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Twitter Inc unveiled a redesign of its user profile pages on Tuesday, the latest in a series of steps promised by the company to bring new users to the seven-year-old service.
In response to an all-time low in user growth figures during the recent quarter, Twitter Chief Executive Dick Costolo told worried Wall Street analysts that the company would make a number of changes to freshen up the service.
Tuesday's redesign, while mostly cosmetic, hinted at what Costolo described in February as a willingness to experiment with new ways to organize content. Users can now "pin" a tweet to stay at the top of their feed, a rare instance of Twitter departing from the continuously rolling format that has defined the service.
Tweets that have received more retweets or replies will also appear slightly larger to spur more user engagement.
The new layout, which will be available to a small group of users initially, will be widely deployed to Twitter's 241 million users in the coming weeks, the company said.
Twitter reported higher-than-expected fourth-quarter revenue on February 6, but investors focused on user growth of just 3.8 percent, the lowest rate of quarter-on-quarter growth since Twitter began disclosing user figures. The San Francisco-based company went public in November.
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Ensemble Phoenix Basel and vocalist Marianne Schuppe give us a lively program of five Scelsi works from that period in the recent album RITO (Telos 191). Two of the five works include a vocal part, which Ms. Schuppe handles quite adroitly with expressiveness and nuance.
"Khoom" (1962), for soprano, French horn, string quartet and two percussionists is the longest work (at 22 minutes) and gives central place to the vocal part and its pivotal centering around a series of pitches, micro-intervals and use of vibrato for expressive purposes.
"Prana I" (1972) for alto, 12 instruments and tape recorder masses the largest ensemble of all the works here. It too has a very prominent vocal part and a sort of ritualistic use of limited pitches and microtonal permutations in highly dramatic, coloristic ways.
"Prana II" (1973) is a sequel for nine instruments. It uses long tones and coloristic elements to give us a soundscape even more stark than "Prana I" yet continuous with endless permutations around somewhat limited means tonally. If you speak of "minimalism" there are times where Scelsi is much closer to the visual equivalent in the art world than the composers given that categorization. Yet as here the coloristic and microtonic elements give us quite a bit of variability.
"Riti: I funerali di Alessandro Magno" (1962) has a dark cast, due in part to the instrumentation of contrabass, tuba, electronic organ, contrabassoon and percussion. Scelsi's treatment accentuates the tendency further with dramatic long-tones and a limited pallet of notes often low in the range of the instruments.
"Okanagon" (1968) concludes the program with some striking music for harp, tam-tam (gong) and contrabass that has an especially resonant sound as seemingly the strings of the harp and contrabass are allowed to vibrate against the tam-tam at key points. It at times reminds of Tibetan chants and their vibrating cymbal interludes and low throat-tone vocalizations. For "Okanagon" the sound color is vividly present and quite beautiful in a distinctive way.
I suppose that this group of works and their fine performances are as good a place as any to start with Scelsi's music if you do not already know it. And even if you do, this is a volume very much on target. His is a new music that does not aim to please as much as get inside the production of sound and its mysteries. So it's best to leave expectations behind. Any new music lover with a game spirit about travelling to unknown sound worlds will find this volume very interesting I would think. No understanding of 20th century innovations is quite complete without Scelsi. This is music of importance, very well performed.


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Kannada film industry's most wanted comedian in the recent times Shivraj KR Pete of the Comedy Kiladigalu fame is playing the lead role in Dhamaka. The teaser was released recently and is extensively liked by the audience. The laugh riot teaser began with the Yograj Bhat's voice in the background. The combination of Yograj Bhat and Shivraj is something that cinema lovers are looking forward to.
Will all the punch dialogs in the film, Dhamaka is shaping up to entertain the audience. Young talents have pioneered the new endeavour. Laxmi Ramesh, a talented director who was a part of Simple Suni's team is saying action cut for Dhamaka.
Nayana Sarath of Comedy Kiladigalu fame is paired opposite Shivraj KR Pete. Siddhu Moolimani, Priya Achar, Prakash Tumbinad, Mohan Juneja, Kote Prabhakar, Miko Nagaraj and Aruna Balaraj have played pivotal roles in the film. The film is produced under the banner of SR Media Productions and Nandi Entertainment by Sunil S Raj and Annapurna B Patil. Haalesh has done the camera work. Vikas Vasishta has scored music and Vinay Coorg has done the editing.


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A Modern-Day Debtors' Prison? Judges Push Back Against the South's Privatization Wave
This story was originally published in YES! Magazine. Republished by Truthout.org.
Kathleen Hucks was almost a model parolee.
In 2006 she was convicted of driving under the influence, possession of marijuana, and driving with a suspended license in Columbia County, Alabama. She successfully completed her probation and paid all of her court-issued fines.
But Hucks failed to pay all of the additional supervision fees charged by the private probation company supervising her case. Unaware of the oversight, she moved to Richmond County, Georgia. On Labor Day weekend—nearly six years later—a police officer asked for identification.
"I was out walking my dogs when an officer came up to me asking who I was," she said. After running her name through the system, he told her that there was a warrant out for her arrest—a hold on her back in Alabama.
"I kept telling the officer, 'I'm not on probation,'" said Hucks, who lives with her husband in a trailer in the town of Hephzibah, deep in the rural heartland of Georgia. "But he said, 'Ma'am, I have to take you in. It's showing up on here that you're in violation of probation.'"
Because she had failed to pay the additional private probation fees, an arrest warrant had been issued in 2010—unbeknownst to Hucks. "What they did was reinstate my probation without the judge's signature," she said. This, despite the company's ability to collect on the debt having expired when her original court ordered probation ended.
Still weak from a bout of pneumonia—she had only been released from hospital the day prior—Hucks was taken to jail. "The first day I arrived in jail, they made me take a freezing cold shower," she said. "When you take a shower, there's not supposed to be a male officer in there. But there I am in a cold shower stark naked, and a male officer's in there."
Twenty days later, Hucks was finally released after Richmond County Superior Court Judge Daniel Craig ruled that she had been locked up illegally.
According to Hucks, Judge Craig told Sentinel Offender Services, the private probation company, "Look here, I'm going to tell you right now: you don't come into my court room acting like it's McDonald's or Burger King. You don't get it your way."
"And the court room laughed a little bit," she added.
Hucks' story is common in Georgia and other states where private probation companies are used to collect outstanding fines, debts, and court costs in misdemeanor cases. Driven by profit, some private probation companies place the nation's very poorest on a debt cycle that sends offenders to jail for non-payment of fines and fees for minor offenses. Critics have been calling this a violation of a 1983 U.S.Supreme Court ruling making it illegal to jail the indigent simply because they're too poor to pay their court fines.
Ordinarily, private probation works like this: When offenders convicted of a misdemeanor—a speeding ticket, for example, or driving under the influence—are unable to cover the fine in one swoop, they're put on "private probation." They make payments on their fine through a private probation company that also charges the offender a variety of its own fees, covering things like electronic monitoring. The most common are monthly supervision fees, an administrative charge added to fines and court costs, typically in the region of $35.
Pushback against some of the worst practices in private probation is sporadic but growing. In September, Georgia's Supreme Court is slated to hear an appeal of Judge Craig's ruling that extending private probation sentences beyond their original date was against the law (as was the use of electronic monitoring in probation cases). Some believe the Supreme Court's ruling has the potential to fundamentally shape the way in which private probation companies operate in Georgia.
Elsewhere, alternative solutions have already been found—like in Athens-Clark County, Georgia, where a government probation department that operates independently of taxpayers' coffers was brought in to replace a broken private probation system.
Nevertheless, critics of private probation continue to draw parallels between problems in that industry and those associated with the broader privatization of the nation's entire judicial system.
Profiting from poverty
For most cash-starved municipalities unable to cope with the sheer volume of cases passing through their courts, private probation companies that operate at no alleged cost to courts offer an appealing alternative to publicly funded probation services—especially when companies like JCS say they successfully complete more than 70 percent of their probation caseload. Without supervision, JCS says the success rate is under 35 percent.
Private probation is also a lucrative business. According to a Human Rights Watch report released earlier this year, companies in Georgia alone took in approximately $40 million during 2013. Their financial bedrock is built upon supervision fees. An offender who can afford to pay only $85 per month on a $1,200 fine will leave probation after 24 months having paid a total of $2,040—$840 of which goes to supervision fees.
For offenders who can barely scrape together a living, many can expect to pay fees well after their court-ordered probation period has expired. As the report highlights, "To many outside observers, a $35 monthly supervision fee might sound trivial. [But] many probationers are only on probation to begin with because they could not come up with a few hundred dollars to pay off their fines immediately at sentencing."
Among the stories that litter the report are those of people, most of whom live well below the federal poverty line, who rack up jail time as a result of being unable to keep up with their monthly payments.
Over a period of seven years, Elvis Mann, from Childersburg, Alabama, had been diligently paying off nearly $9,000 in fines and accumulated fees stemming from two traffic violations. Mann, whose monthly income consists of $800 in disability benefits, still had $2,400 left to pay, but decided to stop making the payments through sheer disillusionment.
Summoned to court by JCS, the judge ordered that he pay $500 before the end of the day to avoid prison. After going around to churches and friends with cap in hand, Mann's wife only just managed to scrape the money together.
The report similarly shines a stark light on some of the more abusive tactics private probation officers use to collect fees, painting some agencies as glorified debt collectors. The report describes how "in some cases, company probation officers have courts jail offenders in order to coerce their families into paying some of what they owe in exchange for their freedom."
Hot on the heels of the Human Rights Watch report came another report, from the Georgia Department of Audits and Accounts Performance Audit Division. Equally as critical of private probation services, this report finds "several case management issues, many resulting from a lack of clear written policies and procedures to guide the actions of probation officers."
"It's kind of a free-for-all at the moment, and that's led to some of the worst excesses in the industry," said Chris Albin-Lackey, a senior researcher at Human Rights Watch and author of that organization's report. He believes the current private probation model is fundamentally flawed on two levels: a lack of meaningful state oversight of private probation companies; and second, limited understanding of what courts can do to monitor and reign in when necessary the behavior of private probation companies.
Policy shifts in the judges' courts
Albin-Lackey pointed, however, to a number of instances where the fallout from higher-level court rulings had trickled down into local municipalities. A particular standout is Judge Craig's 2013 ruling that restricts the use of electronic monitoring for misdemeanor probationers in Richmond County, as well as prohibiting the extension of a misdemeanor sentence beyond the original sentence's expiration date. Judge Craig has stood behind his ruling, despite stirring dissent among other Richmond County State Court Judges.
High-profile rulings by the likes of Judges Craig and Harrington could and should prompt other judges to rule on the unconstitutionality of sending the very poorest to jail for their inability to pay court costs.
Earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Mark Fuller issued an injunction that blocked the City of Montgomery in Alabama from collecting further money from three indigent defendants who had been jailed for non-payment of accumulated traffic fines and fees totaling thousands of dollars.
In 2012, Shelby County Circuit Court Judge Hub Harrington issued a ruling on the Burdette vs. Town of Harpersville case, finding that "a more apt description of the Harpersville Municipal Court practices is that of a judicially sanctioned extortion racket." Judge Harrington's decision effectively prompted the Harpersville Town Council to later vote to abolish the court and transfer all cases to the county level.
And the ink is still wet on Georgia Governor Nathan Deal's veto of a state bill that would have given private probation companies in Georgia greater autonomy and less regulatory oversight.
According to Jack Long, an Augusta-based attorney, high-profile rulings by the likes of Judges Craig and Harrington could and should prompt other judges to rule on the unconstitutionality of sending the very poorest to jail for their inability to pay court costs.
"If the local governing authority or the judges will wake up and say this is bad policy, it could change automatically—and the only way they will wake up is to keep pointing out and make widespread just how bad the situation has got," said Long, who added that in Georgia, the local government has to seek approval by the chief judge of that court in order to use a private probation company.
What's more, rather than operating at no expense to the taxpayer, private probation companies end up costing the public each time they send an offender to jail, Long said.
"If other judges and governments would require financial disclosures by private, for-profit probation companies, they would see that they are badly used, and the public is paying," he said.
All eyes on Georgia
In September, Long is set to go before Georgia's Supreme Court as the lead attorney in the lawsuit against Sentinel—a lawsuit involving 13 separate cases, including Hucks'. And he believes the Court's ruling could have widespread implications on the private probation industry as a whole, either way it rules.
"I think the eyes of the nation will be on Georgia and how we decide this issue," said Long. "If the Georgia Supreme Court doesn't decide the case properly, it's going to be a problem for the rest of the nation."
"I think the Georgia Supreme Court knows that," he added. "I think they will spend a lot of time looking into this."
If the Court's ruling favors Sentinel, warned Long, it will act as an invitation for the private probation industry to expand into other states throughout the country.
"If we do not get a policy ruling from the Georgia Supreme Court, then that will basically feed the animal, and they will try to export this to a conglomeration of other states," Long said. "It is just so profitable, and the private for-profit companies make so much money that, if this is declared to be legal, it is bound to expand."
Sarah Geraghty, senior attorney of the Southern Center for Human Rights, is more circumspect about the wider ramifications of the Georgia Supreme Court ruling.
"It depends on the scope or how narrowly the court decides to rule on that case," she said. "They're looking at narrow issues and broad issues, and the broad issue is whether in Georgia, the constitution allows the use of private probation companies at all."
While Geraghty questions the ethics of using profit-driven companies to operate the nation's probation services, she believes that what should drive the push for regulatory reform in the industry should be centered around the lack of transparency in the current system (an example is that in Georgia, all records of private probation companies are by state statute a secret).
"There needs to be a lot more transparency so that members of the public and the media have access to information that enable us to determine whether these companies are providing a valuable service, or whether there are problems in the division," Geraghty said.
Probation as rehabilitation
Certain municipalities have already eschewed the use of private probation firms in favor of a return to their own government-run departments. Of those, Athens-Clarke County has proven how a government-run probation service can operate financially independent of tax-dollar support.
"Rehabilitation isn't a dirty word for us, but neither is enforcement."
In 2007, a number of Athens-Clark County judges expressed concern that the private probation firms working in the area were more concerned with profits than successfully assisting offenders through probation—sentiments confirmed by a state audit that showed how 28 percent of one firms' clients violated the terms of their probation.
In September of 2008, an in-house probation service was brought in to replace private probation. Within a year, fines collected were up $50,000 a month, while the number of community service hours metered out were up almost tenfold.
"We're very self-sufficient," said Dale Allen, chief probation officer for the Athens-Clarke County Probation Services. "As a matter of fact, last year we more than paid for ourselves. My numbers are open to everybody."
Allen estimates that in 2013 his department brought in $1.07 million in revenue while spending just $1.01.
He said that while his department does charge probation fees to cover operating costs, as a safeguard in minor offenses, like traffic tickets, it collects only one month's probation fee. He added that in all cases, he and his officers will look at an individual's financial standing as to whether they can afford to pay the fee or not, and look at alternatives to payments when they can't.
"I've never had judges or anyone from the government tell me that I've got to collect more fees," said Allen. "We charge probation fees, but we use common sense and we don't put people in prison for money. Money isn't what drives us."
"Probation is by its definition a second chance."
Allen said his department approaches probation with a "holistic" attitude: "Rehabilitation isn't a dirty word for us, but neither is enforcement. Our whole goal is to successfully get you through probation."
While Allen is cautious about the ability of smaller municipalities with tighter budgets than Athens-Clark County to replicate what has been achieved there, he believes their in-house model has the potential to be serviceable nationwide.
"This model works for us, and I think you've got to start from the beginning and ask yourself: what's the goal of probation?" he said. "Is it to punish, or to give second chance? And probation is by its definition a second chance."
Privatization a poisoned chalice
Some see the problems that have emerged in the South as a consequence of private probation as exemplifying broader issues surrounding the privatization of the nation's judicial system.
With approximately one out of 31 Americans currently under correctional supervision, the judicial system has been stretched to snapping point.
"As more governments are cash strapped, we are seeing more and more situations where private companies are conducting governmental duties, and it all comes down to incentives," said Lauren Brook-Eisen, counsel in the Brennan Center's Justice Program.
"You have private companies that have a profit motive involved, and I think the most important thing when looking at something like private probation is the motive and profit structure," she added.
Brook-Eisen said that with 2.3 million people currently in prison or jails in this country, and with approximately one out of 31 Americans currently under correctional supervision, the judicial system has been stretched to snapping point. And while the temptation to privatize might seem like a tempting quick-fix, the long-term ramifications are all too often a poisoned chalice to those at the very bottom rungs of the income ladder.
"It's difficult because our nation's correctional population has grown so large, municipal and state governments don't always have the capacity to provide adequate services and privatization is a natural outgrowth," said Brooke-Eisen. "The worry, however, is when incentives are not aligned, such as the profit motive in private probation."
As for Hucks, she said that she's keen to share her story and bring attention to the issue (watch her story below in Brave New Films' documentary, To Prison for Poverty). But what she said has brought her the greatest satisfaction is knowing that her lawsuit has played a part in placing a hold on the number of misdemeanor offenders going to jail through non-payment of fines and fees in Richmond County.
"A couple of police officers I know told me: 'Boy Kathy, you've really been messing things up,'" she said. "And I go, 'why's that?' And they go, 'because of your lawsuit, we can't arrest people for non-payment on their probation.'
"And that's ever since this [lawsuit] started," Hucks added. "And now, the most important thing for me is that I just want to see this through to the end—with the right ending, of course."
This article was produced in collaboration with Brave New Films.


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What Is the Prostate?
The prostate is a gland in the male reproductive system. It makes most of the semen that carries sperm.
Where Is It Located?
It sits directly beneath your bladder and in front of your rectum. Because the first portion of the urethra passes through the prostate, the passage of urine or semen through the urethra can be blocked if the gland is enlarged.
What Is Prostate Cancer?
Prostate cancer is a malignant tumor of the prostate.
The disease is less common before age 50, and experts believe that most elderly men have traces of it.
African American men are more likely to get prostate cancer and have the highest death rate. Other than skin cancer, prostate cancer is the most common cancer in American men. In other parts of the world -- notably Asia, Africa, and Latin America -- prostate cancer is rare.
Prostate cancer is usually a very slow-growing cancer, often causing no symptoms until it is in an advanced stage. Most men with prostate cancer die of other causes and many never know that they have the disease. But once prostate cancer begins to grow quickly or spreads outside the prostate, it is dangerous.
Prostate cancer in its early stages (when it's found only in the prostate gland) can be treated, with very good chances for survival. Fortunately, about 85% of American men with prostate cancer are diagnosed in an early stage of the disease.
Cancer that has spread beyond the prostate (such as to the bones, lymph nodes, and lungs) is not curable, but it may be controlled for many years. Because of the many advances in treatments, most men whose prostate cancer becomes widespread can expect to live 5 years or more. Some men with advanced prostate cancer live a normal life and die of another cause, such as heart disease.
What Causes Prostate Cancer?
Prostate cancer affects mainly older men. About 80% of cases are in men over 65, and less than 1% of cases are in men under 50. African American men and those with a family history of prostate cancer are more likely to get it.
Doctors don't know what causes prostate cancer, but diet contributes to the risk. Men who eat lots of fat from red meat are most likely to have prostate cancer. Eating meat may be risky for other reasons: Meat cooked at high temperatures produces cancer-causing substances that affect the prostate. The disease is much more common in countries where meat and dairy products are common than in countries where the diet consists of rice, soybean products, and vegetables.
Hormones also play a role. Eating fats raises the amount of testosterone in the body, and testosterone speeds the growth of prostate cancer.
A few job hazards have been found. Welders, battery manufacturers, rubber workers, and workers frequently exposed to the metal cadmium seem to be more likely to get prostate cancer.
Not exercising also makes prostate cancer more likely.
Drugs that may lower the risk of prostate cancer include aspirin, finasteride (Proscar), and dutasteride (Avodart).
Can Prostate Cancer Be Prevented?
There's no evidence that you can prevent prostate cancer. But a few simple things may help lower your odds.
Healthy food
A diet that helps you stay at a healthy weight may cut your chances of having prostate cancer. These steps can help:
- Choose whole-grain breads, pasta, and cereals over refined grain products.
- Cut back on red meats, especially processed meats such as hot dogs, bologna, and certain lunch meats.
- Eat at least 2 1/2 cups of fruits and vegetables each day.
Antioxidants in foods, especially in fruits and vegetables, help prevent damage to the DNA in your cells. Such damage has been linked to cancer. Lycopene, in particular, is an antioxidant that has been thought to lower the risk of prostate cancer. It can be found in foods such as:
- Tomatoes, both raw and cooked
- Pink and red grapefruit
- Watermelon
- Guava
- Papaya
Frequent ejaculation
Whether it's from sex, masturbation, or wet dreams, men who ejaculate more appear to be less likely to get prostate cancer. Doctors aren't sure why it helps, but they think it may help move potentially irritating substances out of the prostate.
What Are the Symptoms of Prostate Cancer?
Symptoms of prostate cancer include:
How Do I Know If I Have Prostate Cancer?
Doctors use two tests to look for prostate cancer: a digital rectal exam and a PSA blood test.
The PSA blood test looks for prostate-specific antigen in the blood. Experts are divided on who should have a PSA test and when to have it:
- The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends that for men aged 55 to 69, the decision to have PSA testing should be an individual one based on a conversation about risks and benefits with their doctor.
- The American Cancer Society recommends a discussion between the doctor and patient about the pros and cons of PSA tests. Men shouldn't get the test unless their doctor has given them this information, the group says. It also recommends that the discussion start at age 50 for most men at average risk for prostate cancer, or ages 40 to 45 for those at high risk of prostate cancer.
- The American Urological Association also recommends that men talk with their doctor about the pros and cons of the PSA test. That discussion should typically take place between the ages of 55 and 69. For those at higher risk for prostate cancer, the discussion can take place as early as ages 40 to 54.
PSA levels in blood are higher if there is prostate cancer, making it a valuable tool in finding early prostate cancer. But PSA levels can also be high from infection or inflammation in the prostate or from an enlarged prostate.
It's important to discuss this test with your doctor before you have it. A high PSA level does not mean you have cancer; a normal PSA level does not mean you don't have cancer.
If PSA levels are high or have gone up since your last PSA test, your doctor will do a biopsy of the prostate gland using a small ultrasound probe inserted in the rectum (transrectal ultrasound). Tissue samples will be tested for cancer.
If cancer is found, the doctor may do abdominal and pelvic X-rays to see if the cancer has spread outside the prostate. You may also have an MRI and a bone scan.
If you have high PSA levels but biopsies don't find cancer, a urine test known as a PCA-3 looks for cancer. This can prevent the need for repeat biopsies in some men.
What Are the Treatments for Prostate Cancer?
If you need treatment, your doctor will decide the type. Decisions about how to treat this cancer are complex, and you may want a second opinion before making a treatment decision. Treatment may include watchful waiting, a single therapy, or some combination of radiation, surgery, hormone therapy, and less commonly chemotherapy. The choice depends on many things. Prostate cancer that hasn't spread usually can be cured with surgery or radiation.
Watchful waiting
Since prostate cancer can grow slowly and may not be fatal in many men, some patients -- after discussing the options with their doctors -- opt for "watchful waiting." This means not treating it. Instead, the doctor regularly checks the prostate cancer for signs that it is becoming more aggressive. Watchful waiting is typically recommended for men who are older or have other life-threatening conditions. In these cases, a less aggressive cancer may be growing so slowly that it's not likely to be fatal.
The standard operation, a radical retropubic prostatectomy, removes the prostate and nearby lymph nodes. In most cases, surgeons can remove the gland without cutting nerves that control erections or the bladder, making impotence or incontinence much less common than in the past. Depending on the man's age and the amount of surgery needed to remove all the cancer, nerve-sparing operations allow many men who were able to get erections before surgery to be able to do so after surgery without the need for erectile dysfunction treatments.
Laparoscopic robotic prostatectomy is a surgery using a laparoscope aided by robotic arms. This operation is now the most popular form of radical prostatectomy in the United States.
After surgery, most men have temporary incontinence, but they usually regain complete urinary control over time. If it is severe or lasts a long time, incontinence can be managed with special disposable underwear, exercises, condom catheters, biofeedback, penile clamps, implants around the urethra, or a urethral sling.
After surgery or radiation, men may have impotence. Treatment includes drugs such as sildenafil (Revatio, Viagra), tadalafil (Adcirca, Cialis), and vardenafil (Levitra, Staxyn). Other treatments include teaching the man to perform a painless self-injection into the penis (of a drug called Caverject), or vacuum pumps. A penile prosthesis is used only when all other options have failed.
Radiation is often the main treatment for prostate cancer that has not spread. It may also be given as follow-up to surgery. Radiation may also be used, in advanced cases, to relieve pain from the spread of cancer to bones. Incontinence and impotence may also happen after radiation. Radiation to the pelvis may also be done if PSA levels rise after surgery.
An advanced form called intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) can increase the dose of radiation to the prostate with fewer side effects to the nearby tissues. Proton beam therapy can increase the dose to the prostate even more. But proton therapy has not been found to be better than IMRT. A more focused form of radiation, stereotactic radiation, is being used for early forms of prostate cancer. This treatment also has not been shown to improve the outcome of prostate cancer. Though it may take less time than IMRT, it may have more side effects.
Radioactive seeds (brachytherapy) deliver radiation to the prostate with little damage to nearby tissues. Your doctor implants the tiny radioactive seeds, each like a grain of rice, in the prostate gland using ultrasound guidance. The implants remain in place permanently and become inactive after many months. In some patients, this method may be used with traditional radiation. Or, if the prostate gland is too large for brachytherapy, hormone therapy can shrink the prostate to allow brachytherapy to be done.
Hormone therapy
Hormone therapy is the recommended treatment for advanced prostate cancer. Since testosterone can make prostate cancer grow, hormone therapy works by tricking the body to stop making testosterone, stopping or slowing the cancer's growth. The following drugs decrease the amount of testosterone being made by the testicles:
Even advanced cases that cannot be cured may be controlled for many years with hormone therapy. But there is a higher risk of heart disease with this treatment. Fractures are also a risk because of thinning bone. Medications can reduce the risk of osteoporosis and fractures.
Testosterone can also be removed from the bloodstream by surgically removing the testicles (orchiectomy) or by giving female hormones such as estrogen or other drugs that block testosterone production. Estrogen therapy is no longer used routinely. Men generally prefer the testosterone-blocking drug treatment because it is effective, is less invasive, and causes fewer side effects than surgery or female hormone drugs.
Other treatments
Chemotherapy is effective for some men with advanced prostate cancer who didn't do well on or respond to hormone therapy. When traditional hormonal treatments stop working, newer hormonal therapies may be considered.
Abiraterone (Zytiga) blocks tissues from making testosterone. Apalutamide (Erleada) and enzalutamide (Xtandi) prevent cancer cells from getting the signal to grow and divide.
Darolutamide (Nubeqa) has been approved to treat those whose cancer has not spread to other parts of the body but has not responded to surgical treatment or standard androgen deprivation therapy (it's used for prostate cancer in men with castrate testosterone levels whose PSA levels continue to rise). This is also known as nonmetastatic castration resistant prostate cancer (nmCRPC).
Biological therapy (immunotherapy) is a treatment that works with your body's immune system to fight cancer or manage side effects from other treatments.
High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) uses high-energy sound waves to kill prostate tissue. But it's not approved to treat prostate cancer itself. Research is ongoing to see how it works.
The goal of prostate cancer treatment is long-term survival, and that is likelier in men diagnosed early. All prostate cancer survivors should be examined regularly and have their PSA and testosterone levels monitored closely.
What's the Outlook?
Although the number of men diagnosed with prostate cancer remains high, so does the number of men who get it and live. Survival rates after diagnosis of common types of prostate cancer are:
- 5 years: nearly 99%
- 10 years: 98%
- 15 or more years: 96%


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Five planets — Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Uranus and Mars — will line up near the moon.
The best day to catch the whole group is Tuesday. You'll want to look to the western horizon right after sunset, said NASA astronomer Bill Cooke.
The planets will stretch from the horizon line to around halfway up the night sky. But don't be late: Mercury and Jupiter will quickly dip below the horizon around half an hour after sunset.
The five-planet spread can be seen from anywhere on Earth, as long as you have clear skies and a view of the west.
"That's the beauty of these planetary alignments. It doesn't take much," Cooke said.
Maybe. Jupiter, Venus and Mars will all be pretty easy to see since they shine brightly, Cooke said. Venus will be one of the brightest things in the sky, and Mars will be hanging out near the moon with a reddish glow. Mercury and Uranus could be trickier to spot, since they will be dimmer. You'll probably need to grab a pair of binoculars.
If you're a "planet collector," it's a rare chance to spot Uranus, which usually isn't visible, Cooke said. Look out for its green glow just above Venus.
Different numbers and groups of planets line up in the sky from time to time. There was a five-planet lineup last summer and there's another one in June, with a slightly different makeup.
This kind of alignment happens when the planets' orbits line them up on one side of the sun from Earth's perspective, Cooke said.
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The number of taxpayers who itemize deductions on their federal tax return — and, thus, are eligible to deduct charitable contributions — is estimated by the Tax Policy Center to drop from 37% in 2017 to 16% in 2018. That's because the recently passed Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) substantially raises the standard deduction. Many not-for-profit organizations are understandably worried about how this change will affect donations. But this isn't the only TCJA provision that affects nonprofits.
Donors have fewer incentives
In addition to reducing smaller-scale giving by shrinking the pool of people who itemize, the TCJA might discourage major contributions. The law doubles the estate tax exemption to $10 million (indexed for inflation) through 2025. Some wealthy individuals who make major gifts to shrink their taxable estates won't need to donate as much to reduce or eliminate their potential estate tax.
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For the record, I do not works for Parse and receive nothing from them. As an educator I see Parse as being the easiest way for students to make their social ideas into truly functional apps. For anyone else trying to make their social media ideas into real functioning work, Parse removes many of the roadblocks.
Who would benefit from Parse
Anyone wanting to get started making a social media network would benefit. Parse is well suited to small groups or individuals who want to get started making a social media site. If your skills are more frontend oriented, HTML, CSS, JS, then Parse will save you the trouble of learning PHP, MySQL.
Parse is targeted at startups and small teams looking to create new social media platforms quickly and easily. I see it as a perfect fit for students, as the focus of our students is on front end design and programming. Building an app with Parse moves all of the work of creating a social media app into the front end, and concentrates programming tasks into a smaller set of more familiar tools: HTML, CSS, and JS.
How does Parse work?
In short the Parse service works with Javascript. Essentially you create objects you wish to save in Javascript, and the Parse server takes care of the rest. To display data from the server you request objects from the Parse server through Javascript. Obviously there is a more to it than those two sentences, but not much more.
What kind of things can you make with Parse?
Any social media web site or App. Parse provides libraries code for Xcode, and Android. You can make mobile Application with much less effort, and I'll say it again, without having to create a backend service, and database. Check out this page of customers using Parse:
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- Anonymous Moderation now split into two settings (topics and replies can be managed separately)
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- Fixed SPAM from appearing (Pending status even if it's spam)
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- Hide pending posts from Forum (still visible from admin screen) – turn off display in plugin options page
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It acts upon the muscular fibers of the blood-vessels. Much muscular soreness. Lameness, as if sprained. Venous congestion, due to mechanical causes. First remedy in injuries to the deeper tissues, after major surgical work. Results of injuries to nerves with intense soreness and intolerance of cold bathing. After gout, debility of limbs.
Traumatism of the pelvic organs, auto-traumatism, expresses the condition calling for this remedy; ill effects from masturbation. Excellent remedy for sprains and bruises. Complaints due to cold food or drink when the body is heated, and in affections due to cold wind. Externally, in nævi. Acne. Boils all over. Sore, bruised feeling in the pelvic region. Exudations, stasis, swelling, come within the range of this remedy. Rheumatic symptoms. Does not vitiate the secretions. "It is a princely remedy for old laborers, especially gardeners" (Burnett).
Head.–Vertigo in elderly people. Headache from occiput to top of head. Forehead feels contracted. Bruised soreness. Itching around scalp and over back, worse from hot bath and bed.
Female.–Breasts and uterus engorged. Varicose veins in pregnancy. During pregnancy inability to walk. Abdominal muscles lame. Uterus feels sore, as if squeezed.
Sleep.–Wakes early in morning and cannot get to sleep again.
Abdomen.–Soreness of abdominal walls and of uterus. Stitches in spleen, sore, enlarged. Yellow, painless diarrhœa, foul odor, worse at night. Bloated; rumbling in bowels.
Skin.–Boils. Ecchymosis, swelling, very sensitive to touch. Venous congestion due to mechanical causes. Varicose veins with bruised sore feeling. Exudations and swellings. Acne.
Extremities.–Joints sore, muscular soreness. Itching on back and flexor surfaces of thighs. Pain down anterior of thighs. Wrist feels contracted as from elastic band around joint. Sprains feels contracted as from elastic band around joint. Sprains with great soreness. Railway spine.
Relationship.–Compare: Arnica; Arsenic; Staphis; Hamamelis; Bryonia; Vanadium (degenerative states).
Modalities.–Worse, left side; hot bath and warmth of bed; before storms; cold bathing; cold wind.
Dose.–Tincture to third potency.


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Our top pick for Saturday Oct. 6 is a truly scrumptious tribute to one of our favorite Retro treats. Willy Wonka would appreciate the World of Pure Imagination that is the Sugar Dolls' annual Day of the Cupcake celebration. The confectionary-inspired festivities begin at Sacred Heart Tattoo ( Little Five Points location) from noon to 7 p.m. with $50 cupcake tattoos, sugar skull decorating & contest, free cupcakes, games and live performances. Then at 7 p.m., the fun moves to The Five Spot where a $15 cover ($10 with cupcake tattoo) gets you $5 Lucid Absinthe, free masks for early arrivals and music by bands Christ, Lord, Toy Devils and Till Someone Loses an Eye featuring Aileen Loy, as well as special guests The Thimblerig Circus, The Chameleon Queen, Clay Crockerof Prentice Suspensions and aerial performances by: Lori VanVoorhis, Mara Chanin, Aileen Loy and Alexis Gorsuch. And of course, the Cupcake Eating Contest will be back as well! There's also an art auction, and eccentric garb is encouraged but not required! The entire day and evening supports Aid Atlanta. Still don't get what it's all about. Read more about The Sugar Dolls and last year's Day of the Cupcake here.
In the mood to eat cupcakes and drink absinthe, now?! To get in the holiday spirit ahead of time, here's a special adult cupcake recipe from The Sugar Dolls to tantalize your tastebuds…
The Sugar Dolls
"The Little Death"
Cupcake recipe with "Lucid Absinthe' "
Cake Ingredients
- 2 cups sugar
- 1-3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 3/4 cup Cocoa or DARK Cocoa ( depending on how much of a bite you want)
- 1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1-1/2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup milk
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 cup boiling water
Heat oven to 350°F
Put liners into your cupcakes pan. Stir together sugar, flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Add eggs, milk, oil and vanilla; beat on medium speed of electric mixer 2 minutes. Stir in boiling water (batter will be thin) You may want to use a piping bag to put your batter into you liners, fill liners half way.
Bake 30 to 35 minutes
Cool completely
Lucid Ganche
- 12 ounces chocolate, chopped into small pieces
- 1 cup heavy cream
- optional 1/4 cup Lucid Absinthe'
Place chocolate pieces in a large bowl. Heat heavy cream on medium high until it comes to a boil then slowly add your chocolate while maintaining a stir once melted take off heat and add in your absinthe, let cool. While that cools you will need to hollow out the center of your cupcakes, then slowly pour the ganache into the center of each cake.
Now to frost!
Lucid Mocha Frosting
- 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 3 1/2 cups confectioners sugar
- 1/2 cup cocoa powder
- 1/2 teaspoon table salt
- 1 teaspoons vanilla extract or 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
- 2 tablespoons milk or heavy cream
- 2 tablespoons dark fresh brewed coffee
- 1/4 cup Lucid Absinthe'
Cream butter for a few minutes in a mixer, Sift confectioners sugar and cocoa into the mixing bowl once incorporated add remaining ingredients. If your frosting needs a more stiff consistency, add a little more sugar. If your frosting needs to be thinned out, add additional Absinthe if your feeling frisky or dark coffee if you need more bite and kick. Either way Whip the mess out of that frosting give it the good beating you want it to give you. Frost cupcakes. If you would like a garnish for your cupcakes, make another batch of ganche and once cool, drizzle it a top your tasty treats with a chocolate covered espresso bean or two.


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It seems that every t-shirt comes with a message. Many of the messages are moralistic - they tell us how to live or what to do. Some are more direct about it than others.
A couple of days ago at REI, I bought a t-shirt at REI that urges one to "Live Simply." I don't really like the message. Living simply is boring. I think it is better to live passionately or extravagantly or adventurously or dangerously, but it is a good sturdy shirt that looks good. It was made by Patagonia from organic cotton, so expensive, but it was on sale.
I considered another t-shirt from Green Label that says, "Roam," on top of a background of mountains and trees. The injunction to Roam is ironic when considered morally. Moralists don't roam. Moralists have such strong feelings about which direction one should head and when. I like to roam. I wish the shirt had fit.
I also recently ordered a t-shirt from Life is Good. Deep discount. It says, "Home, Sweet Home." It has a buffalo on it, and mountains and trees. To me, the message is ecological or mythical or sentimental or animist. Home, home on the range.
I like to go light in the mountains. It can be dangerous and extravagant and adventurous to go light. Maybe that is what "Live Simply" means against a background of mountains and trees.
I saw a couple of interesting North Face t-shirts at Adventure16. One said, "Blood, Sweat and Elevation." Another said, "Know Pain, Know Gain." The messages are strong. They are immoral, if used to bully. But they express the feelings one may have when one has climbed high and long in the mountains and is feeling tired and sore. They express the danger and injury that goes with adventure, with climbing high in mountains and in life.
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For the purposes of this collection, a building is a rigid, fixed and permanent structure which has a roof. Its intended purpose is primarily to house people, plant, machinery, vehicles, goods or livestock. An integral feature of a building's design is the provision for regular access by persons in order to satisfy its intended use. Buildings are classified by ownership, based on the sector (public or private) of the intended owner of the completed building at the time of approval. They are further classified by Type of Building (e.g, "residential", "non-residential") and by Type of Work ("new", "alterations and additions" and "conversions"). TIMELINESS Building Approvals, Australia (cat. no. 8731.0) is issued monthly and released 4-5 weeks after the reference month. A supplementary release of small area Building Approvals data occurs up to 10 working days after the main publication is released. ACCURACY The Building Approvals collection is a census and hence is not subject to sampling error. However, issues such as coverage of reporting authorities and completeness and timeliness of reporting, as well as the quality of the data reported, do exist. Building Approvals data is collected as administrative by-product from local government and other reporting authorities and can be sensitive to changes in legislation and administrative practices which can vary from State to State. The introduction of private certification introduced another step in the building approval process. Private certifiers lodge approval details with reporting authorities, who then load them to their systems and report all building approvals in their jurisdiction to the ABS. This extra step can cause a lag in the provision of building approvals to the ABS. This can mean, for some authorities, that complete data for a particular month is not available until the following month. Revisions as a result of data collection problems are made to Building Approval estimates. There are a number of reasons for data collection problems such as reporting authorities experiencing problems with their processing systems, reporting incomplete data and not reporting within the correct time frame. In these cases an estimate is included for that month. Overall, revisions are generally confined to the last 12-18 months, depending on their significance. Value data reported for houses are generally a reliable indicator of the completed value, but for "other residential buildings" and "non-residential buildings" they can differ significantly from the completed value of the building. This is because final costs and contracts have not been established before council approval is gained. COHERENCE Most data are directly comparable over different collection cycles. The original estimates of the number and value of dwelling units approved, in new residential buildings, are available at the Australia level from January 1956. The Type of Work classification refers to the building activity carried out: new, alterations and additions, or conversions. Up to and including the December 1997 issue of Building Approvals, Australia (cat. no. 8731.0), conversions were published as part of a category called "Conversions, etc". This category included dwellings created by:
From the January 1998 issue onwards, the three components of "conversions, etc" are shown separately in their own right in some tables. However, the corresponding value of the dwellings created as part of the construction of non-residential buildings (the third component above) remains in the value of the appropriate non-residential building category. The Value of Approval includes the 10% Goods and Services Tax (GST) from 1/07/2000. However, this is unlikely to have caused a significant one-off impact between June and July because it is likely that values inclusive of GST had been gradually included in the series for the 6 months or more leading up to 1/07/2000. This is because if a building job was not expected to have been completed prior to 1/07/2000, then it was known that the portion not completed would be subject to the GST. For further discussion see the Technical Note "Factors that influence the valuation of building approvals" in the Building Approvals, Australia, Jul 2000 (cat. no. 8731.0).
INTERPRETABILITY The major series estimates for this collection are available in original, seasonally adjusted and trend series. To find out more information on seasonal adjustment and trend estimates please see Timeseries Analysis Frequently Asked Questions or refer to the Explanatory Notes for Building Approvals, Australia (cat no. 8731.0). Where it has been identified by a council or other approving authority that approvals submitted from its jurisdiction are on a GST-exclusive basis, the ABS has made adjustments to the data to ensure that values are consistent with other data collected and are inclusive of GST. ACCESSIBILITY Building approvals data is administrative by-product data that is available to the general public. However, the data is collected under authority of the Census and Statistics Act, and data published or made available can relate to individual building jobs approved. Information relating to individual approvals can be released under clause 2 (2) (d) of the Statistics Determination 1983. Data cubes containing small area information are available from the ABS website. The data cubes are available at the Statistical Local Area level under the ASGC for financial years from 2001-02 to 2011-12. Data cubes at the Statistical Area 2 level of the ASGS are available for financial years from 2011-12 onwards. If the information you require is not available as a standard product or service, then ABS Consultancy Services can help you with customised services to suit your needs. Inquiries should be made to the National Information and Referral Service on 1300 135 070. The ABS Privacy Policy outlines how the ABS will handle any personal information that you provide to us.
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Thank you for many lovely comments for my
previous post ;) It makes a big difference
for me to know that someone like you come
to visit my blog. Thank you! Thank you!
I have a couple of patchwork projects
I want to share with you today.
Some of you may recall that I was working on
the quilt. This is how it looks like so far.
Remember I told you that I had 90 blocks for it?
I reduced them to 49 blocks, just because it
looked unbearably busy when laid 90 blocks
out on the floor. I think it is still too busy
but who knows.. A miracle might happen when I
have a wide sashing around those 49 blocks, right?
I'm keeping my fingers crossed...!
This is a little patchwork project I worked on.
I used a pattern in Kumiko Fujita's Patchwork
Pattern 318. It's supposed to be a cute
little basket with a set of jam, but since
I picked the word salt and 50lb. It looks more
like a yacht with big salt bins that just
arrived at the dock or something. lol.
Here is a block I made for Kerry as a part
of Ringo Pie patchwork bee. The theme for her
was "collecting/hoarding" I decided on milk cartons
to reflect on my hoarding problem with them. Before
I got into this sewing world, I was crazy
about making soap, which I might have mentioned
too many times here by now. lol, Anyways,
this is to showcase my milk cartons with
some soap on the right side. (The top one
is wrapped up and ready to go!)
No I don't have milk cartons in different
languages, but it would be really cool if I did!
The one on the left side is supposed to be
Japanese strawberry milk. The middle one is
a Swedish word for milk. (Once again, I am
pretending to know European language!)
And the one on the right is clearly, 2% milk.
Why 2%? I was really surprised when I first
saw 2% or fat free milk in America for the
first time. It didn't make sense to me, since
you can't find milk that is that low in fat
in Japan. So to me, adding '2%' to the milk
carton increases American-ness, therefore,
the diversity in this block. I am not sure
if Swedish milk is sold in cartons, but
let's say it probably is for this purpose. lol.
Thank you for stopping by again ;)
I hope you have a lovely day!


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Greetings from Paradise - Art Print
The perfect wave chaser.
Decorate that blank bed room wall, or liven up the living room with Kingfruit Apparel's range of art prints. All illustrated and printed in Sydney Australia.
Artwork by Curtis Dart
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White 350gsm Uncoated stock.
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