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Big data is a term that describes the large volume of data – both structured and unstructured – that inundates a business on a day-to-day basis. But it's not the amount of data that's important. It's what organizations do with the data that matters. Big data can be analyzed for insights that lead to better decisions and strategic business moves.
Big Data History and Current Considerations
While the term "big data" is relatively new, the act of gathering and storing large amounts of information for eventual analysis is ages old. The concept gained momentum in the early 2000s when industry analyst Doug Laney articulated the now-mainstream definition of big data as the three Vs:
Volume. Organizations collect data from a variety of sources, including business transactions, social media and information from sensor or machine-to-machine data. In the past, storing it would've been a problem – but new technologies (such as Hadoop) have eased the burden.
Velocity. Data streams in at an unprecedented speed and must be dealt with in a timely manner. RFID tags, sensors and smart metering are driving the need to deal with torrents of data in near-real time.
Variety. Data comes in all types of formats – from structured, numeric data in traditional databases to unstructured text documents, email, video, audio, stock ticker data and financial transactions.
At SAS, we consider two additional dimensions when it comes to big data:
Variability. In addition to the increasing velocities and varieties of data, data flows can be highly inconsistent with periodic peaks. Is something trending in social media? Daily, seasonal and event-triggered peak data loads can be challenging to manage. Even more so with unstructured data.
Complexity. Today's data comes from multiple sources, which makes it difficult to link, match, cleanse and transform data across systems. However, it's necessary to connect and correlate relationships, hierarchies and multiple data linkages or your data can quickly spiral out of control.
Big data's big potential
The amount of data that's being created and stored on a global level is almost inconceivable, and it just keeps growing. That means there's even more potential to glean key insights from business information – yet only a small percentage of data is actually analyzed. What does that mean for businesses? How can they make better use of the raw information that flows into their organizations every day?
Why Is Big Data Important?
The importance of big data doesn't revolve around how much data you have, but what you do with it. You can take data from any source and analyze it to find answers that enable 1) cost reductions, 2) time reductions, 3) new product development and optimized offerings, and 4) smart decision making. When you combine big data with high-powered analytics, you can accomplish business-related tasks such as:
- Determining root causes of failures, issues and defects in near-real time.
- Generating coupons at the point of sale based on the customer's buying habits.
- Recalculating entire risk portfolios in minutes.
- Detecting fraudulent behavior before it affects your organization.
Big Data in Today's World
Big data – and the way organizations manage and derive insight from it – is changing the way the world uses business information. Learn more about big data's impact.
Visa implements analytics
With the help of big data analytics, the credit card company enhanced the customer experience and reduced fraudulent credit and debit card transactions.
Who uses big data?
Big data affects organizations across practically every industry. See how each industry can benefit from this onslaught of information.
With large amounts of information streaming in from countless sources, banks are faced with finding new and innovative ways to manage big data. While it's important to understand customers and boost their satisfaction, it's equally important to minimize risk and fraud while maintaining regulatory compliance. Big data brings big insights, but it also requires financial institutions to stay one step ahead of the game with advanced analytics.
Educators armed with data-driven insight can make a significant impact on school systems, students and curriculums. By analyzing big data, they can identify at-risk students, make sure students are making adequate progress, and can implement a better system for evaluation and support of teachers and principals.
When government agencies are able to harness and apply analytics to their big data, they gain significant ground when it comes to managing utilities, running agencies, dealing with traffic congestion or preventing crime. But while there are many advantages to big data, governments must also address issues of transparency and privacy.
Health Care
Patient records. Treatment plans. Prescription information. When it comes to health care, everything needs to be done quickly, accurately – and, in some cases, with enough transparency to satisfy stringent industry regulations. When big data is managed effectively, health care providers can uncover hidden insights that improve patient care.
Armed with insight that big data can provide, manufacturers can boost quality and output while minimizing waste – processes that are key in today's highly competitive market. More and more manufacturers are working in an analytics-based culture, which means they can solve problems faster and make more agile business decisions.
Customer relationship building is critical to the retail industry – and the best way to manage that is to manage big data. Retailers need to know the best way to market to customers, the most effective way to handle transactions, and the most strategic way to bring back lapsed business. Big data remains at the heart of all those things.
Big data in action: UPS
As a company with many pieces and parts constantly in motion, UPS stores a large amount of data – much of which comes from sensors in its vehicles. That data not only monitors daily performance, but also triggered a major redesign of UPS drivers' route structures. The initiative was called ORION (On-Road Integration Optimization and Navigation), and was arguably the world's largest operations research project. It relied heavily on online map data to reconfigure a driver's pickups and drop-offs in real time.
The project led to savings of more than 8.4 million gallons of fuel by cutting 85 million miles off of daily routes. UPS estimates that saving only one daily mile per driver saves the company $30 million, so the overall dollar savings are substantial.
It's important to remember that the primary value from big data comes not from the data in its raw form, but from the processing and analysis of it and the insights, products, and services that emerge from analysis. The sweeping changes in big data technologies and management approaches need to be accompanied by similarly dramatic shifts in how data supports decisions and product/service innovation.
Thomas H. Davenport in Big Data in Big Companies
How It Works
Before discovering how big data can work for your business, you should first understand where it comes from. The sources for big data generally fall into one of three categories:
Streaming data
This category includes data that reaches your IT systems from a web of connected devices. You can analyze this data as it arrives and make decisions on what data to keep, what not to keep and what requires further analysis.
Social media data
The data on social interactions is an increasingly attractive set of information, particularly for marketing, sales and support functions. It's often in unstructured or semistructured forms, so it poses a unique challenge when it comes to consumption and analysis.
Publicly available sources
Massive amounts of data are available through open data sources like the US government's data.gov, the CIA World Factbook or the European Union Open Data Portal.
After identifying all the potential sources for data, consider the decisions you'll need to make once you begin harnessing information. These include:
How to store and manage it
Whereas storage would have been a problem several years ago, there are now low-cost options for storing data if that's the best strategy for your business.
How much of it to analyze
Some organizations don't exclude any data from their analyses, which is possible with today's high-performance technologies such as grid computing or in-memory analytics. Another approach is to determine upfront which data is relevant before analyzing it.
How to use any insights you uncover
The more knowledge you have, the more confident you'll be in making business decisions. It's smart to have a strategy in place once you have an abundance of information at hand.
The final step in making big data work for your business is to research the technologies that help you make the most of big data and big data analytics. Consider:
- Cheap, abundant storage.
- Faster processors.
- Affordable open source, distributed big data platforms, such as Hadoop.
- Parallel processing, clustering, MPP, virtualization, large grid environments, high connectivity and high throughputs.
- Cloud computing and other flexible resource allocation arrangements.


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Story Telling - Bench Racer
The announcement of some really good news serves as my inspiration for this month's column. Now, that doesn't mean I can't think of things to talk about—I actually get inspiration from all sorts of things, each and every day. However, when thinking of a topic for this particular column each month, choosing one from that multitude usually is the most difficult part of the process.
That's not the case this time, as I'm inspired by and happy to report the the fact that our friend and former editor Steve Turner has landed a new job! While Steve's good fortune unfortunately brings his time as a 5.0&SF contributor to a quick end, knowing that he's now in a good spot makes me happy, and I'm sure you'll all join me in wishing Big Steve all the best in his new post as editor-in-chief of the SVT Performance website (www.svtperformance.com).
In Steve's announcement—which came by way of a short, corny-but-cool online video (and I told him so)—he answers the one question that it seems most members of the Mustang Nation are always asked: "So...What's your story? How how did you get into Mustangs (the Mustang lifestyle)? What was your first 'Stang? And so on." I recommend you watch the video for Steve's answer.
I know I've been asked that question and/or its derivitives countless times in the many years that I've been involved with late-model 'Stangs. Like Steve's story, the tale of my journey into this madness has been called everything from cool, to interesting, to pretty crazy. However, despite the various adjectives, the one constant in my getting into this scene—and staying in it so long, for that matter—has been the way I acquire Mustangs.
Each and every one of the many Ponies I've owned has come by way of the proverbial killer deal, the kind of sale or opportunity that you just can't pass up. I've had Mustangs given to me—yes, completely for free. Believe it or not, Project T-top coupe, in its originally rough condition, is one such Pony. I've paid as little as $500 for a clean, running Fox, and even scored my wife's New Edge GT for well below invoice in 2002, thanks to shopping late in the model year and working every Ford, auto club, dealership, and other discounts or incentives that were available at the time.
If I can get a 'Stang for my price or less, that 'Stang usually ends up in my driveway. It's been that way since I bought my first Pony in 1990, a grey '84 GT with T-tops that I negotiated down to $1,500, from an asking price of $2,500. Yep, I'm Killer-Deal Kaje alright.
The stories are likely similar for all of us one way or another. I'm sure everyone who reads 5.0 also has an interesting story on how he or she became enamored with Mustang—the car and the culture. You see, while Mustangs are the the highlight of this magazine's content, the stories told by and about the people who own, drive, and love them are just as fascinating.
This became very clear to me on April 17, 2014, the Mustang's 50th birthday, when I and several thousand other Mustang fans attended the Mustang Club of America's huge party in Las Vegas. The rest of the team at www.mustang-360.com did likewise at MCA's similar shindig in Charlotte, North Carolina. Not only did we see rows and rows of awesome Ponies, we also had opportunities to meet and speak with people from all points of the globe, who love 'Stangs. Each and every one has an interesting story about the road to being so enamored with the cars.
For example, there are the the three brothers from Sandy, Utah, (Jordan, Jaden and Josh Breiner) that I met while cruising the car gathering at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Each Breiner brother drives a modified '03-'04 Cobra, and they told me they come from a true-Ford-blue, Cobra-loving family. (There are actually seven Terminators among all the Breiners!) That's a pretty cool story if you ask me. To top it off, Jared told me their dad and sister were also celebrating the 50th—at the MCA event in Charlotte, with their Cobras, of course.
Yes, for each and every one of us, there's a story or stories that help explain and maybe clarify why we're involved with late-model 'Stangs. I'd like to hear yours. Share it with me and other Mustang fans by posting notes in the special topic I've created (My Mustang Story) in the 5.0 Mustang & Super Fords Magazine forum on our all-Ford supersite www.mustang-360.com, or send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com
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December 8, 2013
A wise person -- well, actually, my 9-year-old son -- pointed out to me the other day that nothing stays the same. Each moment, molecules shift, matter is transformed and time moves forward.
This insight from a young mind was front and center in my own head as I looked to the selection of this year's top HIV stories. Things change -- and sometimes even evolve -- and it was this progression from the status quo to the innovative that caught my attention when assembling this collection.
Therapies for HIV have worked wonders, but (arguably) better options have recently become available, and we are on the cusp of radical advances that may greatly impact how we treat this infection. Meanwhile, the news on the hepatitis C (HCV) front has been nothing short of ecstatic; 2013 served as a preface for what promises to be a new era in which curing HCV finally becomes realistic for millions -- if they can afford it.
It has been a long and storied march that got us to this point, and we should all feel proud to be part of it. Here's to looking at a year of big and small triumphs, and hoping for even greater success stories for our patients in the year to come. That is change we can all believe in.
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Jackie Stewart's win in the German Grand Prix was a record-breaking 27th and moved him further ahead of Emerson Fittipaldi in the World Championship and closer to a third world title.
Stewart started on pole and he led team-mate Francois Cevert with Ronnie Peterson's Lotus in third. Peterson suffered an engine failure and was out of the race on the opening lap which allowed Jacky Ickx's Ferrari up to third place ahead of Niki Lauda's BRM, Carlos Reutemann's Brabham and the McLaren of Peter Revson.
Revson was chased by Carlos Pace's Surtees and the second McLaren of Denny Hulme but the battle was interrupted when Revson clipped a barrier and dropped to the back of the field. Lauda then crashed his BRM and broke his wrist in the process.
Reutemann inherited fourth place but lasted until just lap eight of the 14 on the monstrous circuit when his engine blew and that promoted Pace to fourth ahead of the Fittipladis: Wilson was fifth with his younger brother Emerson sixth from 14th on the grid.
But Emerson had struggled with sore ankles sustained in an accident in practice for the Dutch Grand Prix and was happy just to score a point.
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Super-featherweight ace Mitchell Smith and trainer Jason Rowland say their relationship is so close that it's on a telepathic level.
The dynamic duo are preparing for their English title challenge at the Copper Box Arena on Saturday, April 12, with Smith, the current Southern Area Champion, facing unbeaten Peter Cope from Hartlepool.
Harrow Weald's Smith and Rowland, a former British and WBU World Light-Welterweight champion, have been working together tightly together since Smith turned professional in June 2012 and is unbeaten in eight fights.
West Ham fan Smith, who will announced to the crowd during tonight's game at home to Hull City, said: "We're very much alike in our thinking which might stem from me living in Jason's house for the first year of my career and spending hours and hours together in the gym and at home which has meant we have formed a very strong relationship.
"It's a special bond between a fighter and trainer.
"When we're in the gym he can anticipate everything that I'm going to do and I can anticipate what he is going to say. I'll be throwing punches on the pads and it gets to the point where he doesn't have to say what combinations to throw, it just flows. It's brilliant, it's like we're telepathic."
"I trust Jason implicitly with my career. He knows his boxing, he's been there, seen it and done it. He's been involved in big British and World title fights, he understands when the going gets tough in a fight because he's been there."
Smith added: "It's another step up for me against Cope. We've had almost the same amount of fights, he's unbeaten and so am I, it's going to be a cracking fight with another title on the line. "I'll be too fast and strong for Cope though, he's tall at the weight but when he takes one of my shots I think he'll know he's out of his depth."
The 22-year-old returned to action last month for the first time in five months following a hand injury and blasted out unbeaten Welshman Mark Evans inside two rounds.
He said: "Against Evans I showed that my hands are fine and I'm raring to go this year. Winning the English title will be fantastic step up for me and give me a boost as I target a British title by the end of the year.
"I aim to keep busy and put in the performances that keep my fans happy and the press writing about me."
Rowland, who retired from the ring over a decade ago, is delighted with Mitchell's progress and has high hopes for the youngster. He said: "We get on fantastically and the best thing is it's made me a much better trainer.
"He'll come into the gym looking to try something new on the pads or in sparring that he's thought of and I will have come up with the same thoughts as well, it's unexplainable.
"I'm glad I've got this special relationship with Mitchell and click the way we have. I'm really excited with him and it's hard not to get carried away because he's a super kid with phenomenal talent and I really believe he's British boxing's next big thing."
The trainer added: "He's the all-round package, he's got a great boxing brain, he can punch hard, superb fitness, tremendous balance, but I feel his biggest attribute is his timing and distance and the way he can makes his opponents miss.
"I really believe in him and I know he can go all the way to a world title."
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Waste Management's Michelle Clark may not be ready to quit her daytime job for a gig as a stand-up comic, but she sure knows how to get laughs.
Clark served as mistress of ceremonies at the Chamber of Commerce Spirit Awards and 96th annual board installation, held Jan. 25 at Tivoli Too, and she had the audience in snickers, if not stitches. Ganahl Lumber Sales Manager Jerry Perez played straight man for Clark's off-the-cuff commentary about the nominees and anyone else who came into the line of sight.
"All the nominees are winners," Clark said, in one of her few serious moments at the podium.
Gregg Abel's construction and design company was honored as the Building Industry of Year.
Abel's company has been in operation since 1986. The Abel family has made its mark on the town since 1935, with many buildings designed by the late architect Chris Abel.
The Laguna Beach Community Foundation was named Nonprofit of the Year. The foundation provides expertise and resources to help local nonprofits connect with donors — not to mention distributing more than $94,000 in grants in 2012.
Board President Laura Tarbox accepted the award on behalf of the foundation.
Chamber worker bee Luciano Stefanini won the Volunteer of the Year Award, recognized for his myriad services to Chamber Executive Director Kristine Thalman.
Former Mayor Jane Egly and retired Judge Paul Egly were voted the Harry Lawrence Citizens of the Year Award, named for the late Harry Lawrence, whose contributions to the city included the renaissance of a near-moribund chamber after World War II.
Laguna Beach County Water District General Manager Renae Hinchey and Commissioner Debbie Neev accepted the award for the Green Industry of the Year. The district was honored for its successful campaign to reduce water use in town, and its innovative moves to ensure an adequate supply of water in the future.
Nick's of Laguna Beach was named Restaurant of the Year.
Mayor Pro Tem Elizabeth Pearson, a force behind the Business Assistance Task Force, was voted Government Official of the Year. Pearson and Councilwoman Toni Iseman sponsored a bill that resulted in a much-appreciated grant to the chamber.
Monica Tuchscher was honored as the City Professional of the Year. But nominee Fire Chief Jeff La Tendresse received a special mention from Clark.
She told how concerned she was when a fire broke out near Pepperdine University, where her daughter was going to school. Clark decided to bring her daughter home from school.
"I didn't want to pay for it anyway," but was talked out of the trip by La Tendresse — a service beyond the call of duty to the university fire service.
Retail Store of the Year honors went to Laguna Beach Books, owned by Jane Hanauer. The only bookstore in town is in the Hip District between Thalia and Diamond streets. Appearances by guest authors add luster to the store.
Peter Blake earned kudos as the owner of the Art Gallery of the Year. Blake opened that gallery in 1993 on Gallery Row, later moving it to Ocean Avenue. The austere gallery reflects Blake's focus on minimalist and abstract contemporary art, but he supports all Laguna galleries. He was a founder of the First Thursday Art Walk.
Mission Hospital's Emergency Room was named 2013's top Professional Service.
The Board Member of Year award was presented to Debbie MacDonald.
The final presentation of the event was the award for Business of the Year, with three top contenders: [Seven Degrees], which Mark Orgill and Doris Wexel have developed into a multi-purpose venue for art exhibits and events; Laguna Beach.com, chamber board member Kate Buckley's blog that Clark said covers every Laguna Beach icon except her; and the Marine Room.
"Well, we all read the newspapers and know what happened here," Clark said. "Kelly Boyd decided to retire and sell this establishment to our buddy Chris Keller. And Kelly is saying, 'So now you decide to nominate the Marine Room after all these years!'"
Not only was the Mar Bar nominated, it won.
Boyd accepted the award, applauded by Keller.
The awards presentation was followed by the installation of the 2013 chamber board of directors.
"The mayor will do the swearing in of the folks that he was swearing at last week," Clark said. When a couple of the board members jumped the gun to take the oath, Boyd shushed them — no easy task with Clark.
"You say 'I do,' when I tell you to say 'I do,'" Boyd admonished.
President Michael Kinsman, President elect Larry Nokes, Vice President MacDonald, Secretary Buckley, Treasurer Todd Orlich, Past President Keller and directors Abel, Blake, Julie Cimpko, Clark and Perez swore to perform their duties to the best of their abilities, uphold chamber bylaws and mission to support, represent and promote the business and community interests of Laguna.
Kinsman was pleased to announce that the turnout for the dinner, more than 190, was the largest ever.
"We have done a lot of work in the past year and it has paid off," Kinsman said before introducing some of the dignitaries at the event.
He led off with State Assemblyman Don Wagner, who could have been Laguna's representative if redistricting had not taken effect; Assemblyman Alan Mansoor, Sergio Prince, aide to Supervisor Pat Bates, Howard Hills, representing Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, and Martin Paine, district director for State Senator Mimi Walters.
Kinsman also introduced city officials Boyd and Pearson, council members Iseman, Bob Whalen and Steve Dicterow, City Clerk Lisette Chel, City Treasurer Laura Parisi, City Manager John Pietig, Police Chief Paul Workman and La Tendresse.
And he gave a special nod to retiring board member Michael Beck, of Mission Hospital Laguna Beach.
Among the award nominees honored at the event were retired City Clerk Martha Anderson, Billy Fried, Chris Prelitz, Morris Skenderian,Wendy Potter, Justin Int'veld, Chip McDermott, Jon Madison, Arts Commissioner Pat Kollenda and Martha Lydick on behalf of the Friends of the Laguna Beach Library.
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PHOTOS: Kevin Westenbarger
This past weekend, Mammoth Mountain hosted their annual West Coast Invitational. The WCI totally rules. Every year it's the final on snow hurrah, as people get together to ride for one last weekend of the season. This year was no different. There was a game on snow, which was cool, as well as the annual Eddie Wallride. Check out the photos from Kevin Westenbarger to get a good picture of what went down.


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The third annual Hoops of Hope Shoot-a-thon is Thursday at the Huntington Beach High gymnasium.
The free-throw shooting event includes live music, food and a silent auction and raffle and runs from 3 to 7 p.m. All proceeds will help support the construction of a medical center in Zambia and provide backpacks to needy children in the U.S.
Admission cost is a $5 donation at the door. Raffle tickets can be purchased for $1 each.
Hoops of Hope is billed as the largest free-throw shoot-a-thon in the world. It is a student-created and student-led movement, in partnership with World Vision, that provides care to children orphaned by HIV/AIDS.
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For donation information, visit http://www.firstgiving.com/fundraiser/patricia-cosulich/13-hoops-of-hope/team.
More information also can be found at the HBHS Hoops of Hope page on Facebook.
— From staff reports
Former Charger on USA Water Polo Women's Senior National Team
USA Water Polo Women's Senior National Team Head Coach Adam Krikorian has announced the roster for the 2013 FINA World League Super Final. The 15 athletes include Edison High graduate Danielle Warde who recently completed her sophomore season at UC Irvine.
Eight players from the U..S. team that won gold at the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London also return to the National Team.
The team will travel to Beijing, China to compete in the FINA World League Super Final, which starts Saturday and runs through June 6.
Team USA has won the gold medal at the previous four FINA World League Super Finals.
"It's very difficult to select a roster at the beginning of this cycle and without much training," Krikorian said. "However, we are looking forward to getting a glimpse of how this team can play in China."
The 2013 FINA Women's World League Super Final roster: Danielle Warde, defender (Huntington Beach/UC Irvine); *Annika Dries, center ( Laguna Beach/Stanford); *Betsey Armstrong, goalie (Ann Arbor, Mich./Michigan); Lolo Silver, attacker, (Long Beach/Stanford); *Melissa Seidemann, defender (Walnut Creek/Stanford); Rachel Fattal, attacker (Seal Beach/UCLA); Monica Vavic, attacker (Palos Verdes/USC); *Maggie Steffens, defender (Danville/Stanford: *Courtney Mathewson, attacker (Anaheim Hills/UCLA); Kiley Neushul, attacker (Goleta/Stanford); Jillian Kraus, attacker (Santa Ana/UCLA); *Kelly Rulon, attacker (San Diego/UCLA); *Kami Craig, center (Santa Barbara/USC); *Tumua Anae, goalie (Newport Beach/USC); KK Clark, defender (Menlo Park/UCLA).
*Denotes 2012 Olympic gold medalist
Barons baseball camp to open in June
The Fountain Valley High baseball program's summer camp for incoming freshmen and eighth-grade students starts June 25 at the school's varsity baseball field.
The camp runs between 9 and 11 a.m. Tuesday through Thursday through July 25. No camp will be held July 4.
The cost is $100 per camper and checks should be made payable to Fountain Valley High School Baseball.
For more information, contact Fountain Valley varsity baseball coach Deric Yanagisawa at (714) 317-2102.
— From staff reports
Seahawks freshman baseball camp dates set
The Ocean View High baseball program will run a summer camp for incoming freshman starting June 24.
The camp will run three days a week through July 11. The cost is $100 per camper.
For more information, visit the website http://www.OVHSBaseball.com.
— From staff reports
Edison softball camp in July
Edison High is offering summer softball camps that will run July 22-26 at the school's varsity softball field. Camp age groups, dates and costs, are as follows: Grades 3-5 (9 a.m.-noon, includes complimentary T-shirt and ball, $115); Grades 6-8 (noon-3 p.m., includes complimentary T-shirt and ball, $115); Incoming Freshman-Grade 12 (9 a.m.-2 p.m., includes lunch and complimentary T-shirt, $250).
Incoming freshmen and returning prep players are required to have had a physical exam in order to participate in the high school camp.
Registration also will be taken at the door if camp space is available.
For registration information, call (714) 421-3936.
Lifeletics Baseball announces summer schedule
Lifeletics Baseball, located in Huntington Beach, has announced its 2013 summer camp schedule.
The camps, entering their 12th year, will run from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Monday through Friday starting June 24 through Aug. 16. Camp costs are: Beginning Baseball Week ($99); one week ($199); two weeks ($379). During a special promotion now underway, with the purchase of two weeks, the cost for a third week is $99.
Camp locations are in Huntington Beach, Newport Beach and south Orange County (Santa Margarita and Trabuco Canyon).
Campers will work with current professional instructors, former professional players and area high school coaches. Training will involve a wide variety of drills, games and competitions. Instruction is specific, varied and fast-paced to ensure athletes learn to enjoy working hard.
To register, visit http://www.lifeletics.com/registration. For more information, call (714) 843-1989, or email email@example.com.
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Youth football registration open
Huntington Beach Jr. All-American Football and Cheer 2013 registration is now open. "Early Bird Pricing" is available at http://www.hbjaaf.com. The website also includes listings of the chapter's upcoming football camps.
Team practices and home games are conducted at Huntington Beach High.
HBJAAF, whose teams go by the nickname, "Oilers," is a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing the benefits of organized football and cheer to the children ages 5 to 14 of Huntington Beach. It is one of 28 Jr. All-American Football organizations located in Orange, Los Angeles and Riverside counties that are members of Orange County Junior All-American Football (OCJAAF).
For more information, email firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Soccer tournament in August
Strikers South Coast will put on the Strikers Cup 2013, a youth soccer tournament, Aug. 24-25 at field locations in Huntington Beach.
The Strikers Cup is a Cal South sanctioned Class 1 Tournament and is open to all United States Soccer Federation-affiliated teams divisions U9 through U19. USSF National Assn. Player passes also are excepted. Age groups are for the 2013-14 season.
Trophies will be given to teams that win division champions and individual medals will be presented to players on teams finishing in either first or second place.
The Huntington Beach Sports Complex is the host venue for the two-day event. High school field sites hosting games are Huntington Beach, Edison, Marina and Westminster. Games also will be played at other field sites in Huntington Beach.
Registration deadline is Aug. 1. For team registration pricing and information, email firstname.lastname@example.com.
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The USA has an abundance of potential when it comes to school residential trips, and you don't have to look further than Washington DC, home to the National Air and Space Museum, for inspiration. A visit to this excellent museum will see your students marvelling at the 1903 Wright Flyer and Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis, touching rock that's come from the moon, and getting to grips with the fascinating history of aviation and space travel.
Home to the world's largest collection of space and aviation related artefacts, this museum is not only educational, but hugely inspirational as well.Teachers will be pleased to discover that the museum caters extremely well for pupils on residential school trips, and there is much on offer to help make your visit a truly memorable one.
When taking your students on a trip it's always useful to know that, when appropriate, you can take a breather and hand them over to the experts. At the National Air and Space Museum,you can book a guided tour specifically designed for students. The History of Flight Tour II and Exploring Space tours are angled towards secondary school children.
The tours last an hour, with all year groups of secondary school age catered for. If you have more than 15 youngsters on your residential school trips, the group will be split accordingly. Hosted by volunteers, these tours are highly informative and can be tailored to any specific interests or curriculum requirements.
Einstein Planetarium
This attraction is considered an absolute highlight of the site and, as one of the most high-tech planetariums in the country, it'snot hard to see why. Adults arealways just as impressed as youngsters and,as the newly installed 8K Full Dome System works its magic, projecting super high-definition visuals, your class will be mesmerised. The vivid colours, intense brightness and pin-sharp clarity simply must be seen to be believed.
There are several shows run throughout the day. To Space and Back invites viewers into the world of exploratory space travel, and shows how intrinsically linked our changing world is to the universe around us. Other shows include The Stars Tonight,whichincorporatesrelevant headlining topics.
Shows change often, so teachers bookingresidential school trips in advance will need to check closer to the time to see exactly what is on. Every show is fantastic, however, so they're an experience not to be missed.
The wonderful observatory at the planetariumhouses an array of telescopes that, because of their safe solar filters, can be used during daylight hours. Pupils will have the opportunity to look for spots on the sun and discover the phases of Venus – and that's just the start!
When planning residential school trips to Washington DC, booking with a reputable educational travel tour operator is highly recommended, in order to make the most of the time. They will advise and assistwith every aspect of planning your trip, leaving you free to concentrate on making the experience as memorable as it can be for young students.
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text: There are a few developers that continue to work on openMosix and to port it to 2.6 kernels. They forked a project called LinuxPMI - Linux Process Migration Infrastructure http://linuxpmi.org Currently the site is unavailable but there was one Russion guy who commented big parts of the openMosix code he started workin on that in the begining of February this year and in May he and a few other developers forked LinuxPMI from openMosix. I had a working 2.6 kernel with openMosix functionality in Jul but I never had the chance to test its process migration capabilities as the nodes from my home cluster died :( Marian On Tuesday 30 September 2008 12:14:11 Tony Travis wrote: > Keith Hacke wrote: > > Dr Travis > > > > > > > > Below is a recent question you posted concerning usage of MOSIX2. I am > > also considering MOSIX2 for a test cluster of 64 nodes. I was not able > > to find any responses to your question and wondered if you received any > > communications on MOSIX2 or if you have more information on your > > decision. > > Hello, Keith. > > No, you are the only person to respond about MOSIX2 so far! > > I've got to admit that although I'm very happy with my experience of > openMosix I can't continue using it without the support of the rest of > the openMosix community. > > So far, I've been in touch with Amnon Barak (amnon at cs.huji.ac.il) who > put me in contact with his MOSIX2 developer Amnon Shiloh > u3557 at miso.sublimeip.com) of Shiloh Distributed Solutions Pty/Ltd.: > > http://www.mosix.com.au/ > > He confirmed that MOSIX2 is 'free' for academic use, but even so I would > have to pay them $1,000 per year to obtain 'updates' and run the current > version. I don't rule this out, but I'm not entirely happy about it. > > Please let me know about other people you know who might be interested > in using MOSIX2. I've cc'ed this email to the Beowulf list in case there > are other people on the list using or interested in trying out MOSIX2. > > Thanks for getting in touch, > > Tony.


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COLUMBIA, S.C. - Michele Abraham has been named state director of the Frank L. Roddy South Carolina Small Business Development Center (SBDC) effective Jan. 25.
Abraham, former state director of Ohio's SBDC, will serve as chief executive for the S.C. SBDC, a state-wide network of 16 offices with 35 full-time employees that provides low-cost help to entrepreneurs and small-business owners.
"The SBDC is a tremendous asset for economic growth in our state," said Roger Weikle, dean of the College of Business Administration at Winthrop University and chair of the search committee. "People have creative ideas and need help with access to capital to finance their plans and new opportunities for their existing business. We are fortunate to have found Michele. She has done this work in a large SBDC, in private industry and has managed small businesses of her own. She knows strategy of high-tech industry clusters that is essential for future growth. She has the energy and the leadership skills to take this huge segment of our state's economy and help lead the recovery."
Abraham said small businesses support the majority of jobs in this country and that she is looking forward to joining South Carolina's SBDC and having a role in South Carolina's economic progress.
"Small businesses are the backbone of our economy, driving innovation and providing the vast majority of jobs in our country," Abraham said. "I am honored to have the opportunity to work with this dedicated group of professionals who are a key component in helping these businesses succeed. The university consortium headed by Dr. Weikle has impressed me with its commitment and willingness to do whatever is necessary to support the South Carolina SBDC."South Carolina's SBDC is primarily financed by the U.S. Small Business Administration with additional support provided by state funds from South Carolina and a consortium of the four universities where offices are located: USC, Clemson University, S.C. State University and Winthrop University. The SBDC collaborates within the consortium, which Weikle chairs, to offer student instruction in entrepreneurship, finance and other courses relevant to small-business development.
SBDC services include consulting, continuing-education programs and instructional resources.
Last year, the S.C. SBDC worked with approximately 2,500 clients to raise nearly $60 million in capital.Abraham brings to the S.C. SBDC an impressive scope of experience. She was director of Ohio's SCDC, a network of 39 centers, from 2006 – 09. Under her leadership, Ohio's SBDC in 2008 created or retained more than 50,000 jobs and helped clients increase sales by more than $124 million, access more than $148 million in capital and obtain more than $126 million in government contracts. During that time, she also served as chief of strategic management for the Ohio Department of Development.
After graduating from Bowling Green State University in 1975, Abraham worked several years in Columbia as a sales representative for Eastman Kodak. She went on to work in private industry and manage small businesses of her own in addition to directing a large SBDC. As a business-development manager for Owens Corning, she built a mature, stagnant business from $6 million to more than $23 million in annual sales. As a manager for Atlantic Research Corporation, she led marketing and business development of a start-up business venture in aerospace and defense applications to $11 million in annual sales. She also has worked on projects with Boeing and DOW and in sales and business development for SP Systems.
She replaces John Lenti, who retired after 20 years of service.
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A Texas truck driver who says he made a wrong turn into Mexico with a trailer full of ammunition has been released from prison but remains in the custody of immigration authorities, U.S. officials said Friday.
The U.S. Embassy in Mexico said that 27-year-old Jabin Bogan was freed from a maximum security prison in the state of Veracruz. It did not say why immigration authorities were holding him, or when he is expected to return to the U.S., but Bogan likely is accused of violating immigration rules when he entered Mexico.
Bogan's family and lawyers declined to comment. He had faced up to 30 years in prison on an ammunition trafficking charge, but the judge reduced the charge to possession of ammunition after testimony from Mexican customs agents contradicted prosecutors' claim that Bogan hid 268,000 bullets under floorboards.
Bogan's mother, Aletha Smith, has told The Associated Press that the truck driver had been ordered to pay a fine in order to be released.
Bogan crossed from Texas into Juarez, Mexico, on April 17.
Agents testified in June that Bogan was trying to make a U-turn back into the U.S. when they found the ammunition bundled on top of wooden pallets inside the trailer.
Since then, Bogan's lawyers and family in the U.S. have cried foul, saying the ammunition charge was too hefty for what they claim was an honest mistake.
Bogan had made two deliveries in El Paso, Texas, and said he was supposed to drive to Phoenix to deliver assault rifle ammunition to a wholesaler there when he got lost. He said he took a wrong exit on the freeway and drove toward the border, where he said a law enforcement official told him to continue driving across the bridge. Bogan said that when he realized he had crossed into Mexico, he attempted to turn back, but the layout of the traffic lanes prevented him from returning without first crossing into the truck inspection area in Juarez.
Bogan's attorneys have said surveillance footage taken at the border crossing shows Bogan blocking several lanes of southbound traffic for more than half an hour while trying to maneuver his 18-wheeler back to U.S. soil.
Mexican prosecutors alleged he tried to clandestinely smuggle bullets commonly used by drug cartels.


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Yankees & Blue Jays Go Brawlin'! (Jorge Posada Elbows Jesse Carlson Near Home Plate) [9-16-09]
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WASHINGTON — With the White House and Congress engaged in their second major battle in 18 months over the debt limit, some lawmakers, economists and analysts are offering a simple solution: Just get rid of it.
The U.S. is one of the few nations with such a borrowing mechanism. And as political fights over raising the limit have escalated in recent years, chilling financial markets and triggering the first-ever U.S. credit rating downgrade, critics said the time has come to make a change in Washington.
"Congress has gone from grandstanding on the debt ceiling to actual use of it as an economic weapon of mass destruction," Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) said. "It's extremely dangerous."
Welch and several Democratic House colleagues last week proposed eliminating the debt limit, which has been in place since 1939, to avoid the risk of a default.
They're joined by a growing chorus of analysts who have called the U.S. debt limit "ridiculous," "screwy" and just plain "nuts."
QUIZ: Test your knowledge about the debt limit
"The debt ceiling is a dumb idea with no benefits and potentially catastrophic costs if ever used," Richard Thaler, a professor at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business, wrote in response to a University of Chicago poll of economists released this month.
House Republican leaders, for now at least, want to put off a showdown. They have scheduled a vote for Wednesday on suspending the limit until mid-May. In effect, there would be no debt limit for four months.
The White House backed the short-term plan Tuesday, and House Republican leaders appeared confident that the measure would pass. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) declined to say whether he would take up the bill, but indications were that the Senate would go along with the strategy.
The move would delay the looming threat of a default, but the broader debate over the debt limit and its role would continue to simmer.
In each year's budget, Congress decides how much money should be spent, which also determines how much must be borrowed to cover any shortfall in revenue. So Congress also must frequently increase the debt limit to allow for the borrowing.
The debt limit has been raised 76 times since 1962. It now stands at $16.4 trillion, a level the government will hit as early as mid-February.
The University of Chicago's survey of 38 academic economists found that 84% agreed that "a separate debt ceiling that has to be increased periodically creates unneeded uncertainty and can potentially lead to worse fiscal outcomes." Just 3% disagreed.
"It's a very unusual provision because in most countries, if they vote for a budget, they either have to borrow the money to pay for it or they have to raise taxes or cut someplace else," said Jacob Funk Kirkegaard, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington.
"Separating out the spending from the actual payment for the spending is just a reckless fiscal policy," Kirkegaard said.
Those sentiments were echoed last week by Fitch Ratings.
The company, one of three leading credit rating firms, called the debt limit "an ineffective and potentially dangerous mechanism for enforcing fiscal discipline." But a Fitch executive said the company was not taking a stand on whether the debt limit should be eliminated.
Still, most Republicans said the debt limit is a vital check on long-term government spending.
The Constitution gives Congress the power "to borrow money on the credit of the United States." And the frequent votes over raising the limit on how much can be borrowed offer "a moment of reflection to consider the policies that have led to the current debt" and consider ways to reduce its growth, the Senate Republican Policy Committee said.
"In the simplest of terms, the debt limit helps hold Washington accountable to hardworking taxpayers, who ultimately foot the bill for Washington's spending habits," Rep. Sam Johnson (R-Texas) said Tuesday during a House hearing on the issue.
In most countries, the government's ability to borrow generally comes with approval of the budget.
In Britain and New Zealand, for example, finance departments are given broad authority to borrow in a manner they consider "expedient for the purpose of promoting sound monetary conditions" or in the public interest, according to a review of other countries' budget processes by the U.S. Government Accountability Office.
Canada's Ministry of Finance is provided a fixed amount that it is authorized to borrow for the fiscal year, the GAO said. When necessary, the ministry can request increased borrowing authority from the executive branch of government.
Because of such policies, experts in foreign nations find the U.S. debt ceiling odd. Although they understand that it is meant to provide extra layers of checks and balances, "it doesn't make an awful lot of sense," said Paul Ashworth, a Canadian economist at Capital Economics.
Denmark is one of the only nations that has a debt limit similar to the U.S. It was enacted in the early 1990s during an administrative reorganization that shifted management of the country's debt to the independent Danish central bank, said Kirkegaard, a native of Denmark.
But the limit was set high enough that it would not have to be raised for years. When debt began approaching the limit in 2010, Denmark doubled the limit, Kirkegaard said.
Congress uses its debt limit much differently. Some increases in recent years were just enough to allow for a few months of borrowing.
And that's just what House Republican leaders plan to do again by authorizing a temporary suspension of the limit to give Congress time to pass a budget. The limit would automatically adjust May 19 to cover additional borrowing up to that point.
House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) has said he would support a long-term increase only if it was offset by spending cuts that exceeded the amount of the debt-limit hike.
Keith Hennessey, who was a top White House economic advisor during the George W. Bush administration, said the debt limit is important in a time of soaring deficits and a dysfunctional Congress that has not passed a formal budget since 2009.
Instead, Congress has been approving a series of short-term spending bills that fail to address the budget deficit. Hennessey likened such hikes to a creditor giving a troubled company just enough money to continue operations until it can fix its finances.
"Nobody wants to do short-term debt-limit increases," he said. "But if the alternative is we keep stumbling toward long-term fiscal decline, I think it's necessary."
Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), however, said the debt limit is "totally useless" and has become more of a threat than a help to the nation's economic well-being.
"Let's abolish the debt ceiling, and if people think we're spending too much money, vote to spend less money," he said.
Times staff writer Lisa Mascaro in Washington contributed to this report.


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In Fedora 12 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, I added a new flag to audit2allow, -D or --dontaudit. This option tells audit2allow to generate dontaudit rules rather then allow rules.
# audit2allow -a
#============= smokeping_t ==============
allow smokeping_t bin_t:file { read execute open execute_no_trans };
# audit2allow -aD
#============= smokeping_t ==============
dontaudit smokeping_t bin_t:file { read execute open execute_no_trans };
If you want to allow the access and do not want SELinux pestering you, this is a great option.
A great example of where this is handy is vbetool.
man vbetool
vbetool - run real-mode video BIOS code to alter hardware state
vbetool is run at boot time and during suspend and resume. It requires mmap_zero access to run properly which is denied by default. This access is considered dangerous and is described in a previous blog. Luckily most machines do not need vbetool to run successfully. However, SELinux complains to the audit system on each boot and suspend/resume about vbetool requesting mmap_zero. vbetool does not work, but it does not cause anything on your machine to not work.
How would I shut up the AVC?
# grep vbetool /var/log/audit/audit.log | audit2allow -DM myvbetool
# semodule -i myvbetool.pp
This will stop the AVC without allowing a dangerous access.
# cat myvbetool.te
module myvbetool 1.0;
require {
type vbetool_t;
class memprotect mmap_zero;
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#!!!! This avc can be allowed using the boolean 'mmap_low_allowed'
dontaudit vbetool_t self:memprotect mmap_zero;
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by Pat Palleschi, Ph.D.
Okay… let me get some of my own biases out first:
1. I believe that unemployment is far higher than the reported figures in the Los Angeles Region. Not true? Then, at the very least, we deserve some transparency about the assumptions that were used to get to the published rate, so we can all be knowledgeable about the real situation.
2. I don't care what your politics are. I have not heard of a single politician who has paid sufficient attention to JOB CREATION. And, because of the inattention, FEW new jobs have been created. Especially in Los Angeles.
3. The people who are lucky enough to be working are generally unhappy. In the past this would mean that they would be looking for new jobs. BUT, NO! The lucky employed are going to cling to their jobs by their fingernails despite their unhappiness because they know that it is ugly out there in the job market. Employed people are clinging to jobs that have forced them to work more and more hours without a single cent added to their salaries for years.
If my beliefs approach reality, then grads need to consider this advice:
- Job search is extraordinarily hard now and it is NOT about YOU, your minor flaws, your age, your level of experience — it is all about the time, geography and economy. (This echoes the sentiments of David Brooks in New York Times).
- Blame is usually not useful — so consider this not "blame" but a cry for help: JOB CREATION needed, Washington!
- What is important for you to do is to DISREGARD all the old advice ("follow your passion," "do what you love," "find work that will provide meaning," etc.) because that will get in the way of getting you to work. And getting you a place to live. And eating.
- In this economy, I want to remind all of us that work is in itself a useful and meaningful pursuit, if done well. Doing work well can be a passion and can provide meaning, even if it is working at a cash register at Whole Foods or being a janitor at Costco or a career coach at The Executive Agency.
- Okay, you may be "better than that" — and I agree you probably have more skills than such a position requires and are "worth" much more than the pay. But, eating is a big part of life, and if you can eat, then you can spend a bit more time figuring out how to make your "passion" into something that some venture/venture fund will pay for.
- "Existence precedes and rules essence." — Sartre
- Work is meaningful. Doing any work well is admirable.
Why am I so strident about this? I have listened to commencement speakers, and I want to shout at them: "STOP!"
Commencement speakers are usually wealthy donors to the university who are happy to think back to how they followed their passion to find (take your pick) wealth, innovation, power, and/or the meaning of life.
Well, at least in the Los Angeles region, this is not the usual experience right now.
If a grad waits to find the job that will fuel passion, the wait time may be a long stay on a parent's/friend's couch, without a cent, playing video games and clutching on to fragile sanity.
Work at something (dare I say "anything"?). Volunteer at something (anything). Enjoy the fact that you can do something well. Then reflect on your real work, the work that you have accomplished. In any work, you can uncover the gold veins of passion and meaning.
PS: And make sure to find someone to vote for who understands how to CREATE jobs… so, with luck, the next generation can take the time to be playful innovators post graduation. Let's get back to the opportunities afforded the old generation not so long ago (Mark Zuckerberg's generation?).
Guest Blogger Pat Palleschi is the President of The Executive Agency. She has devoted the past 25 years to creating HR strategies that help organizations and individuals succeed. As VP of Human Resources Development at Disneyland, she helmed the Disney University, where she and her team made it their mission to attract, develop and retain Disney Cast members who were "pumped to perform." Before Disney, Pat served as Senior VP of Training for Bank of America. She earned her doctorate at the University of Massachusetts and chaired the Speech Communication Department at Loyola Marymount


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So how do you combat this weight management stage?
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Fail to remember castle in the air diets that say you can drop weight without doing any sort of exercise whatsoever. They might, and I do imply might, work for a bit. But after that you will hit the fat burning stage and give up or attempt one more diet plan. Once more it might work for a couple of weeks as your physical body is "stunned" with the new diet but in the lasting it will certainly fail.
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What many people struggle to understand is that changing your each day lifestyle is not an easy thing to do. Many people start new diet programs greater than happy to make changes if it indicates they'll burn fat. When the going obtains a little harder compared to they expected they tend to provide up really quickly.
There is even more to weight management compared to simply diet regimen and physical exercise. You should transform your lifestyle and be inspired and have the right attitude in order to start a diet regimen in the first place. It is the most essential, and the very least explored, consider proper fat loss.
The primary step in staying on track for long-term weight management is to recognize that truly can do it. Many people have actually burnt fat prior to you and numerous do others. The only difference in between those which reduce weight effectively and those which fail is perseverance.
In order to stay determined and consistent you need to avoid anticipating adversely. When you don't see instantaneous results assume positively and keep your eyes on the reward. If you frequently concentrate on why you cannot exercise or cannot slim down or stick to a diet plan you'll end up falling short.
As an alternative concentrate on little triumphes at a time. Many people intend to shed great deals of weight and do it rapidly They have a long term objective in mind however are unsure just how they're getting there. Well by focusing on small difficulties at a time you will find you are a lot more favorable. By concentrating on the following dish or the following workout as opposed to just gigantic weight management you'll find yourself being a lot much more good over a consistent period.
Do not criticize yourself if you do make the odd slip up. We're all allowed to make a mistake from time to time. And if you find yourself obtaining a fast burger one lunchtime don't trump yourself up over it. This will just result in you becoming sorrowful about your diet plan. As an alternative get back on track by working off several of the calories from the blunder with an excellent bit of workout!
Make certain that the people you border yourself with understand that you have a fat loss goal. If your family and friends know that you perform a diet plan program they are considerably less most likely to try and lure you to convenience food dining establishments and to places where your strategies and goals could go out of the home window. Tell them that you desire and require their support if you are to get to where you intend to be
If you comply with these ideas there is no factor why you won't be able to shed weight! If you believe you can shed weight, you WILL!


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Multi-Site Study Publishes Interim Follow-Up and Treatment Recommendations for People with Gene-Linked Colon and Breast Cancers
Multi-Site Study Publishes Interim Follow-Up and Treatment Recommendations for People with Gene-Linked Colon and Breast Cancers
March 1997
Papers in back-to-back issues of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) offer health professionals the first comprehensive survey of information about how to care for patients who carry genetic mutations that put them at high risk for colon, breast, and other cancers. In addition, the papers suggest a research agenda to help provide longer-term answers to unsolved questions about cancer surveilence, prevention and treatment in people whose disease arises from inherited changes in their DNA.
The two papers are products of the Cancer Genetics Studies Consortium (CGSC), a network of research studies funded three years ago by several components of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and led by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), to learn about the impact of genetic testing for inherited cancer risks on people and their health care providers. What are the options for monitoring or preventing the cancer? How well do they work? Do patients with inherited tendencies to develop cancer respond differently to standard treatments than do other patients?
The NIH components that contributed to the study include the National Cancer Institute, the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute on Nursing Research, and the Office of Research on Women's Health. These days, discovery of a disease-causing gene mutation is almost immediately translated into a clinical test able to detect the mutation in an individual's DNA. In some cases, there may not yet be a treatment for the disease. In others, specific information is lacking about what monitoring, prevention or treatment options work best in people whose disease arises from a gene mutation. It could be, for example, that breast cancer progresses differently in a person with a specific gene mutation than in someone who does not have that mutation.
"The ability to identify cancer-linked gene mutations in healthy people is so new, health professionals don t know how to incorporate the information into patient care," said Wylie Burke, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of medicine at the University of Washington.
Burke led the CGSC task force in a comprehensive review of studies performed so far to seek out what is already known about cancer surveillance, prevention and treatment in people known to be at high risk for inherited colon or breast cancer. "These reports are a first step toward helping those patients now, and they identify research questions we hope will give us more complete answers in the long term," Burke said.
The authors note that the recommendations were developed for people who are known to carry specific mutations that put them at increased risk for colon or breast cancer. They may also apply to close relatives of individuals who have tested positive for those mutations, or for family members in which those diseases follow an inheritance pattern that indicate they are linked to a mutation. But, because even among family members, most breast and colon cancers do not arise from inherited mutations, the recommendations do not apply, the articles say, to the majority of individuals with a family history of colon, breast or ovarian cancer.
In every case, health care decisions based on genetic test results should be made between the patient and his or her health professional and should also address the emotional and social dimensions of decision-making about cancer risk.
In this week's JAMA, Burke and her coworkers look at disease monitoring strategies and their effects on individuals who carry mutations in the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes, which place them at increased risk for breast cancer, ovarian cancer or both. For example, women who have a strong family history of breast cancer and who carry a BRCA1 mutations have an estimated 85 percent chance of developing breast cancer by the time they are 70. They also have a significantly increased risk of developing ovarian cancer. Men who carry a BRCA1 mutation are more likely to develop prostate cancer.
For women who are known to carry BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations, the authors recommend monthly self-examination of breasts to begin between the ages of 18 and 21, annual or semi-annual breast examination by a health professional to begin between 25 and 35, and annual mammography to begin between 25 and 35. But, the article says, mammography exposure in young women who are BRCA mutation carriers could, theoretically increase cancer risk. Even so, many experts believe that the benefit of early cancer detection is likely to outweigh the risk for women with an inherited predisposition to breast cancer, even when mammography is initiated at an early age, the authors say.
For early detection of ovarian cancer, the group recommends that BRCA1 mutation carriers between the ages 25 and 35 start annual or semi-annual screening by ultrasound, along with monitoring blood levels of CA-125, a marker that indicates the presence of tumor cells. The increase in risk of ovarian cancer is much smaller for BRCA2 mutation carriers than for BRCA1 carriers, so the benefits of ovarian cancer surveillance in BRCA2 carriers are less.
Men with BRCA1 mutations may have an increased risk of developing prostate cancer. However, the authors found insufficient data to advise these individuals about whether to start early cancer screening.
Both male and female BRCA1 mutation carriers should be informed about a possible increase in their risk for colorectal cancer and encouraged to follow screening recommendations for the general population, including regular sigmoidoscopy and fecal blood tests starting at age 50.
Strategies for Intervention
Although healthy BRCA mutation carriers should be informed about the option of mastectomy and ovary removal, they must also be informed about cases of cancer occurring in individuals after these operations have been performed. At this time, the paper says, there is insufficient information available to make recommendations about this procedure.
So far, no drug or other agent to reduce cancer risk in an individual with a genetic predisposition has been identified. Nevertheless, there are several promising agents being evaluated. These and other anti-cancer agents have risks and side effects that should be considered.
In the JAMA March 19 issue, Burke and her coworkers identified and evaluated options for monitoring and reducing risk of disease in people known to carry mutations for a type of colon cancer known as HNPCC (hereditary non-polyposis colon cancer). Mutations in at least four genes are linked to HNPCC, and an estimated 5 to10 percent of colon cancer cases are believed to result from HNPCC mutations. The cancer is usually diagnosed in people around age 45, much earlier than are non-inherited forms of colon cancer, and can occur in people in their 20s. People with HNPCC mutations are also more likely to develop endometrial and ovarian cancer, and cancer of the small bowel, stomach and uterus.
Because HNPCC can occur throughout the colon, the authors recommend full colonoscopy every one to three years beginning between the ages of 20 and 25 for individuals who carry HNPCC-associated mutations or who have family histories that indicate the disease follows a tell-tale inheritance pattern. The procedure detects polyps in the colon before they become cancerous and at a time when they are easiest to remove. However, the studies so far do not confirm whether colonoscopy and removal of polyps significantly reduces colon cancer incidence. Further, the report says, there have been no randomized control trials to demonstrate that colonoscopy decreases mortality or the incidence of colon cancer in HNPCC mutation carriers.
For early detection of HNPCC-related endometrial cancer, the authors recommend annual screening exams beginning between the ages of 25 and 35, either by sampling endometrial tissue or by ultrasound. These methods pick up 82 to 98 percent of endometrial cancers in women after menopause, but their effectiveness in younger women is uncertain.
Strategies for Intervention
Removal of the colon may be an option for mutation carriers with polyps because of the known progression of the polyps into malignant tumors, which may be more rapid in people with HNPCC mutations. However, there is not enough evidence to recommend this procedure to HNPCC mutation carriers. Similarly, there is not enough evidence to recommend hysterectomy or ovary removal to healthy women who have HNPCC mutations, although the authors say those women should be made aware of this option. These surgeries are recommended for women who have developed cancer, although their effectiveness in women whose cancer is linked to HNPCC mutations is not yet known.
As for lifestyle features such as diet, exercise and certain toxic exposures, the authors say there is no information yet to determine if modifications influence the development of BRCA- or HNPCC-related cancers. Still, the overall health benefits of good diet and exercise and reduced exposure to potential carcinogens warrant inclusion in any health-maintenance strategy.
These provisional recommendations form the basis of an interim policy that is the first step towards finding improved surveillance, treatment and prevention of these cancers in the future. However, the authors say, prospective studies are needed to identify optimal screening and follow-up regimens, and to identify the best measures to prevent cancer development in people identified as being high risk. Burke and her coworkers call for the establishment of registries of mutation carriers to aid in long-term surveillance and follow-up, and to stimulate research on the clinical and population characteristics of hereditary cancers.
Without firm data on these aspects of patient care, the authors recommend genetic testing take place within a research protocol, where individuals can receive appropriate counseling and research information can be collected. The proposed Cancer Genetics Network sponsored by the National Cancer Institute represents a promising mechanism for accomplishing these objectives, they conclude.
Recommendations for Follow-Up Care of Individuals with an Inherited Susceptibility to Cancer. 1: HNPCC. JAMA. Vol. 277 (11): 915-919, March 19, 1997, and, Recommendations for Follow-Up Care of Individuals with an Inherited Susceptibility to Cancer.2: BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutations, JAMA. Vol. 277 (12): 997-1003, March 26, 1997. The authors of both articles are: Wylie Burke, M.D., Ph.D., University of Washington; Gloria Petersen, Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University; Patrick Lynch, M.D., J.D., University of Texas; Jeffrey Botkin, M.D., M.P.H., University of Utah; Mary Daly, M.D., Ph.D., Fox Chase Cancer Center; Judy Garber, M.D., M.P.H., Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Mary Jo Ellis Kahn, National Breast Cancer Coalition; Anne McTiernan, M.D., Ph.D., Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; Kenneth Offit, M.D., M.P.H., Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Elizabeth Thomson, M.S., R.N., National Human Genome Research Institute; and, Claudette Varricchio, D.S.N, R.N, National Cancer Institute, for the Cancer Genetics Studies Consortium, Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications Research Program, National Human Genome Research Institute.
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NY court: Gay marriage caucus didn't break rules
ALBANY, N.Y. – A state appeals court rejected a challenge to New York's year-old same-sex marriage law Friday, ruling closed-door negotiations among senators and gay marriage supporters, including Gov. Andrew Cuomo, did not violate any laws.
The Appellate Division of state Supreme Court in Rochester ruled against gay marriage opponents who argued that Republican state senators violated New York's open meeting rules ahead of the law's passage last year.
The marriage law was given final legislative approval by the state Senate after weeks of intensive lobbying and swiftly signed by Cuomo, making New York the largest state to legalize same-sex weddings. Same-sex couples began marrying by the hundreds on July 24, 2011, the day the law became official.
"The court's decision affirms that in our state, there is marriage equality for all, and with this decision New York continues to stand as a progressive leader for the nation," Cuomo said after the court's ruling.
Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, whose office argued for the state, called the decision "a great victory for marriage equality."
New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms said Cuomo and another gay marriage supporter, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, met behind closed doors with the Senate's Republican majority in violation of the open meeting law.
The appeals court heard the case after acting state Supreme Court Judge Robert Wiggins in Livingston County ruled in November that he didn't have enough facts to rule on whether the open meetings law was violated. Wiggins dismissed other grounds for the legal challenge brought by the group.
New York's open meeting law requires public access to the deliberations of legislative bodies, but Schneiderman argued that the Republican caucus with invited guests was exempt, even if the guests aren't in the same party. In a 5-0 ruling, the court agreed.
"In the event that we were to adopt plaintiffs' limited definition of 'guests,' it would be impossible for a Democratic member of a governor's office, such as a budget director, to speak to a majority Republican caucus," according to the decision.
Rev. Jason McGuire, who heads New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms, said the group would weigh its legal options. Mathew Staver, founder of Liberty Counsel, which represented the New York group, said he expected to appeal the ruling.
"It's a disappointment, because this gives a green light to the politicians to (use) strong arm tactics behind closed doors and shut out the people from the process," Staver said.


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