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Photos by Mark Derricutt
Date / Venue: Wednesday November 7th, 2018 - Galatos, Auckland
Photos by Mark Derricutt
Date / Venue: Wednesday November 7th, 2018 - Galatos, Auckland
Libel bring you the latest music news, reviews, interviews and competitions. Based in New Zealand, covering entertainment both locally and internationally.
Norah Jones is to make her long-awaited return to New Zealand in April 2019.
Bad news from the Good Things Festival crew. While Good Things Festival believes that live music is for all-ages, the NSW state government and police department heavily disagree. This decision was hard on the Good Things Festival organisers but promises of excessive police presence, and the ever-looming threat of no-more-music-festivals in NSW, means that the Sydney show will be R18 only. All under-18s will be contacted for refund; Melbourne and Brisbane events remain unaffected.
Dust off your dancing shoes, punk rock's greatest supergroup cover band, Me First And The Gimme Gimmes have confirmed they're coming back for more kiwi action in March 2019.
Kiwi thrash metal band Alien Weaponry are set to embark on a tour of New Zealand in March 2019.
Julia Jacklin has delivered a foray of news overnight revealing her new album Crushing will drop 22 February featuring the brand new single 'Head Alone' alongside the news of her biggest New Zealand tour to date in February/March 2019!
By Lisa Diedricks
Date / Venue: Sunday November 18th, 2018 - Western Springs Stadium, Auckland
By Andra Jenkin
I spoke with John Cooper, frontman for Skillet, and discovered he was a man unafraid to talk about positivity, identity or the darkness within.
By Saffy Wihoite
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus are gracing our shores on the 28th of November at Galatos. After a 4-year hiatus, they have burst back onto the scene and headed straight for the spot they are most familiar with, number 1 on the Billboard Christian Rock Charts.
By Andra Jenkin
Date / Venue: Thursday November 1st, 2018 - Civic Theatre, Auckland
In celebration of his three wins at this year's VNZMA's for Album of the Year, Best Solo Artist and Best Video , Marlon Williams has just added five new shows in addition to his performance with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra at Villa Maria Winery.
By Megan Moss
Artist: David Byrne
Date / Venue: Saturday November 17th, 2018 - Spark Arena, Auckland
By Mark Derricutt
Breakups are never easy - whether it's a romantic tryst, a teenage crush, or with a young Mark and his favourite band Dream Theater, that dark moment when founding keyboardist Kevin Moore left the group in 1994.
As Fat Freddy's Drop journey home from their epic European tour playing to their biggest crowds ever, their focus shifts home to whanau and upcoming 2019 Summer Tour.
Australia's Good Things Festival has once and for all emerged from the vast unknowns, bringing forth a new era for Australian alternative music fans, ushered in by an unstoppable army of some of the heaviest, and most alternative bands the universe has on offer in 2018!
New Zealand's most talked about boutique music festival Coastella returns to the stunning Kapiti Coast with an eclectic trans tasman lineup.
The Red Hot Chili Peppers will make a long-overdue and highly-anticipated return Down Under in 2019.
Celebrating the past, present and future at the 2018 Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards
Top New Zealand musicians celebrated at the 2018 ceremony.
Legendary singer Mavis Staples -- the embodiment of everything that's good in the world right now -- will return to New Zealand in April 2019 in a special one-off concert featuring our own treasure, Tami Neilson, in support.
One of New Zealand's most-loved and unique female artists, Gin Wigmore, makes her great return to the Kiwi stage to perform three summer dates across the country as part of a New Zealand tour.
Get ready to stomp your feet in the pit and raise your fists in the air, Canadian political punks, Propagandhi have just announced a run of shows across Australia... and New Zealand!
Larkin Poe, the American Blues-Rock band, will be performing their gritty, soulful, southern heritage in Auckland this April.
Photos by Trevor Villers
Date / Venue: Wednesday November 13th, 2018 - The Tuning Fork, Auckland
By Mark Derricutt
Artist: Conan & Bell Witch with special guests Mothra
Date / Venue: Tuesday November 13th, 2018 - Whammy Bar, Auckland
2018 saw the Australian debut of the world's premier rock and metal festival Download! 30,000 heavy music fans descended on Flemington christening Melbourne into the Download family alongside Donington UK, (the spiritual home of rock), Paris France, Madrid Spain. In 2019, Download returns to Melbourne and will head north to serve up a mammoth line up of sonic brutality and great times to Sydney-siders for the very first time!
Heres the second line-up announcement!
By Andra Jenkin
Peter Pan Goes Wrong is a play I've been dying to see, being a huge fan of comedy and having loved J.M. Barrie since I was a child.
Something positive;
Foretold through street posters, heralded through (not so) hushed murmurs of the people; Good Things Festival has once and for all emerged from the vast unknowns, bringing forth a new era for Australian alternative music fans, ushered in by an unstoppable army of some of the heaviest, and most alternative bands the universe has on offer in 2018!
By Wal Reid
Artist: Passenger
Date / Venue: Tuesday November 13th, 2018: The Powerstation, Auckland


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Everything You Need to Have Seen from Last Night's Golden Globes
The Golden Globes have come and gone, and this is all you need to catch up—the best, worst, and most awkward jokes, speeches, and moments from the 71st Golden Globe Awards.
Let's kick it off with an actual title card from E!'s red carpet coverage:
Yep, the red carpet was just as bad as it always is. On E!, Ryan Seacrest and Giuliana Rancic competed to see who could make more excruciatingly awkward conversation. (Later, on NBC, Matt Lauer and Savannah Guthrie joined in competition.) The highlight for the pre-show was nominee Jennifer Lawrence photoboming fellow nominee Taylor Swift—only to tell her "I was going to push you down the stairs" (GIF via Matt's GIFs):
Honestly we mostly just felt like this:
Once the show actually started, though, we got the best ten minutes of the whole thing: Tina Fey and Amy Poehler's opening monologue (duologue?) featuring the show's best joke, a Gravity-related Clooney zing (and its worst, an un-landable "blacklist" joke at the end). It's worth watching the whole thing in full.
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Almost immediately after the opener we got the show's weirdest—and maybe its best—speech, a genuinely bizarre ramble from Jacqueline Bisset, who won the Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Miniseries, or Television Film award for her work in the BBC/Starz series Dancing on the Edge. (Rich Juzwiak has transcribed the whole thing here, if you're having trouble following it.)
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From there we got the very boring HFPA president's speech, livened only by a cutaway to an even more bored Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin. And then two nicely awkward moments with Diddy, the first a weird anecdote about St. Barths, the second a poorly planned hug with Bono.
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Both Emma Thompson—a presenter—and Diane Keaton—giving to (or receiving for?) Woody Allen the Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement award—appeared to be drunk, though Thompson may have just been fooling around, and Keaton may have just been acting weird.
(Speaking of Woody Allen! When the tribute to the director started, here's what Allen's ex-wife Mia Farrow, had to say:
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All the awkwardness aside, what was good? Two of the best speeches of the night were by the SNL-alumni winners of the best actor and best actress in a TV comedy awards: Andy Samberg, who didn't plan a speech—and got a big weird smooch from Julie Bowen—and Amy Poehler, who gave Bono a big weird smooch of her own:
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And, of course, the night's best moment might've been the somewhat drama best picture win for 12 Years a Slave, and director Steve McQueen's heartfelt speech:
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800m 1:54.04
800mR 1:54.5
1000m 2:33.13
2011-2012: Only competed at the Giegengack Invitational, where he was 30th in the 800-meter run.
2010-2011: Sat out outdoor and indoor seasons because of injury.
2009-2010: Competed on 4 x 800m at outdoor Heps.
2008-2009: Indoor IC4A qualifier as a member of both the two mile relay and DMR…Ran indoor 800m PR at Heps.
High School: Won several state championships for Ledyard High School … Also starred playing soccer in the fall.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 23rd May 2014 18:28 UTC
Historians of technology often cite Bush's essay as the conceptual forerunner of the Web. And hypertext pioneers like Douglas Engelbart, Ted Nelson, and Tim Berners-Lee have all acknowledged their debt to Bush's vision. But for all his lasting influence, Bush was not the first person to imagine something like the Web.
This actually reminds me a lot of how contemporary technology media look at smartphones and such. They often have little to no experience with the breadth of mobile technology that came before the iPhone and Android, and as a consequence, they treat everything as new, revolutionary, and 'owned' - even though virtually everything has been taken from somewhere else.
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Gaming Company Sees Massive User & Revenue Growth Because Of Piracy
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John Goodale, Unity's general manager of Asia, told Edge that Unity has seen a 258.7% growth in revenue in Asia over the last year. He puts much of this growth down to piracy of the Unity3D development platform.
How can it possibly make money from people "stealing" its products? It does so by selling additional content to the users whether legit or not.
It's not talked about often, but we have a product called Asset Server that allows large teams to share assets more effectively, and according to the sales reports that I get we sell far more Asset Server in Asia than we do in the west.As far as I can tell, Unity is looking at those who pirate its software in much the same way it looks at those who download the free version of the software, as customers. Goodale explains the flexibility he has been given in reaching out to the Asian market is the primary driver of this success:
Throughout my 25 years of doing business in Asia, I've seen very few companies be so dedicated to that region, or give me the flexibility and tools that I need to be successful. And as a result, I am just having way too much fun!I really hope this line of thinking grows and penetrates the games industry even deeper. It is something I have argued and debated multiple times on games industry news sites and blogs. There are many people who feel the same way and many more who are dead set on treating piracy as a criminal offense. I don't blame them for the way the feel as it is their livelihood at stake. Yet, I can't understand their desire to hold onto an ideal that in the long run will fail -- especially when there are so many examples, like this one, of a company discovering it can make more money by adapting, rather than by trying to stop infringement.


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- Colorado Service-Learning Council
The Colorado Service-Learning Council is a collaboration between several agencies, including CDE, focused on building statewide capacity for all Coloradans to engage in high quality service-learning.
- Free Service-Learning Webinars from the Generator School Network
Delve deeper into each of the K-12 Service-Learning Standards for Quality Practice through short videos and with supporting research. Learn more and add context to what you're learning by attending any of the free monthly webinars related to the standards, or by watching any of the standards-focused recorded webinars already available in the GSN.
- Service-Learning Toolkit
Strategies for Student Engagement: A Toolkit to Implement Quality Service-Learning in Colorado
- Engaged for Success
A resource for using Service-Learning as a dropout prevention strategy.
- Research Demonstrates the Value of Service-Learning
Service-learning as an evidenced-based practice.
Resource Guide for Planning and Operating After School Programs, broken down with resources for each section: management, communication, programming, school day integration, community building, and evaluation
- National Institute on Out of School Time
Numerous publications online including research, policy papers, trainings and a clearinghouse of projects and initiatives
Arts Education in Colorado: Guidebook and Resources
As a way to support requirements of the Arts Education for Workforce Development Act (House Bill 10-1273) that was passed by the Colorado General Assembly in 2010 an HB 10-1273 The Arts Education task force convened to support efforts to prepare students for a creative and competitive 21st century workforce.
Thanks to funding and contributions by many sponsors, contributors and the CDE Dropout Prevention and Student Engagement Unit, an Arts Guidebook was created in an effort to connect educational needs with visual and performing arts activities in communities across the state.
This guidebook had its origins in a desire to provide Colorado schools and districts with research-based information and ideas on ways to improve or expand their arts education programs. As the economic needs of the state have evolved, so has the urgency to provide our students with an education that will best prepare them for the workforce of tomorrow, one that will require the learning and innovation skills that are taught most effectively through the arts: invention, creativity and innovation, critical thinking and reasoning, self-direction, communication, and collaboration.
The task force recognizes that all students in Colorado should have access to quality arts instruction during their learning process in school. This guide is intended to help schools, districts, parents, community members and most importantly, the students, gain equal access to the arts. Whether you live in an urban setting or a rural setting, arts education is vital to developing the next generation of American innovators.
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Steinberg unveils Studio Case II
New version of Steinberg's budget sequencer Cubase SE3 and six VSTi's offer full entry-level music production system
Steinberg is pleased to announce Studio Case 2, the successor to its highly successful Studio Case product. Featuring a brand new version of Steinberg's Cubase SE budget sequencer and special versions of six Steinberg VST instruments, Studio Case II will be available for Mac and PC from September 2005.
"This product sets standards for functionality available to entry-level customers in this price segment," says Arnd Kaiser, Steinberg's Senior Product Manager for Music technology. "Cubase SE3 is definitely the best budget sequencer Steinberg has ever produced, and the included VSTi's provide enormous creative potential," Kaiser continues.
Cubase SE3 is the latest version of Steinberg's legendary music production software. Using technologies from Steinberg's award-winning Cubase SX3, Cubase SE3 offers the same 32-bit floating point audio engine, automatic latency compensation and advanced user interface as its larger siblings. A full range of audio and MIDI effects is also included, further adding to the creative potential of Cubase SE3.
Studio Case II also offers entry-level versions of some of Steinberg's most successful VST instruments. Almost all conceivable aspects of modern music production are covered by the special SE versions of Groove Agent, HALion, The Grand, Virtual Guitarist Electric Edition and D'cota. A brand new Virtual Bassist SE version of Steinberg's new bass player VSTi provides dynamic, lively bass grooves suitable for a huge range of musical styles.
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HARTSVILLE, S.C. – Coker College men's volleyball coach Todd Caughlin has added three players for the 2012-13 season. Jared Geizer (Montville, Ohio), Cooper Lyon (Lethbridge, Alberta) and Luke Grupe (Lexington, Kent.) have signed national letters of intent to play at Coker.
Geizer comes from Notre Dame-Cathedral Latin High School. He is a 6-foot-6 outside hitter on the right side. A three-year captain and MVP in high school, Geizer was named to the 2011 All-Ohio Second Team and Northern Ohio Region First Team.
"The combination of Jared's height and jumping ability will put him in a position to contribute from the outside," said Caughlin. "He is coming to Coker having played for one of the strongest men's club programs in the Midwest, and I look forward to Jared making an impact with our team."
Jared is the son of Dave and Judee Geizer. He intends to major in art with a concentration in graphic design.
A 6-foot-6 middle blocker, Grupe joins Coker from Henry Clay High School.
"Luke is going to provide size and knowledge in the middle that will help get the program off the ground," Caughlin said. "Luke has been around the game almost all his life, and that experience is something that you cannot train. Once he's able to play every day, I think Luke is going to do some special things."
Luke is the son of Dale and Kathy Grupe.
Lyon hails from Catholic Central High in Canada. He was named the defensive player of the year in both 2011 and 2012. A 5-foot-9 libero, Lyon is the second player Caughlin has signed out of Lethbridge, joining Brett Parkin.
"Cooper is a dynamic player with a very strong sense for the game that will be crucial in our first year of play," said Caughlin. "It's essential for your libero to have the knowledge and skill to set, and Cooper has just that. He plays with a fire and intensity that his teammates are certain to feed off."
Cooper is the son of James and Leslie Lyon. He intends to major in business.
For more information, contact Chris Dougherty, manager of athletics media relations, at 843-383-8018 or email@example.com.
Coker College readies undergraduates for personal and professional success through a distinctive four-year program that emphasizes a practical application of the liberal arts as well as hands-on and discussion-based learning within and beyond the classroom. Coker is ranked among the "Best Colleges" in the South by U.S. News & World Report as well as The Princeton Review. Located in Hartsville, S.C., Coker is within two hours of the cultural, financial and recreational resources of Charlotte, Columbia, Charleston and Myrtle Beach.


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Season 2 Better Call Saul During a flashback, a disapproving Chuck meets with Jimmy in jail,Better Call Saul Season 2 DVD where Jimmy faces multiple charges and the risk of being deemed a sex offender. Jimmy begs for Chuck's help. Back in 2002, Jimmy is still working on the Kettleman's case and warns them they are at risk of getting robbed. As Jimmy returns to the Kettleman's house, he's informed they have been kidnapped. Nacho, whom a neighbor has spotted casing the Kettleman's house, is arrested; he accuses Jimmy of tipping off the Kettlemans, and threatens to kill Jimmy unless he proves Nacho's innocence. Jimmy comes up with a theory that the Kettlemans have kidnapped themselves and strives to prove it. The police do not believe Jimmy's theory,Season 2 Better Call Saul but Mike does. Jimmy later finds the Kettlemans in a tent close to their house, and discovers a bag in their possession containing millions of dollars. They bribe him to keep quiet about the money.
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The food, a timeless presentation of French gourmet classics, is as savory as ever. The service is attentive and flawless. The dining rooms, freshly polished and filled with historical artifacts, promise a luxuriant meal. The veteran waiters are hard at work, as are many of the long-time cooks and kitchen workers.
Nearly everything at Antoine's Restaurant, one of the oldest and most renowned institutions in New Orleans, looks just the same as it did on Aug. 28, 2005, the day before Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Crescent City.
That is, as long as you don't look too hard.
The restaurant, it turns out, is hemorrhaging cash, losing nearly $5,000 every night that it swings open its heavy wooden front door. That puts the historic 166-year-old French Quarter icon, whose fortunes the Tribune has been following for much of the last year, on track to lose more than $1 million by the end of December if things don't soon improve.
Most of the restaurant's employees, behind the warm smiles they offer their customers, are worried about finding a permanent place to live, staying for the moment in camping trailers, temporary apartments or the carcasses of flooded homes they are struggling to repair.
And many of the tourists and conventioneers who have long accounted for more than 80 percent of Antoine's business are nowhere to be found.
One year after Katrina burst New Orleans' decrepit levees and flooded four-fifths of the city, driving its residents into exile across the rest of the United States, this place long known as the Big Easy is anything but.
The murder rate is rising, blight is spreading, rebuilding is stalled and suicides are on the increase.
Rot, weeds and tangled brush, no longer kept at bay by diligent homeowners, have colonized entire blocks.
In some ruined neighborhoods, the only humans in sight are the demolition crews, clad in white biohazard suits to protect them from the toxic houses they are tearing down.
Repair work on the 150 miles of levees and floodwalls that are supposed to protect the below-sea-level city from hurricanes won't be completed until 2010. Even then, the walls will not be high enough to protect against the worst Category 5 storms.
Just half of the 485,000 people who lived in New Orleans before the hurricane are estimated to have returned. And it often seems as if all of them, like the owners of Antoine's, are holding their breath, eagerly awaiting any sign that their wounded city can recover from one of the worst natural disasters to hit the U.S. in modern times.
"A year has gone by and most of New Orleans has been reclaimed by the jungle and it looks horrible," lamented Rick Blount, Antoine's CEO and the great-great grandson of the restaurant's founder. "If New Orleans does not grow, if there is no rosier future for this city, then I've made some very bad decisions in reopening this restaurant."
A year later, a little hope
Certainly not all the news in New Orleans is bleak.
The French Quarter, the Garden District and downtown New Orleans--the areas most familiar to tourists and visitors--were not heavily damaged by the hurricane and are largely back to normal. Repairs to the Superdome and the convention center, sites of some of the most wrenching post-Katrina misery where tens of thousands of flood victims huddled for days awaiting rescue, are nearly complete.
And the city's crucial convention business is looking up: After being forced to cancel all conventions from last September through March, convention center officials say 70 percent of traditional bookings will return in 2007 and 93 percent in 2008.
Meanwhile, water, gas and electric service have been restored to most of the city's neighborhoods, although outages and interruptions are frequent.
About half of the city's schools managed to reopen for the fall. And owners of flooded homes will soon start receiving checks for up to $150,000 to help them cover uninsured losses under a $4.6 billion federal reconstruction program that city and state officials hope will kick-start rebuilding efforts.
There's positive news at Antoine's as well.
Half of the restaurant's pre-Katrina staff of 132 employees are back at work, including nearly all of the veteran waiters, cooks and managers whose experience and institutional knowledge Blount deemed critical. Another 32 new employees have been hired.
Sales revenue in July, traditionally one of the restaurant's slowest months, was more than double what managers had projected, and most waiters report that their monthly income, from salaries and tips, is back to what it was before Katrina hit.
But the problem, for both the restaurant and the city, is how much further there is to go.
Dependence on local diners
Before Katrina, Antoine's was a behemoth, featuring 15 dining rooms that could seat more than 850 diners every night. But wind and rain from the hurricane caused more than $14 million in structural damage to the restaurant's historic buildings, forcing the closing of the main dining room and leaving only 400 available seats.
Just to break even, Antoine's needs to fill 260 of those chairs each evening. But the average daily customer count for the first seven months of the year was 186.
What's more, nearly all of those diners have been local customers, many of them well-heeled long-time patrons who come as much for the tradition as the food. But bluebloods are not a growth market in New Orleans at the moment, and while awaiting the return of the usual out-of-town expense-account clientele, Blount is marketing Antoine's to local doctors, lawyers and accountants--the kind of customers who won't balk at the restaurant's average $65-per-person tab.
That puts Antoine's into unaccustomed competition, however, against a host of trendier restaurants in an epicurean city still renowned, even after Katrina, for its food.
"We're just never going to be the venue where people will just stop by on their way home for a quick boiled chicken," said Blount. "You have to want to come to Antoine's."
Among the most worrisome developments in New Orleans for Blount and others in the tourism industry is the alarming resurgence of the city's notorious crime problems, fueled by a growing drug trade.
Despite having only half its previous population, the city suffered more than 80 murders through the end of the July, which translates to a murder rate of more than 60 per 100,000 residents, according to Peter Scharf, a sociologist and crime expert at the University of New Orleans.
That rate, if it holds through the end of the year, would rank New Orleans right back where it was before Katrina: as the nation's murder capital.
Although few of those crimes have occurred in the areas most frequented by visitors, tourism officials fear the negative perceptions--perceptions that were only reinforced when, earlier in the summer, Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco heeded a plea for help from New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin and sent National Guard troops into the city to help patrol the streets.
`All you see is blight and ruin'
For Charles Daroca, who is rebuilding his 4,400-square-foot home in the middle-class Lakeview neighborhood where floodwaters rose 10 feet high, the concern about crime is overshadowed by another post-Katrina menace: blight.
When Daroca, the chief financial officer at Antoine's, started gutting and reconstructing the entire first floor of his house in January, he knew of 10 neighbors in a two-block area who were also planning to rebuild.
Now, the Darocas are living on their second floor while they work on their renovation, which is about three-quarters complete. But only one additional neighbor beyond the 10 has shown any signs of moving back in. In the absence of any comprehensive planning effort by the city, Daroca's once-attractive block, like hundreds of others across the city, now suffers what urban planners call the "jack o'lantern effect": rows of rotting, abandoned houses interrupted by occasional inhabited homes, resembling the ragged teeth of a hollowed-out Halloween pumpkin.
"You stand here with your coffee in the morning and look out the window and all you see is blight and ruin," said Jodee Daroca, Charles' wife, a lifelong resident of the neighborhood. "It's going to take a lot longer than we thought for the neighborhood to come back. But it will. It has to."
On the Web
The struggle of Antoine's Restaurant to rebound from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina mirrors the larger story of New Orleans' fight for revival, and the Tribune has been following the French Quarter landmark's progress. The series can be found at chicagotribune.com/antoines


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The Chicago Fire Soccer Club announced today that the club has released forward Stefan Dimitrov. The Bulgarian forward appeared in 12 games for the Fire, making his MLS debut as a starter against D.C. United June 13, 2009.
"We would like to thank Stefan for his contributions to the Chicago Fire and wish him the best of luck in his future endeavors," said Fire Technical Director Frank Klopas.
The Concordia College product appeared five times this season, making his first league appearance against Chivas USA May 1.


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I have a texture with transparency (the white triangle with that lighting information), and just can't make it's alpha variable.
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The drawing code, with the missing piece:
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glTranslatef(centerX, centerY, 0);
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glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, spriteTexture[0]); //Bind.
glDrawArrays(GL_TRIANGLE_STRIP, 0, 4);
//Offset during development only.
glTranslatef(centerX-10, centerY+10, 0);
//Draw "specular" layer.
glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, spriteTexture[1]); //Bind.
//Some smart alpha scaling code needs here...
glDrawArrays(GL_TRIANGLE_STRIP, 0, 4);
Could somebody please help me out with the appropriate lines of code? Some glBlendFunc, or maybe glTextEnvi stuff I suppose.


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Earlier in the month, we let you know about the Hunted and RAGE presentations taking place at this year's Eurogamer Expo (more on that in a bit), but we also wantd you to know we have playable titles at the show. Like QuakeCon and PAX, you'll have a chance to go hands-on with Hunted, New Vegas and Brink. And with Brink, you'll even have a chance to chat with with developers from Splash Damage.
One quick programming note, the presentation for Hunted has been moved to 3:30 PM on Saturday, October 2nd. For those wanting to see RAGE, that presentation will be shown each day at 5 PM.
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Yet a reasonable doubt may be entertained, whether any stain of hereditary guilt could be derived from Arcadius to his successor. Eudoxia was a young and beautiful woman, who indulged her passions, and despised her husband; Count John enjoyed, at least, the familiar confidence of the empress; and the public named him as the real father of Theodosius the younger. The birth of a son was accepted, however, by the pious husband, as an event the most fortunate and honorable to himself, to his family, and to the Eastern world: and the royal infant, by an unprecedented favor, was invested with the titles of Cæsar and Augustus. In less than four years afterwards, Eudoxia, in the bloom of youth, was destroyed by the consequences of a miscarriage; and this untimely death confounded the prophecy of a holy bishop, who, amidst the universal joy, had ventured to foretell, that she should behold the long and auspicious reign of her glorious son. The Catholics applauded the justice of Heaven, which avenged the persecution of St. Chrysostom; and perhaps the emperor was the only person who sincerely bewailed the loss of the haughty and rapacious Eudoxia. Such a domestic misfortune afflicted him more deeply than the public calamities of the East; the licentious excursions, from Pontus to Palestine, of the Isaurian robbers, whose impunity accused the weakness of the government; and the earthquakes, the conflagrations, the famine, and the flights of locusts, which the popular discontent was equally disposed to attribute to the incapacity of the monarch. At length, in the thirty-first year of his age, after a reign (if we may abuse that word) of thirteen years, three months, and fifteen days, Arcadius expired in the palace of Constantinople. It is impossible to delineate his character; since, in a period very copiously furnished with historical materials, it has not been possible to remark one action that properly belongs to the son of the great Theodosius.
The historian Procopius has indeed illuminated the mind of the dying emperor with a ray of human prudence, or celestial wisdom. Arcadius considered, with anxious foresight, the helpless condition of his son Theodosius, who was no more than seven years of age, the dangerous factions of a minority, and the aspiring spirit of Jezdegerd, the Persian monarch. Instead of tempting the allegiance of an ambitious subject, by the participation of supreme power, he boldly appealed to the magnanimity of a king; and placed, by a solemn testament, the sceptre of the East in the hands of Jezdegerd himself. The royal guardian accepted and discharged this honorable trust with unexampled fidelity; and the infancy of Theodosius was protected by the arms and councils of Persia. Such is the singular narrative of Procopius; and his veracity is not disputed by Agathias, while he presumes to dissent from his judgment, and to arraign the wisdom of a Christian emperor, who, so rashly, though so fortunately, committed his son and his dominions to the unknown faith of a stranger, a rival, and a heathen. At the distance of one hundred and fifty years, this political question might be debated in the court of Justinian; but a prudent historian will refuse to examine the propriety, till he has ascertained the truth, of the testament of Arcadius. As it stands without a parallel in the history of the world, we may justly require, that it should be attested by the positive and unanimous evidence of contemporaries. The strange novelty of the event, which excites our distrust, must have attracted their notice; and their universal silence annihilates the vain tradition of the succeeding age.
The maxims of Roman jurisprudence, if they could fairly be transferred from private property to public dominion, would have adjudged to the emperor Honorius the guardianship of his nephew, till he had attained, at least, the fourteenth year of his age. But the weakness of Honorius, and the calamities of his reign, disqualified him from prosecuting this natural claim; and such was the absolute separation of the two monarchies, both in interest and affection, that Constantinople would have obeyed, with less reluctance, the orders of the Persian, than those of the Italian, court. Under a prince whose weakness is disguised by the external signs of manhood and discretion, the most worthless favorites may secretly dispute the empire of the palace; and dictate to submissive provinces the commands of a master, whom they direct and despise. But the ministers of a child, who is incapable of arming them with the sanction of the royal name, must acquire and exercise an independent authority. The great officers of the state and army, who had been appointed before the death of Arcadius, formed an aristocracy, which might have inspired them with the idea of a free republic; and the government of the Eastern empire was fortunately assumed by the præfect Anthemius, who obtained, by his superior abilities, a lasting ascendant over the minds of his equals. The safety of the young emperor proved the merit and integrity of Anthemius; and his prudent firmness sustained the force and reputation of an infant reign. Uldin, with a formidable host of Barbarians, was encamped in the heart of Thrace; he proudly rejected all terms of accommodation; and, pointing to the rising sun, declared to the Roman ambassadors, that the course of that planet should alone terminate the conquest of the Huns. But the desertion of his confederates, who were privately convinced of the justice and liberality of the Imperial ministers, obliged Uldin to repass the Danube: the tribe of the Scyrri, which composed his rear-guard, was almost extirpated; and many thousand captives were dispersed to cultivate, with servile labor, the fields of Asia. In the midst of the public triumph, Constantinople was protected by a strong enclosure of new and more extensive walls; the same vigilant care was applied to restore the fortifications of the Illyrian cities; and a plan was judiciously conceived, which, in the space of seven years, would have secured the command of the Danube, by establishing on that river a perpetual fleet of two hundred and fifty armed vessels.
But the Romans had so long been accustomed to the authority of a monarch, that the first, even among the females, of the Imperial family, who displayed any courage or capacity, was permitted to ascend the vacant throne of Theodosius. His sister Pulcheria, who was only two years older than himself, received, at the age of sixteen, the title of Augusta; and though her favor might be sometimes clouded by caprice or intrigue, she continued to govern the Eastern empire near forty years; during the long minority of her brother, and after his death, in her own name, and in the name of Marcian, her nominal husband. From a motive either of prudence or religion, she embraced a life of celibacy; and notwithstanding some aspersions on the chastity of Pulcheria, this resolution, which she communicated to her sisters Arcadia and Marina, was celebrated by the Christian world, as the sublime effort of heroic piety. In the presence of the clergy and people, the three daughters of Arcadius dedicated their virginity to God; and the obligation of their solemn vow was inscribed on a tablet of gold and gems; which they publicly offered in the great church of Constantinople. Their palace was converted into a monastery; and all males, except the guides of their conscience, the saints who had forgotten the distinction of sexes, were scrupulously excluded from the holy threshold. Pulcheria, her two sisters, and a chosen train of favorite damsels, formed a religious community: they denounced the vanity of dress; interrupted, by frequent fasts, their simple and frugal diet; allotted a portion of their time to works of embroidery; and devoted several hours of the day and night to the exercises of prayer and psalmody. The piety of a Christian virgin was adorned by the zeal and liberality of an empress. Ecclesiastical history describes the splendid churches, which were built at the expense of Pulcheria, in all the provinces of the East; her charitable foundations for the benefit of strangers and the poor; the ample donations which she assigned for the perpetual maintenance of monastic societies; and the active severity with which she labored to suppress the opposite heresies of Nestorius and Eutyches. Such virtues were supposed to deserve the peculiar favor of the Deity: and the relics of martyrs, as well as the knowledge of future events, were communicated in visions and revelations to the Imperial saint. Yet the devotion of Pulcheria never diverted her indefatigable attention from temporal affairs; and she alone, among all the descendants of the great Theodosius, appears to have inherited any share of his manly spirit and abilities. The elegant and familiar use which she had acquired, both of the Greek and Latin languages, was readily applied to the various occasions of speaking or writing, on public business: her deliberations were maturely weighed; her actions were prompt and decisive; and, while she moved, without noise or ostentation, the wheel of government, she discreetly attributed to the genius of the emperor the long tranquillity of his reign. In the last years of his peaceful life, Europe was indeed afflicted by the arms of war; but the more extensive provinces of Asia still continued to enjoy a profound and permanent repose. Theodosius the younger was never reduced to the disgraceful necessity of encountering and punishing a rebellious subject: and since we cannot applaud the vigor, some praise may be due to the mildness and prosperity, of the administration of Pulcheria.
The Roman world was deeply interested in the education of its master. A regular course of study and exercise was judiciously instituted; of the military exercises of riding, and shooting with the bow; of the liberal studies of grammar, rhetoric, and philosophy: the most skilful masters of the East ambitiously solicited the attention of their royal pupil; and several noble youths were introduced into the palace, to animate his diligence by the emulation of friendship. Pulcheria alone discharged the important task of instructing her brother in the arts of government; but her precepts may countenance some suspicions of the extent of her capacity, or of the purity of her intentions. She taught him to maintain a grave and majestic deportment; to walk, to hold his robes, to seat himself on his throne, in a manner worthy of a great prince; to abstain from laughter; to listen with condescension; to return suitable answers; to assume, by turns, a serious or a placid countenance: in a word, to represent with grace and dignity the external figure of a Roman emperor. But Theodosius was never excited to support the weight and glory of an illustrious name: and, instead of aspiring to support his ancestors, he degenerated (if we may presume to measure the degrees of incapacity) below the weakness of his father and his uncle. Arcadius and Honorius had been assisted by the guardian care of a parent, whose lessons were enforced by his authority and example. But the unfortunate prince, who is born in the purple, must remain a stranger to the voice of truth; and the son of Arcadius was condemned to pass his perpetual infancy encompassed only by a servile train of women and eunuchs. The ample leisure which he acquired by neglecting the essential duties of his high office, was filled by idle amusements and unprofitable studies. Hunting was the only active pursuit that could tempt him beyond the limits of the palace; but he most assiduously labored, sometimes by the light of a midnight lamp, in the mechanic occupations of painting and carving; and the elegance with which he transcribed religious books entitled the Roman emperor to the singular epithet of Calligraphes, or a fair writer. Separated from the world by an impenetrable veil, Theodosius trusted the persons whom he loved; he loved those who were accustomed to amuse and flatter his indolence; and as he never perused the papers that were presented for the royal signature, the acts of injustice the most repugnant to his character were frequently perpetrated in his name. The emperor himself was chaste, temperate, liberal, and merciful; but these qualities, which can only deserve the name of virtues when they are supported by courage and regulated by discretion, were seldom beneficial, and they sometimes proved mischievous, to mankind. His mind, enervated by a royal education, was oppressed and degraded by abject superstition: he fasted, he sung psalms, he blindly accepted the miracles and doctrines with which his faith was continually nourished. Theodosius devoutly worshipped the dead and living saints of the Catholic church; and he once refused to eat, till an insolent monk, who had cast an excommunication on his sovereign, condescended to heal the spiritual wound which he had inflicted.
The story of a fair and virtuous maiden, exalted from a private condition to the Imperial throne, might be deemed an incredible romance, if such a romance had not been verified in the marriage of Theodosius. The celebrated Athenais was educated by her father Leontius in the religion and sciences of the Greeks; and so advantageous was the opinion which the Athenian philosopher entertained of his contemporaries, that he divided his patrimony between his two sons, bequeathing to his daughter a small legacy of one hundred pieces of gold, in the lively confidence that her beauty and merit would be a sufficient portion. The jealousy and avarice of her brothers soon compelled Athenais to seek a refuge at Constantinople; and, with some hopes, either of justice or favor, to throw herself at the feet of Pulcheria. That sagacious princess listened to her eloquent complaint; and secretly destined the daughter of the philosopher Leontius for the future wife of the emperor of the East, who had now attained the twentieth year of his age. She easily excited the curiosity of her brother, by an interesting picture of the charms of Athenais; large eyes, a well- proportioned nose, a fair complexion, golden locks, a slender person, a graceful demeanor, an understanding improved by study, and a virtue tried by distress. Theodosius, concealed behind a curtain in the apartment of his sister, was permitted to behold the Athenian virgin: the modest youth immediately declared his pure and honorable love; and the royal nuptials were celebrated amidst the acclamations of the capital and the provinces. Athenais, who was easily persuaded to renounce the errors of Paganism, received at her baptism the Christian name of Eudocia; but the cautious Pulcheria withheld the title of Augusta, till the wife of Theodosius had approved her fruitfulness by the birth of a daughter, who espoused, fifteen years afterwards, the emperor of the West. The brothers of Eudocia obeyed, with some anxiety, her Imperial summons; but as she could easily forgive their unfortunate unkindness, she indulged the tenderness, or perhaps the vanity, of a sister, by promoting them to the rank of consuls and præfects. In the luxury of the palace, she still cultivated those ingenuous arts which had contributed to her greatness; and wisely dedicated her talents to the honor of religion, and of her husband. Eudocia composed a poetical paraphrase of the first eight books of the Old Testament, and of the prophecies of Daniel and Zechariah; a cento of the verses of Homer, applied to the life and miracles of Christ, the legend of St. Cyprian, and a panegyric on the Persian victories of Theodosius; and her writings, which were applauded by a servile and superstitious age, have not been disdained by the candor of impartial criticism. The fondness of the emperor was not abated by time and possession; and Eudocia, after the marriage of her daughter, was permitted to discharge her grateful vows by a solemn pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Her ostentatious progress through the East may seem inconsistent with the spirit of Christian humility; she pronounced, from a throne of gold and gems, an eloquent oration to the senate of Antioch, declared her royal intention of enlarging the walls of the city, bestowed a donative of two hundred pounds of gold to restore the public baths, and accepted the statues, which were decreed by the gratitude of Antioch. In the Holy Land, her alms and pious foundations exceeded the munificence of the great Helena, and though the public treasure might be impoverished by this excessive liberality, she enjoyed the conscious satisfaction of returning to Constantinople with the chains of St. Peter, the right arm of St. Stephen, and an undoubted picture of the Virgin, painted by St. Luke. But this pilgrimage was the fatal term of the glories of Eudocia. Satiated with empty pomp, and unmindful, perhaps, of her obligations to Pulcheria, she ambitiously aspired to the government of the Eastern empire; the palace was distracted by female discord; but the victory was at last decided, by the superior ascendant of the sister of Theodosius. The execution of Paulinus, master of the offices, and the disgrace of Cyrus, Prætorian præfect of the East, convinced the public that the favor of Eudocia was insufficient to protect her most faithful friends; and the uncommon beauty of Paulinus encouraged the secret rumor, that his guilt was that of a successful lover. As soon as the empress perceived that the affection of Theodosius was irretrievably lost, she requested the permission of retiring to the distant solitude of Jerusalem. She obtained her request; but the jealousy of Theodosius, or the vindictive spirit of Pulcheria, pursued her in her last retreat; and Saturninus, count of the domestics, was directed to punish with death two ecclesiastics, her most favored servants. Eudocia instantly revenged them by the assassination of the count; the furious passions which she indulged on this suspicious occasion, seemed to justify the severity of Theodosius; and the empress, ignominiously stripped of the honors of her rank, was disgraced, perhaps unjustly, in the eyes of the world. The remainder of the life of Eudocia, about sixteen years, was spent in exile and devotion; and the approach of age, the death of Theodosius, the misfortunes of her only daughter, who was led a captive from Rome to Carthage, and the society of the Holy Monks of Palestine, insensibly confirmed the religious temper of her mind. After a full experience of the vicissitudes of human life, the daughter of the philosopher Leontius expired, at Jerusalem, in the sixty-seventh year of her age; protesting, with her dying breath, that she had never transgressed the bounds of innocence and friendship.
The gentle mind of Theodosius was never inflamed by the ambition of conquest, or military renown; and the slight alarm of a Persian war scarcely interrupted the tranquillity of the East. The motives of this war were just and honorable. In the last year of the reign of Jezdegerd, the supposed guardian of Theodosius, a bishop, who aspired to the crown of martyrdom, destroyed one of the fire-temples of Susa. His zeal and obstinacy were revenged on his brethren: the Magi excited a cruel persecution; and the intolerant zeal of Jezdegerd was imitated by his son Varanes, or Bahram, who soon afterwards ascended the throne. Some Christian fugitives, who escaped to the Roman frontier, were sternly demanded, and generously refused; and the refusal, aggravated by commercial disputes, soon kindled a war between the rival monarchies. The mountains of Armenia, and the plains of Mesopotamia, were filled with hostile armies; but the operations of two successive campaigns were not productive of any decisive or memorable events. Some engagements were fought, some towns were besieged, with various and doubtful success: and if the Romans failed in their attempt to recover the long-lost possession of Nisibis, the Persians were repulsed from the walls of a Mesopotamian city, by the valor of a martial bishop, who pointed his thundering engine in the name of St. Thomas the Apostle. Yet the splendid victories which the incredible speed of the messenger Palladius repeatedly announced to the palace of Constantinople, were celebrated with festivals and panegyrics. From these panegyrics the historians of the age might borrow their extraordinary, and, perhaps, fabulous tales; of the proud challenge of a Persian hero, who was entangled by the net, and despatched by the sword, of Areobindus the Goth; of the ten thousand Immortals, who were slain in the attack of the Roman camp; and of the hundred thousand Arabs, or Saracens, who were impelled by a panic terror to throw themselves headlong into the Euphrates. Such events may be disbelieved or disregarded; but the charity of a bishop, Acacius of Amida, whose name might have dignified the saintly calendar, shall not be lost in oblivion. Boldly declaring, that vases of gold and silver are useless to a God who neither eats nor drinks, the generous prelate sold the plate of the church of Amida; employed the price in the redemption of seven thousand Persian captives; supplied their wants with affectionate liberality; and dismissed them to their native country, to inform their king of the true spirit of the religion which he persecuted. The practice of benevolence in the midst of war must always tend to assuage the animosity of contending nations; and I wish to persuade myself, that Acacius contributed to the restoration of peace. In the conference which was held on the limits of the two empires, the Roman ambassadors degraded the personal character of their sovereign, by a vain attempt to magnify the extent of his power; when they seriously advised the Persians to prevent, by a timely accommodation, the wrath of a monarch, who was yet ignorant of this distant war. A truce of one hundred years was solemnly ratified; and although the revolutions of Armenia might threaten the public tranquillity, the essential conditions of this treaty were respected near fourscore years by the successors of Constantine and Artaxerxes.
Since the Roman and Parthian standards first encountered on the banks of the Euphrates, the kingdom of Armenia was alternately oppressed by its formidable protectors; and in the course of this History, several events, which inclined the balance of peace and war, have been already related. A disgraceful treaty had resigned Armenia to the ambition of Sapor; and the scale of Persia appeared to preponderate. But the royal race of Arsaces impatiently submitted to the house of Sassan; the turbulent nobles asserted, or betrayed, their hereditary independence; and the nation was still attached to the Christian princes of Constantinople. In the beginning of the fifth century, Armenia was divided by the progress of war and faction; and the unnatural division precipitated the downfall of that ancient monarchy. Chosroes, the Persian vassal, reigned over the Eastern and most extensive portion of the country; while the Western province acknowledged the jurisdiction of Arsaces, and the supremacy of the emperor Arcadius. * After the death of Arsaces, the Romans suppressed the regal government, and imposed on their allies the condition of subjects. The military command was delegated to the count of the Armenian frontier; the city of Theodosiopolis was built and fortified in a strong situation, on a fertile and lofty ground, near the sources of the Euphrates; and the dependent territories were ruled by five satraps, whose dignity was marked by a peculiar habit of gold and purple. The less fortunate nobles, who lamented the loss of their king, and envied the honors of their equals, were provoked to negotiate their peace and pardon at the Persian court; and returning, with their followers, to the palace of Artaxata, acknowledged Chosroes for their lawful sovereign. About thirty years afterwards, Artasires, the nephew and successor of Chosroes, fell under the displeasure of the haughty and capricious nobles of Armenia; and they unanimously desired a Persian governor in the room of an unworthy king. The answer of the archbishop Isaac, whose sanction they earnestly solicited, is expressive of the character of a superstitious people. He deplored the manifest and inexcusable vices of Artasires; and declared, that he should not hesitate to accuse him before the tribunal of a Christian emperor, who would punish, without destroying, the sinner. "Our king," continued Isaac, "is too much addicted to licentious pleasures, but he has been purified in the holy waters of baptism. He is a lover of women, but he does not adore the fire or the elements. He may deserve the reproach of lewdness, but he is an undoubted Catholic; and his faith is pure, though his manners are flagitious. I will never consent to abandon my sheep to the rage of devouring wolves; and you would soon repent your rash exchange of the infirmities of a believer, for the specious virtues of a heathen." Exasperated by the firmness of Isaac, the factious nobles accused both the king and the archbishop as the secret adherents of the emperor; and absurdly rejoiced in the sentence of condemnation, which, after a partial hearing, was solemnly pronounced by Bahram himself. The descendants of Arsaces were degraded from the royal dignity, which they had possessed above five hundred and sixty years; and the dominions of the unfortunate Artasires, * under the new and significant appellation of Persarmenia, were reduced into the form of a province. This usurpation excited the jealousy of the Roman government; but the rising disputes were soon terminated by an amicable, though unequal, partition of the ancient kingdom of Armenia: and a territorial acquisition, which Augustus might have despised, reflected some lustre on the declining empire of the younger Theodosius.


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I could use some clarification from Hawaiis,..I believe in symmetry. And rely on only the angle of attack to adjust the pitch. A wing with positive lift likes to pop you out of the water and stalls. That makes it harder to ride.
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it will also generate at bit of forward pitch moment that will tends to nose dive the board."
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Why is it important to find cancer early?
Some common cancers are easier to treat and cure if they are found early. If the tumor is found when it is still small and has not yet spread, curing the cancer can be easy. However, the longer the tumor goes unnoticed, the greater the chance that the cancer has spread. This usually makes treatment more difficult.
What are the different kinds of cancer treatment?
The three most common types of cancer treatment are surgery. radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Treatment is aimed at removing the cancer cells or destroying them with medicines or by other means.
Surgery is a way to physically remove the cancer. Surgery can be very successful in treating some kinds of cancer, but it isn't an option in all cases. If the cancer is in the form of a malignant tumor (a tumor that spreads) but the tumor is still in one place (localized), it may be possible to safely remove the tumor and any surrounding affected tissue. Surgery may not be possible if the cancer has spread to other areas of the body or if the tumor cannot be removed without damaging vital organs, such as the liver or brain.
Different types of surgery are used to remove cancer. Some of these include:
- Laser surgery. Beams of light and sometimes heat from a laser are used to target and destroy cancer cells.
- Laparoscopic surgery. Very small incisions are made in the body, and the doctor uses a tiny camera to see inside your body. The camera sends signals to a video screen so that your doctor can see the tumor and your organs. The doctor uses a surgical tool to remove the tumor.
- Mohs' surgery. Layers of cancer cells are removed one at a time. Each layer is examined before the doctor removes the next layer. In this way, only the diseased layers are removed and healthy tissue remains intact.
- Cryosurgery. Cancer cells are frozen and destroyed using a very cold material, such as liquid nitrogen.
Radiotherapy uses radiation—in the form of a special kind of X-ray, gamma rays or electrons—to damage cancer cells so that they can't multiply. There is usually no pain during this kind of therapy. Depending on the area that is treated, side effects from radiation damage to normal tissues may occur. Your doctor can tell you what to expect. Radiotherapy is sometimes the only treatment needed, or it may be used with other therapies. A combination of surgery and radiotherapy may be used for tumors that grow in one place.
Chemotherapy uses medicines to attack the cancer cells. The word "chemotherapy" sometimes causes a lot of fear because the side effects can be severe. However, not all people experience severe side effects. The side effects of chemotherapy can often be treated with other medicines.
Chemotherapy is usually used when the cancer has spread to other areas in the body. Chemotherapy can also be used in combination with surgery and radiation. Sometimes the tumor is surgically removed and then chemotherapy is used to make sure any remaining cancer cells are killed.
Other Treatments
Another kind of treatment is biological therapy (also called immunotherapy). This treatment is used to trigger the body's immune system to produce more white blood cells, called lymphocytes (say: limf-o-sites). Two kinds of lymphocytes can attack and kill cancer cells: T-cells and B-cells. Immunotherapy aims to boost the ability of the T-cell and B-cell lymphocytes to kill cancer. This kind of therapy can also be used in combination with surgery, radiation therapy or chemotherapy.
Hormone therapy is sometimes used to treat breast or prostate cancer, often in addition to chemotherapy or radiotherapy. Hormone therapy involves taking drugs that contain other hormones to block the effects of estrogen and testosterone, also hormones. These drugs are necessary because the hormone estrogen can make breast cancer tumors grow faster. Similarly, the hormone testosterone can make cancerous tumors in the prostate grow faster. In other cases, surgery to remove the ovaries or the testicles may be used. Removing these organs reduces the amount of estrogen or testosterone in the body.
Other specialized treatments may be available. Your doctor may talk to you about these treatments if they are an option for you.
How do I decide what treatment option to use?
Your doctor, or a team of doctors, will help you understand your options and will recommend options for treatment. You may not have a choice in the treatment. Many factors are involved, including the stage that your cancer is in, what organs are affected, and the type of cancer that you have. Some cancers, such as skin cancer. are easier to treat than others. Your age and health, as well as the potential side effects of treatment, may also be factors in how much control you have over your treatment plan.
You and your doctor will want to consider both the advantages and disadvantages of each therapy. In addition, you and your doctor will want to discuss alternative therapies in case your cancer doesn't respond to treatment.
What are clinical trials?
Clinical trials are used to research new ways of treating people who have cancer. After a new medicine goes through many tests in the lab and on animals, it is tested on people who have cancer and volunteer to take part in a clinical trial. The trial helps doctors decide whether a medicine is safe and effective. It also helps determine the correct dosages that patients should receive.
Cancer trials are run differently than some other clinical trials. In other types of trials, patients taking new medicines are compared to patients who receive no medicine at all (called a placebo or "sugar pill"). It would not be ethical for doctors to give people who have cancer a sugar pill containing no medicine. So, cancer trials compare patients receiving a current medicine to patients receiving the new medicine. Doctors hope that the trial will reveal that the new medicine works better than the current one.
There are some advantages to taking part in a clinical trial. Patients who do participate may receive the newest and best medicines available. Also, patients are monitored very closely throughout the trial, so their overall health often benefits. In addition, patients who take part in a clinical trial may not have to pay for the medicine they receive. The company or organization that sponsors the trial will usually provide the medicine at no charge, and will pay for extra testing and doctor visits.
Clinical trials also come with some risks. The medicines you may receive in a clinical trial usually have not been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The medicine may have unwanted side effects, or it may not work as well as doctors hope it will. You may have to commit more time to your treatment if you take part in a clinical trial, and you may have to have more frequent tests.
If you think you might want to take part in a clinical trial, talk to your doctor. He or she can tell you about the possible benefits and risks and can help you look for a trial. You may also want to check the National Cancer Institute's Web site (see "Other Organizations ") for more information and a searchable list of clinical trials.
I sometimes don't understand what my doctor is saying. What do I do?
Tell your doctor that you don't understand. You need to be aware of what's going on at each stage of your treatment, including all the options ahead of you. Bring a close friend or relative to your appointments to act as a second set of ears and eyes on your behalf. Your companion can help advocate for you.
It may help to take notes during your appointments. Write down any questions that you want your doctor to answer. You can also record all of your conversations, and then make notes from the recording. It's important that you understand what your doctor tells you, and that your doctor is aware when you don't understand. Be honest with your doctor. Don't hold back any information, even when answering questions about how you feel, physically or emotionally, or how well you understand what the doctor is saying.
Who does what in my treatment program?
Cancer treatment can be very complex. The kind of cancer you have, the stage that it's in, and the treatment program you go through affects the kinds of health care professionals you'll see.
Your family physician
may oversee your treatment and rehabilitation programs, and can help answer questions you have. Sometimes an oncologist may manage your treatment program, but your family physician may take over once therapy is completed. An oncologist is a doctor who specializes in treating people with cancer.
A surgeon may do the operation to remove as much cancerous tissue as possible. A pathologist will examine the tissue that is removed during a biopsy or surgery to check for signs of cancer. Radiation oncologists administer radiation treatment. The radiation oncologist is often helped by diagnostic radiologists. radiotherapy technologists and radiation physicists. who plan treatment and check the radiation dosages to ensure that treatment is as safe as possible.
Oncologists, family physicians and internists often prescribe chemotherapy medicines, hormones and other drugs. Laboratory technicians or nurses may draw your blood for tests.
Nutritionists evaluate your diet and help you plan your meals during and after treatment. Physical therapists can help you keep your muscle tone and restore your ability to move around if there are any changes to your body from treatment. Psychologists. psychotherapists and other counselors. such as clergy or social workers. can help you talk through your feelings and manage the emotional reactions to your cancer and cancer treatment. Pharmacists mix the complicated medications and check that you are getting the correct dosages.
Don't hesitate to talk to your doctor about any questions and concerns you have about your treatment. If something is on your mind, ask about it. By getting answers to your questions, you can become a more active participant in your care.
What can I do about side effects?
Cancer treatment affects every person differently. Some people have few side effects or even none at all. However, the side effects of cancer treatment make many people feel very sick.
Your doctor will tell you what kinds of side effects you might expect with your cancer treatment. He or she will also tell you which side effects are unusual and when you need to call the doctor's office.
Don't downplay your side effects. It's important to tell your doctor, members of your care team and the people around you how you are feeling. If you feel very sick, very tired or are in a lot of pain, your doctor may be able adjust your treatment or give you other medicine to help you feel better.
Will I lose my hair?
Radiotherapy to the head and some types of chemotherapy can cause people to lose their hair. Other types of treatment do not cause this side effect. If you're having chemotherapy, ask your doctor whether the drugs you're taking can cause hair loss. Losing your hair can be a difficult experience. If your doctor tells you this might happen, try to prepare yourself. Decide what you want to do if you start to lose your hair.
Some people who lose their hair during cancer treatment wear a wig or hairpiece. Others cover their heads with hats, scarves or turbans. Still others leave their heads uncovered. Do what feels right for you. Many people switch back and forth, depending on where they are, who they're with and what they're doing.
If you decide that you want to wear a wig or hairpiece, it's a good idea to pick one out before you start losing your hair. That way, you can match it to your natural hair color and texture. Some shops specialize in wigs and hairpieces for people who have cancer. You may also be able to order your wig or hairpiece over the Internet.
If you decide to shave your head or leave it uncovered, you will need to protect your skin with sunscreen, a hat or a scarf when you're outside.
If you do lose your hair during radiotherapy or chemotherapy, it will almost always grow back after you finish your treatment. However, it might be a different color or texture when it grows back.
What if I don't feel like eating?
You may not feel well enough to eat while you're getting cancer treatment. But it's important to eat as much as you feel you can. Food helps your body build new, healthy cells and also helps boost your energy level.
It may help to eat several small meals a day instead of 3 large ones. Try eating bland foods like saltine crackers, plain toast and broth. Sip water, juices and soda. Ask your doctor about whether you should take a nutritional supplement, such as Ensure. Avoid spicy foods or foods with strong odors if they make you feel nauseous. You may also find that it's easier to eat and drink lukewarm food and beverages.
Some people who have cancer (especially people who are being treated with chemotherapy) have problems with mouth soreness or sensitivity. This may make it even more difficult to eat. Try eating soft, bland food or cooked food that has been pureed in a blender. If sores develop in your mouth, tell your doctor. These sores can become infected and cause serious problems. You may want to drink through a straw to bypass mouth sores. Also, try rinsing your mouth with 1 teaspoon of baking soda dissolved in 8 ounces of water. This can help prevent mouth infections and help your mouth heal faster.
When you do feel like eating, try to get as much protein and as many calories as possible. Ask your doctor whether you need to add certain nutrients or types of food to your diet. Your doctor may want you to visit a nutritional counselor, who can help you figure out ways to get the right amount of protein, nutrients and calories. If you find you can't eat at all for more than 24 hours, talk to your doctor. He or she needs to know that you're not getting the nutrition you need.
Will I be able to work?
You may not know the answer to this question until after you've started your treatment. Some people find that the effects of cancer and its treatment make them feel so sick that they're not able to work at all. Others are able to maintain their normal schedule or adjust it to work around their treatment.
Working during treatment can help keep your mind on things other than your cancer. You may also feel better knowing that you're continuing your "normal" routine. Many people who decide to work during treatment also find that they receive a great deal of support from their employers and coworkers.
If you want to continue working during cancer treatment, explore ways to make the most of your time. Try scheduling treatments for the end of the week, so that you'll have the weekend to recover. Ask your employer about working part-time or working from home. If necessary, ask coworkers to assist you with some of your tasks or duties. They will probably be eager to help.
How will I feel emotionally during treatment?
It's normal to feel helpless, angry, scared and depressed during cancer treatment. You will probably feel all of these emotions and more while you're going through treatment. On some days, you may feel like the treatment is not worth it.
Try to find a support system that you can rely on during these times. Many people count on family members and friends for support. Other people prefer to talk to people who are also going through cancer treatment. Cancer support groups can help people who have cancer and their family members cope with the disease and its treatment. Your doctor can suggest ways to find a support group, or you may contact a local hospital or the local chapter of the American Cancer Society (check the phone book or visit their Web site). The National Cancer Institute is another resource for support group information. (See "Other Organizations.")
Keeping your mind active can also help. Try to stay busy by doing jigsaw or crossword puzzles, knitting, watching movies or playing games with friends and family. Exercise can help too, but only if you're feeling strong enough. Talk to your doctor about what physical activity is best for you.
Some research, as well as the experience of many people who have cancer and their doctors, shows that a positive outlook may improve the health of people who go through cancer treatment. This positive-thinking approach can include forming a mental picture of how well your treatment and your body's immune system are fighting the cancer (also called visualizing).
It's also important to talk to your doctor about your emotions. Depression is common during cancer treatment. If it is a problem for you, your doctor may be able to prescribe medicine to help you feel better.
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What Is This Thing Called Love?
St. Martin's: 160 pp., $19.99
"It was cold and raining at four in the morning when Buddy walked out of Caesars Palace, stark naked except for the L.A. Times wrapped around his waist." These sweet, hilarious stories about love are dedicated to Gene Wilder's cousin Buddy: "When he was alive he really wanted love, but settled only for sex." Many are about the time wasted by lovers who choose to hide their true feelings — Jane Austen without the happy endings. "She pretended to be a big flirt and I knew she really wasn't." Some are about unrequited love: "I asked Melanie to marry me when she came to my house for dinner.… Melanie just giggled. I was three and a half years old." Others illuminate the myriad differences between book love or screen love and the real, awkward world of miscommunication and lost opportunities. All together, they serve as a lighthearted reminder of love's potential (requited, even unrequited) to make a life worthwhile.
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future
Twists and Turns and Lessons Learned
Hyperion: 100 pp., $17.99
Michael J. Fox dropped out of high school in 11th grade to be an actor. "My purpose in writing this book is not to offer advice," he warns. "If anything, this is a book that tells you that you don't need a book." "A Funny Thing" is about the lessons Fox learned outside the classroom — chapters are organized by subject: Comparative Literature, Economics, Geography, etc. "Most of what I know about economics," he writes, "I learned from Alex P. Keaton. My years of playing the archconservative, Milton Friedman-loving young capitalist gave me a passing familiarity with terms like 'supply and demand,' 'gross national product,' and 'trickle-down economics.' " The book comes perilously close to promoting (despite disclaimers to the contrary) the idea of skipping formal education altogether but is redeemed by Fox's trademark cheerfulness (which hasn't flagged in the face of Parkinson's): "Don't spend a lot of time imagining the worst-case scenario… When things go bad, don't run, don't hide. Stick it out and be scrupulous in facing every part of your fear. Try to be still."
This Time Together
Laughter and Reflection
Harmony Books: 268 pp., $25
"The Carol Burnett Show," and other old-style variety shows like it, Carol Burnett imagines in "This Time Together," could never "see the light of day today. The networks just aren't there for that kind of programming." This gives her new memoir a bittersweet quality, as if the innocence and gentleness of television's early days are gone forever, replaced by high-speed chases and clever dialogue too fast to follow. These short memories, of the people Burnett met and interviewed over the years, on- and off-camera, bring it back — the golden age of variety shows. They're all here: Meeting John Steinbeck in the elevator of her apartment building on Manhattan's 72nd Street; working as an usherette in the Warner Bros. theater on Wilcox Avenue and Hollywood Boulevard; her experiences with Laurence Olivier, Walter Matthau, Carol Channing, Joan Crawford, Julie Andrews and more. Burnett has a writer's eye for the moment, the detail, the slip that reveals character. She's never mean and always grateful.
Salter Reynolds is a writer in Los Angeles.


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But from my point of view, things were quite different. There was the fun of traveling to an exotic city, seeing all the different sights, experiencing the subways and noodle cafes and all the wonderful tastes and smells. There was the pleasure of meeting new people, talking about robotics and seeing the robots do their stuff. And it was a terrific learning experience. On the other hand, except for hobbyists and young peoples' contests, the excitement that you normally see in the crowds as they gather around the most interesting exhibit(s) at trade shows appeared to be missing.
There were few exhibitors that I hadn't already reported upon and included in The Robot Report's database of stories and links. Nevertheless there were many noteworthy displays, some of which are discussed below.
Here is a slideshow of my photos to give you a feel for the show, it's colors and crowds. Slide #1, of the Statue of Liberty - Tokyo version - was taken near the convention center and had a spectacular view back across Rainbow Bridge to central Tokyo and Tokyo Tower.
Robot --> robot interaction: Robot-robot interaction (where multiple robots work together to achieve a common goal) was featured by most of the major industrial robot manufacturers. From the programmable dancing robots to the larger arms and hands that pass things to other robots, many companies presented where they were and what they were planning to offer. Yaskawa and Kawada's robots (shown in the slideshow) worked, danced, moved in sync and were very stylish and colorful.
Robot --> human interaction: (The enabling interfaces so that humans and robots can communicate.) In the area of robot-human interaction, haptics and speech processing were shown in many different booths. Nevertheless, preprogrammed routines still control most robot activities although many manufacturers presented their prototype and edutainment robots which displayed every form of communication methodology.
Arms, grippers and hands: There were many new thinner, smaller and very flexible arms including some very capable lab robots and very stylish tabletops. Incremental improvements in arms and grippers were displayed - like the flex-pickers from ABB and Fanuc and a wide array of hand-like grippers and the very capable grippers from Kawasaki and Panasonic. KUKA invited people to their Tokyo headquarters to see their new sleekly designed arm unit (rightmost, above).
Sensors and vision systems were everywhere. Many 3D vision units were displayed. However, real-time sensing and perception -- the conversion to and interpretation of the digital results of the sensors and vision systems -- as has been coming out of research labs around the world, was lacking at the show.
Some achievements are now almost taken for granted and omitted or minimized from the show: navigation, mobility platforms and safety systems in particular. An infrared GPS navigation system from Toyo was one of the few exceptions.
Software normalization may be necessary, but there were so many competing software systems (SRI's Karto and Willow Garage's ROS to cite two that stood out) that standardization seems a long way off.
Many companies were offering virtualization software [a very necessary step in the acceptance and use of robotic surgery devices] for manufacturing, navigation and surgeries.
Service robots of all types were displayed: fire-fighting robots, surveillance scouts, security patrol bots, pipe cleaners, receptionists, edutainers and guides, etc. One stand-out, ripe for commercial deployment, was Sumitomo's new line of autonomous industrial cleaning robots (right).
In one of the classes, KUKA and EUROP's Rainer Bischoff said, "Technology, economics and customer demand are re-shaping the future of robotics into one of service and human interaction." These sentiments were reflected in the actions of most of the major industrial manufacturers who were showing prototypes of their future service robot products as were a few Japanese technical universities (like the University of Tokyo KobaLab's pretty android receptionist Saya).
Healthcare, eldercare and medical robotics: Just as Intuitive Surgical was getting Japan's FDA approval to begin selling their da Vinci systems in Japan, Japan was preparing their own entry for trials and approvals in the EU and US (see below and in the slideshow).
The show had many healthcare robots from university labs and companies at varying stages of development. Yurina's Care Robot is a fascinating device for moving disabled people from and to beds and chairs. KobaLabs displayed robotic walking assistants. There were various exoskeletons shown: one from Tokyo's Institute of Technology enabled a person to lift and carry extraordinary amounts of heavy packages. Cyberdyne was there with their new line of rental exoskeletons. Paro and Beatbot rehabilitation robots got lots of attention.
Concluding remarks: Two stories caught my attention during the show: one reported upon a GA Tech survey which found that older adults are more amenable than younger ones -- 77% to 67% -- to having a robot "perform critical monitoring tasks that would require little interaction between the robot and the human." The findings represent a significant heads up for the eldercare robotics industry and appeared to be reflected at iREX2009.
The second story, from the Atlantic, suggested that robotic takeover of repetitive, dull, dirty and dangerous jobs is having a serious impact on America's unskilled labor force and, combined with a continuing focus on cost-cutting and productivity increases, is going to have a large and continuing destabilizing effect on America's economy.
The fear of job losses, coupled with America's lack of investment in STEM education and research (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math), is propelling the robotics industry to countries that already have funded robotics roadmaps designed and being implemented. In America, the roadmap was presented last February and is still being discussed. It's a long way from being funded. President Obama has been making the rounds talking about strategic investments to help with STEM -- and many companies are getting onboard (iRobot just started a new program for the advancement of robotics knowledge) -- but will it be enough to tip the scales from the destabilizing effects suggested in the Atlantic story? It was this pessimistic spin that was on the lips of the English speaking people I talked with. Additionally, America's lack of direction in robotics appeared to be reflected in the few American companies displaying their products at the show.
I left iREX with a bag full of robotics literature and a good feeling toward all the people I met and talked with. I learned and saw things from the perspective of the biggest players in the field and I am grateful for the overall experience. And I'm anxious to return... I was so busy that I didn't have time to see the cult movie "RoboGeisha" (which has English sub-titles)!


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AMD Phenom X3 8750 Review
With all of the hype around the latest and greatest Quad Core processors out there, there is a jewel in the mainstream world that is being overlooked. The Dual Cores have been the dominator in workstations and mid-range computers for some time since the release of the Core 2 Duo and the Athlon X2 processors. Dual Core has been the way to go for everyone from business users up to gamers who either did not want to jump on the Quad Core bandwagon, either for monetary or even for performance reasons. That is all about to change soon with the release of a new processor that does not use two cores or even four cores. What else could it be, you ask? Well, imagine a processor with three cores!
That's right, AMD has created a new line of processors based on the Phenom series with a Triple Core design called the X3. Today, we are taking a look at the AMD Phenom X3 8750 which is a three core processor running at 2.4GHz. Will the Triple Core design fill the gap between Dual and Quad Core processors? Will current Dual Core users benefit from the new X3 technology if they switched from current Dual Core CPUs? The new AMD Triple Core Phenom X3s are going to be priced below current Quad Core CPUs, right about where current Dual Core CPUs are at, so price already makes it an interesting selling point. The Phenom X3s are part of the AMD "Cartwheel" platform, which includes the new AMD 780G motherboards, to make a powerful mainstream computer built for the majority of users on the market today.
Closer Look:
The Phenom X3 8750 that I received to evaluate came shipped in an OEM case directly from AMD. The case protects the processor from damage during transit. The black casing has two foam cushions on the inside and hug the CPU to protect the pins from bending or breaking off. Since this is an OEM processor, there is no heatsink or documentation provided, so an aftermarket cooler will be needed when installing it into a motherboard.
The Phenom X3 is manufactured using a 65nm process and has a max TPD of 95W. The X3 series also uses HyperTransport 3.0 and has an Integrated 128-bit wide memory controller which operates up to 1.8GHz with Dual Dynamic Power Management. With the Triple Core design, the Cache breaks down to 64K of L1 instruction and 64K of L1 data cache per core (384KB total L1 per processor), 512KB of L2 data cache per core (1.5MB total L2 per processor), and 2MB (shared) of L3 cache. As an enthusiast, this make me wonder right of the bat how well will it push the limits and overclock. I have always been told by mentors that multiples of two are better for computers when trying to overclock. The best way to find out is to put it through its paces.