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Ubisoft Learns Nothing From Its DRM Past; Condemns Paying Customers To Repeat It
from the achievement-unlocked:-infinite-stupidity deptRock Paper Shotgun brings us the unfortunate (but rather unsurprising) news that Ubisoft will be (once again) requiring an online connection to play their upcoming title, Driver: San Francisco. As far as DRM options go, this is by far the worst one, especially considering the failure of Ubisoft itself in keeping its own servers up and running.
As is par for Ubisoft's effed-up course, this DRM will also cripple the apparently unsociable "single player" part of the game. This crippling will also extend to any player, single or not, whose internet connection fails them for whatever reason:
Even if the system weren't a gross mistreatment of customers, unforgivably stupid and spiteful, it's a DRM designed for a universe other than this one. My home internet, with the extremely reliable Be, drops frequently. A noise on our BT line causes problems, along with normal service outages, sudden blips, and all the times I trip over the phone wire and pull it out of the wall. Let alone if I want to do something crazy like, I don't know, play a game outside of my house.
Compounding this farce is the fact that console players will be saddled with additional DRM in the form of U-Play. Granted, this won't affect the original purchasers whose outlay of ~$60 will nab them a full-featured game that will often be rendered unplayable. However, second-hand gamers looking to save a few dollars will find themselves in possession of an incomplete game.
"In each new copy of a Uplay Passport-enhanced game will be a one-time use registration code that, when redeemed, provides access to Uplay Passport content and features," the company said in an emailed statement. "The code can be found on the insert card inside the game box. Gamers can identify Uplay Passport-enhanced games by looking for the logo on the back of the box."
Given that this code can only be redeemed once, consumers who purchase a used game laced with Uplay Passport restrictions will be forced to shell out an extra $9.99 to unlock online content and features. This means that a used game which normally costs $5 less than the new packaged version will essentially cost $5 more than the new unopened copy.
Well, that is certainly a fine way to stick it to the second-hand market. At this point you might as well buy it new, or better yet, not buy it all. And you have to love the PR team's misinterpretation of "enhanced," which is rarely linked to something that is also described as "mandatory."
But it's not all bad news, as RPS points out. Ubisoft is going the extra mile to make sure that PC gamers will be screwed just as quickly as their console counterparts:
Astonishingly, Eurogamer reports, when one customer complained on Twitter about the PC DRM, Ubisoft replied saying, "Bear in mind though that the PC version of DRVSF is released simultaneously to consoles."
Brilliant. I suppose the bright side is that cracked versions for consoles and PCs should appear within moments of each other. But Ubisoft isn't done ruining the "game experience" yet:
Oh, this one just keeps getting better. As reader Anarki points out, Ubisoft have now tweeted confirming the driving game will not support steering wheels!
The question at this point is no longer "When will Ubisoft learn?" but rather "How much does Ubisoft despise its customers?" And it looks as if the answer to the second question is swiftly approaching "infinitely."
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ELLISVILLE, Miss., May 23 (UPI) -- A Mississippi teacher told a sixth-grader to turn his U.S. Marine Corps T-shirt inside-out because it bore an anatomically correct depiction of a bulldog.
Lance Cpl. Timothy Swann Jr. gave the T-shirt to his brother, 13-year-old Jordan Griffith, of Ellisville, shortly before deploying to Afghanistan.
"Jordan just idolizes Timothy," their mother, Sandy Griffith, told the Marine Corps Times. "Timothy gave him the shirt and told him, 'Always remember you're a leader, not a follower.'"
The front of the shirt depicts the head of a bulldog with the words "If you are not the lead dog." The back says "The view never changes" -- and bears an image of the dog's rear and genitals.
South Jones Elementary School officials told Jordan to turn the inside-out or have his mother bring him a different shirt, but Sandy Griffith chose to pull her son out of school for the day, the Marine Corps Times reported Wednesday.
"My father made a joke that the woman who told him to turn the shirt inside-out must have been in the Navy," she said.
School Superintendent Tommy Parker said the administration didn't have a problem with the Marine Corps, but some of the school's teachers were upset because "all the details are there," in the depiction of the dog.

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OVERLAND PARK, KANSAS--At the end of July, new Sprint Corp. chief Marcelo Claure started following T-Mobile US Inc. on Twitter.
Now, he's got to figure out a way to get ahead of his rival in the market.
Claure is preparing to roll out new price plans next week that could offer much cheaper prices, much bigger allotments of wireless data, or both. The company wrapped up testing of those plans Thursday and is planning an announcement as early as next week, people familiar with the matter said.
Details of the trial plans give an idea where Sprint S, -2.37% could be headed. In Chicago, Sprint tested a plan that offered unlimited talk, text and data for $50 a month -- $30 less than a similar plan from T-Mobile and something market leaders Verizon Communications Inc. VZ, +0.52% and AT&T Inc. T, +2.05% don't offer at all. T-Mobile TMUS, -0.51% has a $50 a month plan, but it only includes 1 gigabyte of 4G LTE data. The closest offering from Verizon is a $45 plan that only allows 250 megabytes of data.
In Portland, Ore., Sprint tested a plan that would gives a family of four lines for four smartphones and 20 gigabytes of data to share for $160, the same price as plans offered by AT&T and Verizon, but with twice as much data.
An expanded version of this report appears at WSJ.com.
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Another shaky start by Jerome Williams and three throwing errors led to a clunker of a game Sunday for the Angels, who lost to Oakland, 6-0, at Angel Stadium to fall 10 games behind the Athletics in the American League West.
Williams (5-6) was tagged for six runs — four earned — and eight hits in five innings and has given up allowed 21 earned runs and 26 hits in 13 innings of his last four starts, three losses and a no-decision.
The right-hander was no match for 40-year-old Bartolo Colon, the A's rotund right-hander who threw his third shutout this season, giving up four hits, striking out five and walking one to improve to 13-3 and lower his earned-run average to 2.52.
BOX SCORE: Oakland 6, Angels 0
Oakland took a 2-0 lead in the third inning when Chris Young doubled to right field and Eric Sogard lined a two-run home run into the right-field seats.
Sogard sparked a two-run rally in the fifth inning with a single to center field. Coco Crisp followed with a well-placed bunt single to third base that Alberto Callaspo had no play on. But that didn't stop Callaspo from making a barehand grab and throwing wildly past first base, an error that allowed Sogard to score and Crisp to advance to third.
Crisp scored on Brandon Moss' two-out single to left field for a 4-0 lead. After Josh Reddick opened the sixth inning with a single to left field and Young walked, Manager Mike Scioscia pulled Williams for right-hander Garrett Richards, who struck out Sogard looking for the first out.
Reddick and Young pulled off a double steal, and catcher Chris Iannetta's wide throw to third base hit Reddick and caromed into foul territory for an error that allowed Reddick to score for a 5-0 lead and Young to take third.
Crisp followed with a chopper to first baseman Mark Trumbo, who did not appear to have a play at the plate but still fired home, bouncing his throw past Iannetta as Young scored for a 6-0 lead.
Young, filling in for Crisp in center field, also made a nice leaping catch at the wall to rob Albert Pujols of a home run in the seventh inning.
Angels' Mark Trumbo tries to regain early-season form
Once-prized Angels pitching prospect Garrett Richards in limbo
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Outshot Predators top Kings 4-3 on Legwand's late go-ahead goalNHL.com @NHLdotcom
LOS ANGELES, Calif. - David Legwand's second goal of the game with 3:56 left lifted the Nashville Predators to a 4-3 win over the Los Angeles Kings on Saturday night.
Legwand and Shea Weber scored power-play goals in the first period, Eric Nystrom also scored, and Patric Hornqvist had three assists. Carter Hutton made 35 saves in his fourth straight start since Pekka Rinne went on the injured list because of an infection in his surgically repaired hip.
Anze Kopitar, Dustin Brown and Mike Richards scored for the Kings, and Jonathan Quick faced only 17 shots.
Centre Jeff Carter, who had a hat trick against Nashville the last time the Predators visited Los Angeles on March 4, was placed on the injured list Saturday with a lower-body injury sustained in Wednesday's overtime victory against San Jose.
Trailing 3-1 after two periods despite outshooting Nashville 24-11, the Kings got closer at 9:41 of the third when Brown threw the puck toward the net from the left boards, and it found its way inside the post.
Richards tied it for the Kings on the rebound of a wrist shot by Tyler during a power play at 11:18, but Legwand restored the Predators' lead for good.
Legwand converted a rebound of Mattias Ekholm's long slap shot after Paul Gaustad won a faceoff deep in the Kings' zone.
Los Angeles outshot Nashville 14-6 in the first, but trailed 2-1 after the Predators connected on their two power plays of the period.
Rich Clune, claimed off waivers from the Kings last January, received a misconduct for instigating a fight with Daniel Carcillo at 7:28 of the period after Carcillo's hard open-ice hit against defenceman Roman Josi. It was Josi's second game back after missing 10 with a concussion.
Carcillo received an additional penalty for kneeing, so the teams continued skating 5-on-5 until about 3 minutes later when Kings defenceman Slava Voynov was sent off for tripping Nystrom. The Predators capitalized on the ensuing power play as Legwand sent a wrist shot from the slot past the screened Quick.
Los Angeles forward Kyle Clifford got a boarding penalty after his check on Craig Smith, and Weber connected with 53 seconds left in the first.
The Kings closed within 2-1 just 16 seconds later when Kopitar put in a rebound of Jake Muzzin's long wrist shot.
Nashville restored its two-goal lead 8:41 into the second period.
Los Angeles defenceman Drew Doughty had the puck in the left corner and tried a backhanded clearing pass around the boards, but the puck struck referee Mike Hasenfratz. Hornqvist then set up Nystrom in front of the net.
NOTES: Los Angeles C Jarret Stoll, who won all five faceoffs he took in the first period, played only a minute in the second period before leaving with an undisclosed injury. ... Los Angeles C Tyler Toffoli and RW Linden Vey were called up from Manchester (AHL). D Keaton Ellerby was claimed off waivers by Winnipeg. ... Nashville C Matt Hendricks missed the game because of an upper-body injury sustained in a collision with Phoenix's Derek Morris on Thursday. ... Los Angeles and Nashville began the day as the top two NHL teams in faceoff percentage, with the Kings winning 55.9 per cent and the Predators winning 55.7 per cent. ... The Kings broke a franchise record with their 76th consecutive sellout ??? including post-season. The old mark occurred during the early 1990s, when Wayne Gretzky played for them.


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We don't have a lot of details, but some "hackers" have found an exploit in the Wii Internet Channel's Flash player implementation. What does this mean to you? Well, if they take this exploit all the way to the end, it means you can possibly run unsigned, home-brew code on the Wii.
Whether this means Wii games or retro games, or possibly both, is still uncertain. But if hackers create game emulators, such as NES, SNES or MAME, there'd be no reason for gamers to pay $5 each for virtual console games when they can just download a ROM and play the game in its original glory. [Computer and Video Games via T3]


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This proposed decision by CMS is jarringly at odds with the bold and aggressive efforts being waged by the NIH, FDA and other agencies in the Obama administration to implement the National Plan to Address Alzheimer's Disease's goal of preventing Alzheimer's and other dementias by 2025.
Today, it is estimated that one in three seniors dies with some form of dementia. While an estimated 70 percent of dementias are caused by Alzheimer's, 30 percent are caused by another type of dementia. The potential courses of treatment differ for dementias caused by Alzheimer's and those not caused by Alzheimer's. Absent diagnostic tools to distinguish among the causes of dementia, doctors are shooting in the dark in recommending courses of treatment.
The diagnostic tool that can make that differential diagnosis is called an Amyloid PET scan. This scan permits doctors to determine whether a patient with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or an otherwise hard-to-diagnose form of dementia has a buildup of amyloid in their brains. If present, the patient is more likely to develop Alzheimer's down the road; if not, the patient is not likely to have Alzheimer's but some other form of dementia, such as vascular or frontal temporal lobe dementia. By making that specific diagnosis, doctors can recommend a course of treatment appropriate to the patient. This is also significant because about half of people with MCI do not have Alzheimer's disease and will not progress into dementia.
CMS came to the tentative view that there was not sufficient evidence that use of this diagnostic tool actually improved the health outcomes of patients. We disagree. An accurate diagnosis and appropriately tailored course of treatment of the specific cause of a person's dementia avoids an inappropriate – and often costly – course of treatment. That can only be good for patients. In addition, the proposed standard for reimbursement is higher than has been applied in the past and goes against common sense.
CMS proposes yet further studies of how this product will be used by doctors, and then of how patients appropriately diagnosed (or not) actually do. But the FDA has already found the Amyloid PET scan in question to be safe and effective. Further lengthy and expensive studies will keep this product away from patients and their doctors for years. The manufacturer of the product, Eli Lilly, as well as the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging and the Amyloid Imaging Task Force has agreed that the product should only be reimbursed in the hard-to-diagnose cases when a patient shows signs of dementia and where clinicians conclude that they need this tool to make an appropriate diagnosis.
If CMS is concerned about the costs of reimbursing for the use of this scan (although it is not authorized to take cost into account), it should simply assure that the use of the product is limited to those small but important hard-to-diagnose cases as defined by independent industry experts in comments to CMS.
Alzheimer's presents a grave and growing threat to millions and millions of Americans and to the solvency of Medicare itself. We need to make sure patients and their doctors have all the safe and effective tools we can to fight against this threat.
A lean forward approach will align CMS with our national commitment to prevent this disease by 2025. A lean backward approach is contrary to the interests of patients. And the use of ever-higher barriers to getting innovative products to market will chill the incentives to industry investment in Alzheimer's.
CMS must move forward, not back, and provide reimbursement for the appropriate use of the test as recommended by experts in the field.
Vradenburg is chairman and co-founder of USAgainstAlzheimer's, and a member of the Advisory Council on Alzheimer's Research, Care, and Services; Fillit is the founding executive director and Chief Science Officer of the Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation; and Weiner is professor of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging at the University of California, San Francisco, and Principle Investigator of the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI).


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Starting in the spring, emerging markets stocks have staged a stealth rally. The average emerging markets equity fund has risen 6.1% since the beginning of April, while the average U.S. stock fund is up 3.6%, according to TrimTabs Investment Research.
Investors have responded as they usually do: by chasing performance. After having pulled $11.6 billion from EM stock exchange traded funds from January to March, "the tide really began to turn. Lately investors have been buying emerging markets," TrimTabs CEO David Santschi says.
They're likely chasing rainbows again.
As I've written here, here and here, people invest in emerging markets on a demonstrably false premise: that higher economic growth leads to higher stock market returns. The evidence is clear that stock market returns don't have much to do with GDP growth.
Also, leading emerging market mutual funds and ETFs are heavily weighted towards the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China), three of which are in secular bear markets. (Only India is still in a long-term bull market.) The two largest emerging market ETFs have more than 40% of their holdings in the BRICs.
And the U.S.'s huge debt load and the Federal Reserve's massive bond buying have prompted some investors (mostly hard-money libertarians) to abandon U.S. stocks for emerging markets, whose monetary policies they deem more sound.
This position, which seems as much political as economic, is advocated by doom-and-gloomer Peter Schiff, among others.
How's that working out? Not great. U.S. stocks have vastly outperformed emerging markets for the past two, three and five years.
That shouldn't be surprising. During that time, researchers have found far more evidence that emerging markets aren't the super performers so many investors still think they are.
Early this year, three of the world's leading experts on equity returns — Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh and Mike Staunton of the London Business School — built a new index of long-term emerging markets stock performance for Credit Suisse's 2014 Investment Returns Yearbook.
They found that developed markets actually beat emerging markets by 8.3% to 7.7% a year from 1900 through 2013. (Since 1950, however, EM have outperformed developed markets by 12.5% to 10.8% annually.)
EM stocks also are much more volatile than either the U.S. or other developed markets. According to Morningstar, over a 10-year period, EM stocks have a standard deviation of 23.9, 30% higher than developed market stocks and 60% more variable than the S&P 500 Index.
A new white paper published by BlackRock looked at 10 major emerging economies and found that since 1992, emerging stock markets, on average, captured only 73% of the GDP growth of their host countries. So, if an economy was growing by, say, 8% a year, its stock market returned only 5.8% to investors.


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Tennis balls whiz at Kelly Olynyk, again and again. Each bears a number or letter, cues for a choreographed movement. There's no time to think, only to catch and react in the drill that would help change everything. And that's the point: don't think.
"A high basketball IQ." That's the term basketball types often use to describe Kelly Olynyk, a 7-footer out of Gonzaga whom the Celtics acquired in the first round of June's NBA draft.
His background checks out: an Academic All-American who graduated with an accounting degree in 3½ years; who is one year from earning his MBA; who has that rare affinity for numbers and equations because of their beautiful simplicity.
"You're either right or wrong," said Olynyk, whose Orlando Summer League performance (18 points, 7.8 rebounds per game) made him an intriguing story line heading into a rebuilding season.
His brain is one with gears always in churn, gauging possibilities, searching for answers, as it has for years.
To wit:
When he was 7, he decided he'd make his living playing basketball, but his parents said to keep a backup plan, and he told them, that, OK, he'd become a farmer if Plan A failed.
He decided he'd become a farmer because growing up in Toronto, he saw the homeless, the men and women invisible to daily passersby but not yet to him.
And he believed that if he tilled the soil and planted seed, he could grow them food.
"I just felt, I don't know, I just wanted to help people," he said. "I was a little kid."
A problem, a solution — at least in part. But this notion of helping, which became a central theme to his identity as a player, was further reinforced under his father's basketball tutelage.
Olynyk played point guard on the youth team, and Ken Olynyk, a 6-6 former college basketball forward long involved in the Canadian national team, had a rule that the point guard on his team could pass, and only pass, but could not score, period.
"Your job is to get the ball to other people and make other people better," the elder Olynyk preached.
And when Olynyk was in high school, where his father again coached him and Olynyk again played the point, that rule still held: Help yourself and the team by helping others first.
Then Olynyk grew . . . and grew, from 6-3 to 6-10 in one year, and to 7 feet soon after.
No longer could he play point guard and focus on helping others. He had to focus on helping himself, which meant, in no small part, overcoming himself — and his brilliant mind.
Mental approach
After playing for the Canadian junior men's national team, Olynyk arrived at Gonzaga as promising and skilled, with strong opinions about the game and how he fit into it.
"He wanted to hang out on the 3-point line and be Dirk Nowitzki," said Gonzaga assistant Tommy Lloyd. "But his 3-point percentage wasn't really good, and he was turning the ball over at a high rate because he wasn't strong enough to drive and handle contact and absorb contact."
Plus, there were simply better and more experienced frontline players ahead of him: Robert Sacre (7 feet), Sam Dower (6-9), and Elias Harris (6-8).
"There were a lot of minutes to split between a lot of good guys and Kelly," said Gonzaga coach Mark Few.
Given the logjam, and his need to develop, Olynyk, coming off a sophomore year averaging 5.8 points and 13.5 minutes, decided to redshirt, a highly unusual mid-career move for a college player.
"It's tough to make that sacrifice," he said, "but when you think about it, you need to make sacrifices in order to make gains in life."
The move became the turning point in his college career.
First, by not playing, he couldn't use postgame stat sheets to measure improvement. He didn't have to worry about being ready for games or resting. He could just work for about 18 months.
But Olynyk's mind still functioned as if he were a point guard, as he had been for most of his life. It hadn't caught up to his new, 7-foot frame. "I knew what I wanted to do and where I wanted to go," he said, "but I just couldn't get there physically."
The goal then became, beyond making him stronger through traditional and non-traditional weightlifting sessions, which packed on about 15 pounds, to slow down Olynyk's busy mind.
That's where the tennis balls came in — an unusual drill that focused on neurological training.
Every day, for the better part of a half-hour, Travis Knight, Gonzaga's strength and conditioning coach, would from close range toss Olynyk tennis balls bearing a number or letter that represented a complicated movement, maybe a stepback jumper from the left side, or a shot-fake, dribble, then shot from the right. Or something else.
"We had to get to a point where he didn't have to think about all these movements," said Knight, a former infielder for the Gonzaga baseball team who believes strongly in hand-eye coordination.
The drill, Knight said, helped train Olynyk's brain to function more on a subconscious level.
"It helped me, furthermore, to be able to read plays and slow the game down," Olynyk said. "And when I came in, I could see plays happening, see plays developing, and really slow down and take a step back and really be integrated into the play rather than having everything be a whirlwind."
But it wasn't a drill you'd be likely to find anywhere else.
"He was like the Frankenstein monster, and I was like the mad scientist, and we were just experimenting," Knight said.
Another aspect that improved his game that offseason was that in several practices, the rule was that he had to stay in the paint and only the paint, where he battled Sacre, Harris, and Dower, players with different styles.
Sacre, who plays for the Los Angeles Lakers, was all muscle at 260 pounds, forcing Olynyk to use pump fakes and footwork to score. Harris was a bit undersized, but athletic and strong, combating Olynyk's size with his athleticism. Dower, at 6-9, had the wingspan of a 7-footer, presenting yet another challenge. "And you had to react differently to every guy," Olynyk said.
Yet another factor in his mental development came in games, when the coaches incorporated Olynyk into a graduate assistant role, having him chart various stats, such as rebounds, or focusing on a handful of other elements.
At halftime, they asked what he saw, how he felt the team was executing, what changes he suggested. He often shared their frustrations if a game plan wasn't being followed.
"It helped me see what they wanted in certain situations," Olynyk said, "and what they were saying and what they were preaching and asking for and how you could accomplish that."
Few praises Olynyk, calling him intelligent, a quick learner with a creative side to his brain who's always pondering different methods, moves or ways to attack.
"Sometimes that can be a strength of his, and sometimes that can be a weakness, too," Few said.
Olynyk conceded that point, noting that it worked against him sometimes in games.
"You're thinking, 'Oh, I thought this guy was going to do this because that's what I would've done because it was the smart thing to do,' but sometimes people wouldn't do that," he said.
And, overall, Few said it was tough changing Olynyk's mind about the player he thought he was.
"Once he gets going on his, 'This is my interpretation . . . ' it's like, 'No, Kelly, it's not about your interpretation. It's about our interpretation,' " Few said. "That's a little bit about what held him back earlier, in his first two years.
"He was like, 'Well, this is my interpretation of what I think my game should be — a 3-point shooter.'
"It's like, 'No, we can utilize that, but at 7 feet tall, with your size, we're going to have to mix in, at least 50 percent of some things inside the paint.' "
But once his mind and body began functioning in tandem, once he became more comfortable reading the game and using size and mobility to create mismatches, Olynyk blossomed.
Gonzaga went 32-3 and he became a consensus All-American and the West Coast Conference Player of the Year, averaging 17.8 points, 7.3 rebounds, 1.1 blocks, and 26.4 minutes. He was third in the nation in field goal shooting (62.9 percent).
"He's in a way better place now, as far as, he understands that he can't let that creative side be more dominant than the intellectual side," Few said.
Just as Olynyk believes that there is a right and a wrong to equations, so too does he believe that there is a right and wrong to basketball — and it's all in adapting.
"It's ever-changing and you have to be able to adapt to your surroundings and your skill set and your competition and what will work and what won't," Olynyk said.
"It's basically the most adapted person wins."
So that's what he did — adapt and change.
Steve Konchalski, a longtime fixture with the Canadian national team, very much noticed the difference.
"Back four years ago, he was too content to stand out at the 3-point line," Konchalski said.
Then, after watching Olynyk play summer league, Konchalski said, "He played inside, outside, he got to the boards, he had a couple little tricky moves inside, scoop shots, that sort of thing, which you don't usually see 7-footers do."
Team player
When Celtics president of basketball operations Danny Ainge introduced Olynyk a few days after the team traded up three spots in the draft to acquire him with the 13th overall pick, Ainge described Olynyk as skilled, smart, calm. Ainge said he sees Olynyk weighing 260 pounds (20 more than he does now) and as a power forward who can play center occasionally.
"I don't see Kelly as a go-to guy in the NBA," Ainge added, "but a guy that complements the rest of the guys on the team and makes them all better."
Not a "go-to" player? Some took that as a jab. Olynyk said he hasn't thought much about it.
"We'll see what happens," he said. "I just need to make sure I maximize my potential."
A safe answer, but the term "complementary player" carries a negative connotation in the US more than elsewhere, and it's worth noting that Olynyk's game is international, first and foremost.
"The foreign player's idea of a good basketball player was someone who could get 15 points, 15 rebounds, and 15 assists in a game," said his father, Ken, who played four years at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver and is the athletic director at Thompson Rivers University in British Columbia.
"So, that's the format that Kelly always tried to emulate."
Said Olynyk, "It's easier to score 30 points than it is to do that," he said, referencing the above numbers in three different categories.
"Playing internationally and seeing how valuable that is to another team is something that every kid should strive for," he added, "but it's definitely not portrayed like that in the media or in people's eyes today, especially [in the United States]."
No, not in this "SportsCenter," highlight-driven culture, filled with slam dunks and ankle-breaking crossovers.
But he's at peace with not being a go-to guy, anyway.
"What you want is a whole that is greater than the sum of the parts," Olynyk said, quoting Aristotle.
Or, as Few said, "I can't overstate just how big of a team guy he is."
Olynyk credits his father for that mind-set.
"One of the things he always told me when I was younger, good players can score, but great players can make the people around them better," Olynyk said.
That was especially true in football, which Olynyk played in high school, quarterbacking the South Kamloops Titans.
Not only was Olynyk fascinated with the fact that every play could be a game-breaker, but also that everyone had to work as one on every play for that play to have any success.
"Obviously, you can't throw the ball and catch the ball," he said. "You've got to put your teammates in a position to succeed, and I think that's something you have to do as a point guard as well — or anybody on a basketball floor."
The Celtics signed Olynyk to his rookie deal in the midst of his summer league dominance, and new coach Brad Stevens said it should be Olynyk's goal to make the All-Rookie Team.
Olynyk will wear No. 41 with the Celtics, just like Nowitzki wears with Dallas, but Olynyk swears that he picked that number because there weren't many options with the Celtics, who have retired many through their rich history.
Nevertheless, it was Nowitzki to whom many Celtics fans and a few others compared Olynyk after watching summer league. And when asked for his impressions of Olynyk, Celtics forward Shavlik Randolph jokingly replied, "Oh, you mean Dirk? He's very impressive."
They share a fair-colored mane and a scruffy goatee that comforts their chin, but the comparisons can wait. Olynyk's mind is on overdrive as it is, gears churning, gauging possibilities, searching for answers, adapting, always adapting, to this ever-changing game.
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Newly Formed Industry Group Includes SanDisk, SoftBank Mobile, Sony Pictures Entertainment and Orange; Proposes Open Standard to Optimize Mobile Network Bandwidth and Enhance the User Experience
Mobile World Congress, Barcelona, February 14, 2011-The HQME Steering Committee, a newly formed group of mobile and content industry leaders that includes SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK), SoftBank Mobile, Sony Pictures Entertainment and Orange, today announced a proposed industry standard aimed at addressing the current and growing challenges of efficiently managing and delivering data from mobile networks to mobile devices.
HQME (High Quality Mobile Experience) is a proposed industry standard that leverages local storage and intelligent content caching to relieve network congestion and accelerate data delivery to the mobile device. HQME aims to create a more enjoyable mobile multimedia experience by more efficiently delivering bandwidth-intensive content and allowing users to consume it while bypassing common data delivery pitfalls and reducing negative impact to the overall network.
An Industry-Wide Problem
Consumer demand for mobile content is set to outpace spending and innovation in network capacity for years to come. The resulting bandwidth constraint impacts users' mobile experience, causing them to stare at loading animations as a video prepares to play, and then again throughout playback as the video pauses to re-buffer. The suboptimal user experience is expected to worsen as mobile devices proliferate andconsumers, with a growing expectation to consume bandwidth-intensive data on their mobile devices, increase their demand for more content.
According to Cisco, overall mobile data traffic is expected to grow to 6.3 exabytes per month by 2015, a 26-fold increase over 2010, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 92 percent from 2010 to 2015.1
"This issue affects all members of the mobile ecosystem, including content owners, network operators, device manufacturers, memory providers and app developers," said Flint Pulskamp, research director, wireless and wired communications semiconductors, IDC. "The proposed solution requires an industry-wide approach so that it is both effective and sustainable."
The Proposed Solution
Under the proposed IEEE P2200 standard, memory on the mobile device is viewed as the 'last node on the network.' This calls for compliant applications to download content when the mobile device is connected to AC power and Wi-Fi instead of during peak hours the next day. Preemptively downloading content to the device's local storage allows consumers to access the content they want while circumventing the bottlenecks associated with mobile network congestion during peak hours.
"HQME's innovation is to align key players in mobile content delivery to minimize the inconveniences associated with acquiring content over capacity-constrained mobile networks," said Susan Kevorkian, research director, mobile connected devices, IDC. "Intelligently coordinating content delivery in advance to local device storage lets consumers enjoy their video, games, periodicals, books and music when they're ready, and may help mobile operators and service providers to reduce churn by improving the perceived quality of the experience. The importance of this type of industry-standard solution will only grow as adoption of mobile broadband enabled devices proliferates in tandem with mobile entertainment services."
"Solving the problem takes an industry-wide effort, and that's the purpose behind the HQME steering committee," said Robert Khedouri, vice president and general manager, software and solutions, SanDisk. "The HQME initiative and end result will take some time, but progress has already been made by putting our collective heads together to propose a standardized solution aimed at increasing customer satisfaction."
HQME Steering Committee Formed
The IEEE working group P2200, which currently includes SanDisk, SoftBank Mobile, Sony Pictures Entertainment and Orange, will drive the development of the HQME standard. The steering committee is responsible for the coordination of the standards body and the development of business models that implement the standard. Details of the IEEE draft specification P2200 can be found at
"In an increasingly mobile and connected world, it's critical that we work together across industries to find the solutions that will give consumers the quality, reliability and choice they deserve," said Mitch Singer, CTO of Sony Pictures Entertainment and president of the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem.
"The adoption of mobile multimedia will massively grow in the coming years, and we need to provide our customers with the best user experience," said Guillaume de Riberolles, vice president, mobile multimedia, Orange.
"This is about anticipating our customers' needs and serving them exactly what they want, when they want it," said SanDisk's Khedouri. "Want to watch that new episode of your favorite TV show? It's already there. In fact, it's in higher quality. That's what we are striving for in this initiative-a high quality mobile experience."
In addition to its steering committee, HQME has the support of other existing coalitions and key standards bodies, including the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE) LLC. Steering committee members will be participating at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, February 14-18. For more information, visit hqme.org.
About SanDisk
SanDisk Corporation is the global leader in flash memory cards - from research, manufacturing and product design to consumer branding and retail distribution. SanDisk's product portfolio includes flash memory cards for mobile phones, digital cameras and camcorders; digital audio/video players; USB flash drives for consumers and the enterprise; embedded memory for mobile devices; and solid state drives for computers. SanDisk is a Silicon Valley-based S&P 500 company, with more than half its sales outside the United States.
1 Cisco Visual Networking Index: Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update. 2010-2015.
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Blocked! McElroy thinks inside the box
Two weeks ago, I wrote, "Give me artists who wrestle with ideas, who rework the expected into something startling, or who experiment with surprising media." As if the art gods heard my prayer, this week I discovered the work of Lilly McElroy, whose video, The Square–after Roberto Lopardo, is currently on view at The Niche in the Fine Arts Library.
McElroy playfully questions clich©s and what they suggest about human interaction. In her most-publicized work, the photographic series I Throw Myself at Men, McElroy takes the sexist insult at face value and launches herself through midair at male bar patrons. Similarly, The Square brings the idea of protecting one's personal space into the realm of the literal.
Ideally suited for UVA art professor Lydia Moyer's Niche series showcasing women artists who incorporate performance in their videos, The Square–after Roberto Lopardo documents McElroy as she outlines a large chalk box on a busy city street and then defends it from within its perimeter, physically confronting pedestrians whose path the square obstructs.
The 30-minute piece is not about filmmaking–the camera remains static and unobtrusive (although a few passersby do acknowledge its presence); rather McElory parodies the way people guard their positions/property/what have you while simultaneously demanding acknowledgment that what they're protecting has value. Only half the performance belongs to McElroy; the remainder comprises the myriad responses of people on the street.
Dressed in a cream-colored wool coat and dark slacks, McElroy frenetically moves from one side of the square to another, blocking potential intruders like a soccer goalie, with arms outstretched and legs spread wide. Some people stop and assess the situation, while others simply register the obstacle and adjust their trajectory. Then there are the rule-breakers–like the woman carrying a yellow Century 21 bag, who surreptitiously sticks her foot in the square when McElroy's back is turned, and the man who wields his baby carriage (!) like a Zamboni to plow into and around the square.
Although the piece is primarily conceptual, there are moments of visual beauty, particularly when a woman from the nearby bus stop jumps into the square to help McElroy. Their relationship becomes like a dance, and for a thrilling instant, as the taller volunteer shadows McElroy from behind, their movements are perfectly synchronized.
Funny and thought provoking, McElroy's The Square reworks the expected into something startling–just the way I like my art.
Lilly McElroy's video, The Square–after Roberto Lopardo, is on view through April 30 at The Niche in the Fine Arts Library. Fiske Kimball Fine Arts Library, Bayly Dr. (across from the Architecture School). For more information, visit the Niche website.


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The option of remotely accessing a computer that is located in a different room, a different building or even a different country is fantastically useful, and there are various ways in which this can be achieved. So popular has remote access become that Microsoft even included a remote access tool in its own operating system. While this is a functional tool, if you want more control over your remote sessions, you may find it helpful to turn to a third party tool.
DameWare Mini Remote Control is different from other similar remote access tools in two key areas. Firstly, it has been designed to be particularly light on resources so it offers impressive performance, and the fact that it makes use of Windows APIs means that overall program size can be reduced while maintaining the independence of the software.
The second unique feature of the software is the fact that it supports Interactive Smart Card Login as well as Remote Smart Card Authentication. This is particularly useful option for professional systems which require user authentication to gain access to different options.
Despite its power and relative ease of use, the price tag attached to DameWare Mini Remote Control is certainly offputting. There are numerous remote access tools available at a fraction of the cost, or even free of charge, so it may well be difficult to justify the outlay demanded by this software. That said, the feature set is such that the application is clearly aimed at a more professional market, and in this field the program actually represents fairly good value for money.
An expensive remote access solution for home users, but for business environments the security features come at a good price point.


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A Safety Program for Industrial Workplaces
A Quality Training Solution
List Premier uses an innovative and Award Winning interactive approach to classroom training methods which is presently used worldwide.
The Aim
The aim of the List Premier Visual Safety programs:
- Effective learning through the unique combination of modern technology,
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- Key learning aspects.
The importance of Safety and Health principles are highlighted throughout the Program. Facilitators and learners are reminded to STOP, THINK and DO before undertaking any task that carries risk.
Touch Board Technology
The training program comes to life through the use of an Interactive Touch Board. This is best described as a combination of a whiteboard that is made interactive through a video projector system and a computer.
Specially Designed Software
A series of lessons (modules) have been designed in order to fully incorporate the abilities of the Interactive Touch Board. Lessons are structured to Engage, Explain, Elaborate and to Evaluate each topic.
Teaching Methodology
In each CD Rom VisualSafety lesson, the following will be presented:
1. Complicated facts and information;
2. Graphics, images, photos and videos;
3. Visual displays of situations, objects and equipment;
4. Real life situations;
5. Questions and instructions stimulating problem solving;
6. Instructions and guidelines that involve learners;
7. Interactive activities through which learners can experiment with information on the Touch Board by drawing, selecting, building, changing, creating and improving objects/information;
8. Evaluations and assessments. In many cases students will be evaluated on the Interactive Touch Board, paper activities and practical activities;
9. Interactive games with a focus on reinforcing the key learning aspects.
List Premier's innovative and Award Winning approach of interactive class room training methods is presently being used worldwide. List Premier is now applying this unique interactive classroom approach to Technical Skills Training, and Mine Safety Training.
Applying 25 years of experience in the design, development and distribution of educational software as well as 10 years Interactive Touch Board based applications, List Premier proudly presents its VisualSafety learning program.
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Banjo & Sullivan
About Banjo & Sullivan
"Banjo & Sullivan disappeared amid a series of heinous homicides and were basically forgotten." That was the boilerplate from the group's website, though it was as fanciful as it was ominous. In actuality Banjo & Sullivan was a project created by Rob Zombie guerilla marketing-style to promote and support 2005's Devil's Rejects, the sequel to his 2003 cinematic debut, House of a 1000 Corpses. As the back-story went, Roy Sullivan and Adam "Fingers" Banjo shone briefly on the early-'70s honky tonk circuit with crowd-pleasers like "Dick Soup" and "I'm at Home Getting Hammered (While She's out Getting Nailed)." Their fictional career was abruptly ended in 1978, when Banjo, Sullivan, and their crew had a run-in with a group of homicidal freaks called the Devil's Rejects. The duo's crew were killed, but "Banjo & Sullivan were never found." Cue the music. In real life, the music was written and performed by Austin songwriter Jesse Dayton, who collaborated with Lew Temple and Zombie on the project. June 2005's Rob Zombie Presents...Banjo & Sullivan: The Ultimate Collection 1972-1978 carried the ruse even further, full as it was with the duo's fictional honky tonk. Still, it was in good fun. Well, good in a dirty way, considering the subject matter of Rejects, but an ambitious project nonetheless that contained a lot of great little details. ~ Johnny Loftus
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By Lee McClellan
Ky. Dept. of Fish & Wildlife Resources
A jointed Thunderstick or Redfin lure slowly worked on the surface along a main lake bank on Lake Cumberland at 3 a.m. in late April may provoke a reaction from a striped bass that feels like it could rip your arm off your shoulder.
The savagery of a surface strike from a striped bass on a late spring night on Lake Cumberland is one of the outdoor experiences that sears into the brain, leaving a lifelong scar that itches every April.
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It is a demonstration of the best traits of the human race, but can end in error.
At this time of year, people see young wildlife seemingly abandoned by their parents. Deer fawns left alone in a grassy field. Baby birds that fall from their nests, seemingly helpless in your backyard.
Officials will dedicate a memorial to Kentucky's fallen conservation officers during a ceremony set for 1 p.m. on Saturday, May 17, according to a news release.
The memorial is located on the campus of the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources in Frankfort.
The memorial, a project of the Kentucky Conservation Officers' Association, honors the six Kentucky conservation officers killed in the line of duty since 1918, the release said.
There's just something wrong about driving through snow while on spring break. On the bright side, I did get to spend some quality time up north in Indiana. Seeing everyone's smiling faces always makes the trip worthwhile. I even got to bring home some of Ma's brownies.
You hear about Lake St. Clair, Mille Lacs, Lake Erie and the upper Mississippi River as waters that produce the best smallmouth fishing in the United States.
As far as catching numbers of smallmouth with many of those larger than 4 pounds, you can't argue with the sentiment. However, to catch the largest specimens in the world, you need to fish in Kentucky and Tennessee.
The Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources will hold a series of public meetings to discuss a proposal to lift motor restrictions on several small department-owned lakes in the state, according to a news release.
Online registration for Kentucky's hunter education programs is now statewide, according to a news release.
Happy spring, I think … maybe … hopefully!
You just can't be sure around these parts anymore as to whether or not spring is really here to stay or continues to tease.
It appears we may have survived a rather unusually long and cold winter here in the Bluegrass State. Hopefully the latest thawing out will last and bring us much greener days ahead as the temperatures rise and the sun shines.
The warmer temperatures have certainly thawed out some of God's smellier creatures. Anybody seen any skunks? I've had several folks asking me about the number of skunks they've seen killed on the roads lately.
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WASHINGTON, April 8, 2008-The U. S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is amending its bovine tuberculosis (TB) regulations regarding state and zone classifications by removing Minnesota from the list of modified accredited advanced states and adding it to the list of modified accredited states.
As a result of Minnesota's reclassification as a modified accredited state, the interstate movement of cattle and bison moving from Minnesota will be restricted, according to federal regulations, in order to prevent the spread of tuberculosis. Increased TB testing and certification requirements will affect all cattle and bison moving interstate except those animals moving to slaughter or originating from accredited herds.
Prior to this interim rule, Minnesota was designated as modified accredited advanced. Federal regulations for accredited status are based on the prevalence of TB in a state or zone, and four TB-infected herds have recently been detected in Minnesota. To qualify as modified accredited advanced, a state or zone with fewer than 30,000 cattle herds—such as Minnesota—may have up to three affected herds for each of the most recent 2 years.
APHIS classifies states or zones within states according to its level of occurrence of bovine TB. There are five classification designations: accredited free; modified accredited advanced; modified accredited, accredited preparatory and nonaccredited. Restrictions on the interstate movement of cattle become less stringent as a state approaches or achieves accredited free status.
Bovine TB is a contagious and infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium bovis. It affects cattle, bison, deer, elk, goats and other warm-blooded species and can be fatal. The disease can be transmitted to humans through direct contact with infected animals or consumption of raw milk. It is not transmitted through consumption of pasteurized milk.
The interim rule will be effective upon publication in the April 9 Federal Register.
Consideration will be given to comments received on or before June 9.
Send two copies of postal mail or commercial delivery comments to Docket No. APHIS-2008-0037, Regulatory Analysis and Development, PPD, APHIS, Station 3A-03.8, 4700 River Road, Unit 118, Riverdale, MD 20737-1238. If you wish to submit a comment using the Internet, go to the Federal eRulemaking portal at http://www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/component/main?main=DocketDetail&d=APHIS-2008-0037
Comments are posted on the Reglations.gov Web site and may also be reviewed at USDA, Room 1141, South Building, 14th St. and Independence Ave., S.W., Washington, D.C., between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding holidays. To facilitate entry into the comment reading room, please call (202) 690-2817.
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Coffee Nook Is Kennewick's Best-Kept Secret for Breakfast
Usually the places that look like they're scary and look like the food is not going to be good, are usually the best. You can really be surprised by places like that. I've eaten at Coffee Nook at 714 Columbia Drive (near intersection with Hartford) about 20 times and every time it's been amazing.It's got big portions, tastes like home cooking, the staff is quick and friendly and fun.
It's tiny inside. There are only like seven tables. It's just so authentic.
The building literally looks like it was built in the 1940s. It also doesn't seem very clean, to be honest, but the food is worth it. Brave the filth — only that's not the right word. I'm not sure what word I'm searching for. Just go there.
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100% satisfied. Full on, east coast diner breakfast. The hash browns are homemade, seasoned and fully cooked."
This is one of my favorite breakfast places in Tri-Cities. It is the only place I've been able to get my hash-browns done just the way I like them; EXTRA CRISPY!!! If you are going for the looks of the place you could be thrown off, they let their food and service do the talking. If you want a good, honest breakfast, and to support a great local establishment, go here.
This is the classic small town diner. The cooks are surly, the waitresses are carbon copies of "Flo" from the ALICE show. They'll call you 'sugar' and tell you to kiss their grits. But – it's fun AND it's memorable. It's a small town hangout – so you can expect to see some colorful characters. The staff might argue with one another, I think they're related and/or old friends…so it makes for good people watching.


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20 CFR § 211.16 - Finality of records of compensation.
(a)Time limit for corrections to records of compensation. The Board's record of the compensation reported as paid to an employee for a given period shall be conclusive as to amount, or if no compensation was reported for such period, then as to the employee's having received no compensation for such period, unless the error in the amount of compensation or the failure to make return of the compensation is called to the attention of the Board within four years after the date on which the compensation was required to be reported to the Board as provided for in § 209.6 of this chapter.
(b)Correction after 4 years.
(1) The Board may correct a report of compensation after the time limit set forth in paragraph (a) of this section where the compensation was posted or not posted as the result of fraud on the part of the employer.
(2) Subject to paragraph (c) of this section, the Board may correct a report of compensation after the time limit set forth in paragraph (a) of this section for one of the following reasons:
(i) Where the compensation was posted for the wrong person or the wrong period;
(ii) Where the earnings were erroneously reported to the Social Security Administration in the good faith belief by the employer or employee that such earnings were not covered under the Railroad Retirement Act and there is a final decision of the Board under part 259 of this chapter that such employer or employee was covered under the Railroad Retirement Act during the period in which the earnings were paid;
(iii) Where a determination pertaining to the coverage under the Railroad Retirement Act of an individual, partnership, or company as an employer, is retroactive; or
(iv) Where a record of compensation could not otherwise be corrected under this part and where in the judgment of the three-member Board that heads the Railroad Retirement Board failure to make a correction would be inequitable.
(c)Limitation on crediting service.
(1) Except as provided in paragraph (b)(1) of this section, no employee may be credited with service months or tier II compensation beyond the four year period referred to in paragraph (a) of this section unless the employee establishes to the satisfaction of the Board that all employment taxes imposed by sections 3201, 3211, and 3221 of title 26 of the Internal Revenue Code have been paid with respect to the compensation and service.
(2) The limitation on the creditability of service months and tier II compensation in paragraph (c)(1) of this section shall not affect the creditability, for purposes of computing the tier I component of a railroad retirement annuity, of compensation payments with respect to which taxes have been paid under either the Railroad Retirement Tax Act or the Federal Insurance Contributions Act.


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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Young people who live in areas with higher levels of certain air pollutants may be more likely to have inflammatory bowel disease than those living under clearer skies, a new study suggests.
Specifically, people age 23 or younger were about twice as likely to be diagnosed with Crohn's disease if they lived in a region relatively high nitrogen dioxide levels.
The findings, reported in the American Journal of Gastroenterology, do not prove that air pollution is a contributor to inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), the major forms of which are Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. In the U.S., Crohn's affects about one in 600 people in the US, and ulcerative colitis affects about one in 400, according to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.
Instead, researchers are instead calling their study a "hypothesis-generating" one that raises the possibility that air pollution could be one of the environmental factors that plays a role in IBD development.
Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis are marked by chronic inflammation in the intestines, leading to symptoms like abdominal pain and diarrhea.
The precise causes of the conditions are unknown, but the disorders are thought to involve an immune system overreaction that injures the body's own intestinal tissue. In general, researchers suspect that a combination of genetic susceptibility along with exposure to one or more environmental factors is to blame.
Exactly what those environmental factors are remains unclear, however.
It is known that IBD rates rose during the 20th century in industrialized countries, and that rates appear to be increasing in developing nations. Such patterns suggest that factors such as diet and lifestyle changes, or environmental exposures, could be involved.
Air pollution is one possibility, which is why the current study focused on it, explained lead researcher Dr. Gilaad G. Kaplan, a gastroenterologist and assistant professor at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada.
Using a UK database of electronic medical records, he and his colleagues identified 367 children and adults diagnosed with Crohn's disease and 591 diagnosed with ulcerative colitis between 2005 and 2008. The researchers matched each of those people to five IBD-free individuals the same age and sex.
They then used air-quality data from government monitors to assess the average yearly levels of three air pollutants in the study subjects' residential areas.
The pollutants included nitrogen dioxide, which is produced largely by vehicles and is highest in urban, high-traffic areas; sulfur dioxide, which is produced through industrial processes, including the burning of coal and oil; and particulate matter, fine particles emitted via car exhaust, as well as power plants and other industrial sources.
Overall, Kaplan's team found no association between IBD and the three air pollutants across the study group as a whole.
However, young people — those age 23 or younger — were about twice as likely to be diagnosed with Crohn's disease if they lived in a region in the top 60 percent of nitrogen dioxide levels, versus the bottom 20 percent.
Similarly, people age 25 or younger were twice as likely to have ulcerative colitis if they lived in areas with higher sulfur dioxide levels. However, there was no evidence of a "dose-response" relationship — that is, the risk of ulcerative colitis climbing steadily as sulfur dioxide levels rose.
That lack of a dose-response, Kaplan told Reuters Health, "makes us a little more cautious about that finding."
Indeed, he urged caution in interpreting the findings as a whole. While he and his colleagues tried to account for other factors — such as study subjects' smoking habits and socioeconomic status — they cannot rule out the possibility that something other than air pollution itself accounts for their findings.
"This is an interesting association," Kaplan said. But, he added, the findings do not prove cause-and-effect.
As for why air pollution would affect IBD risk, Kaplan said he could only speculate, based on research into other health conditions, including heart and lung disease. Studies indicate that air pollutants can trigger inflammation in the body; that, Kaplan explained, raises the possibility that in genetically predisposed people, air pollution may trigger an inflammatory response in the intestines that leads to IBD.
Since the current study found a relationship between pollutants and IBD only in young people, the findings also raise the question of whether children and teenagers are particularly susceptible to any effects of air pollution on the risk of the digestive disorders.
Much more research is needed, Kaplan said — both larger population studies and research in animals to see how exposure to various air pollutants might affect intestinal health.
He added that no one is proposing that air pollution is the environmental cause of IBD; if it does turn out to be a factor, he said, it will likely be one of many players.
But if air pollution is confirmed as a risk factor, there would be important implications, Kaplan said, since air quality is something that can be modified.
SOURCE: link.reuters.com/pep76m American Journal of Gastroenterology, online June 29, 2010.