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Conjunctivitis is swelling (inflammation) or infection of the membrane lining the eyelids (conjunctiva).
Inflammation - conjunctiva; Pink eye
The conjunctiva is exposed to bacteria and other irritants. Tears help protect the conjunctiva by washing away bacteria. Tears also contain proteins and antibodies that kill bacteria.
There are many causes of conjunctivitis. Viruses are the most common cause. Viral conjuctivitis is referred to as "pink eye." Pink eye can spread easily among children.
Other causes include:
Newborns can be infected by bacteria in the birth canal. This condition is called ophthalmia neonatorum, and it must be treated immediately to preserve eyesight.
Treatment of conjunctivitis depends on the cause.
Allergic conjunctivitis may respond to allergy treatment. It may disappear on its own when you avoid your allergy triggers. Cool compresses may help soothe allergic conjunctivitis.
Antibiotic medication, usually eye drops, is effective for bacterial conjunctivitis. Viral conjunctivitis will disappear on its own. Many doctors give a mild antibiotic eyedrops for pink eye to prevent bacterial conjunctivitis.
You can soothe the discomfort of viral or bacterial conjunctivitis by applying warm compresses (clean cloths soaked in warm water) to your closed eyes.
The outcome is usually good with treatment.
Reinfection within a household or school may occur if you don't follow preventive measures.
Call for an appointment with your health care provider if your symptoms last longer than 3 or 4 days.
Good hygiene can help prevent the spread of conjunctivitis:
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Rubenstein JB, Virasch V. Conjunctivitis: Infectious and noninfectious. In: Yanoff M, Duker JS, eds. Ophthalmology. 3rd ed. St. Louis, Mo: Mosby Elsevier; 2008:chap 4.6.
Yanoff M, Cameron D. Diseases of the visual system. In: Goldman L, Schafer AI, eds. Cecil Medicine. 24th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 431.

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These are the remote controlled helicopters that battle each other for indoor air supremacy. Each helicopter is equipped with an infrared cannon that emits a beam in a 90� forward-firing arc with a 10' effective range accompanied by firing sounds. One "hit" to an opponent spins it to the right, two spin it to the left, and three put it into an irrecoverable tailspin, yet its durability enables continued duels. Dual counter-rotating main rotors and a horizontally oriented tail rotor provide gyroscopic in-air stability, allowing each helicopter to nimbly maneuver into attack position or quickly avoid an incoming beam. Each is controlled from up to 25' away using the two included infrared remotes. Each helicopter's rechargeable battery provides up to eight-minute duels from a 50-minute charge using its remote. Ages 14 and up. Requires 12 AAA batteries. (1 lb.)
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By Grandfather
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I got the Dueling Helicopters for my 13 year-old grandson and my 41 year-old son-in-law (the older child, in this case). They spend much enjoyable time shooting down each other. It's a durable product. Other than using lots of AAA batteries it's a good value. Thanks
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Fun ! A little hard to set up. Batteries do not last long.
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These helicopters are a load of fun. we enjoy playing war at home we have the battling remote control tanks and now the helicopters. This is so much more fun than a video game and when the chopper is shot it gently lands itself. Well worth the money.
Didn't work as expected
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1 of the 2 helicopters does not get a full charge. I have attempted several times to charge it according to the instructions, but still no luck.I would like to get a replacement copter or replace the whole item. I have the box it came in. Can you give me some information on how I would exchange this item.
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A toy for a 8 y/o kid
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Fun and durable. Includes replacement blades Easy to fly, much better than 2 channel models.
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Pyogenic granulomas are reactive lesions made-up of blood vessels (vascular) on the skin, seen here on the hand. They are brittle and tend to bleed easily if bumped. They are raised, red, and moist, and the skin around them may be inflamed. These lesions are seen most commonly in children.
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Despite some good chances, neither side was able to take the advantage in a scoreless game in Gillette Stadium.
Both sides had near misses in the scoreless game. Lee Nguyen went close for New England in the 18th minute. Taking a lay-off from Diego Fagundez, he curled a shot from inside the area that skimmed just over the crossbar. Kyle Porter saw a volley from just outside the area go wide int he 51st minute.
New England went close twice in two minutes after the hour mark. First, Fagundez put a shot narrowly over, followed by Chris Tierney hitting the post after a corner kick.
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U.S. Attorney Eric Holder, the man charged with upholding the laws of this country, has finally recognized the elephant in the room.
During a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting this week, Holder finally admitted what the rest of us have been saying for a long time: There are banks in America that are too big to fail!
Ironically, American Banker, the very same publication read by those Holder criticized, was among the first to report the news.
Said Holder: "I am concerned that the size of some of these institutions becomes so large that it does become difficult for us to prosecute them when we are hit with indications that if we do prosecute — if we do bring a criminal charge — it will have a negative impact on the national economy, perhaps even the world economy."
You can read his remarks here.
Sadly, he offers no solutions to what has become an epidemic of fraud that led to one of the worst economic crisis in our country. By allowing banks to perpetrate fraud by selling mortgage securities they knew were not worth the paper they were written on, the Justice Department, in a way can be considered just as guilty for failing to hold banks to the fire.
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With the threat of cyber wars lurking, the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), a United Nation's arm, has asked countries to take the no-first-attack' vow in order to avert chain of events. There have been countries at (cyber) war already. A wrong attack could lead to a chain of events. Like they do with regard to nuclear arms, the countries should take a vow that they would not attack first, Mr Hamadoun Toure, Secretary-General of ITU, said.
We need to have an international framework to make cyber space peaceful. Some say, it might take 10 years. Even if it takes that long, we need to start now (to get there), he said. It will be like a cyber tsunami. It would be a catastrophe if a war were to start. In order to achieve a secure cyber space, countries should have a legal and regulatory framework, technological readiness (with a robust response team), a coordinated national effort and capacity building, he said.
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According to the latest data by Trend Micro, a leading Internet security company, more than 2 million computers were hacked and 476 million spam e-mails were sent in Turkey between June 2009 and May 2010. With Internet an increasingly integral part of daily life, criminals are finding new playgrounds in cyberspace.
In 2004 there were 680 million Internet users and 3 million malwares globally. Six years later, the number of Internet users increased to around 1.7 billion, but malwares jumped 10-fold to 30 million. The nature of the Internet also makes it harder to track down a criminal of cyber crime, as it crosses borders and is hard to understand. It is not like a bank robbery. There is no eyewitness or video footage,
(Source: Hurriyet Daily News)
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"People that play these fast-paced games have better vision, better attention and better cognition," said Daphne Bavelier, an assistant professor in the department of brain and cognitive science at the University of Rochester. Bavelier was being a presenter at Games for Learning, a daylong symposium on the educational uses of video games and computer games. The event, the first of its kind, was an indication that electronic games are gaining legitimacy in the classroom.
President Barack Obama recently identified the creation of good educational software as one of the "grand challenges for American innovation," and the federal Department of Education's assistant deputy secretary for the Office of Innovation and Improvement, Jim Shelton, was to attend Thursday's conference. Panelists were to discuss how people learn and how games can be engineered to be even more educational. "People do learn from games,"
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A few weeks ago I came across several email messages in Spanish purporting to have been sent by Western Union: As you can see, this is a typical message sent as spam that we have seen in many guises. It tries to pass itself off as some kind of official notification from well-known companies -anyone from UPS to Apple or even Panda- with the real aim of trying to trick users into running the attached file. However, this time when I saw the message I couldnt help but smile. Why? Because I thought there was a certain irony about the message claiming to have been sent by Western Union, a company used by virtually all cyber-criminals.
Should we be pointing an accusatory finger at companies like Western Union? There are those who would argue that this is like criminalizing the Internet just because there are users that abuse its services. Fair enough. But if Western Union is just like any other company, why is it used so insistently by criminals?
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On 23 November 2010 the Belgian Privacy Commission will organize an international conference on privacy and scientific research. The conference will take place in the context of the 2010 Belgian EU presidency and focuses on several target groups, first of all the European data protection authorities, but also national and international academics and researchers. Two areas of scientific research will be examined: historical and clinical-medical research. The conference is primarily intended as a discussion forum on best practices in both areas. That is why workshops will be organized alongside the traditional plenary sessions.
"Privacy & Scientific Research: from Obstruction to Construction" was opted for as the working title of the conference, the objective of the event being a reflection on how to integrate privacy protection in scientific research without making it an obstacle. And what's more, the quality of research will only be improved thanks to privacy protection.
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It might go against conventional wisdom, but a new report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project is adding fuel to the argument that young people are fast becoming the gurus of online reputation management, especially when it comes to social networking sites. Among other things, the study found that they are most likely to limit personal information online and the least likely to trust free online services ranging from Facebook to LinkedIn and MySpace.
Marlene McManus, 21, is among those young adults. On the job hunt since graduating from Clark University in Massachusetts, she's been "scouring" her Facebook page, removing photos that contain beer cups and any other signs of college exploits. She's also dropped Twitter altogether. "I have to present a public face that doesn't have the potential to hurt my image," McManus says.
CYBER-GEDDON has been overhyped, but IT security professionals need to find new ways of dealing with the never-ending threats, says Scott McIntyre, chief security officer for Amsterdam-based ISP XS4ALL Internet. "The sky is not falling, the situation is not as bad as many make out, but we need to accept that the internet has been 'pwned' (compromised or controlled by rivals)," he told the AusCERT 2010 conference on the Gold Coast last week. "We need to maintain a sense of proportion and adjust our expectations about internet security,"' he said.
"Not everything that happens is a major crisis, you don't need huge cyber bunkers because there's a worm on the network -- this should be your daily routine by now." Mr McIntyre, who is also a member of the Dutch computer security incident response team KPN-CERT, said the industry was stuck in "a weird loop of going backwards and forwards" on the same issues.
(Source: The Australian)
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Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said the Internet social network will roll out new privacy settings for its more than 400 million users, amid growing concerns that the company is pushing users to make more of their personal data public. "Many of you thought our controls were too complex," said Zuckerberg in an opinion piece published on Monday in The Washington Post.
"Our intention was to give you lots of granular controls; but that may not have been what many of you wanted. We just missed the mark," said the 26-year-old Zuckerberg, who co-founded Facebook in his Harvard dorm room in 2004. In the coming weeks, Zuckerberg promised, Facebook will add privacy controls that he said would be much simpler to use. Facebook will also give users an easy way to turn off all third-party services, Zuckerberg said.
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Malaysias Information Communication and Culture Minister, Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim, said that the country plans to work in collaboration with a number of countries in the fight against cyber crime. The rise in cyber security attacks over the last few years reinforces the urgency to address the issue through the establishment of appropriate global frameworks for assessment and exchange of information related to cyber security, he said at the opening of the World Information and Communication Summit in Seoul.
Last year the International Multilateral Partnership Against Cyber Threats (IMPACT) opened its global headquarters in Cyberjaya, Malaysia. IMPACT is a platform for governments and industry players to exchange ideas and best practices and work together in combating cyber threats.
(Source: Malaysia In Focus)
Malaysia In Focus
Carders.cc, a German online forum dedicated to helping criminals trade and sell financial data stolen through hacking, has itself been hacked. The once-guarded contents of its servers are now being traded on public file-sharing networks, leading to the exposure of potentially identifying information on the forums users as well as countless passwords and credit card accounts swiped from unsuspecting victims.
The breach involves at least three separate files being traded on Rapidshare.com: The largest is a database file containing what appear to be all of the communications among nearly 5,000 Carders.cc forum members, including the contents of private, one-to-one messages that subscribers to these forums typically use to negotiate the sale of stolen goods. Another file includes the user names, e-mail addresses and in many cases the passwords of Carder.cc forum
(Source: Krebs on Security)
Krebs on Security
The UAE can lead international efforts to promote global cyber security and cyber peace and to avoid the use of cyberspace for conflict, said a former senior White House adviser on Tuesday. "The UAE can play a leading role in creating an international system for cyber peace. You can do that not just by computers. But you can do that by strategists and diplomats. And there is a great role for the UAE to play in helping the world step back from cyber war to create an international system for cyber peace," said Richard Clarke, who served as a counterterrorism adviser to Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.
Warning that cyber war is the next threat to UAE national security, Clarke argued physical defences akin to borders such as firewalls will remain essential, but given the high levels of cross-border connectivity in cyber world, new approaches for cyber security must include the international diplomatic dimension.
(Source: Gulf News)
Gulf News
Du 17 au 21 mai 2010 se tient à Ouagadougou un atelier sur la cybersécurité. Avec comme objectif de former les acteurs chargés de la sécurisation du cyberespace à la lutte efficace contre les cybermenaces, cette session connaît la participation de délégués de la Côte dIvoire, du Ghana, du Mali et du Nigeria. Les travaux dudit séminaire ont été ouverts par le Secrétaire général du Premier ministère, Paul Marie Compaoré.
Face aux spams, scams, virus, vers et autres cyberattaques, il est plus quurgent de développer des stratégies et des dispositifs de pointe à même de sécuriser les systèmes du cyberespace en le protégeant de toutes ces cybermenaces. Cest dans cette optique que lUnion internationale des télécommunications (UIT), en partenariat avec IMPACT et lAutorité de régulation des communications électroniques (ARCE) du Burkina, organise du 17 au 21 mai 2010, un atelier sur la cybersécurité.
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Le Faso
Phishing may not be the most sophisticated form of cyber crime, but it can be a lucrative trade for those who decide to make it their day jobs. Indeed, data secretly collected from an international phishing operation over 18 months suggests that criminals who pursue a career in phishing can reap millions of dollars a year, even if they only manage to snag just a few victims per scam.
Phishers often set up their fraudulent sites using ready-made phish kits collections of HTML, text and images that mimic the content found at major banks and e-commerce sites. Typically, phishers stitch the kits into the fabric of hacked, legitimate sites, which they then outfit with a backdoor that allows them to get back into the site at any time.
Thousands of people have paid tribute on Facebook to an Australian teenager allegedly lured to her death by a man she met on the social networking site. The body of Nona Belomesoff was found two days after she went on a trip with the man, who told her they were going to rescue injured animals, police say. A 20-year-old man has been charged with Ms Belomesoff's murder at a creek south of Sydney.
Detectives say the case reinforces the need for vigilance when using Facebook. Ms Belomesoff, 18, is believed to have befriended Christopher James Dannevig, who police say set up a fake Facebook profile in which he claimed to work for an animal welfare group.
(Source: BBC)
Researchers at Imperva have discovered an 'experimental' botnet that uses around 300 hijacked web servers to launch high-bandwidth DDoS attacks. The servers are all believed to be open to an unspecified security vulnerability that allows the attacker, who calls him or herself 'Exeman', to infect them with a tiny, 40-line PHP script. This includes a simple GUI from which the attacker can return at a later date to enter in the IP, port and duration numbers for the attack that is to be launched. Building a Secure and Compliant Windows Desktop: Download nowBut why servers in the first place? Botnets are built from PCs and rarely involve servers.
According to Imperva's CTO, Amachai Shulman, they have no antivirus software and offer high upload bandwidth, typically 10-50 times that of a consumer PC.
(Source: Networkworld)
For all the Twitterers who were fretting about where their followers went earlier today, fear not. They're back. Twitter engineers have corrected a bug that was messing with users' followers on Monday. To fix the problem, Twitter engineers had to reset users' followers/following numbers to zero for a while around midday, according to Twitter's Status update.
"What we really see with social networking is that for any given tool, whether it's Twitter, Facebook or any other site, there is a hard core of very active users who care a lot about any problems, changes, or interruptions. These people are very vocal and opinionated -- passionate, in other words."
(Source: ComputerWorld)
With the 2010 FIFA World Cup less than two months away, cybercriminals (as expected) are banking on this prestigious international football event to trick users. TrendLabsSM spotted the latest threat involving this, and it came in the form of an email message currently being spammed in the wild.
The spam carried a .PDF file attachment which was found to contain details about the lottery the recipient allegedly won. It also instructed the recipient to give out personal information and send them to the contact person or email sender before the prize could be claimed. What was interesting about the purported sender of the emailone Mrs. Michelle Matins, Executive Vice Presidentwas also the signatory for the 419 scam, aka the Nigeria scam.
(Source: Trend Micro)
Trend Micro
Cybersecurity needs a global rethink, and fast, Dell's CEO Michael Dell and Services CIO, Jim Stikeleather, have warned experts at the EastWest Institute Worldwide Cybersecurity Summit in the US. In separate presentations and briefings, the men developed the theme of piecemeal reactions to the rapid rise of crymber-criminality, which included economic crime and direct threats to critical infrastructure.
Governments haven't done enough and have fallen into the trap of seeing matters in a narrow, national way. Meanwhile, the security industry has been content to sell products without asking whether security was properly embedded into the way products are developed. "Governments and private industry need to work collaboratively to develop the appropriate international framework to secure cyberspace. We should all do this in a way that keeps our global information central nervous system intact and secure," said Michael Dell.
(Source: MIS Asia)
MIS Asia
As much heat as Facebook has taken recently for its privacy policies and the freedom with which it shares data across the Web and around the world, Facebook is still not the biggest threat to online privacy--you are. A study by Consumer Reports illustrates that users are really their own worst enemy when it comes to online privacy.
Here are some of the key findings of the Consumer Reports survey: A projected 1.7 million online households had experienced online identity theft in the past year. An estimated 5.4 million online consumers submitted personal information to e-mail (phishing) scammers during the past two years. Among adult social network users, 38 percent had posted their full birth date, including year. Forty-five percent of those with children had posted their children's photos. And 8% had posted their own street address. An estimated 5.1 million online households had experienced some type of abuse on a social network in the past year, including malware infections, scams, and harassment.
(Source: PC World)
PC World
Cybersecurity experts from around the world meeting on ways to protect the Internet say they still have fears of "nightmare" scenarios in which attacks could cripple critical computer networks. "I live in a world of nightmares," Patrick Pailloux, director general of France's Network and Information Security Agency, told participants in the first Worldwide Cybersecurity Summit which ended on Wednesday. "Each subject is a nightmare: electricity, power grids, transportation, airplanes, water supply, finance, the banking system, the health system,"
Pailloux said. Pailloux was among the 400 participants from 40 nations who attended the meeting hosted by the EastWest Institute think tank to come up with ways to protect the world's digital infrastructure from cyber threats. The cybersecurity experts, government officials and business leaders agreed that only global cooperation could protect computer networks under constant attack from ever mutating viruses, worms, spam and a host of other dangers.
(Source: AFP)
Websites operated by the US Treasury Department are redirecting visitors to websites that attempt to install malware on their PCs, a security researcher warned on Monday. The infection buries an invisible iframe in bep.treas.gov, moneyfactory.gov, and bep.gov that invokes malicious scripts from grepad.com, Roger Thompson, chief research officer of AVG Technologies, told The Register. The code was discovered late Sunday night and was active at time of writing, about 12 hours later.
To cover their tracks, the miscreants behind the compromise tailored it so it attacks only IP addresses that haven't already visited the Treasury websites. That makes it harder for white hat-hackers and law enforcement agents to track the exploit. Indeed, Thompson initially reported that the problem had been fixed until he discovered the sites were merely skipping over laboratory PCs that had already encountered the attack.
(Source: The Register)
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A new international research report commissioned by ACCAN reports on 16 high-speed broadband applications that can provide enormous benefits to people with disabilities. The report was conducted between November 2009 and January 2010 and discusses the uses of broadband applications in Europe, the United States and Japan. The study is also timely with regard to the work being undertaken to establish the National Disability Strategy. Preliminary findings from the study have resulted in input being provided to the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy for its involvement in the Inter-Departmental Committee on the National Disability Strategy.
(Source: Australian Communications Consumer Action Network)
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Cisco Systems has embarked on a "take back and recycle" program, to ensure that consumers in Africa do not use phased-out equipment. The program takes used Cisco gear as well phased-out products that may still be sitting on resellers' shelves. Cisco has already indicated that it is phasing out the Linksys brand, which is common in Africa. "The Computer For Schools Kenya (CFSK) plant can handle large quantities of e-waste in a day; has employed young people and its important for equipment manufacturers and vendors in the region to work with communities,"
While the Cisco program may save customers the cost of managing and storing excess, outdated, or used ICT equipment, most such equipment on the continent is dumped is sold at low cost -- in some cases the equipment works, making cost-conscious customers consider buying obsolete equipment.
(Source: ComputerWorld Kenya)
ComputerWorld Kenya
A new research report on online government from the Pew Research Centers Internet & American Life Project shows that citizens are searching for information in unprecedented numbers. When they visit sites, they're increasingly making transactions and participating in discussion around policies. Forty-one percent have gone online to get forms, including tax forms, health forms or student aid forms, and 35 percent have researched government documents or statistics. Roughly one-third of all Internet users reported renewing driver's licenses and auto registrations online. In general, the use of government websites for information and transactions is nearly ubiquitous among Internet users, with 82 percent of online adults surveyed reporting one of the two activities.
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European ministers are considering establishing a new agency that would tie together law enforcement agencies and other entities dedicated to fighting cybercrime. The ministers released a set of goals they'd like to achieve over time. One of those is to gain more ratifications of the Council of Europe's Cybercrime Convention, the only international treaty covering computer crime. The treaty requires countries to adopt cybercrime laws, have contacts available 24 hours a day for fast-breaking investigations and other measures. Another medium-term goal focuses on revocation of domain names and IP (Internet protocol) addresses. The document doesn't spell out exactly the ministers' objectives there, as it is already standard procedure for many ISPs to shut down Web sites linked with bad behavior. The new agency would also be tasked with forging stronger bonds between various law enforcement and other organizations that deal with cybercrime, including Europol, Eurojust, Interpol and others.
Many of us take the Internet for granted, but what about locations that are too remote or economically impoverished to enjoy the hi-tech benefits of the developed world? The Shadow Chancellor in the UK, George Osborne, illustrated in a recent speech that people in the developing world - even in the poorest of circumstances - do care about having access to technology.
In a visit to a remote village in Rwanda in 2007 he and 40 other Conservative Party volunteers were working on transforming a once derelict orphanage into a school. When it was announced that they were going to fix up the buildings and improve the water supply there were cheers from the villagers, but the loudest shouts were received when it was announced that the school was to be equipped with a computer. Osborne was at first surprised with the reaction - access to a computer is not a fundamental of life. But even villagers in the remotest part of Rwanda knew about computers and the Internet and didn't want their children to be excluded - as they had been - from something that could help lift them out of poverty.
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The German government is planning to establish a botnet cleanup helpline for computer users affected by malware infection. ISPs are teaming up with the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) to set up an operation geared towards cleansing consumer systems from botnet infestation. ISPs will track down infected machines, before directing users towards a website offering advice and an associated call centre, staffed by around 40.
The project, due to start in 2010, was announced on Tuesday at the German IT summit in Stuttgart. Malware in general, and botnets in particular, are a Windows ecosystem problem. Some bloggers have taken exception to the German plan, and have described it as a state funded subsidy to Microsoft, arguing that the money would be better spent offering advice on how to switch to less virus-infected systems.
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(TMZ) - Khloe Kardashian has been eliminated from "X Factor."
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Three different players scored and four different players recorded assists for the Glenwood boys soccer team in a season-opening 4-1 victory over Tri-Center on Thursday.
The Glenwood City Council has approved the Police Department's proposal for the purchase of four new vehicles.
By a margin of 4-1, the council voted last Tuesday to move forward with the acquisition of one 2011 Chevy Tahoe and three 2011 Chevrolet Caprices. The council authorized up to $175,000 for the purchase of the vehicles, although the proposal submitted by police chief Eric Johansen estimated the actual price tag at $166,000.
A Mills County jury rendered a guilty verdict Friday against a Malvern man accused of sexually assaulting two young girls.
Kenneth Edward Carver, 36, was arrested in March 2010 and charged with second-degree sexual abuse (a Class B felony) and two counts of lascivious acts with a child (Class C felony).
The drunk driver responsible for killing four motorcyclists last August in an Interstate 29 construction zone has been sentenced to serve 50 years in prison.
Spring officially arrived last week, but you'd never know it by the weather. In
southwest Iowa, the first week of spring meant snowfall on Thursday, snowfall on Friday and
snowfall on Saturday.
Friday morning's snowfall created some picturesque scenes throughout
Cole Darrow on the boys side and Morgan Lucy and Lexi Fisher were first team selections on the 2010-2011 All-Hawkeye 10 Conference basketball teams released last week.
Darrow was tabbed for the first team after leading the Rams to their most wins (13) in over 40 years this season scoring a conference best 22.1 points per game. Darrow, a senior who will play basketball at Buena Vista University next fall, is the Rams' all-time leading scorer with 1,007 career points.
The Glenwood girls track and field team competed at the Dakota Dome on Saturday at the Norm Herren Midwest High School Track and Field Indoor Meet at the University of South Dakota.
"The team competed well and there were some fine performances turned in by the Rams," said Glenwood coach Brad Rasmussen.
Cassie Kruse had a standout day for the Rams, setting a personal best by more than three feet with a toss 36 feet, six inches in the shot to place fourth.
In its second straight indoor meet to open the season, the Glenwood boys track team earned five gold medals at the Wayne State (Neb.) University Indoors on March 19.
The attorney for a Mills County man facing charges related to a sex scandal at a Malvern funeral home is seeking a plea bargain for his client.
Both mens- and womens-style T-shirts that feature Glenwood's official RAGBRAI logo are available for purchase for $15 at the Joe Designer shirt shop at 427 Sharp St. on the south side of Town Square.
Sale of the T-shirts will help the Glenwood RAGBRAI Committee retire some of the costs associated with hosting the touring bicycle ride July 23-24.
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ZARAGOZA, Spain (Reuters) - France's hopes of becoming the first nation to claim a hat-trick of successive world handball titles were dashed with a 30-23 quarter-final defeat to familiar rivals Croatia on Wednesday.
Hosts Spain also advanced to the last four with a 28-24 defeat of Germany, where they were joined by Denmark, 28-26 winners over Hungary, and surprise package Slovenia, who edged Russia 28-27.
Friday's semi-finals in Barcelona will see Spain take on Slovenia while Croatia lock horns with Denmark.
The Croatians, who won their only world title in 2003, led from start to finish against an aging French team, the contest decided by superb goalkeeping from Mirko Alilovic and playmaker Domagoj Duvnjak's game-leading nine goals.
"All the credit must go to the players who showed a lot of heart... we dedicate this victory to everyone in Croatia who supported us," coach Slavko Goluza told the country's national television.
"We have suffered so much against the French down the years, they are a fantastic team and some of their stalwarts, who will undoubtedly quit after this tournament, have fully earned their international retirement.
"This is a fantastic achievement and we are now looking forward to the semi-final clash with Denmark, which will be another mountain to climb and we will need to dig deep into whatever resources we have left to reach the final."
In sharp contrast to their French peers, Spain's veterans turned back the years and produced a majestic performance to beat plucky Germany after raising their intensity in the final quarter against younger, more inexperienced opposition.
"It has been tough, harder than we expected but we could not let this moment pass us by with our home crowd at this venue," goalkeeper Jose Manuel Sierra, 34, told Spanish television.
"Although we were two goals down at halftime, we were convinced that we could turn the game around," left-back Alberto Entrerios, 36, added.
"I think we have achieved our objective by reaching the semis in a competition at home and now we have to enjoy what is still to come."
Slovenia, whose best previous finish was 10th in 2007, looked doomed after twice winners Russia took a 10-5 lead midway through the first half, but Luka Zvizej and Uros Zorman scored five goals each to swing an error-strewn contest their way.
Reigning European champions Denmark appeared to be in complete control after opening an 18-11 lead over Hungary at the interval but survived a late scare as their feisty opponents cut the deficit to just one goal in the closing stages.
Writing by Zoran Milosavljevic in Belgrade; Additional reporting by Mark Elkington in Madrid; Editing by John O'Brien


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Prostate cancer is cancer that occurs in a man's prostate — a small walnut-shaped gland that produces the seminal fluid that nourishes and transports sperm.
Prostate cancer is one of the most common types of cancer in men. Prostate cancer usually grows slowly and initially remains confined to the prostate gland, where it may not cause serious harm. While some types of prostate cancer grow slowly and may need minimal or no treatment, other types are aggressive and can spread quickly.
Prostate cancer that is detected early — when it's still confined to the prostate gland — has a better chance of successful treatment.
Prostate cancer may cause no signs or symptoms in its early stages.
Prostate cancer that is more advanced may cause signs and symptoms such as:
Make an appointment with your doctor if you have any signs or symptoms that worry you.
There is debate regarding the risks and benefits of screening for prostate cancer, and medical organizations differ on their recommendations. Discuss prostate cancer screening with your doctor. Together, you can decide what's best for you.
It's not clear what causes prostate cancer.
Doctors know that prostate cancer begins when some cells in your prostate become abnormal. Mutations in the abnormal cells' DNA cause the cells to grow and divide more rapidly than normal cells do. The abnormal cells continue living, when other cells would die. The accumulating abnormal cells form a tumor that can grow to invade nearby tissue. Some abnormal cells can break off and spread (metastasize) to other parts of the body.
Factors that can increase your risk of prostate cancer include:
Complications of prostate cancer and its treatments include:
If you have signs or symptoms that worry you, start by seeing your family doctor or a general practitioner.
If your doctor suspects you may have a problem with your prostate, you may be referred to a urinary tract specialist (urologist). If you're diagnosed with prostate cancer, you may be referred to a cancer specialist (oncologist) or a specialist who uses radiation therapy to treat cancer (radiation oncologist).
Because appointments can be brief, and because there's often a lot of ground to cover, it's a good idea to be prepared. Here's some information to help you get ready and what to expect from your doctor.
Your time with your doctor is limited, so preparing a list of questions can help you make the most of your time together. List your questions from most important to least important in case time runs out. For prostate cancer, some basic questions to ask your doctor include:
In addition to the questions that you've prepared to ask your doctor, don't hesitate to ask other questions during your appointment.
Your doctor is likely to ask you a number of questions. Being ready to answer them may allow more time later to cover other points you want to address. Your doctor may ask:
Whether to test healthy men with no symptoms for prostate cancer is controversial. Medical organizations don't agree on the issue of screening and whether it has benefits.
Some medical organizations recommend men consider prostate cancer screening in their 50s, or sooner for men who have risk factors for prostate cancer. Other organizations advise against screening.
Discuss your particular situation and the benefits and risks of screening with your doctor. Together, you can decide whether prostate cancer screening is right for you.
Prostate screening tests might include:)
PSA testing combined with DRE helps identify prostate cancers at their earliest stages, but studies have disagreed whether these tests reduce the risk of dying of prostate cancer. For that reason, there is debate surrounding prostate cancer screening.
If an abnormality is detected on a DRE or PSA test, your doctor may recommend tests to determine whether you have prostate cancer, such as:
When a biopsy confirms the presence of cancer, the next step is to determine the level of aggressiveness (grade) of the cancer cells. In a laboratory, a pathologist examines a sample of your cancer to determine how much cancer cells differ from the healthy cells. A higher grade indicates a more aggressive cancer that is more likely to spread quickly.
The most common scale used to evaluate the grade of prostate cancer cells is called a Gleason score. Scoring combines two numbers and can range from 2 (nonaggressive cancer) to 10 (very aggressive cancer).
Once a prostate cancer diagnosis has been made, your doctor works to determine the extent (stage) of the cancer. If your doctor suspects your cancer may have spread beyond your prostate, imaging tests such as these may be recommended:
Not every person should have every test. Your doctor will help determine which tests are best for your individual case.
Once testing is complete, your doctor assigns your cancer a stage. This helps determine your treatment options. The prostate cancer stages are:
Your prostate cancer treatment options depend on several factors, such as how fast your cancer is growing, how much it has spread and your overall health, as well as the benefits and the potential side effects of the treatment.
For men diagnosed with very early-stage prostate cancer, treatment may not be necessary right away. Some men may never need treatment. Instead, doctors sometimes recommend active surveillance.
In active surveillance, regular follow-up blood tests, rectal exams and possibly biopsies may be performed to monitor progression of your cancer. If tests show your cancer is progressing, you may opt for a prostate cancer treatment such as surgery or radiation.
Active surveillance may be an option for cancer that isn't causing symptoms, is expected to grow very slowly and is confined to a small area of the prostate. Active surveillance may also be considered for a man who has another serious health condition or an advanced age that makes cancer treatment more difficult.
Active surveillance carries a risk that the cancer may grow and spread between checkups, making it less likely to be cured.
Radiation therapy uses high-powered energy to kill cancer cells. Prostate cancer radiation therapy can be delivered in two ways:
Side effects of radiation therapy can include painful urination, frequent urination and urgent urination, as well as rectal symptoms, such as loose stools or pain when passing stools. Erectile dysfunction can also occur.
Hormone therapy is treatment to stop your body from producing the male hormone testosterone. Prostate cancer cells rely on testosterone to help them grow. Cutting off the supply of hormones may cause cancer cells to die or to grow more slowly.
Hormone therapy options include:
Hormone therapy is used in men with advanced prostate cancer to shrink the cancer and slow the growth of tumors. In men with early-stage prostate cancer, hormone therapy may be used to shrink tumors before radiation therapy. This can make it more likely that radiation therapy will be successful.
Side effects of hormone therapy may include erectile dysfunction, hot flashes, loss of bone mass, reduced sex drive and weight gain.
Surgery for prostate cancer involves removing the prostate gland (radical prostatectomy), some surrounding tissue and a few lymph nodes. Ways the radical prostatectomy procedure can be performed include:
Discuss with your doctor which type of surgery is best for your specific situation.
Radical prostatectomy carries a risk of urinary incontinence and erectile dysfunction. Ask your doctor to explain the risks you may face based on your situation, the type of procedure you select, your age, your body type and your overall health.
Cryosurgery or cryoablation involves freezing tissue to kill cancer cells.
During cryosurgery for prostate cancer, small needles are inserted in the prostate using ultrasound images as guidance. A very cold gas is placed in the needles, which causes the surrounding tissue to freeze. A second gas is then placed in the needles to reheat the tissue. The cycles of freezing and thawing kill the cancer cells and some surrounding healthy tissue.
Initial attempts to use cryosurgery for prostate cancer resulted in high complication rates and unacceptable side effects. However, newer technologies have lowered complication rates, improved cancer control and made the procedure easier to tolerate. Cryosurgery may be an option for men who haven't been helped by radiation therapy.
Chemotherapy uses drugs to kill rapidly growing cells, including cancer cells. Chemotherapy can be administered through a vein in your arm, in pill form or both.
Chemotherapy may be a treatment option for men with prostate cancer that has spread to distant areas of their bodies. Chemotherapy may also be an option for cancers that don't respond to hormone therapy.
Biological therapy (immunotherapy) uses your body's immune system to fight cancer cells. One type of biological therapy called sipuleucel-T (Provenge) has been developed to treat advanced, recurrent prostate cancer.
This treatment takes some of your own immune cells, genetically engineers them in a laboratory to fight prostate cancer, then injects the cells back into your body through a vein. Some men do respond to this therapy with some improvement in their cancer, but the treatment is very expensive and requires multiple treatments.
No complementary or alternative treatments will cure prostate cancer. However, complementary and alternative prostate cancer treatments may help you cope with the side effects of cancer and its treatment.
Nearly everyone diagnosed with cancer experiences some distress at some point. If you're distressed, you may feel sad, angry or anxious. You may experience difficulty sleeping or find yourself constantly thinking about your cancer.
Several complementary medicine techniques may help you cope with your distress, including:
Discuss your feelings and concerns with your doctor. In some cases, treatment for distress may require medications.
When you receive a diagnosis of prostate cancer, you may experience a range of feelings — including disbelief, fear, anger, anxiety and depression. With time, each man finds his own way of coping with a prostate cancer diagnosis.
Until you find what works for you, try to:
You can reduce your risk of prostate cancer if you:
Choose a healthy diet full of fruits and vegetables. Avoid high-fat foods and instead focus on choosing a variety of fruits, vegetables and whole grains. Fruits and vegetables contain many vitamins and nutrients that can contribute to your health.
Whether you can prevent prostate cancer through diet has yet to be conclusively proved. But eating a healthy diet with a variety of fruits and vegetables can improve your overall health.
Exercise most days of the week. Exercise improves your overall health, helps you maintain your weight and improves your mood. There is some evidence that men who don't exercise have higher PSA levels, while men who exercise may have a lower risk of prostate cancer.
Try to exercise most days of the week. If you're new to exercise, start slow and work your way up to more exercise time each day.
Talk to your doctor about increased risk of prostate cancer. Men with a high risk of prostate cancer may consider medications or other treatments to reduce their risk. Some studies suggest that taking 5-alpha reductase inhibitors, including finasteride (Propecia, Proscar) and dutasteride (Avodart), may reduce the overall risk of developing prostate cancer. These drugs are used to control prostate gland enlargement and hair loss in men.
However, some evidence indicates that men taking these medications may have an increased risk of getting a more serious form of prostate cancer (high-grade prostate cancer). If you're concerned about your risk of developing prostate cancer, talk with your doctor.
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About Firefox for Android
- Who makes Firefox?
- Mozilla is a global, nonprofit organization dedicated to making the Web better. We emphasize principle over profit, and believe that the Web is a shared public resource to be cared for, not a commodity to be sold. We work with a worldwide community to create open source products like Mozilla Firefox, and to innovate for the benefit of the individual and the betterment of the Web. The result is great products built by passionate people and better choices for everyone.
- How is Firefox for Android different from other mobile browsers?
- Firefox for Android is built on the same technology platform as Firefox for the desktop, making it fast, easy to use and secure. Firefox also uses Sync technology to bring your desktop history, bookmarks, passwords and form data to your mobile devices. Firefox for Android is the only mobile browser that offers user-centric, innovative features while still fiercely safeguarding your privacy and data, for instance with Do Not Track.
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Working together to close the education gap for girls and open a world of possibilities.
Working together to close the education gap for girls and open a world of possibilities.
For decades, Intel has worked to improve education for the millions of girls around the world who have limited or no access to it at all. Intel believes that by closing the education gap for girls, their lives can be transformed—along with the lives of everyone they touch.
By providing access to technology, scholarships, and community learning programs, Intel offers girls and women greater opportunities for quality education and personal growth. Our global partnerships and programs emphasize technology and digital literacy to help girls and women advance their ideas.
Intel is proud to be the founding Strategic Action Partner with 10x10, a campaign to reach global audiences and inspire people to take action for girls. Girl Rising is a feature film at the center of the movement created to deliver a single message: Educating girls in developing nations will change the world.
Working together with 10x10, we will expand the awareness and impact of educational programs and put our passion, technology, and relationships toward making a real difference for girls and women around the world.
10x10's feature film, Girl Rising, is directed by Academy Award nominee Richard Robbins and tells the stories of nine extraordinary girls from nine countries written by nine celebrated writers. The film is narrated by renowned actors Anne Hathaway, Cate Blanchett, Selena Gomez, Liam Neeson, Priyanka Chopra, Chloë Moretz, Frieda Pinto, Salma Hayek, Meryl Streep, Alicia Keys, and Kerry Washington.
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See the film, spread the word. A portion of Girl Rising ticket sales will go to support girls' programs around the world through the 10x10 Fund for Girls' Education. 10×10 has partnered with Gathr, a web-based service that enables you to request a screening right in your neighborhood. In addition to buying tickets, you can help by donating directly to GirlRising.com.
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LONG BEACH - Although plans for a Kroc Center were previously abandoned, Long Beach will move forward with improvements to the athletic facilities at Chittick Field as early as October, city officials said.
The Long Beach Planning Commission approved the environmental impact report Thursday, and work will likely begin by Oct. 15 on the $4.34 million project, said Michael Conway, director of Public Works. He said the city wants to start before the rainy season, with completion slated for 2013.
Located at 1900 Walnut Ave., the 19-acre site will include two youth soccer fields, one adult soccer field, and a regulation football field surrounded by a 400-meter all-weather track with facilities for javelin, pole vault, shot put, discus, long jump and triple jump.
A 134-space parking lot and restrooms will be available and accessed from Walnut Avenue.
Planning Commissioner Donita Van Horik said the project "is huge and positive."
"I played softball back when it was called Hamilton Bowl and it was very dusty," she said. "This is going to be a nice asset for all of the city and the people in the area."
Conway said funding for the project is coming from the county and is expected later this month or by early September.
The City Council passed a resolution in August 2011 requesting that Los Angeles County supervisors transfer $4.34 million in city-assigned park grant money to fund the project.
Originally, the site was to be home of a $140 million Ray and Joan Kroc Community Corps Center that was to be mostly paid for by a gift to the Salvation Army from the late Joan Kroc, wife of former McDonald's chief executive officer Ray Kroc.
As envisioned, the community center was to be about 180,000 square feet, with an education and community building, a gymnasium with four basketball courts, an amphitheater, an Olympic-size pool and two other pools with slides and water spouts and a soccer field.
However, after four years of delay, the Salvation Army's Western Territorial Headquarters announced that it was pulling the plug on the Kroc Center after it was only able to raise a little more than half of the $15 million needed to kick-start the gift.
"It was a very ambitious project, it was well-intentioned," said Jill Griffith, advance planning officer. "At this point, the city is interested in developing some improvements that are on a much more modest scale."
One concern the Planning Commission had was the possibility of losing the fields during rainy seasons, as Chittick Field also functions as a detention basin for the Los Angeles County Flood Control District.
"The basin remains intact, so the detention capacity remains the same," Conway said. "We do intend to have low-flow runoff captured within a contained system rather than in open trenches so we would be able transport that water with no impact to the surface."
Becky Blair, chairwoman of the Planning Commission, said it's disappointing not having the Kroc Center.
"I think that there were a lot of people that were hopeful and certainly the kids were depending on this, too," she said. "This is now a turnaround and we're going forward with the city and helping make this happen," she said. "I think this is positive, not ending but maybe another transition that maybe something bigger will come back in the future."
Blair also added that any possible projects that would be positive for Long Beach would not be overlooked.


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(NEWSER) – It doesn't look like the CIA's photos of a dead Osama bin Laden will ever see the light of day. A federal appeals court today ruled that the Obama administration's argument that releasing them would incite riots and anti-US violence makes sense, reports Reuters. A conservative watchdog group, Judicial Watch, has been waging a legal battle to have the photos made public, and it's not clear whether today's ruling will be the end of it.


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AU Optronics (AUO) is exhibiting a 4.46-inch smartphone display panel with wide viewing angle and HD 720 high resolution (329 PPI) at Touch Taiwan 2012 running until August 31.
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Toshiba, as part of the 25th anniversary of its notebook innovation, has launched two limited edition notebooks - Libretto W100 and Portege R700 globally.
The Libretto W100 features dual 7-inch touch screens and is equipped with an Intel Pentium U5400 processor and a 62GB solid state drive (SSD). The device is expected to have a small quota of fewer than 10 units available for sale at the end of this month in the Taiwan market at a retail price of about NT$45,000 (US$1,393), according to Taiwan-based makers.
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Philly's comedy scene has grown so big that there's even a school for those who want to learn how to be comedians. The founder of Philadelphia Comedy Academy describes the "magnetic attraction" between Judaism and comic entertainment.
Turn on the television and Jon Stewart is making you laugh and think at the same time. On your iPod, Marc Maron is holding court. In Atlantic City, Jerry Seinfeld and Bob Saget are headlining the Borgata on successive nights. And Sarah Silverman has more than over 4.6 million followers on Twitter.
Thanks to the proliferation of TV networks, Hulu, Netflix, YouTube, podcasts and the like, Jewish comedians have never been more in the public eye. At the same time, comedy itself has enjoyed a resurgence in the United States, and Philadelphia is no exception. After nearly two decades of a fallow period, comedy is cool again, with more venues and more comedians plying their craft here than ever before.
The comedy scene in the city has become so strong, in fact, that there is an entire school to teach those of us, Jewish and otherwise, who have always wanted to learn how to be comedians.
"There's a magnetic attraction between comedy and Judaism," says Brad Trackman, the founder and chief instructor of Philadelphia Comedy Academy. Citing himself as Exhibit A, he adds, "Jews gravitate to comedy — wherever there is grief, guilt, pain, disparity and a need for attention, it draws us in."
Trackman, whose school is located inside of the Helium Comedy Club in Center City, knows from whence he came. The 42-year-old Mount Laurel resident has performed across the country — before he opened his academy, he was on the road an average of 290 nights a year — and is currently in negotiations for his own reality TV show. "I think there is a fine line between tragedy and comedy, and for us, it's better to laugh than to cry," he says.
Trackman says that the reason he got into comedy is the same as most every other male comedian working (or trying to work) today: women. After graduating college, he started working in the shoe department at Bergdorf Goodman in Mahattan, "but my girlfriend told me that she didn't want to date a shoe salesman." He took a comedy class, and the profession stuck — although the girlfriend didn't.
The reason that one of Trackman's prized pupils, Randy Maniloff, got into comedy is very different. "I had been working on a book project (General Liability Insurance Coverage: Key Issues in Every State) for about three years," Maniloff explains. "It consumed me. When it was finished, I had a sense of post-partum depression, and I was looking for something that would be a challenge, that would fill my head." For Maniloff, who says he has worked on being a comedian in his head seemingly forever, comedy school was a natural choice.
Although he has only been involved in the craft for a year and a half, Maniloff, a former partner and current full-time counsel at White and Williams LLP in Philadelphia, obviously has what it takes: This summer, the 46-year-old from the Northeast, performing under his stage name of Randy Spencer, won the fifth annual DeBella Comedy Competition, an amateur contest sponsored by DJ John DeBella's radio station, WMGK-FM.
"I don't do any religious jokes — my routine is probably 75 percent wife jokes — the bickering couple is a Jewish thing, right?" he says.
Maniloff insists he has no intention of leaving his day job. "I'm not trying to become a professional comedian by any stretch; I just want to continue to get better at it."
As Alison Zeidman will attest, Maniloff has the right idea. "I am hard-pressed to think of anyone doing comedy in Philly who doesn't also have a day job," says Zeidman, the co-founder of Free For All, one of the city's leading organizers of open-mike nights.
Not that she is complaining. Like everyone else contacted for this article, the 25-year-old Zeidman, who works at the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance, says the combination of a burgeoning number of venues and a tight-knit and supportive community makes the city an ideal place to be doing comedy. "It's not like New York or L.A. — you're not going to be seen by talent scouts — but as far as coming up and developing your skills and producing your own shows, it's great."
Zeidman, who also doesn't feature any Jewish material in her routines, believes that one of the reasons Jews seem to be so disproportionately represented in comedy is because of the support for creativity within families like hers and within the Jewish community at large. And, like Maniloff, who says his father thought of himself as the next Jackie Mason, she says it didn't hurt that she grew up in a family of funny people.
Despite enjoying and relying on the support of her family in South Jersey, Zeidman knows that to succeed in comedy means to leave Philadelphia. "If you want to get noticed or have a career," she says, "you have to move to New York or L.A."
If she does leave and then comes back to the area as a headliner, her first stop, like that of almost every top-tier comedian to perform here, will be at Helium, the comedy club founded in 2005 by Marc Grossman.
The former financial services professional-turned-impresario had absolutely no experience in comedy before opening Helium — something that he says worked in his favor. "A lot of clubs are opened by people who love comedy or who are comedians," he says. "You have to make it a business first if you want to succeed. It's like a cook who opens a restaurant. If you want it to succeed, you bring in a business guy and he hires a chef."
Grossman entered a comedy landscape still decimated by what he calls the "Comedy Crash" of the 1990s. "There was a lot of comedy on TV, every bar and corner store was doing comedy — there was just a glut of it," he recalls. Nevertheless, the 39-year-old Cherry Hill, N.J., native and member of Temple Beth Sholom saw a need to be filled, specifically nighttime options for his 30-something demographic. "We were past the phase of going out to bars and we weren't quite at the phase where we would go to the Philly Pops. There is a great restaurant scene, but what do you do after dinner?"
Judging by his success — there are now Heliums in Portland, Ore., and Buffalo, N.Y., with a deal just signed to add a location in a southeastern city — he wasn't the only one looking for something to do. Since he proved that Philadelphia was ready for a comedy resurgence, the scene has grown to the point that there are now multiple places each night to see someone kill or bomb, and there are hundreds of comedians competing for space at the mike — and their numbers are only getting bigger.
At Helium's seventh annual Philly's Phunniest competition this summer, the number of contestants had to be capped at 150 — "around 200 people wanted to enter," Grossman says. The four-week event, which drew hundreds of audience members each night, offered Grossman the comedy equivalent of a farm system. "It allows us to see a lot of fresh talent. If the Phillies had these contests, they would be doing a lot better!"


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Pandagate 2011: BBC Blasted for Including Panda on Female Faces of the Year List
This year, the BBC featured a female panda on its 2011 Faces of the Year list—and some people aren't too happy about it.
-Lucia Peters
Every year, the BBC's online Magazine puts together lists of who they consider to be the Faces of the Year. There are two lists—one for the men and one for the women—and they consist of 12 faces each—one for each month of the year. The faces chosen could be politicians, or entertainers, or famous, or not famous—just about anyone who is notably for making a significant contribution to the world during the year. This year, though, the BBC's lists weren't composed entirely of humans—and for some strange reason, this has the public in an uproar. Drama!
Here's what happened: This year's Faces of the Year – The Women list features for the month of December a giant panda named Tian Tian, or "Sweetie." Sweetie and her mate Yang Guang ("Sunshine") arrived in Edinburgh in December after an 11-hour journey from Chengdu in western China—an event that was five years in the making, due to lobbying by the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland and the government. Neat? Yes. Problematic? Apparently also yes, because Sweetie isn't technically a woman.
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There's been a lot of backlash about the inclusion of Sweetie on the list; according to the Hollywood Reporter, such expressions of anger include this tidbit from Labour party MP Stella Creasy: "No offence to Sweetie — sure a lovely panda and best in the class etc — but clue is in the title 'women' not 'female of the species' of the year." Note, too, that Sunshine wasn't included on the list of Faces of the Year – The Men (though many will be gratified to see Colin Firth representing the month of February).
The BBC took the time to respond to the naysayers, pointing out that this isn't the first time an animal has been included on a Faces of the Year list: "Including Sweetie (Tian Tian) as one of the annual headline makers was a light-hearted addition to the list, and this isn't the first time it has featured a non-human," they said, citing the inclusions of Benson the Carp on the 2009 male list and Peppa the Pig on last year's female list as precedents.
Naturally, the whole debate has already earned a nickname: Pandagate. Really, though, I'm behind the Beeb on this one. For crying out loud, people, have a sense of humor! It's the end of the year! It's time to celebrate, not quibble! Who has the energy for that sort of useless fighting? Let the panda be. Just relax and enjoy the end of the year!
Lucia Peters is BettyConfidential's associate editor.


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Yes, I know LinuxCon is next, and that's in mid-August, but I think they've got the publicity thing covered, especially with the 20-year thing and with Linus being there and all. But if you're going to the next show, make it the Ohio LinuxFest in September. Bradley Kuhn and Cathy Malmrose are keynoting, so you'll not want to miss that (especially Cathy — Go ZaReason!)
Because there's no proverbial hornet's nest to stir up in the near vicinity, I guess I'll just touch on a few topics and issues that have popped up on the radar as of late. Like
Ohio Linux Fest: There's some big to-do up in Vancouver next week, something about twenty years of a widely used operating system that puts Windows to shame, a guy named Linus who doesn't like GNOME 3 and other luminaries in the Linux constellation of stars, blah blah blah. But for those who can't make that, you might want to head to Columbus, Ohio, to discover the Ohio Linux Fest next month. The event runs from Sept. 9-11 at the Greater Columbus Convention Center in downtown Columbus. The keynoters are Cathy Malmrose, of ZaReason fame, and Bradley Kuhn, of Software Freedom Conservancy fame. As this is the last big event of the year now that Utah Open Source Conference is in mothballs this year until next spring, it might be a good chance to get in a show before the year's out.
But wait, there's more.
Weighing in on SCALE: The folks at the Southern California Linux Expo — that's SCALE 10X in January (that's right, I said January) — plan to pull out a few stops for the show's 10th anniversary. Rather than divulge what I already know, I can tell you they've moved up the show to Jan. 20-22, which is on the tail end of linux.conf.au — LCA2012 if you're keeping score at home — which runs from Jan. 16-20. Can two different hemispheres handle two big expos back to back? Oh, easily.
But wait, there's more.
Tails, you win: Another candidate for the distros-to-try-when-I-get-some-free-time list is called Tails, which stands for The Amnesic Incognito Live System. Michael Reed of Linux Journal writes a rather in-depth article about it on the LJ web site. While it sort of mirrors the latest OS offering from our own Department of Defense, it goes a few steps further for those who are not government workers and/or who want to take those few extra steps in the way of ensuring privacy.
With that, it's time to hit the redwood trail.
This blog, and all other blogs by Larry the Free Software Guy and Larry Cafiero, are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs CC BY-NC-ND license. In short, this license allows others to download this work and share it with others as long as they credit me as the author, but others can't change it in any way or use it commercially.
(Larry Cafiero is one of the founders of the Lindependence Project and has just started developing software in his new home office. Watch this space.)


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- Distributed by: Disney Channel
- Cartoon Characters: Special Agent Dotty, Grandpa Mel, Mr. Dos, Paw Pilot, R.R. Rapide, Special Agent Oso, Uncle Lou, Whirlybird, Special Agent Wolfie.
- Voice Actors: Amber Hood, Mel Brooks, Gary Anthony Williams, Meghan Strange, Cam Clarke, Sean Astin, Lou Holtz, Phill Lewis, G.K. Bowes, Keli Daniels, Rob Paulsen; Full Voice Cast ...
- Directed By Jamie Mitchell.
- Produced By Ford Riley, Jamie Mitchell, Clay Renfroe.
- Awards: Nominee, Daytime Emmy Award, Outstanding Original Song, Ford Riley (Lyricist) and Mike Himelstein (Composer), For the Song "Special Agent Oso" (Theme Song), 2010.
- Music: Mike Himelstein, Michael Turner, Ford Riley.
- Editor: Pieter Kaufman, Donnell Ebarrete.
- First Aired on October 25, 2009.
- Originally Aired on The Disney Channel (USA).
- Running Time: 11 minutes.
- Episode Number: 105-B
- Season: 1
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Zorba Confident OMMAC Flyweight Tournament Will Deliver
"Nathan Greyson, Martin Wong and Brian Creighton all come with excellent reputations and from great camps," explained Chris. "Even though they are respectively 3-1 ,2-0 and 2-1, they will trouble any flyweight in the country.
"If any of these three win the tournament, they will be OMMAC's champion and in the top ten. Niko is extremely experienced at 8-7-0 and ranked at seventh in the Your MMA rankings.


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Discussion in 'Members Zone' started by the kid 05, Jan 7, 2007.
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Looks about like this one except it's Black on Black instead of the Tan interior shown.
I think it's pretty clear that Slate drives a hoopty.
is that a light mod he did to his Mazda or is he having major backfire issues?
That is my rx8 shooting flames because I removed the cat It only happens when WOT and changing gears. Both pics is me shifting around 9k from 3rd to 4th.
Vehicles today tend to run rich because they use more fuel to keep the cat cool so they last longer. By law they have to last 150,000 miles. Anyway so when it is removed, you get flames as I do.
Once the car is tuned they will lean it out a bit and the flames should stop. Which will produce more HP and little better gas MPG.
My new car.
Coming from a Nissan Maxima to Pontiac G8 GT.
Pontiac makes its first badass car in almost 4 decades....and they get phased out. Go figure. Damn shame. That's one of the few american cars I really like. Great styling, good performance. I'd put it right up there with my favorite German autos.
I know right.
Seems to me GM did a piss poor job marketing this car.
Hell, I didn't even know about it, until I saw it on the road one day.
Never though I'd buy a Pontiac until I test drove it. Knew I had to have it as soon as I stepped out of the car.
Das boot mein sigfried?
Looks kind of like the remake GTO they've been making since around '03.
'07 FJ...mine has running boards though. Love it, but you need to get used to driving without side vision.
My old car. It's no longer with us.
Some jerk ran a stop-sign and totaled it. 232 miles on it when these pics were taken. I did a full restoration on it spanning 2 years and over 1,000 hours put into it. I'm not sure how much money my grandfather spent on it, well over $15,000. The pictures show it with its 1600cc dual-port, but after the pictures I upgraded to a 2.2L turbo Porsche engine. 253HP at the wheels. Never ran it at the track, it probably ran in the 11's.
Well, been talking about posting pics of our '67 Camaro for awhile now...so finally here they are. My dad and I entered a car show at the Veterans Memorial Park here in Tampa. It was a Memorial Day weekend car show.
Pictures aren't the greatest because of the shade (which was a real asset as it was hot!)
1967 RS/SS Camaro (House of Kolor paint: Cinder Red with one coat of Tangerine Metallic)
406 c.i. (small block 400, 350 rods, 400 crank, bored .030 over)
Below are more shots of my Trans Am (1979 Y-84 Special Edition)
Loving that Camaro.
Looking good guys!
Some updated pics of my car...
This was my first car... and like an idiot I let it get away.
"Why dont you go over there and practice fallin' down. ill be there in a second"
I have an '07 G35. No pictures, and I don't think I'm posting any until I finish the work I want to put into it


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