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Bangalore Nano 2012 to be held on December 6-7, 2012
Bangalore: The department of information technology (IT), biotechnology (BT) and science and technology (S&T), Government of Karnataka, under the guidance of Vision Group on Nanotechnology revealed that the 5th edition of Bangalore Nano will be held on December 6-7, 2012, at The Lalit Ashok, Bangalore. The theme of this years' event will be 'Nanotechnology creating better tomorrow for India and for the world'.
The 5th assemblage of Bangalore Nano will feature an exhibition and conference sessions addressed by internationally acclaimed speakers and experts discussing a range of issues pertaining to R&D, skills requirement, institutions involved, risks issues, regulatory and governance structure, investment and collaborations between academia and industry. Bangalore Nano 2012 will also feature a pre-conference tutorial session on the fundamentals to nanofabrication on December 05.
The key speakers of the vent will include Professor Sir Richard Friend, Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, UK; Dr Michael L Klein, Temple University, US; Professor Sandip Tiwari, Cornell University, US; Professor Dr Masakazu Aono, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Ibaraki, Japan; Professor Martin Hegner, FTCD, Nanobiotech Group, CRANN, The Naughton Institute.
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TUPELO – Tupelo City Council members may receive a copy of Mayor Jason Shelton's proposed budget on Monday and meet later in the week to discuss it.
Council president Nettie Davis said the council will hold a budget meeting on Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. to discuss the proposed budget that must be passed by Sept. 15.
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With a month before the deadline for approval, the city's elected leaders face approving a fiscal year 2014 budget with predictions of no sales tax growth and the only increase in property taxes coming from recently annexed areas.
Shelton is opposed to any tax increases and has said he wants to balance the budget without selling bonds or dipping into the city's reserves.
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Unless the video IS by someone notable, I would put much more "salt" in Mr. Vizard's book. Misconception is among the most common areas of ruining heads when trying to "port". A "litttle" IS better unless you're shooting for super-high revs and don't care about low-end.
Also be careful comparing heads using runner volumes. Not all ports are "equal", even when they're the same "size". Extensive use of "inside" and "outside" calipers (dividers) is necessary. Cross-section MUST be maintained up to the "venturi". Use a smaller OD valve as a "gage" for the bowl/throat work. Although the video is not using Chevy heads, Pete McCarthy has an excellent video porting Pontiac heads. The majority of the fundementals are the same. THAT video might offer some insight giving you an advantage. For those not familiar with Pete and his work, he's one of the guys responsible for the "Angeles-McCarthy" '68 Firebird C/SSA that has been a class and race winner at NHRA events over the last 15 years, sporting a 400 Pontiac and running in the low 9s with a Q-Jet. He knows what he's doing... Pete's getting on" these days, but his books and videos are stilling selling well. Jim |
Mr. P Body.... thats what im talkin bout.
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You have to take a look what kind of valve job they have, the e-streets i have seen had horrible valve job in them and valve springs are crap on those heads, i hope you have a better heads/quality
To add to what Timo says, we too, have seen pretty shoddy seat grinds coming out of most aftermarket head suppliers. There's nearly ALWAYS improvements to be made.
We also advise our customers, if supplying heads for us to build, buy them "bare". The hardware various aftermarket companies use, including Edelbrock, "meet" minimum requirements. They don't "exceed" them, and in a performance build, EVERYTHING shoulld exceed requirements for durability. Jim |
Thanks guys. These heads have a 3 angle valve job but not sure on the quality of the vavle job as heads are still assembled. What am I looking for in a bad valve job?? Is it something that can be corrected when I port and polish ??
Without the proper valve grinding equipment, about all you can do at home is lap valves IF you know how to do that. If they're new, I'd leave them alone in the valve and seat areas.
Traditionally, the term "three angle valve job" refers to three separate angles on the seat. Most already know this, but I'm going through the "exercise" for those that may not be clear. The "top" angle is 30 deg. The "seat" is 45 and the "throat", 60. As a youngster in machine shops, that's the way we were taught. The primary purpose of the distinct angles is to insure the seat angle is concentric and of equal width all the way "around". The intake seat isn't as crucial regarding the width of the seat for longevity. The exhaust is very important, as that's how the heat dissapates from the valve. Heat is like electricity. It follows the path of least resistance. A "thnner" portion will transfer heat in a more concentrated manner, "burning" either the seat or the valve.
Today, we use a little different rationale on the angles. The seat angle of a typical small block will always be 45 deg. But by changing the top and throat, we can improve flow. A 15-17 deg. top and 70 deg throat will significantly increase flow "across the lift range". To the tune of 5-7 CFM. The intake is more "reactive". A top of 10, blended to a 30, a seat of 45, .060" wide and a 70 deg throat will improve mid- and high-lift flow. A wider seat and "more" 30 will improve low-lift flow. For a lower revving street engine, low-lift flow is important for torque production. All that said, the "provided" valve seats will seal the cylinders and allow the engine to run properly. They are, by no means, "optimum". Some of the Dart and Brodix stuff I've seen delivered "ready to run" had really nice radius seats. That brings us to modern "high performance" or "competition" valve grinds. Most shops today use stones only for "stock" valve jobs or "truing" the seat angles after the cutters do their "stuff". We have carbide cutters in various "profiles" for different applications, operating in a heavy machine. Very accurate. A true radius (exhaust) will obviously flow much better than anything with abrupt changes. Many builders use a full radius cutter on small blocks for drags. We use one that has a 15 degree "top" angle included in the profile for accurately limiting the OD. We also have a method of creating a "venturi" seat. Pontiacs REALLY "like" that one... One last thing. Most engine families have cylinder heads based on different principles and applications. No two respond the same to the same seat profiles. Even some within the same family will respond differently to similar modifications. There are NO "absolutes". This is strictly about the seats. There are some things that can be done with the valves, as well. That's a "story" for another day. FWIW Jim |
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That's very good information Jim for everyone, regardless of their expertise!
and to celica, buy that David Vizard`s book or books I have a several of his books and they are good and informative with good pictures in them take a look here: Amazon.com: David Vizard: Books |
The how to Port and Flow Test heads is about a waste of $. It's full of graphs and pictures of aftermarket heads that have been done and CNC'd. Plus a bunch of overly technical stuff that won't apply to most hot rodders, like wet flow analysis. It doesn't show how to do anything. Vizard's book on budget sbc is good tho.
Yes sir another tip for you...change out the studs they are junk.... i ran the estreets on my camaro last year and bent a few of them, caused rocker arm binding and wiped out my cam.
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Alexander Salak
Birthday: 1987-01-05 | Position: G |
Eligible for draft: 2005 | Catches: Left |
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2007-08: Salak appeared in 31 games as a rookie for TPS Turku in Finland's SM-Liiga. Salak was 7-12-6 with 1 shutout and had a 2.59 GAA and .923 save percentage.
2008-09: Salak was one of the top goalies in his second season despite playing for a weak TPS Turku club. Salak finished with a .923 save percentage and 2.40 GAA in 53 games working with famed goaltending coach Urpo Ylonen, for whom the league's Goaltender of the Year award is named. (Previous Ylonen "students" include such NHL netminders as Miikka Kiprusoff and Antero Niittymaki). Salak finished the season 20-20-9 with 4 shutouts. Salak was signed by the Panthers at the end of May.
2009-10: Salak got off to a great start with Rochester (AHL) in his first pro season in North America, losing only once through October and November. Despite struggling down the stretch, he was a big factor in the Amerks becoming a playoff team after finishing in the AHL North basement in 2008-09. Salak was 29-14-0 with 1 shutout in 48 games and allowed 2.89 goals per game with a .923 save percentage.
2010-11: Salak returned to Europe for the season, playing for Farjestad in the Swedish Elite League. The netminder ranked second in the league during the regular season with a goals against average of 1.97 and .926 save percentage in 44 games. He made 14 appearances for Farjestad in the playoffs, registering a 2.35 goals against average and .904 save percentage, as the club lost in the SEL finals series to Skelleftea.
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Salak has an unorthodox style. He has a highly aggressive nature in net which often forces him to make the theatrical save with the extraordinary quickness and athleticism to do so.
Salak will return to North America with the Blackhawks organization for the 2011-12 season. The Czech netminder will battle veteran Ray Emery (signed to a try-out contract) for the back-up position behind Chicago's incumbent starter Corey Crawford, with a possible demotion to Rockford for Salak if he does not win that spot.


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Rainbows Over The Baltic
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So, I woke up at the early hour of 7:30 by my phone clock but, we had crossed a time zone during the night and it was actually only 6:30. My plan was to be among the first off the ship and since it was so completely full, I knew the answer was to be ready at the gangway at exactly 8:30.
The night before, I had taken 2 sleeping pills and they hadn't worn off yet so I was a bit woozy. I walked around the decks a few times to get fresh air and wake myself up. It was raining all around us but not where we were, so in every direction I looked, were glorious rainbows, which I took to heart as a sign of good luck!! They made me smile and I began to wake up a bit more.
When the time finally came to get my bag and get to the exit line (which already had only 1 person waiting) it was already 45 minutes before the time we were due to dock. Then, by the time I got my suitcase and returned to the line, there was a group of Chinese tourists gathering their bags before me in the line. There seemed to be one guy organizing the whole group and he was trying to cut me off by piling the suitcases in front of me (I only let him get away with 4.)
As a combined result of my nervousness about passport control, my anxiety about making my ferry connection to Tallinn and the mistimed sleeping pill hangover, I was sweaty and a bit shaky while waiting in the now crowded line but I felt perfectly positioned to avoid any problems as there were more people behind me than in front by order of magnitude and I felt like the passport guy wouldn't want to take too long on me.
The ship arrived at exactly the stroke of 8:30 and the doors opened for us to disembark very rapidly. As if cattle being herded, the people began to push and shove trying to get off the boat. I stood my position steadfastly, knowing my transfer time would be tight.
Anyway, by the time I reached the control window, I was shaking so badly, that I could hardly give my documents to the officer so I simply tossed it onto the counter casually in order to not give away my nervousness. At this encounter, things went remarkably smoothly as the officer had no questions for me. He simply stamped me in to Europe and sent me on my way.
By the time all was said and done, I reached the taxi stand just as a cab was pulling up and the driver was most accommodating and drove quickly through the center to the opposite, port... We had arrived from St. Petersburg at the east side and I had a ferry to Tallinn at the west. We arrived and I checked-in with just enough time to sit and have a bite to eat before getting on the new ferry. This boat was maybe half the size of the last one but seemed like a floating city, complete with a supermarket, shops, bars, lounges, and even some rooms and it was at full capacity. While I was walking around the ship, I became curious as to just how many people these boats could hold so I asked the receptionist and she said 3000!! This means that the last ship I was on, was indeed a floating city, at probably a capacity of 6000 people. Believe me that I have been to small European towns of half that population!!
It was an absolutely beautiful day as we crossed the rainbow strewn Baltic, again, It was raining in areas off in the distance making clearly visible rainbows in practically every direction. In my own interpretation, I decided that these rainbows were signs of the luck I had just had when entering Helsinki and would have in the future.
After a smooth and pleasant 2 hour journey across the rainbow riddled Baltic, the skyline began to come into view and I could see the tops of ancient spires and high, pointed, brick roofs and I was taken in by the beauty as we got closer and closer. We arrived in Tallinn at just about noon and I made my way to my very central hotel. It was a bit difficult to find at first because the streets confused me and my map was a bit vague. But without too much trouble, I got pointed in the right direction. The hotel was between 2 streets, in a courtyard, which was where my confusion arose. The location was in a historic building, which was immaculately remodeled on the inside but reflected the time of the original architecture with creaky wooden stairways and brick floors and was quite charming indeed. In addition, I was greeted at the desk by a very cute young girl with an adorable Estonian accent in her speech. My room wasn't ready so she instructed me to leave my bag and gave me directions to where I could get some food and any other items I may need and told me to come back in 20 minutes.
Following the instructions given me, I went into the town center, which was just around the corner, just as it was beginning to rain, so I ducked into the market and bought some batteries for my camera, some bread and a small bottle of vodka for my room. Even in the rain, I could see I was going to like it here.
Once back in my room, I took some time to relax and wash some of my t-shirts in my sink. I have been traveling for a week now and I will be another 2 so it is time to freshen some things up and get my suitcase aired out and reorganized before heading out to explore.
Maybe an hour went by before I went out on foot, to check out the layout of the city and see if I could get a sense of direction. Then as if by magic, the sun came out delivering me those beautiful rainbows, which I found breathtaking, just as I was climbing up to the top of the city. There is a city wall and the town is built on a small slope, which affords the most amazing views of the towering steeples below with a backdrop of the modern skyscrapers in the distance. I basically wound myself around the streets aimlessly, randomly turning corners and never disappointed by what I found or saw. NEVER!
Then as I made my way down the winding streets, I found a friendly looking club that seemed like it would be fun to go later in the evening. The club was called Kapp and had an image of a goat under a rainbow. Being a Capricorn and rainbows having followed me thus far, I knew for sure that it was a sign.
By now, it was getting to be evening and I was a bit tired from the travel day so, again I rested in my room having a long conversation via skype (which was invented by Estonians) with my mom before going out in the evening for a cocktail.
When I finished having 2 drinks in the nearly deserted pub I had seen earlier that day, I was feeling a bit old as I passed the many groups of Estonian youths hanging out on every corner and popping out of the pubs that line the streets but as I made my way home, I was given a thumbs up by a couple of kids who came across the street to talk to me. They were intrigued that I was American and we had a long conversation about some politics and some other random topics before I finally separated from them and found my way back to my room for well-needed sleep.


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LOS ANGELES – Ellen DeGeneres is bringing variety back to TV with the help of Kabuki Expert and Flag Man.
They're among the performers in DeGeneres' fourth variety special for TBS, 'Ellen's Somewhat Special Special,' which taped at the Chicago Theatre on Wednesday for broadcast later this month.
"I'm really excited about the acts this year," DeGeneres said before the show, which was to include a Q&A session with the audience and "different things."
Asked if that meant she would take part in some of the daring stunts, the comedian said it was possible, adding, "Coincidentally, I signed a big insurance policy."
Others appearing in the special include Lady Antebellum, Australian magician James Galea, Catwalk Acrobats and Nick Cannon. They join Japan's Kabuki Expert, creators of the clever Matrix Ping Pong video seen online, and Dominic Lacasse, an acrobat known as Flag Man.
Between sitcoms and before launching her daytime talk show, DeGeneres starred in a TV variety pilot that didn't make it onto a network schedule. Variety has largely fallen out of favor with viewers, but the comedian and 'American Idol' judge won't give up on the concept.
"It just depends on how it's done," she said, citing the success of 'America's Got Talent,' the Simon Cowell-produced show on NBC. "You can't say an entire genre is obsolete."
'Ellen's Somewhat Special Special' is set to air 9 p.m. EDT Sunday, June 27, on TBS.
It's one of several shows being taped at the five-night Just for Laughs Festival staged by TBS in Chicago, which opened Tuesday and features more than 100 comedians, including Cedric The Entertainer, Denis Leary, Rob Corrdry, Aziz Ansari and Andy Richter with members of Conan O'Brien's writing staff.
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#12040 closed bug (fixed)
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Ticket #11249 fixed a CSP issue with inline styles used for feature detects, but there is currently no unit test to ensure there are no regressions. It seems like we could do this with an iframed test where the web service returned the right Content-Security-Policy header. See http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/security/content-security-policy/ for more info.
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There is in fact a csp.php in the test directory, however it looks severely dated to the current specification and would need updating.
In addition to this, I fear I'm skeptical that these php based test variants are actually run. It appears as though the xhtml one has been broken for a fairly long time.
If php based tests aren't the variant that's preferred right now, what is? I'd also like to point out that currently, there is no reliable way to catch CSP errors in javascript. The test written would need to be outside the scope of qUnit, and tested separately.
Let me know how you'd like to proceed and I'll come up with a test to whatever standard you're interested in.
While I'm at it, I'd also be interested in fixing the XHTML tests, as that directly affects projects I manage.
Anthony Ryan
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This wouldn't be a short-term solution, but I'll find the relevant WG and request a feature. There really should be better JavaScript access to CSP. At the very least it ought to be possible to query the current policy or something.
Perhaps the test could be based on report-uri somehow. There's a report-uri directive to trigger a request at a certain URL when the policy is violated. The server-side code could just keep some state and let you query it later. (If that's there, why didn't they do a DOM event too...) Asserting that this doesn't happen would likely be a bit wonky though since there's something asynchronous involved.
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That solution of storing a persistent state based on report-uri is already what I had in mind (and written), afraid I may not have explained it clearly.
Right now though, I have a working patch written in PHP (the language I saw already in use). I just need to know what the preferred webserver language would be (PHP, Node?), and whether cookies or flatfiles are preferred for persistent data. Whatever language is decided, would be required everywhere tests are run, so I don't want to make any assumptions.
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Cindy's Green Bean & Mushroom Saute
Nutritional Info
- Servings Per Recipe: 4
- Amount Per Serving
- Calories: 75.4
- Total Fat: 3.1 g
- Cholesterol: 7.8 mg
- Sodium: 173.1 mg
- Total Carbs: 10.8 g
- Dietary Fiber: 4.2 g
- Protein: 3.5 g
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Yummy side dish for just about anything! Yummy side dish for just about anything!Number of Servings: 4
1 lb fresh green beans, washed and snapped
1 shallot, sliced into rings or chopped
1 pint sliced mushrooms
1 T extra virgin olive oil
1 T unsalted butter
2 T fat free, reduced sodium chicken broth
salt & pepper to taste
Wash green beans, snap ends. Blanch in boiling salted water for 5 minutes, remove and drain. In large saute pan, add extra virgin olive oil, heat, add mushrooms and shallots, saute 5 minutes on medium/high heat to brown up and carmelize a bit. Add green beans and chicken stock, turn heat to medium until stock reduced by half, about a minute. Add butter and salt and pepper, turn to coat green beans in the "sauce". Serve immediately.
Number of Servings: 4
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Lure of the Temptress
WNivek says: Originally released in 1989, this was Revolution Software's first adventure game, and the first game to use their 'Virtual Theater' engine.
Beneath a Steel Sky
WNivek says: Revolution Software actually gave the ScummVM team the BASS source code, and declared the game freeware. An excellent title, and an unbeatable price: Free
Broken Sword 2: Remastered
WNivek says: Odd that GOG doesn't seem to also carry the original Broken Sword. In any case, both are great adventure games on Revolution Software's Virtual Theater engine.
Gobliiins pack
WNivek says: A handful of excellent puzzle games released by Coktel Vision in their own engine, which was also used for Ween: The Prophecy, Bargon Attack, Lost In Time, and Woodruff And The Schnibble.
Personal Nightmare
WNivek says: A first-person horror adventure game from Horrorsoft, who would later go on to become Adventure Soft. This is the first appearance of what would become the AGOS game engine.
WNivek says: Waxworks is sometimes erroneously called Elvira 3, as it followed the releases of Elvira: Mistress of the Dark, and Elvira II: Jaws of Cerberus, and shared their AGOS engine.
Simon the Sorcerer
WNivek says: Adventure Soft's jump into more family-friendly fare, Simon the Sorcerer combines point-and-click puzzle solving with a keen sense of humor, emphasized by the voice-work of comic actor Chris Barrie.
Simon the Sorcerer 2
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Feeble Files, The
WNivek says: Probably the most recent game to be created under AGOS engine, this game featured enough voice-acting and full-motion video to require distribution on multiple CD-ROMs.
King's Quest 1+2+3
WNivek says: Sierra's older AGI (Adventure Game Interpreter) games have been supported in ScummVM since they integrated with Sarien.
King's Quest 4+5+6
WNivek says: Somewhat more recently, ScummVM has merged with FreeSCI to begin supportting games written for the Sierra Creative Interpretor.
Space Quest 4+5+6
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Now with a new afterword, the Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatic account of the civil rights era's climactic battle in Birmingham as the movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., brought down the institutions of segregation."The Year of Birmingham," 1963, was a cataclysmic turning point in America's long civil rights struggle. Child demonstrators faced down police dogs and fire hoses in huge nonviolent marches against segregation. Ku Klux Klansmen retaliated by bombing the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, killing four young black girls. Diane McWhorter, daughter of a prominent Birmingham family, weaves together police and FBI records, archival documents, interviews with black activists and Klansmen, and personal memories into an extraordinary narrative of the personalities and events that brought about America's second emancipation.
In a new afterword—reporting last encounters with hero Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth and describing the current drastic anti-immigration laws in Alabama—the author demonstrates that Alabama remains a civil rights crucible. less
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Cameron Urged to Cut Students From Migration Target
Kitty DonaldsonLawmakers who head five U.K. parliamentary committees called on Prime Minister David Cameron to exclude overseas students from immigration targets to help boost the economy.
Cameron has said he wants the number of immigrants into Britain reduced to the "tens of thousands." In September, Home Secretary Theresa May ruled out a move to stop counting overseas students as migrants, saying international protocols on data collection forbid it.
The premier is set in the coming weeks to visit India, among countries that are sending fewer students to the U.K. after a clampdown on visa issuance. Writing to Cameron today, the lawmakers said relaxing the rules would "support economic growth in the immediate and longer term, supporting jobs in university towns and increasing export earnings."
The letter was signed by three opposition Labour House of Commons lawmakers -- Adrian Bailey, the chairman of the Business Committee; Margaret Hodge, who heads the Public Accounts Committee; and Keith Vaz, the chairman of the Home Affairs Committee -- and two non-party members of the House of Lords -- John Krebs, the head of the Science and Technology Committee; and David Hannay, chairman of the European Union Sub-Committee for Home Affairs, Health and Education.
More than 34,000 students from outside the European Union were accepted at British universities in 2011, making it difficult for the government to hit its target for cutting the number of migrants unless they're excluded.
May introduced a crackdown in 2011 on "bogus" foreign students who she said use educational visas in order to work illegally in the U.K. She said last month that with annual net migration still at 183,000, there was still some way to go to achieve her goal of reducing that to less than 100,000 by 2015.


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Spending more on breast cancer screening may not save lives of older women, Yale study finds
Areas in the country that spend more on new screening technologies such as digital mammography are seeing more women diagnosed in the early stages of breast cancer but no corresponding drop in late-stage breast cancer diagnoses, according to a study published Monday that raises questions about the benefits of the new tools.
Yale University researchers reviewed a 2006 government Medicare database of more than 137,000 women ages 66 to 100 who hadn't been diagnosed with breast cancer and found that the Medicare program spent more than $1 billion that year on mammography screening, they reported in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine.
But spending varied based on where women lived. Different regions of the country spent anywhere from $42 to $107 per Medicare beneficiary on breast cancer screening. Much of the difference in cost was due to variations in the adoption of newer technologies such as digital mammograms and software tools designed to improve the X-rays' detection rate.
Women in high-cost areas that used the most advanced screening were 78 percent more likely to be diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer but weren't any less likely to be diagnosed with advanced disease. An additional 1 per 1,000 women screened in the high-cost areas was diagnosed with breast cancer over the two-year study without a significant decline in advanced cancers— ones more likely to be fatal because they had spread to distant parts of the body.
"We feel that results of our study really call for further assessment of which new technologies should be available for cancer screening," said study author Dr. Carey Gross, an associate professor of medicine at the Yale University School of Medicine, "and which older patients are going to benefit from it."
In an editorial that accompanied the study, Georgetown University breast oncologist Dr. Jeanne Mandelblatt and her colleagues wrote that the new finding was "compelling" but "does not fully address the question of whether investment in more expensive digital technology improves breast cancer outcomes for older women." That's because it didn't follow women long enough to see whether spending more on mammography actually reduced breast cancer death rates.
Most radiology centers now routinely use digital mammograms, but some are starting to adopt more advanced screening devices such as 3-D mammography, which X-rays the breast from various angles and detects more early breast cancers than digital X-rays.
For women age 75 and over, in particular, there's little evidence that annual mammograms lower their risk of dying from breast cancer, which led a government task force in 2009 to stop recommending screening for women in this age group.
That lack of evidence may be partly due to a dearth of older women in mammography screening trials, Gross said.
The latest research adds to growing concerns about the increasing numbers of women diagnosed with tiny breast malignancies that might never have grown large enough to be felt or posed any life-threatening risk. A November analysis from Dartmouth researchers estimated that 1 million American women had been overdiagnosed with breast cancer over the past 30 years.
The study also highlighted the costs of cancer screening in populations that might receive little benefit. Medicare spends $410 million every year to cover the costs of breast screening in women age 75 and over.
Women need to be informed about the complexities of breast screening—that its potential life-saving benefits diminish with a woman's life expectancy—before a referral slip is written for a mammogram, said Dr. Leigh Simmons, an internist at Massachusetts General Hospital. For older women in failing health because of heart disease or some other chronic condition, an annual mammogram might not make any sense.
On the other hand, a 75-year-old healthy active woman, who could easily live another two decades, may want to continue having her yearly screenings, Simmons said.
"I have this conversation a lot with my patients," she said, "but it's a scary conversation to have because we're confronting a patient's mortality."
Dr. Mara A. Schonberg, an internist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center who studies breast cancer screening and treatment in elderly women, said she spends a lot of time counseling older women on the limited benefits and established drawbacks of mammography, especially if they already have a life-threatening health condition. "Biopsies can be very anxiety-provoking regardless of a woman's age, and doctors tend to treat women over 80 for breast cancer just the same as they would a 50-year-old."
They might give such patients chemotherapy or anti-estrogen therapies, with all their side effects, to prevent a recurrence years down the road.
Simmons said she's been having more discussions lately with patients about unnecessary health care costs. "They've been asking me if the test I'm ordering is really worth it, and whether it's excessively expensive even if it's covered by their insurance," she said. "I think the conversation is changing as patients realize that we're all in this together and we need to be using our resources wisely."


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wildanessX | SG Canyon Date Climbed: Aug 28, 2011 | |
Hiked out to BTN three times. The west fork was great after a good rain. Tons of waterfalls! | ||
Posted Dec 2, 2011 8:49 pm |
missymtngirl | Bridge To Nowhere Lived up to the Hype Date Climbed: May 22, 2011 | |
Beautiful hike that lives up to the hype. The river crossing were a bit swift without hiking poles (one of my poles broke so I decided to go without for the trip back from the bridge). Glad we got a late start because the scenery is even more incredible at sunset. Gorgeous! | ||
Posted Jun 6, 2011 10:13 pm |
SierraCJ | To the Bridge Date Climbed: Dec 27, 2007 | |
Trekked to the Bridge to Nowhere. UCLA sorority bungee jumping from bridge. Extremely entertaining! | ||
Posted Sep 14, 2010 9:49 am |
SoCalHiker | Beautiful canyon Date Climbed: Aug 14, 2010 | |
Went on a hot summer day to the Bridge of Nowhere. Very crowded and many people of all sorts along the trail. The river crossings are fun but you can limit them when you stay high and on the east side as much of possible. | ||
Posted Sep 8, 2010 10:59 am |
tarol | beautiful canyon Date Climbed: Apr 26, 2009 | |
First time I went to the canyon was in April 2009 - hiked up to the Bridge to Nowhere and spent a night nearby in May 2010. Love hiking off trail up the canyon especially. There are lots of nice swimming holes :) | ||
Posted Apr 28, 2009 6:40 pm |
TheGoat | Many Times Date Climbed: Apr 11, 2004 | |
The Bridge to Nowhere was one of my very first campouts as a young Boy Scout, and was one thing that got me very interested in hiking. I've gone back there more times than I can tell, and each time is a refreshing adventure. I've ran half the way back, gotten lost in the dark, seen bighorn sheep many a time, and slept on the bridge (shh, don't tell anyone that last bit, it's probably not allowed). And recently, I've returned again and again to the area to climb Iron Mountain. Always a beautiful area, and a perfect Summer hike. | ||
Posted Mar 29, 2009 2:40 am |
hashref | Bridge To Nowhere Date Climbed: Sep 9, 2007 | |
This was a fairly easy hike. There isn't much altitude gain, but it is a bit technically challenging with the river crossings. This made finding the trail somewhat difficult at times, which resulted in a little bushwhacking. The river wasn't overflowing, but it was brimming at some places and it was inevitable that someone was going to get wet. The bridge was a fairly anticlimactic. It is basically a bridge in the middle of nowhere. I certainly would do this hike again for the bridge, but rather the nice scenery and the fun hiking conditions. | ||
Posted Nov 27, 2007 8:21 pm |
135driver | Good Trip | |
Good memories with Theron the manimal. We hiked in with no water and no food. Idiots. Went swimming in a "lake" off the river. did some boulder jumping. saw a giant water bug.(dead) And as we were dying of thirst on the way out some dude offered us warm beer. We declined. | ||
Posted Jun 7, 2007 8:45 pm |
Vic Hanson | Get Away from the Crowd | |
I hiked this on a 3 day Memorial Day weekend trip from East Fork of the San Gabriel River, past the Bridge to Nowhere, to Vincent Gap, Baden-Powell and then down Islip to Bear Creek. The trail is almost non-existant in places but not too hard to find a route. Very few people above the Bridge to Nowhere. | ||
Posted Apr 11, 2007 11:31 am |
theronmoon | Great canyon | |
One of the biggest deepest geologic features of Southern California. Endless things to do here. | ||
Posted Feb 15, 2007 2:22 pm |
banjobonch | Nice...if it's raining | |
This is a real pretty area but in my experience, if you come in any type of nice weather, you get a lot of people near the water. | ||
Posted Feb 12, 2007 10:33 pm |
MelbaToast | Tunnel To Nowhere | |
This is a nice but crowded area. The higher you go the better. The lesser-known Tunnel To Nowhere (actually two tunnels) is also very cool. They use it in a recent Toyota truck commercial. | ||
Posted Dec 7, 2006 4:50 am |
Augie Medina | Wonderful Canyon Date Climbed: Dec 3, 2006 | |
This is a great area. I've climbed Iron, Ross and Baden-Powell. | ||
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Tour de France Not as Exciting Without Mark Cavendish
It's just not going to be as exciting or intriguing...
British sprinter Mark Cavendish, the Manx Missile with the explosive legs who could break out of the Peleton unexpectedly and grind down the finish line, is out of the Tour de France after a vicious crash on Stage One that injured his collarbone and other ligaments.
Arguably the best sprinter in the world down for good on Stage One.
I'm one of the lucky ones. I got to talk with Cavendish and watch him compete in the Amgen Tour of California in May where he won Stage One. Not an easy one. 123 miles of roads and hills around Sacramento, CA.
Le Tour has been suffering viewship a bit with loss of high profile names of Lance Armstrong, George Hincapie etc. Phil Liggett, who has been announcing the Tour for four decades, told me he expects cycling fans to return. But for the past four years, my eyes have been on Cavendish. Got to meet and cover him twice at the Amgen Tour of California when he came to Sacramento. Looked forward every July to watching every stage of the TdF. Cavendish has won the most stages with 25 wins.
While watching the Peleton in the Tour de France there was nothing more exciting than Cavendish making his move. He would lay back like a cagey race car driver or thoroughbred horse until he saw his break. And his team -- whether it be Columbia HTC or currently Omega Pharma-Quick, would secretly be pacing and protecting him. Then the burst! Cavendish made his move and his team seemingly came out of nowhere as a united front to protect his finish. His explosive sprint to the finish line was a thing of beauty and astonishing.
The most wondrous thing was how does the 5-foot-9 cyclist sprint so hard on such short legs? The man from the Isle of Man makes fun of his short body.
He's out of competition now. But at 29, expect a return.
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Real-Time eXchange, or better known as RTX , is one of the best tools Tencent has for the business/corporate market, though largely unknown, especially in the West. RTX is a IM chat program that is based on the company level. At Tencent's officices everybody uses RTX to communicate with their colleagues. It works just like QQ or MSN or AOL, but with some cool features that make it very suitable for large organizations where lots of people use computers.
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Language Although the main website from RTX is in Chinese and the newest version is also in Chinese, they actually have an English version of RTX. I use this version at a daily basis and it works great! I know Tencent has sold RTX to several other companies, but I think they should also sell this product outside China. It's simply a great product which works good in English and can easily be deployed.
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Lansner: Another financial debacle possible?
Will we ever see another bout of incredibly stupid dealmaking that creates an unsustainable economic bubble that when it bursts takes the American economy to the brink of disaster?
If you talk to Bill Black, who knows a thing or two about financial regulation, he's kind of surprised it hasn't happened already.
I first ran across Black during the savings and loan crisis of a quarter- century ago. He was a senior government S&L regulator who from 1984 to 1994 had roles at the Federal Home Loan Bank Board and the Office of Thrift Supervision. I was a reporter trying to figure out what the heck was going on when the nation's mortgage makers needed a bailout for their deposit insurance fund.
Black, a lawyer by training, gained some fame from his oddly public run-ins with Charlie Keating, the infamous owner of Lincoln S&L from Irvine. Keating used huge political clout, bought with huge campaign donations, to intimidate regulators.
Keating could only forestall the inevitable. Lincoln failed in 1989, costing an industry bailout fund $2 billion. The fact that Keating was convicted for some of his misdeeds and went to prison is noteworthy.
Black – today a professor of economics and law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law – observes that the S&L crisis of the late 1980s was a far smaller economic debacle than the mortgage mess that led up to the Great Recession. In the wake of the S&L industry collapse, roughly 1,000 industry insiders were convicted of financial crimes and roughly 80 percent of them were imprisoned. To date, no key executive tied to the most recent monumental financial mess has gone to jail.
"They all knew what was happening," Black says of top executives at the financial companies tied to the mortgage meltdown.
Compensation for top executives, particularly in the financial industry, can motivate a CEO and his or her lieutenants to take extreme – if not irrational or illegal – risks. Why? Black says if the gambles work, even temporarily, those business leaders get incredibly wealthy. When those bets blow up, Black says, the Great Recession's lack of legal recourse for insiders reinforces the notion that a risk-taker may lose their job, but they'll stay wealthy – and out of jail.
Sadly, some lenders who lost big did get prosecutors to act – against small-fry borrowers who misled banks about their ability to repay mortgages. While Black can't defend fraudulent borrowers, those prosecutions look preposterous in light of the clean record of the lenders who got rich making record levels of bad loans.
"It's hard to believe that these so-clever hairdressers were able to con these pure virginal bankers," Black says.
To Black, the big problem is the government. But not in the way many government critics contend. The professor in him gives a history lesson that's centered in Orange County.
Two pioneers in the high-risk mortgages game, Guardian Savings and Long Beach Savings, hailed from here. Both melded the niche concepts of lending to lower-income borrowers – not bad in theory – and low-documentation lending – fine for the rare, rich entrepreneur – and morphed the practices into mass-marketed, sub-prime mortgage machines. Government regulators, Black notes, were able to force those lending executives out of the S&L industry.
But these mortgage makers were undeterred, taking their loan products to a place where the government was unwilling to go: the lightly regulated private mortgages industry. Onetime sub-prime giant Ameriquest from Orange, backed by Wall Street money, popularized these dicey loans that eventually powered the real estate collapse when they went sour.
Black bemoans that the financial industries' political clout has succeeded in discrediting government supervision, framing the practice as an archaic hurdle to business innovation. Politicians from both sides of the aisle, he notes, have been willing to give the business community more and more rope to hang the American economy. Black recalls his days as a regulator during the Clinton administration: "View them as customers," Black's bosses told him about the bankers he regulated.
In the S&L crisis, Black recalls prosecutors receiving as many as 30,000 referrals of possible criminal activity. Black says from all the reports he's seen, the number of criminal referrals made by regulators after the Great Recession could be counted on the fingers of one hand.
Financial innovation is not always bad. Regulation is not a perfect barrier to stupidity. But until you appreciate the dangers of unfettered markets and the absolute need for healthy financial supervision and enforcement, a guy like Bill Black will tell you that we're stuck with a never-ending series of ugly and expensive booms and busts.
Paraphrasing a jaded view of wealth by the French playwright Balzac, Black said: "Behind every great fortune lies a great scandal."
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I think Rihanna captured the essence of the savage beauty more than anyone else at the Met Ball. With her red serpentine hair and cat claw fingernails you'd stop in your tracks had you walked into her in an empty Met Museum. The thing about Rihanna here, is that you wouldn't be able to tell if she'd claw your eyes out or or screw your brains upside down. We haven't even mentioned yet that she's not wearing any underwear. Here is a very raw and feral beauty. And after all that, it's in her eyes, it's all in her eyes.
"it's all in her eyes"
so beautiful sure, her voice is amazing !
sexy dress…
You are so wright. It is all in her eyes. There is something mysterious about her. And I like that. Not being able to read a person too easy.
Mioara Roncea.
I totally agree, she was the only one that "got it", and she got it right.
i liked this look especially from the other angle her whole side was out! she was living art
please post your look as well I heard you was quite the flapper! but didnt see any clear pics of your full look for the met ;)
Shala, your look was my favorite one. http://www.365fashionandlifestyle.com/2011/05/met-gala-who-dazzeld-on-red-carpet.html
I'm sorry her makeup and hair are unbecoming. They mess up a great dress. I usually like her crazy style but the makeup and styling of the dress is awful like her voice. However the dress is beautiful like her eyes.
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My 9 year old takes a 45 minute dance class and 1 hour zumbAtomic class. It's a great excercise program designed for kids age 4 thru 12. My 7 year old plays soccer in the spring, fall and then it's baseball in the summer. Both of my children are "outdoor" kids. They would much rather be outside running around with friends than play video games or watch television. I think it is best to play a few organized sports, but also leave time to just be kids and run around with their neighborhood friends.
All we can do as parents is give our children the opportunities and knowledge to lead a healthy lifestyle and hope it sticks with them as adults!
How much exercise does a grade-schooler need?
With obesity reaching 20% of the school aged children, the importance of diet and exercise for kids is becoming more apparent. So how much exercise is a healthy amount for kids in grade school?
I've heard the figure of 1 hour per day at very least of vigourous exercise for primary school aged kids - and this includes all organised sport plus incidental running around and boisterous play. This is a minimum but not hard to reach if the kids have plenty of opportunities to play, say, at school, in the street or the garden/yard. But it might be hard to reach if people live in small appartments and drive to school, and it can be require a bit more planning for single children because they don't have other siblings to "bounce off" and chase etc.
I think it's important to leave plenty of time for the incidental running around and not think that you have to pay someone to have an organised session of sport/dance/games - kids can get really hot and sweaty just going mad on their own!
I have two boys, 13 and 12. We do not participate in organized sports, (because of knee injuries from Opti. football) and I have no problems with then 'exercising'. They have an X-Box 360, a Play Station, and a wii, and several games for each. The only time they play them is if its freezing cold out or they are sick. There are times I think I wasted money on those 'toys' . They have bicycles and scooters, footballs, soccer balls, basketballs, ladder golf, baseball stuff. And now that summer is upon us, they will be where ever there is water. The local community pool? Forget it!! They go to the local ponds (3), the lake, or the river. My problem is getting them to stay home long enough for them to clean their bedroom and do their laundry. They are literally outside from dawn to dusk, and even then they'll say "why do we have to come in? It's not dark yet.)
Wow Verna - sounds like your boys have a great life there!
My daughter is 9 and she swims at least 3-4 times a week for 90 minutes.
Besides organized sports practices and games, my kids are outside 24/7, riding bikes, scooters, running, races, made up soccer/lacrosse games...simply physical PLAYING! We walk to anything we can and basically save the sedentary stuff for rainy days. Just get them out there. They will do the rest.
They need the same amount as any adult of course! My 3 and 5 year old take ballet/tap (one 45 minute class a week), gymnastics (one 45 minute class for my 3 year old and a hour long one for my 5 year old), and soccer (one 30 minute practice and a 45 minute game per week). We are trying to figure out how to put in more classes with my daughter starting school in the fall. Kids have WAY MORE energy than adults and can do much more so at the very least they should be doing what we are recommended to do. Even with classes and eating healthy my kids have 6-8 packs but they also have padding on them so I'm sure they could do double the load.
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David Dhawan's directorial venture starring his laadla beta hit the theatres on Friday. While this romantic comedy managed to impress the critics, it failed to pull in crowds to the cinema halls
Varun Dhawan, Ileana D'Cruz and Nargis Fakhri starrer Main Tera Hero is a typical masala entertainer directed by king of comedy David Dhawan. This is the first time that Varun has teamed up with his filmmaker father. And though they left no stone unturned to promote their film, Main Tera Hero had an average opening at the ticket windows on its first day. Considering that Sunny Leone's Ragini MMS 2 grossed Rs 8. 43 crore nett on its first day, Jr Dhawan's film surely kicked off on a slow note, hai na? Film critic and trade analyst Taran Adarsh tweeted, "Main Tera Hero Fri – 6.60 cr nett. India biz." The film's business could pick up coz of positive worth-of-mouth but wethinks the ongoing T20 World Cup will play a spoilsport as team India has reached the finals.
According to Boxofficeindia, 'Main Tera Hero had an average opening with mass circuits opening better be it multiplex properties or single screen ones. The average occupancy was around 30% plus which is lower if compared with Ragini MMS 2 which had an average occupancy of around 40-45% The film will be affected by the big cricket match in the evening so a better opening would have helped especially as the film is for the youth which comes to the theatres in the morning but still the film has chances if the reports are on the plus side."
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NRA, 26 Conservative States Sue To Overturn San Francisco Gun Security RulesThe National Rifle Association and 26 conservative states are suing the city and Count of San Francisco over laws requiring handguns be locked up when not being handled.
Flag-Flying Marin Residents Attacked By Anonymous Letter Writer For 'Confused' PatriotismThe Marin Independent Journal reports that a number of people received poorly-written photocopied letters addressed to "resident" that assumed the homeowners were Conservative and did not support the "black president." The letter claims that flying the flag makes people no more patriotic than anyone else and is appears to be a "moronic statement" which is "not cute."
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I might have misunderstood some things, but this is what I gather so far...You are being "punished" for being someone who enjoy LFR by getting gear which has... 1. No set bonuses (because "proper" raiders are unhappy for others having something nice), which 2. Looks awful (same reason?)..... and 3. Us LFR'ers won't get chances to get raid-drop pets since we are foolish enough to like/enjoy/use LFR?What is the point of it then?Personally I will never have the chance, time, work schedule, life, or priority to be in a raiding guild and activly raid. And now Blizzard is basically ruining the fun for us who finally had a chance to gear up half decently without being forced to live like that. Yay! I am sure more people than me has the same issues.At least I am being saved from having to stack up on more transmog-gear....Just seems to me that us casual gamers, who also help keep the game alive, are being frowned upon and forgotten. Well, not "forgotten", but basically shown that we're not as important as the hardcore raiders and PvP'ers.
Honestly I think this sucks horribly. I work two jobs and I don't have time to raid with the guild because I am at work. So LFR was the only way for me to gear up and get set bonuses. If I have no chance of getting any set gear, why should I even play? I can't think of a reason.I agreed with LFR having lower I-Lvl gear.. even lower set bonuses. But to eliminate them totally sucks.
But if you're in raid gear, you shouldn't need to go to Timeless Isle. Timeless Isle = casual Isle. I skipped it in it's entirety since I was raiding. There shouldn't be LESS of a disparity between raiders gear and casuals gear- there should be MORE. If you spent 50 hours working hard at your job, and I showed up when I liked and maybe put in 10 hours a week, but our paychecks and benefits were the same- you'd be pissed and wouldn't want to work there anymore. If I'm putting in MORE work than a casual to get that raid gear, I deserve to get a higher payout for my time invested.
I haven't ordered WoD and I won't be buying it now.
aww yeah, mythic here we come
In the new Group Finder, will the groups be able to run Normal and higher raids or will they be limited to LFR difficulty raids?


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It could soon be illegal to talk or text on handheld wireless devices while a vehicle is temporarily stopped, under new legislation sponsored by State Sen. Dick Codey (D-Livingston).
"Right now if you're texting or talking on your cell phone at a light, you're not breaking the law," Codey said. "We want to change it to make it like the DUI (Driving Under the Influence) law. If you're at a light and your motor's running obviously — and you're pulled over and you're legally drunk, you're DUI."
Codey said it's dangerous for motorists to text while sitting at a red light.
"Think of this: You're texting and then the light turns green," Codey said. "If you're in the middle of a text, you're going to continue, and then you become very dangerous on that road. In fact, you're more dangerous than someone who is drunk."
Under the legislation, it still won't be against the law for a driver to talk or text on a handheld device when the vehicle has been pulled over to the side of the road.
The measure would also require driver's license tests to include questions on distracted driving.
"When you study for that exam you're going to learn about the penalties and the fines, and you're going to learn about how dangerous it is," Codey said.


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The first mentioning of Cherkasy dates back to 1394, when it was a reinforced town on the southern borders of Kiev lands. Cossacks settled around the town and people started calling them Cherkasy after the town name. In Russian documents of the 16-17th century all Ukrainians were called Cherkasy in general.
Not so much buildings of antique style with interesting architectural elements can be found now in the city, since it was rebuilt several times after the wars. In 1954 Cherkasy became the centre of a newly formed administrative region of Ukraine. It gave a new impact for its development. The life of the city was greatly influenced by the construction of an artificial lake for the hydro-power station in 50s of the previous century. The lower part of the city was covered with water and what was before on the hills now looks like a rather flat land.
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There are several explanations of the city name, and one of them proves that many historical documents of the 16-17th centuries use two words cherkasy and cossacks, which had the same meaning free horsemen. Indeed, the entire history of the town is inseparable from the history of Ukrainian Cossacks.
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