to 1977 and cover 23 linear feet. For more information about them, visit: http://library.syr.edu/digital/exhibits/c/cartoonists/key.htm. The Ohio State University Cartoon Research Library also has some cartoons by him.
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Larry's experience and knowledge has culminated in this "dream" job at The Miss Universe Organization, a position he knew had his name written all over it.
Larry is a product of New York City, being born and raised in NY and having received his undergraduate degree in Accounting and an MBA in Finance and International Business in the metro area. His professional career spans over 30 years in finance, accounting, budget & analysis, corporate administration and business management. Larry has been involved in the entertainment, media and direct response side of business with stints at Doubleday Book and Music Clubs, BMG Music and Digiview Entertainment. He spent 16 years in the music industry where he gained experience in music licensing and contract administration, helped in the development of the digital download business and had a significant hand in the turnaround of the special products and licensing unit.
Larry's broad wealth of entertainment related experience and his business acumen will be a valuable asset in the development of future business opportunities with the Miss Universe brand.


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Hyundai Motor Company is a leading automotive manufacturer who was ranked first in a J.D. Power vehicle dependability survey for three years straight in 2010. Founded in 1967 and headquartered in Seoul, Korea, Hyundai sells over 3.5 million cars per year.
Create a windshield wiper design that optimizes both wiping performance and fatigue life for all Hyundai models.
By using SIMULIA's Abaqus Unified Finite Element Analysis (FEA) engineers at Hyundai are able to analyze both wiping and durability on the same computer model rather than in two separate FEA programs as they had previously done. They are able to manipulate numerous conditions to observe the subsequent effects on the wiper system and make educated design decisions based on their observations.
The unified analysis model enables the engineers at Hyundai to consider a wide range of design factors, which effect both wiping and durability, allowing them to achieve a lighter-weight wiper system and increase key link stiffness and reduce maximum stresses.


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As Sesqui events kick-off in Fredericksburg this weekend, leading-up to the anniversary of the battle this coming Thursday, I figured this would be a good subject to bring forward at this particular time.
In retrospect, it might have been a good thing to do since the beginning of the Sesquicentennial… write short pieces, now and then, in conjunction with the anniversary of battles, relating the stories of Southern Unionists in the vicinity of the battles. For those who enjoy my posts about the Shenandoah Valley, not to worry… it remains my chief focus, and posts related to the Valley will continue. I do, however, think flexing the blog's discussion of Unionists elsewhere is a good thing. For one, there isn't a great deal about it on the Web, and adding content will, I think, be of service in helping to fill that void.
Despite the fact that we are about four months short of the two year mark in the war, Fredericksburg is also a good starting point, especially when we consider the devastation suffered by the city, leading up to the battle, during, and after.
The difficult part of surveying Southern Unionists (SUs) associated with claims relating to the battle is that the devastation at the hands of Federal troops (whether that be because of the bombardment leading-up or the looting that occurred) may have "flipped" Southern Unionists who had remained loyal up to that point. Sure, we see SUs in the Valley who endured some pretty rough treatment at the hands of the Federal armies, despite their loyalty, and yet maintained that loyalty. Still, we have to consider the fact that, even well into the war, there were people who lost that sense of loyalty on account of actions of Federal armies. It's without saying, but war brings pain… excruciating pain… and people have various levels of pain tolerance. There are some folks who are more tolerant than others, but it has to be acknowledged that people have limits. What occurred at Fredericksburg had to push some of those people over their personal limits, and, if not in December 1862, there were plenty more opportunities through the spring of 1864.
Finding people who made that flip may prove to be a challenge. For obvious reasons, these folks won't appear in the approved claims, but evidence related to such occurences might be found in the barred and disallowed claims. Fact of the matter is, there are relatively few approved claims from Spotsylvania County… which bore the brunt of Union actions initiated across the river in Stafford County. But, of course, we have to keep in mind, that those numbers can't merely be a reflection of one battle. There was plenty more to come around Fredericksburg. Still, even while Stafford County Unionists may have been pushed to the brink at various points during the war… were they exposed to nearly as much as those on the other side of the Rappahannock River? With the Battle of Fredericksburg, for example, we see Stafford as the staging point of the Federal forces, and it didn't face the same level of destruction as seen on the south side of the river. Is the larger number of approved claims from Stafford County residents an indication of the difference? This might be just one of a few questions to come out of this survey of SUs. Where we end up, and what we end up with… well, it might be interesting to see…
The first claimant, whose claim is tied to activities around Frederiscksburg, in December 1862, is coming up.


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Recently I had the need to purchase a MIDI controller keyboard for my own music production interests. My requirements included programmable sliders and encoders, as well as a minimum of 49 'piano' keys, velocity action and drum pads. I also wanted to keep things as inexpensive as possible. I'm not a live keyboard player, so I aim to use this device for music composition, with programs such as Reason.
I narrowed the field down to the following three models:
- Edirol PCR-M50 - NZ$400 from the Rockshop.
- Akai MPK49 - NZ$800 from the Rockshop.
- Korg Kontrol49 - NZ$800 from Peter Jamieson Audio Limited.
I was able to quickly eliminate the Edirol, because I felt the feature set was too limited for the level of control I was after. This left the Korg and the Akai.
First, the Korg Kontrol49. Peter from Peter Jamieson Audio Limited graciously agreed to lend me a unit for a weekend trial - without this opportunity, my choice would have been much, much harder to make.
The Korg is an excellent piece of gear. I was impressed with the way it worked in Reason - especially the feedback that comes through and labels the controls. I had no trouble installing it and getting started. From what I can tell, it's extremely configurable and can probably do anything MIDI-wise you'd ever need to do.
I had read a lot about the Akai MPK49, which seems to be the closest competitor to the Korg. In comparisons, I read a lot of speculative opinion either way which made me uneasy, so I decided the only way to know for sure was to try it myself. Mark at the Rockshop in Lower Hutt agreed to let me trial the Akai so I was able to set both keyboards up next to each other at home, and make my own hands-on comparisons.
Here's what I found.
- the Korg provides a much better level of feedback, especially with Reason. You can easily tell what a particular control will do by the label sent from the PC. However, because each encoder and slider share a single display, and it only shows the last control moved, you can't see what the label for the other control is until you move it. However, in this area it still wins because the Akai doesn't do anything like this at all.
- The Korg is a 2004 product, the Akai is 2007.
- The Korg is slightly bigger and slightly lighter than the Akai.
- The build quality of the Korg is somewhat lower than the Akai. For example, the encoder knobs and sliders on the Korg are a bit flimsy and can move side-to-side. The Akai controls are very solid in feel. I also prefer the pitch-bend and mod wheels on the Akai as they are larger and have a better (rubbery) surface.
- the pads on the Korg are really cool - the different coloured lights tell you what pads are playing when reviewing a drum pattern, for example. The feel of them is good. The Akai has only 12 pads, no visual feedback, but interestingly I found they had a better strike response and I found it easier to 'play' the drums on the Akai.
- The Akai keyboard has a better feel than the Korg, in my opinion.
- The Akai has features that the Korg lacks - aftertouch on keys (Korg has an aftertouch send but it's global), note-repeat, built-in arpeggiator. However the Korg has the X-Y joystick, but unfortunately it has a 'dead-zone' in the centre which makes the input non-linear.
- The Akai has dedicated transport controls - so does the Korg, but I found the Akai ones easier to use. The Korg can be configured so that any button will transmit 'record' or 'rewind' but it can be complicated and there are no dedicated controls.
- The included "library" software is quite minimal with the Korg. The Akai software is better as it allows you to set up the keyboard using a graphical representation, and then send this config to the keyboard in a single operation. It also has a MIDI monitor which is useful for debugging MIDI messages and assignments.
I've spent a lot of time comparing these products and my final conclusion is that although the Korg is excellent, it unfortunately falls short of the Akai for my requirements.
Many thanks to Peter at Peter Jamieson Audio Limited, and Mark at the Rockshop Lower Hutt for enabling me to make this hands-on comparison.
I have been using the Akai for about a week now. I am very impressed with this keyboard. It has an excellent feel and now I'm used to the controls it's very easy to get around the configuration. Although it lacks the direct feedback Reason has with the Korg, it doesn't take too long to learn which controls affect which parameters on each instrument.
Final note - the YouTube videos by "TodaysbeatsTV" on the MPK49 are a complete waste of time. Yes, there's some info there, but the presenter rambles on and on and ON and ON. Just make sure the MPK49 clock is set to internal if you want to drive the MIDI clock from the keyboard. Pretty obvious really.


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NEW ORLEANS — What was about to happen would stun a city, jolt a franchise and ruin a season that had bubbled with potential since summer. When Ravens wide receiver Jacoby Jones put his right foot on the Baltimore 29-yard line, he could see the future. That future for the Broncos wasn't going to be pretty.
"I knew it right away," Jones said Tuesday in the swirl of Super Bowl media day. "The minute I lined up, just looking at the way they were, I knew it was going to be there."
"It" is the play that largely ended the Broncos' season, a 70-yard Joe Flacco-to-Jones catch-and-run that tied the divisional-round game at 35-35 in the waning seconds of regulation, snatched a victory out the Broncos' hands, sent shock waves down their sideline and sent the game into overtime when Denver coach John Fox elected to run out the clock. The Broncos' season ended when the Ravens kicked the game-winning field goal five plays into a second overtime.
It was at the crossroads of daring and error, a remember-forever moment for both sides.
"Right now, before we play in the Super Bowl, it is the biggest play of my life," Jones said. "Right before the snap, I knew we would look there. I saw an opening. When (Broncos cornerback Tony Carter) didn't jam me and I got by him, it was over with."
The Ravens, down by a touchdown and facing third-and-3 from their 30 with 44 seconds remaining in regulation, lined up in a three-wide receiver set. Jones was lined up wide right, with tight end Dennis Pitta in the slot next to him.
Wide receivers Torrey Smith and Anquan Boldin were to the left. The Broncos were in a seven-defensive-back look that included four safeties — Rahim Moore, Mike Adams, David Bruton and Jim Leonhard.
The Broncos rushed three players toward Flacco — linebacker Von Miller, defensive end Elvis Dumervil and defensive end Robert Ayers.
"Joe is a playmaker," Smith said. "He saw a hole in that look, and he went for it. He saw the opportunity for a big play, and he made it."
Carter, lined up 6 yards off Jones at the snap, was supposed to "jam" Jones before the receiver got through the 5-yard contact zone in order to keep Jones from sprinting up the sideline. If no receiver was in the flat — in the shorter area near the sideline — Carter was supposed to follow Jones up the sideline after the jam. He did neither.
Jones came off the line untouched and was in full stride when he went by Carter. Pitta cut toward the middle of the field with Adams tracking him. Carter was looking in the flat when Jones went by him and paused, looking in at Flacco, as Jones slowed some. But seeing open space and Flacco getting ready to wind up, Jones shifted into overdrive.
"The O-line did a great job blocking, gave Joe that time and Joe was looking down there and just let that thing go," Jones said. "When I got off the line, I just went. Nobody touched me."
"There's really no real way to explain it," Flacco said. "It was an incredible game. It turned out in a crazy way."
While several Broncos made mistakes on the play, Moore has received most of the blame in the aftermath because of the poor angle he took toward Jones with the ball in the air. He admitted afterward he was going for an interception. The ball sailed over his head.
At the snap, Moore was not lined up as deep in the defensive formation as Bruton was on the other side. Moore, the deep safety on the side of the formation where Jones was, had his left heel on the Ravens' 45-yard line at the snap.
As Jones passed Carter, Moore never closed the distance, and when the ball was on its way, Jones ran past Moore as well. When Flacco's pass arrived — Jones was at the Broncos' 20-yard line when he caught it — Moore was badly out of position to knock the ball down or intercept it, falling backward as Jones made the catch.
"I saw him level off his coverage instead of dropping back," Flacco said. "It was an all-vertical (route), so you're looking deep there, anyway. You don't necessarily expect to see your guy get behind their deep guy, but that's what happened and I figured, 'Go for it.' "
Moore fell to the ground, right in front of Carter, which kept Carter from catching Jones, who ran the final 20 yards untouched for the score. Had a Broncos player tackled Jones, time would have come close to expiring, because Baltimore had no timeouts left.
"I wish we would have done a better job of coaching it and executing it than what happened," Broncos coach John Fox said two days after the game.
"That play right there makes you believe," Jones said. "Nobody thought we could win that game. And down late like that, backed up a little bit, we made it happen. It all came together, but we believed. If you don't believe you can do it, you won't.
"I always say I make things goals, not dreams, and it's been a goal to play in a Super Bowl. I was glad to be there to make a play to help us get there."
Jeff Legwold: firstname.lastname@example.com or twitter.com/jeff_legwold
The Denver Post's Jeff Legwold breaks down the 70-yard touchdown pass play from Joe Flacco to Jacoby Jones against the Broncos that helped propel the Ravens to the Super Bowl:
1. The Broncos had seven DBs in the formation, including four safeties. The Ravens were in a three-wide receiver set. Tight end Dennis Pitta lined up in the slot. Flacco was in the shotgun.
2. Broncos rushed three, as Elvis Dumervil almost got to Flacco, and Von Miller almost batted the ball away after Flacco stepped up in the pocket.
3. Cornerback Tony Carter didn't jam Ravens wide receiver Jones at the line of scrimmage and failed to keep up with Jones on the sideline. Safety Rahim Moore was too shallow and failed to make up the ground on Jones once he got past Carter. Jones had run beyond Moore when the ball arrived.
4. Moore fell to the ground after he leaped attempting to knock the ball away, blocking Carter's path to Jones. Carter jumped over Moore, but it was too late. Jones was off to the end zone.


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Henry Awards move to the Denver Center
The Colorado Theatre Guild's 2009 Henry Awards will be announced June 29 at the Space Theatre at the Denver Performing Arts Complex, it was announced Monday.
The Guild's annual fundraiser honors the best in theater among metro-area member companies. To be eligible, shows must have opened between June 1, 2008, and May 31, 2009.
The Guild will soon announce a decision on how the fourth annual award winners will be determined. The June 29 gala begins with a cocktail hour at 6 p.m., with the ceremony to follow at 7 p.m.
Tickets are $20 in advance; $50 VIP seating and $25 at the door. Advance tickets may be purchased through are through PayPal. For more information, email firstname.lastname@example.com or visit www.coloradotheatreguild.org
The Arvada Center will hold local auditions for "Miss Saigon" on Tuesday, May 26-27. This director is Rod A. Lansberry. Auditions are by appointment only and can be scheduled by calling 720-898-7200.
New York auditions will be held June 1-3, 2009. EPA auditions will be
held on Monday, June 1, chorus auditions on Tuesday, June 2 and by
appointment on Wednesday, June 3. New York casting by Scott Wojcik and
Gayle Seay of Wojcik Seay Casting. email@example.com.
This is an Equity LORT B production, although non-equity actors may audition. Ethnic minorities and cultural varieties are encouraged to audition for all roles. Rehearsals begin Aug. 25. The show runs Sept. 15-Oct. 11 …
Show annoucements:
The dates for the previously announced national touring production of "Spring Awakening" have been set. It'll be here from Dec. 1-13, 2009 …
403 Second St., 81224, 970-349-0366 or cbmountaintheatre.org
May 21-24: "Around the Campfire" (10-minute plays)
June 25-July 3, 2009: "The Music Man"
July 23-Aug. 2, 2009: "The Wild Guys"
Aug. 20-30, 2009: "Southern Hospitality"
Sept. 24-Oct. 3, 2009: "As You Like It"
Dec. 18, 2009-Jan. 2, 1010: "Miracle on 34th Street"
Vintage theatre has announced two additional productions:
2119 E. 17th Ave., 303-839-1361 or vintage's home page
Dec. 4-31, 2009: Vintage's "The SantaLand Diaries"
Opening Jan. 15, 2010: Vintage's "Auntie Mame"


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2007 Annual Meeting
|Information Architecture 3.0
Half Day Seminar, Sunday, Oct. 21, 2007, 8:30am-12:30pm (separate fee)
As we venture beyond Web 2.0 and the undisciplined, unbalanced quest for sexy Ajaxian interaction at the expense of usability, findability, and accessibility, how do we reconcile the timeless principles of design and organization with new transmedia models of interaction, co-creation, tagging, and user participation?
In this advanced seminar, Peter Morville draws upon stories, examples, case studies, and discussions to explore the future present of information architecture.
Topics include:
Participants should be familiar with basic concepts of information architecture, interaction design, and user experience.
Audience Level: Intermediate and Advanced
Peter Morville
Peter Morville is widely recognized as a founding father of information architecture. He co-authored (with Louis Rosenfeld) the best-selling book, Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, and has consulted with such organizations as Harvard, IBM, the International Monetary Fund, Microsoft, the National Cancer Institute, and Yahoo!. Peter is president of Semantic Studios, co-founder of the Information Architecture Institute, and a faculty member at the University of Michigan. His work has been featured in many publications including Business Week, The Economist, Fortune, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal. Peters latest book, Ambient Findability, was published in 2005. He blogs at findability.org.
Members $300, non-members $375, before Sept. 14
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Newsmap. For the Armed Forces. 255th week of the war, 137th week of U.S. participation
Description: Front: Text describes action on various war fronts : Eastern front, France, Italy, Marianas, Southwest Pacific. Maps: northern Italy; Pacific Ocean; Guam, Rota, Tinian, Saipan. Photographs: flight deck of aircraft carrier, unloading of LST, German submarine pen, weapons left during Lt. Gen. Stilwell's retreat. Back: Map of Europe as viewed from the Soviet Union. Scale [ca. 1:7,000,000] 1 map : col. ; 77 x 116 cm.
Date: July 31, 1944
Creator: [United States.] Army Service Forces. Army Information Branch.
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B-HIP draws interns from across U.S., world
Drawn to MCLA this summer through their love of the arts, they came from Oregon and Indiana, Italy and China - just to name a few places. The reason? To serve internships in the culturally rich Berkshires through the Berkshire Hills Internship Program (B-HIP), an initiative of the Berkshire Cultural Resource Center at MCLA.
Celebrating its fifth-year anniversary, B-HIP is a structured summer internship course that helps to integrate theoretical concepts and real-world experience. An intensive 12-week program, B-HIP combines an internship component with a seminar in art management, talk backs with the area's leading arts professionals and participation in cultural events throughout Berkshire County.
This summer - in addition to four MCLA students and others from across the Commonwealth -B-HIP also attracted students from the states of Commonwealth, Connecticut, Virginia and Washington. They are serving internships across the Berkshires, including the Williamstown Theatre Festival, Shakespeare & Company, The Clark and the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, to name a few.
Ben Delgado, a recent graduate of Indiana University who is from Evansville, Ind., is learning how to run an independent cinema - Images Cinema in nearby Williamstown.
"I'm basically running every aspect of the cinema," Delgado explained. "Theoretically, I would open up my own art house cinema in a city that didn't have one already, once I get more experience working in the theatre and in a more management position. Being a theatre owner would allow me to show the kinds of movies that were underrepresented in certain communities, especially in the ones I lived in. I want to bring that to people.
"The B-HIP experience has been great," he continued. "I've met a lot of interesting people and a lot of people who are well-connected to others. There are a lot of different cultural events that I didn't know existed in this area. It's been eye-opening and pretty fun."
Martina Caruso of Milan, Italy, is the program coordinator of DownStreet Art. This includes work with all of the programming, marketing, as well as communications via the DownStreet Art Web site.
Caruso, a recent art history graduate from the University of Bologna, worked in a non-profit organization for two years. She wanted to better understand how non-profits work, especially those in the United States.
"It's an example for Europeans because we have a lot of art, but we don't work so much with the community and with the contemporary art world," Caruso said.
She found out about the internship opportunity through the New York Foundation for the Arts Web site.
"It's a great opportunity. I love the Berkshires," Caruso said. "It has contemporary visual arts, dance, music and theatre. Doing the B-HIP internship you meet a lot of directors and marketing, communications and program managers at all the museums and culture centers. They are so open-minded. We can ask anything."
Other B-HIP interns this summer include Hanna Pickwell of Dalton, Mass., a recent graduate of Colby College in Maine; Justin Banks of Virginia, also of Colby College; Linna Wei from Bejing, China, who studies arts management in Sweden; Tarra Martin of Washington, who studies at Williams College; Margaret Croft of Westborough, Mass., who studies at Hampshire College; Rosie Strott of Boston, who studies at Massachusetts College of Art and Design; and Errin Patton of Oregon, a recent graduate of the University of Idaho.
MCLA students participating include Gary Noke '10 of Concord, Mass.; Ben Warren '11 of Springfield, Mass.; Sarah Lomas '11 of Princeton, Mass.; and Tara von Schmidt '11 of Barkhamsted, Conn.
For more information or to apply for this program, go to b-hip or contact Valeria Federici, program coordinator of MCLA's Berkshire Cultural Resource Center, at 413-663-5253 or via e-mail at email@example.com.


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Dave DeBusschere was nicknamed "Big D". The "D" stood for Defense. A hard-nosed, tenacious forward, DeBusschere was one of the game's all-time best defenders. He was named to the NBA All-Defensive First Team in each of the award's first six years of existence. DeBusschere was average in size at 6-6 and 225 pounds, but he possessed a work ethic that was second to none. During his 12-year NBA career he represented the epitome of the blue-collar basketball star.
"There's not one other guy in this league who gives the 100 percent DeBusschere does, every night, every game of the season, at both ends of the court," Bill Bridges of the Atlanta Hawks once told Newsday.
The "D" could also stand for Detroit. DeBusschere was a folk hero in that city, where he grew up and starred at baseball as well as basketball. He attended Austin Catholic High School and led its basketball team to a state championship; was the star hurler on an Austin baseball team that won the city championship; and also pitched a local team to a national junior championship.
Colleges everywhere beckoned, but DeBusschere stayed home and attended the University of Detroit. He averaged 24.8 points for a hoop squad that went to the NCAA Tournament one year and the National Invitation Tournament twice. He also starred as a pitcher for the Titans baseball team, which played in three NCAA Tournaments.
Upon graduation in 1962 DeBusschere was faced with a choice between baseball and basketball. In the early 1960s, basketball featured talented players and spirited competition, but it didn't match the popularity of the diamond. Bucking tradition, DeBusschere decided to try his hand at both sports. He snagged a $75,000 signing bonus from the Chicago White Sox and received a $15,000 contract from the Detroit Pistons, who had claimed him as a territorial draft pick.
DeBusschere played professional baseball for four seasons. A tall right-handed pitcher with a lively fastball, he was called up by the White Sox in 1963 and went 3-4 with a 3.09 ERA. He showed enough promise that the White Sox protected him by exposing another player to the draft -- future Detroit Tigers star and 31-game winner Denny McLain. During the next two years DeBusschere compiled a 25-9 record for Chicago's Class AAA Indianapolis farm club.
Meanwhile, DeBusschere's NBA career got off to an auspicious start. During the 1962-63 season he averaged 12.7 points and was selected to the NBA All-Rookie Team. From the very beginning DeBusschere exhibited solid offensive skills. Although he battled for many of his points under the basket, he also proved that he could score with a good, if inconsistent, long-range shot. He handled the ball well for a big man, and occasionally the Pistons used him at guard. DeBusschere also displayed uncommon maturity for a rookie. He may have looked like a bruiser, but he was smart, analytical and coolheaded on the court.
The Pistons made the playoffs during DeBusschere's rookie season, but the following year bad luck struck. DeBusschere broke his leg and played in only 15 games in 1963-64. Detroit managed only 23 wins. Although DeBusschere began the 1964-65 campaign fully recovered, the team limped through a poor start. In November, Pistons owner Fred Zollner made a dramatic move -- he appointed DeBusschere player-coach. At age 24, DeBusschere became the youngest coach in NBA history.
It was speculated that DeBusschere had been given coaching duties to entice him away from baseball. If so, the stratagem worked. Although he played one more season of minor-league baseball, DeBusschere ended his dual-sport career shortly thereafter when he refused to accept a call-up from the White Sox at the end of 1965. He was reportedly unhappy that Chicago hadn't kept him on the major league roster that spring. With basketball training camp beginning, his coaching duties were needed and he had to make a choice.
DeBusschere's stint as coach was not successful. With the notable exception of himself, his Detroit teams were handicapped by a lack of talent. When Coach DeBusschere asked the general managers of other teams which Pistons they would trade for, the answer was always the same: "You."
Inexperience and youth probably limited his effectiveness -- DeBusschere was barely 18 months out of college when he assumed coaching duties. He labored for almost three seasons at the helm before he was replaced by Donnis Butcher at the end of the 1966-67 campaign. DeBusschere retired as a coach with a 79-143 record and no playoff appearances; however, he remained with the Pistons as a full-time player.
Over the years, DeBusschere's talents were coveted by a number of teams, but the New York Knicks were more persistent than most. Every year the Knicks tried to pry him loose from Detroit but were continually rebuffed. "DeBusschere was our Holy Grail," Knicks Coach William "Red" Holzman later revealed in his book, A View from the Bench.
The situation changed, however, when Paul Seymour took over as the Pistons' coach. Eager to revamp the club, he wanted new players, and DeBusschere was the team's most marketable star. In December 1968, Detroit finally agreed to part with its hometown hero, sending him to the Knicks in return for talented center Walt Bellamy and guard Howard Komives.
For DeBusschere, escaping to New York was like being reborn. Although Detroit was his hometown, he had grown weary of the perennial losing campaigns. "As a coach I was very frustrated, losing all the time," he said. "And as a player all I could look backward on was six years of losing. When they announced the trade, I was happy to be coming to a winner."
The Knicks had high hopes that DeBusschere would prove to be the final component in their plans for a world championship. The move was meant to solidify their frontcourt. With Bellamy gone, Willis Reed was able to shift from forward to center. DeBusschere's muscle and his rebounding prowess at the power forward position allowed the Knicks to play sharp-shooting Cazzie Russell and to use finesse player Bill Bradley at the other forward spot.
DeBusschere enjoyed immediate success in New York, finishing the 1968-69 season with 16.3 points per game and a berth on the All-NBA Second Team. He then helped the Knicks advance to the Eastern Division Finals, which they lost to the Boston Celtics in six games.
Although he wasn't a great shooter, DeBusschere had the potential to score 20 points every night. He tended to score in bursts, now and then rattling off a string of long jumpers from the corner. Like Bradley, he also excelled at sneaking behind picks to find an opening from where he could pop a 5-foot jumper. And he was masterful at sliding past his man to tap in an offensive rebound.
His chief role with the Knicks, however, was to collect key rebounds and shut down the opposing team's best forward. A defensive catalyst, DeBusschere put his coaching experience to good use for New York, leading a smart, cagey Knicks unit that sacrificed individual achievements for team goals.
"I didn't realize he was as good as he was until we got him," Holzman told writer Steve Jacobson. "I always knew he was an outstanding player, but not this good. It's often that way, I suppose. You don't realize how good a guy is until you see him play every night."
Atlanta Hawks Coach Richie Guerin shared Holzman's high opinion of DeBusschere. "Dave is one of the 10 best forwards I have ever seen play basketball, and he just may be one of the 5 or 6 best I have ever seen," he said.
In 1969-70, the talent-laden Knicks found themselves in the national spotlight. This was partly because of their location in New York, the media capital of the country. But the Knicks of that era also had undeniable personality. The team boasted center Walt "Clyde" Frazier, a flashy guard with an even flashier wardrobe. Rhodes Scholar "Dollar Bill" Bradley was a thinking man's player, who would become a well-respected U.S Senator from New Jersey and presidential hopeful, but then was a great passer and shooter. And at the hub was gutsy 6-9 Willis Reed.
The physical DeBusschere was indeed the final piece in the Knicks' championship puzzle. "Sometimes he'll score only 4 or 6 points in 40 minutes," Holzman told Newsday. "People say to me: How come you play him so long? I say because he does a hell of a rebounding job for us, a hell of a job on defense for us."
DeBusschere was an immediate hit with the fans, too. In contrast to Frazier and Bradley, DeBusschere was a "regular guy. " A plain-spoken working stiff who enjoyed drinking beers in the locker room after games.
During that 1969-70 season, the Knicks lived up to their fans' expectations. With chants of "DEE-fense" rocking Madison Square Garden, DeBusschere and his teammates roared through the league to a 60-22 record. During the playoffs they shut down the Baltimore Bullets in seven games, then blew past the Milwaukee Bucks and Lew Alcindor (later known as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) in five games to face the Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA Finals.
The championship round was pure drama. It was East versus West and the teamwork of the Knicks against the glamour of the Lakers, who were led by superstars Wilt Chamberlain, Jerry West and Elgin Baylor. The final contest of the seven-game series is now legendary. Willis Reed, injured and expected to watch from the sidelines, electrified players and viewers alike when he took the court at Madison Square Garden at the start of the game. Limping up and down the floor, he nevertheless scored the Knicks' first two baskets and inspired the team to a 113-99 victory.
Although the courageous Reed won the series MVP Award, DeBusschere had helped contain the much taller, stronger Chamberlain during the Knicks' crucial Game 5 victory. In the deciding Game 7 DeBusschere was superb, firing in 18 points and collecting 17 rebounds while hounding Baylor all over the court.
DeBusschere distinguished himself with stellar defense and reliable offense right up to his retirement at the end of the 1973-74 season. He was the top rebounder and second-leading scorer for the 1972-73 Knicks, who again won a championship. That year he scored 16.3 points per game and made key contributions in a dramatic playoff win in the conference semifinals against the Boston Celtics. With the series knotted at three games apiece, New York traveled to Boston to face the Celtics, who were minus an injured John Havlicek. The Knicks rolled over the feisty Celtics as DeBusschere's defense thwarted Boston center and NBA MVP Dave Cowens.
In his final three seasons, DeBusschere averaged at least 15 points and won selection each year to the All-Star Game and the NBA All-Defensive First Team, a spot seemingly reserved for him since the award's inception. Following his retirement, DeBusschere showed little interest in a coaching position. "My coaching experience at such a young age was one of the best things that happened for me, but I wouldn't want to go back to coaching," he said.
He didn't leave basketball, however, as his leadership skills and coolheaded approach landed him various executive positions in the basketball world. In 1974, DeBusschere served as vice president and general manager of the American Basketball Association's New York Nets. The following year he was hired as commissioner of the ABA and he helped the league merge with the NBA after the 1975-76 season.
In 1982, DeBusschere returned to the Knicks and was appointed executive vice president and director of basketball operations. Perhaps, most remembered in that capacity when he was visibly elated during the broadcast of first NBA Draft Lottery in 1985 that the Knicks won. Winning the lottery enabled the Knicks to select the highly coveted Patrick Ewing. DeBusschere retained the post until the start of the 1986-87 season.
DeBusschere was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1983, and was named to the NBA 50th Anniversary All-Time Team in 1996. He had earned two world championships and had participated in eight NBA All-Star Games, but -- most tellingly -- he had won the universal respect of his peers. During DeBusschere's farewell season Bill Bradley spoke for all his fellow players when he said, "You don't replace a Dave DeBusschere."
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Monday, October 6, 2008
Lime Meltaway Cookies
29 comments:
These are gorgeous! The Fall is my favorite season :)
- October 7, 2008 at 5:07 AM
- Bellini Valli said...
I live the change of colour in Eastern Canada. I grew up in Ontario so spent many a Sunday driving through the countryside, visiting markets, etc. I have a section on my blog for Canadian bloggers so have added you to the roll call:D Great blog!!
- October 7, 2008 at 8:05 AM
- Peter M said...
As I thought...the melting away part won me over in the title and the gift wrapped cookies...for me??
- October 7, 2008 at 11:02 AM
- Allie said...
Thanks for the comment! Your blog looks amazing with all the detailed pictures. I'm drooling right now. Can't wait to see what's next.
- October 7, 2008 at 11:44 AM
- Jamie said...
Those look incredibly yummy! great photo!
- October 7, 2008 at 12:55 PM
- maggie said...
These look so tasty...beautiful photo!
- October 7, 2008 at 4:03 PM
- Maria said...
I printed this recipe awhile ago...I just haven't got to it yet. You convinced me to move it up on the list. Your cookies look amazing! I love the cute ribbon too!
- October 7, 2008 at 6:17 PM
- Prudy said...
What fabulous photos! I've made these cookies before from MS and loved them.
- October 7, 2008 at 6:59 PM
- Aggie said...
Oh these look so delicious...I love the thought of lime in them too!
Thanks for visiting my blog!
- October 7, 2008 at 9:22 PM
- Katherine Aucoin said...
Your cookies look amazing. I like that there is lime in them; it's very unique. I would love to try these.
- October 8, 2008 at 8:30 AM
- Núria said...
What a beautiful blog you have and what a cozy nice post... I love that simil between the trees and the neighbours!
See the bright side... you are so lucky to see that every day show through your window :D
These cookies are fantastic... not that I bake... but if one day I start, I will have these in mind :D
- October 8, 2008 at 11:21 AM
- Tartelette said...
So..how was culinary school? Did you enjoy yourself? Are still in the midst of it?
Love those cookies and you def. made them justice!
- October 8, 2008 at 8:10 PM
- Y said...
These sound so good! You've just talked me into making them :)
- October 9, 2008 at 6:28 AM
These look quite yummy! I love how you styled the picture.
- October 9, 2008 at 10:29 AM
- Kevin said...
What a great name; lime meltaway cookies. Nice photos!
- October 9, 2008 at 9:20 PM
- Chocolate Shavings said...
bellini valli: Thank you! And yes, there's just something magical about Fall in Canada, don't you think?
Tartelette: Culinary school was absolutely wondeful - although it was very physical and demanding at times, I learned more about food than I could ever have hoped. I'm glad you like the cookies, coming from you its the best of compliments (I absolutely LOVE your photographs!).
- October 9, 2008 at 9:33 PM
- Veronica said...
gorgeous photo...
- October 10, 2008 at 7:21 AM
- Mallory Elise said...
ahhhhhhhhh that is such a brilliant photo. who first started the cookies + ribbon marriage--maybe the same who popularized those little wooded spoons.
i need to update my ribbon collection.......maybe first start one.
- October 11, 2008 at 7:26 PM
- Peabody said...
Lime is everywhere lately. These are so making me crave it even more.
- October 12, 2008 at 4:28 AM
- maybelle's mom said...
Oh, I feel oh so much the same way when fall comes around. these cookies would be perfect when hiding under the covers.
- October 12, 2008 at 9:49 PM
- kellypea said...
Oh, I haven't had these in YEARS. My tastebuds are going nuts right now wanting one. Love them. Mmmm....
- October 13, 2008 at 8:06 PM
- Ash said...
so cute!!! I'm a fan of limes!! love em!
- October 13, 2008 at 9:32 PM
- Create A Cake said...
These look great. May we link to this recipe or post it on our cake decorating forum?
- October 14, 2008 at 8:24 PM
- Chocolate Shavings said...
create a cake: Sure, you can link to the recipe! Can you send me the link too to your forum?
- October 14, 2008 at 9:20 PM
- Celine said...
absolutely stunning! you can count me in as a new fan of your blog.
- October 18, 2008 at 10:07 AM
- Cakebrain said...
Wow! I love the look of your blog! in fact, I've been fiddling with my layout trying to get similar colours! Did you create the layout yourself? I love chocolate and the colour is so soothing! The pic is gorgeous!
- October 18, 2008 at 11:11 AM
- Chocolate Shavings said...
Celine: Thank you!
Cakebrain: Yes, i did! I'm glad you like it.
- October 20, 2008 at 6:45 AM
- Christina said...
What a gorgeous picture! I remember when my mom bought Pepperidge Farm Lime Meltaways and I thought it was the best. Now I can make my own!
- November 18, 2008 at 3:43 PM
- Theresa said...
I love these! I linked to you from my blog, but if you would rather I didn't, just let me know.
- January 12, 2009 at 5:21 PM


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Alternative Names
Acute silicosis; Chronic silicosis; Accelerated silicosis; Progressive massive fibrosis; Conglomerate silicosis; Silicoproteinosis
Causes, incidence, and risk factors
Silica is a common, naturally-occurring crystal. It is found in most rock beds and forms dust during mining, quarrying, tunneling, and working with many metal ores. Silica is a main part of sand, so glass workers and sand-blasters are also exposed to silica.
Three types of silicosis ocur:
- Simple chronic silicosis — results from long-term exposure (more than 20 years) to low amounts of silica dust. The silica dust causes swelling in the lungs and chest lymph nodes. This disease may cause people to have trouble breathing. This is the most common form of silicosis.
- Accelerated silicosis — occurs after exposure to larger amounts of silica over a shorter period of time (5 – 15 years). Swelling in the lungs and symptoms occur faster than in simple silicosis.
- Acute silicosis — results from short-term exposure to very large amounts of silica. The lungs become very inflamed and can fill with fluid, causing severe shortness of breath and low blood oxygen levels.
Progressive massive fibrosis can occur in either simple or accelerated silicosis, but is more common in the accelerated form. Progressive massive fibrosis causes severe lung scarring and destroys normal lung structures.
People who work in jobs where they are exposed to silica dust are at risk. These jobs include:
Abrasives manufacturing
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Intense exposure to silica can cause disease within a year, but it usually takes at least 10 – 15 years of exposure before symptoms occur. Silicosis has become less common since the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) created regulations requiring the use of protective equipment, which limits the amount of silica dust workers inhale.
Cough Shortness of breath
- Weight loss
Signs and tests
Your health care provider will take a medical history that includes many questions about your jobs (past and present), hobbies, and other activities that may have exposed you to silica. The health care provider will also do a physical exam.
Tests to confirm the diagnosis and rule out similar diseases include:
Chest x-ray Chest CT scan Pulmonary function tests Purified protein derivative (PPD) skin test(for tuberculosis)
- Serologic tests for connective tissue diseases
There is no specific treatment for silicosis. Removing the source of silica exposure is important to prevent the disease from getting worse. Supportive treatment includes cough medicine, bronchodilators, and oxygen if needed. Antibiotics are prescribed for respiratory infections as needed.
Treatment also includes limiting exposure to irritants, quitting smoking, and having routine
People with silicosis are at high risk for developing tuberculosis (TB). Silica is believed to interfere with the body's immune response to the bacteria that cause TB. People with silicosis should have skin tests to check for exposure to TB. Those with a positive skin test should be treated with anti-TB drugs. Any change in the appearance of the chest x-ray may be a sign of TB.
Patients with severe silicosis may need to have a lung transplant.
Support Groups
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Expectations (prognosis)
The outcome varies depending on the amount of damage to the lungs.
- Connective tissue disease, including
rheumatoid arthritis, scleroderma(also called progressive systemic sclerosis), and systemic lupus erythematosus
- Lung cancer
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Respiratory failure
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