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|Four Decisive Games in Round 1 of the US Women's
|October 4, 2009
2009 U.S. Women's Championship (Saint Louis, October 3-13) saw four decisive games,
including a beautiful win by WGM Camila Baginskaite over WFM Tatev Abrahamyan. Camila played 5.b6 against the Benko Gambit and won an instructive game in which she exploited her space edge on both sides of the board. In her post-game interview, Camila said that although she plays chess less often than in years past, she feels more relaxed when playing.
Round one of the
The game included some nice positional manouvers like Nd1-e3-c4 and was topped off by the nice 29. Nxd6 sack. If 29...Nxd6, Camila was planning 30. Qxg6+ Kf8 and the simple f5 with the crushing threat of f6.
A headliner game of the day, Zenyuk-Zatonskih, featured successful preparation on Zenyuk's part. Zatonskih played the Dutch, which she rarely plays, but Zenyuk was ready for it and achieved a great opening position. But Zenyuk fell into deep time pressure and with more time and experience, Zatonskih outplayed her in the subsequent complications, finding the sneaky 28...Nc6 well before it appeared on the board.
Goletiani-Tsagaan was a Sicilian slugfest.
As Goletiani pointed out in the post-game interview, she wouldn't want to show this game to her students, since neither player castled all game. Goletiani has good results in the Sicilian even though she often gets scary positions, "I've had worse than this one," she said. Still, White's position looked very juicy by move 29. But b3 and Rg1 were both mistakes and the attack rapidly shifted into Rusa's hands.
The other Sicilian of the day, Fan-Foisor turned into a great Sicilian endgame for Black. Although White got some play later on, Black pulled out the win:
Since Irina Krush was playing White against the youngest competitor of the event, 18-year-old Alisa Melekhina, the crowd expected her to take every opportunity to show off her greater experience in King's Indian positions. Surprisingly, Irina went for the Exchange Variation, and she did manage to post some problems for Alisa. But Melekhina played accurately enough that Krush couldn't see anything better than a repetition on move 21.
Watch game two at 3 PM EST on the Internet Chess Club or on the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis on a live gameplayer powered by monroi. On either site, you can listen in to live audio chess.fm commentary by GM-elect Ben Finegold and WGM Jennifer Shahade. Also check out an article on the opening festivities and watch a video of Anna Zatonskih's blindfold display. Look for Mike Klein's press release and Chris Bird's bulletin update on the CCSCSL website.


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What are you into?
Last year, I was walking past Pizza House at 2 a.m. when a tall, athletic guy stumbled out and shouted "Hey, FAG!" in my direction.
Fag. Well, sort of, I thought.
I do have sex with men. Usually it's late at night, and usually it's with men I've met on the Internet. I also have sex with women, though that's a bit more complicated than getting online, sending a few e-mails, and dropping my pants in a stranger's bed.
"Hey, FAG!" The guy did have a point, because less than 20 minutes later I was at a political science major's apartment. He was crouched in front of me on the ground, his hands bound with a belt behind his back.
Hey man. Whatsup?
not too much. u? pretty horny… lol.
Not the most romantic of beginnings, but this isn't about romance. It's about sex.
can you host? i need to be super discreet if that's ok. not out.
I could have guessed as much from the picture he sent. Tall, dark hair, fit and wearing a Michigan Football T-shirt. A college bro who just happens to like fucking other college bros.
Sure. You can come to my apartment.
Now, I wait. It's always nerve-wracking, but in an exciting kind of way. I take a shot of bad whiskey. In 15 minutes I will be face-to-face with a guy I just met online, and a few minutes after he will be taking off his pants.
When he gets to the door we shake hands, which seems oddly formal. His hair looks wet from the shower, and he smells a little too strongly of Old Spice.
"My roommate's asleep, so try to be quiet," I say while leading him toward my bedroom. He notices a glass bowl on my dresser and says far too loudly, "You smoke weed, man?" Yeah. I start packing a bowl.
We make out between hits. He looks like he's having a good time. I am, too. He starts to fumble with my belt buckle. Finally he gets it undone.
"Nice dick, bro."
Don't think anonymous sex between men is some product of the digital age. It's been around as long as locker rooms, bathroom stalls and the CCRB sauna. But for a lot of gay men our age, "cruising" has migrated online. This is hook-up culture on steroids. It's easier, more anonymous and probably safer. Establishing what you're comfortable with beforehand is simple.
What are you into? Top or bottom? Any kinks? FWB? I'm 4/20 friendly. m4mm. Bottom for use. I want to be ridden. I want your load. I wanna take it slow. Safe sex only. Just looking to kiss. Just looking for kicks. I'm just curious.
Craigslist, Adam4Adam, Grindr, Manhunt — these are the places to meet, chat, and hook up with other men. Any night of the week you can find pages and pages of profiles, a good number of them University students. Some guys look for friends or dates, but most are just looking to get off. A lot of students identify as either "straight" or "curious." Even more are "discreet" about their sexualities — in other words, closeted.
Coming out is hard to do. Responding to "Bottom up for grabs" on Craigslist isn't. So for the frat guy who laughs when his friends call someone a fag but secretly wants to kiss another man; for the freshman whose family and politics tells him it's not OK to get off on the gay porn he's been watching since high school; for the guy who's confused and just wants to try it out; for all these people, online hookups offer the simple thing they've been denied: release.
I'd been with a guy once in high school. In college, I wanted to try it again, but I wasn't comfortable with the idea of being "out" in any sort of public setting. Somehow, I stumbled upon the m4m section of Craigslist. The more people I hooked up with, the more comfortable I became.
This all must sound kind of seedy. But as long as the sex is safe, consensual and pleasurable, does it really matter how it starts? Is getting online to look for sex any different than going to Rick's or Charley's?
Logging on. Perusing. Messaging. Waiting …
It's another night, another guy. I pick him up in front of his dorm around 1 a.m. After saying hello, we both fall silent. I can tell he's nervous.
"Have you done this sort of thing before, with a guy?"
"Yeah. A few times."
He's hot. Dark skin, curly hair, a strong, masculine jawline. Beneath his baggy sweatshirt is a toned and muscular physique.
I ask him if he's out, and his tone turns defensive.
"No. But I'm not gay. I'm bi."
"Me too."
It's clear he doesn't want to talk, so instead I reach over the stick shift and put my hand on his leg.
"Fuck," he says. "I forgot the condom."
I pull my hand away. Maybe he's nervous, or maybe I'm just not his type.
"Oh, that's fine. We don't have to do this. I can take you back."
But he really has forgotten the condom. After he goes back into his dorm to get one, we fuck in the backseat of my car, parked in the back corner of the Music School parking lot. As soon as his shirt comes off, he's not anxious anymore.
But as we're driving back to his dorm, he's silent again.
Then he asks: "Are you in a frat? You look familiar. I think I saw you at a rushing event."
I laugh. "No. Not me."
I can't tell you how many of these hookups I've had. I can tell you there are many more to come. One day I'll settle down, probably with a woman. But that day won't be anytime soon.
For the moment, it's more strangers. More Michigan Football T-shirts. More bad whiskey and Old Spice. There's a whole sexual space on campus that you now know a little about. If it's up your alley, go for it. Log on, peruse. Throw caution to the wind. What are you into?
Clarification: This article was updated to reflect the final version of the article that will run in the Dec. 5 edition of The Statement


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New Fiction from the April 22, 1965 issue
To the Editors:
You, your reviewer, and your readers should know that my book The Orgy—treated in your April 22nd issue as fiction—is not a novel. The book was not announced or published as a novel. It is a documentary account of three days of living under an extraordinary power—with a flash-back during the first day and a flash-forward during the third. Its material is contained in the notebook which I kept during August 1958, which will eventually be available to readers.
The Orgy is not a novel, and I hate the non-word "non-fiction." I have written other work grounded in fact: poems, biographies, films. The Orgy is entirely factual—even the dolphin—except that I drank the Irish before and after Puck Fair, which I was reporting on assignment for a documentary film director. The Orgy is a book—whatever happened to that category?—and it is a pity your reviewer did not read it as a book. The only thing in it I did not write and I cannot vouch for is the publishers' disclaimer, of which your reviewer makes so much. I think that your readers, and any lawyer, will realize why that disclaimer was printed in the front of the book, although your reviewer does not.
There seemed to me to be a certain value in recording the personal response to the invasion of myth, to which each of us at Puck Fair reacted in accordance with his own nature.
Muriel Rukeyser
New York City
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OCEAN CITY – The tragic accident on the Bay Bridge early last Sunday morning that left one man dead, another woman in the hospital, a tractor-trailer floating in the Chesapeake Bay and snarled traffic to and from the beach on a busy day in August raised questions this week about the integrity of the decades-old spans and the safety of two-way traffic.
Shortly before 4 a.m. last Sunday, a Mountaire tractor trailer traveling westbound on the William Preston Lane Memorial Bridge swerved to avoid a vehicle heading eastbound that crossed the center lane, struck the Jersey wall barrier and careened over the side, plunging about 40 feet into the Chesapeake Bay below. The driver of the Mountaire truck, John R. Short, 57, of Willards, was killed in the crash and his body was later recovered from the water.
The tractor-trailer floated in the bay and was contained to an area just under the bridge until it could be removed on Monday. The driver of the vehicle that crossed the center line, identified as Candy Lynn Baldwin, 19, of Millington, Md., has since admitted she likely fell asleep at the wheel, and although no charges had been filed against her as of late yesterday, an investigation of the accident continues.
Baldwin remains in the hospital this week and her passenger, identified as Trisha Anne Carrigan, 21, of Quincy, Calif., was treated and released. The driver of the third vehicle involved in the accident, identified as Seung Won Hong, 41 of Springfield, Va., and her passenger, identified as Ho Yoo, 42, of Alexandria, were not injured.
The accident closed the eastbound span for much of the day on Sunday, one of the busiest days of the week and one of the busiest weekends of the summer, creating massive traffic jams in both directions. Many resort visitors who left Ocean City on Sunday afternoon did not reach their destinations until early Monday morning and similar traffic nightmares were reported from drivers heading east to the Eastern Shore and Ocean City.
One couple checking into a West Ocean City motel well after midnight on Monday morning said the typical three-hour trip to the beach took almost 13 hours. Another family driving back to Pennsylvania from Ocean City on Sunday said the usual four-hour drive took over 12 hours including five hours spent in the last four miles before reaching the bridge.
It's important to note the horror stories about traffic back-ups are incidental to the tragic death of the Mountaire truck driver, but the incident raised important questions this week including the engineering failure of the bridge to restrain the truck and keep it from leaving the bridge surface; the impact of two-way traffic on the bridges; and the issue of inadequate capacity of the bridge across the bay.
According to AAA Mid-Atlantic, 70 percent of the fatal crashes happen on the Bay Bridge when two-way traffic patterns are employed. A similar traffic pattern was in place last May when three people were killed in a crash on the bridge when trailer came detached from the vehicle towing it. While the investigation into Sunday's accident is ongoing, it appears likely the two-way traffic pattern at least contributed to it.
"We are concerned about the unique safety challenges that two-way traffic poses to motorists," said AAA Mid-Atlantic manager of public and government affairs Ragina C. Avarella this week. "While it is too early to determine what the exact cause of the crash was, it is possible that the two-way traffic flow many have been a contributing factor in this tragic crash. The reality is that yesterday's [Sunday's] tragedy did not have to be as serious and disruptive as it was."
In a separate but related issue, Avarella pointed out the capacity of the current eastbound and westbound spans across the Chesapeake is insufficient to meet the demand, especially on heavily traveled summer weekends. Nearly constant work on one or both of the bridges exacerbates the problem by funneling heavy traffic into fewer lanes on the spans.
"This crash, with the resulting 13- to 14-mile back-ups should be an urgent reminder of the very finite and very fragile nature of our current bay crossings," she said. "Under the best of circumstances, we do not have enough capacity with long back-ups now the norm on weekends. Yesterday's [Sunday's] gargantuan traffic back-ups are a reminder of just how limited and fragile our current bay-crossing arrangement really is."
Former Governor Robert Ehrlich commissioned a task force to study how to increase traffic capacity across the Chesapeake Bay, but he was not re-elected leaving the task force's recommendations on the table when he left office. Avarella this week urged the O'Malley administration to pick up where his predecessor left off.
"We urge Governor O'Malley to consider studying additional solutions addressing traffic capacity across the Chesapeake Bay," she said. "It is a crucial need which is further demonstrated by yesterday's crash and lane closures which extended over 24 hours and left tens of thousands of motorists trapped in traffic jams extending over 13 miles. These are serious and nagging issues that need to be addressed."


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You can become infected with hepatitis C if you come into contact with the blood of an infected person.
Other bodily fluids can also contain the virus, but blood contains the highest level of it. Just a small trace of blood can cause an infection.
At room temperature, it's thought the virus may be able survive outside the body in patches of dried blood on surfaces for up to several weeks.
The main ways you can become infected with the hepatitis C virus are described below.
Injecting drugs
People who inject drugs, including illegal recreational drugs and performance-enhancing drugs such as anabolic steroids, are at the highest risk of becoming infected with hepatitis C.
Almost 90% of hepatitis C cases in the UK occur in people who inject drugs or have injected them in the past. It's estimated around half of the people in the UK who inject drugs have the infection.
The infection can be spread by sharing needles and associated equipment. Injecting yourself with just one contaminated needle may be enough to become infected.
It's also possible to get the infection by sharing other equipment used to prepare or take drugs – such as spoons, filters, pipes and straws – that have been contaminated with infected blood.
Less common causes
Unprotected sex
Hepatitis C may be transmitted during sex without using a condom (unprotected sex), although this risk is considered very low.
The risk of transmission through sex may be higher among men who have sex with men.
The risk is also increased if there are genital sores or ulcers from a sexually transmitted infection, or if either person also has HIV.
The best way to prevent transmission of hepatitis C through sex is to use a male condom or female condom.
However, as the risk is very low for couples in a long-term relationship, many choose not to use a condom.
If your partner has hepatitis C, you should be tested for the condition.
Blood donations before September 1991
Since September 1991, all blood donated in the UK is checked for the hepatitis C virus. If you received blood transfusions or blood products before this date, there's a small possibility you may have been infected with hepatitis C.
Blood transfusions and treatment abroad
If you have a blood transfusion or medical or dental treatment overseas where medical equipment is not sterilised properly, you may become infected with hepatitis C. The virus can survive in traces of blood left on equipment.
Sharing toothbrushes, scissors and razors
There's a potential risk that hepatitis C may be passed on through sharing items such as toothbrushes, razors and scissors, as they can become contaminated with infected blood.
Equipment used by hairdressers, such as scissors and clippers, can pose a risk if it has been contaminated with infected blood and not sterilised or cleaned between customers. However, most salons operate to high standards, so this risk is low.
Tattooing and body piercing
There is a risk that hepatitis C may be passed on by using tattooing or body piercing equipment that has not been properly sterilised. However, most tattoo and body piercing parlours in the UK operate to high standards and are regulated by law, so this risk is low.
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There is a small chance that a mother who is infected with the hepatitis C virus will pass the infection on to her baby. This happens in around 5% of cases. It's not thought that the virus can be passed on by a mother to her baby in her breast milk.
Needlestick injury
There's a small – approximately 1 in 30 – risk of getting hepatitis C if your skin is accidentally punctured by a needle used by someone with hepatitis C.
Healthcare workers, nurses and laboratory technicians are at increased risk because they are in regular close contact with blood and bodily fluids that may contain blood.
How hepatitis C isn't spread
You can't catch hepatitis C from:
- kissing
- social contact, such as hugging
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From the Hans Christian Andersen biography "The Life of Hans Christian Andersen. Day By Day", written by DPhil Johan de Mylius:
A new German translation of Bilderbuch ohne Bilder (Picture Book without Pictures) is done by G. von Leinburg (Frankfurt).
2 July
Leaves Nîmes, headed for Cette. Takes the steamship and tugboat from there to Bezier and the stagecoach to Narbonne, then to Vernet via Perpignan. Stays in Vernet from 7th-13th July, going on walks from here to the town Castel. Returns by the same route, then takes the train from Cette to Montpellier and Nîmes and finally the stagecoach to Avignon. Leaves Avignon on 20th July bound for Valence and takes the steamship along the river Rhône to Lyon (where he continues writing the biography). Departs Lyon on 25th July headed for Geneva. Takes the steamship to Vevey, drives to Chillon and travels by stagecoach via Fribourg to Bern (arriving 30th July). Goes on outings near Bern and continues work on the biography here. Continues to Basel (3rd August), by train to Strasbourg and by steamship to Mainz. Carries on to St. Goar, returning again to Mainz and taking the train to Frankfurt (arrival on 10th August).
13 August
Sits for the Austrian painter Johann Heinrich Schramm. Sends his autobiography to Lorck.
15 August
Departure from Frankfurt via Eisenach (hiking trip to Wartburg) and Erfurth to Weimar (arrival on 19th August). Is lodged at Schloss Ettersburg, the castle of the hereditary grand duke. Visits Eckermann. Finds it difficult to take the exaggerated declarations of friendship offered by the hereditary duke seriously, although he is fair in judgement (the diary, 23rd August) when they discuss politics, i.e. discuss the problems stemming from the Danish-German situation. Is introduced to King Willem II of the Netherlands at the castle Schloss Belvedere.
3 September
Departure from Weimar with stops in Jena and Leipzig, then via Hanover, Braunschweig and Bremen to Oldenburg.
18 September
HCA is made a knight of the Order of The Dannebrog.
19th September-4th October
Staying in Oldenburg. From here via Bremen and Hamburg to Kiel, where he visits Hauch, who is a professor at the university there. Travels (on 12th October) aboard the steamship Hekla back to Copenhagen.
Jørgen Sonne draws HCA for the frieze which is to adorn the outside of the Thorvaldsen museum and which portrays Thorvaldsen's reception upon his homecoming to Copenhagen.


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IYA2009 Updates
Clockwork Skies digital planetarium show free to download and use
5 March 2010
Participants of the Spring 2010 Blender Production Workshop were set a challenging task: develop their own skills by creating an immersive fulldome planetarium show under very strict time limits. The result is the entertaining yet informative show Clockwork Skies.
This show was built by four students, in eight hours, after only 16 hours of instruction. The show and its source are available to the world under the Creative Commons Attribution License, and the script is also online.
For more information, as well as to see the show and obtain the files, please visit: http://community.weber.edu/planetarium/ceres/default.html
IYA2009 Galilean Nights award winners announced!
4 March 2010
The IYA2009 Cornerstone project Galilean Nights ran during October 2009 and saw thousands of individuals and organisations host a wide range of events to popularise astronomy and highlight the importance of Galileo's legacy. Now that event reports have been collated the Galilean Nights awards can be announced. There are six categories, each with a winner and two highly commended entries. Selecting the winners was a challenging task as the quality of all of the events was extremely high. It was particularly difficult to select only three for the Community Outreach award as all events did great work in engaging with their local communities in different ways, there could easily have been many more added to the Highly Commended list.
Congratulations go, not only to all of the winners and the highly commended entries but to everybody involved in Galilean Nights. Every single event played an important role in bringing astronomy to people all around the world. It was this combined effort that made Galilean Nights a huge success and one of the long-standing memories of IYA2009, with many organisers planning to turn their activities into recurring events.
The Galilean Nights Awards are kindly supported by EurAstro (http://eurastro.de/)
Outstanding Galilean Nights Event
Winner: "Galilean Nights Festival at Targoviste" run by SARM - The Romanian Society for Meteors and Astronomy. This truly spectacular event attracted around 3200 attendees. The organisers really went above and beyond by arranging for a press conference and a special live TV broadcast. Congratulations! http://www.galileannights.org/events/reports/gn1,185.pdf
Highly commended: AstroDnepr sidewalk astronomy event at the Festival'ny Prichal, Ukraine. Organisation for this event began in August, and an impressive 14 institutions collaborated to make it a reality. Lots of effort was put into involving children in the astronomical fun. Galilean Nights was used a springboard, as many initiatives have continued.
Highly commended: Galilean Nights at the Ghana Planetarium run by Ghana Planetarium and the Ghana Astronomy and Observation Association. This special day enthused students from major institutions and gave members of the public the opportunity to view the skies as Galileo did 400 years ago. There were also sell-out shows in West Africa's only digital planetarium.
Largest number of registered events held by a single group
Winner: Centro de Estudos Astronômicos de Alagoas – CEAAL, Brazil. 29 events. Centro de Estudos Astronomicor de Alagoas really embraced Galilean Nights and ran outreach activities of all varieties. From putting on astrophotography exhibitions in major shopping malls and at the university, public observing sessions all over the city, to travelling with a mobile planetarium to more remote locations. Through their activities CEAAL reached tens of thousands of people. http://www.galileannights.org/events/event_country_brazil.html#gn664
Highly commended: Universidade Federal de Alfenas - Campus Poços de Caldas, Brazil. 11 events. The Universidade Federal de Alfenas put on several different events to introduce students and the public to the joys of astronomy. Using many different activities, from night sky observing to theatre shows, there was something to capture the attention of everybody. http://www.galileannights.org/events/event_country_brazil.html#gn775
Highly commended: NUCLIO - Núcleo Interactivo de Astronomia, Portugal, 9 events. The Núcleo Interactivo de Astronomia filled all three days of Galilean Nights with activities. They held observing sessions, astronomy workshops, daytime observing of the Sun and public lectures on astronomy. They even ran learning sessions for teachers with practical demonstrations on how to make astronomy and science learning fun. http://www.galileannights.org/events/event_country_portugal.html#gn896
Highest attendance at a single registered event
Winner: "Exposição de Telescópios" run by Clube de Astronomia de Brasília, Brazil. More than16 500 people observed Jupiter and its moons with their own eyes over the course of seven days. http://www.galileannights.org/events/reports/gn835.pdf
Highly commended: "Cosmic Landscape", Brazil. This public exhibition was held at the biggest shopping mall in Maceió (Brazil), and was swamped with 15,000 attendees. http://www.galileannights.org/events/reports/gn665.pdf
Highly commended: Sidewalk astronomy night around Bangalore, India. Run by the Bangalore Astronomical Society in India, this non-stop astrofest lasted for 30 consecutive nights and was experienced by 10,277 people. http://www.galileannights.org/events/reports/gn1,237.pdf
Community outreach
Winner: Centro de Estudos Astronômicos de Alagoas, Brazil. This group travelled in a caravan through five cities in the State of Alagoas in Brazil to reach small communities with their Galilean Nights activities. http://www.galileannights.org/events/event_country_brazil.html#gn665
Highly commended: The Biggest Astrophoto Exhibition held in Erbil, Iraq. Many attendees stated that seeing Jupiter through a telescope made this day the most wonderful and interesting of their lives! http://www.galileannights.org/events/reports/gn1,268.pdf
Highly commended: "I saw the Moon", Afghanistan. Run by the Afghanistan Astronomy Association (AAA), around 70 people braved the cold weather to see the Moon for the first time through a telescope. Attendees were presented with remembrance cards to mark the occasion. http://www.galileannights.org/events/reports/gn924.pdf
Most innovative event
Winner: Dinner on Mars, Portugal. Run by Portugal's Navegar Foundation, this highly creative event saw diners sample dishes such as "Olympus Mons Duck" and "Valles Marineris Monkfish" whilst watching an astronomical tour projected onto a planetarium dome. Delicious! http://www.galileannights.org/events/reports/gn181.pdf
Highly commended: An Evening in Tuscany Dinner & Dance, Canada. Organised by the Vancouver Tuscany Cultural Society in Canada, this Galilean Nights event featured astronomical artwork, a Galileo actor (and two renaissance ladies), and scientific experiments... as well as dinner and dancing, of course. http://www.galileannights.org/events/reports/gn296.pdf
Highly commended: Galilean Nights in Second Life. The virtual world of Second Life enjoyed astronomical fun thanks to interactive models of Jupiter and its moons, realistic telescopic views, and a planetarium show staged in a virtual reproduction of Galileo's villa. ttp://www.galileannights.org/events/reports/gn1,202.pdf
Best "Plan B"
Winner: The Galilean Night with hot tea and a journey to Jupiter, Romania Over six hours the Asociatia Astroclubul Bucuresti, Romania, hosted 300 visitors, prepared 250 cups of tea, and made six presentations. The event was broadcast by three major TV stations, four radio stations and nine websites, and was featured on the Galilean Nights LiveBlog. Not bad for a back-up plan thought up in two days because of bad weather! http://www.galileannights.org/events/reports/gn73.pdf
Highly commended: Reto Mexico 2009 Biznaga Teatro theatre show, Mexico Run by Departamento de Astronomia, Universidad de Guanajuato, Mexico, rain prevented telescopic observations so instead a play with 20 actors was presented, followed by a public talk by a professional astronomer. http://www.galileannights.org/events/reports/gn191.pdf
Highly commended: Northern Michigan Star Party, USA Mary Stewart Adams of Emmet County, USA, had the bright idea of featuring a live audio-visual presentation for those unable to attend local events. Using the online international astronomy community, Astronomy.FM, there was a slideshow with narration and a chatroom Q&A. http://www.galileannights.org/events/reports/gn1,194.pdf
She is an Astronomer conference
4 March 2010
Celebrating success and seeking solutions
Date: 22 and 23 April 2010
Venue: Royal Astronomical Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, UK
To celebrate the ending of the IYA2009 Cornerstone Project 'She is an Astronomer', a conference is being held in London. The conference will be opened by Prof Jocelyn Bell Burnell.
There will be talks and posters on:
- pioneering women in astronomy,
- women and their science,
- female astronomers from around the world,
- careers,
- work-life balance,
- mentoring,
- imposter syndrome,
- correcting gender myopia,
- statistics and surveys,
- IYA2009 and beyond,
- running a blog,
- web forum
- and much, much more.
One outcome of the meeting will be a list of suggestions for supporting and encouraging women in astronomy in support of the IAU Resolution passed at the IAU General Assembly in August 2009. Presentations (talks and posters) will be published on the She is an Astronomer website. If you would like to attend the meeting, please register on-line, indicating if you would like to give a talk or present a poster. Space is limited, so please register.
The deadline for registration has been extended to 15 March.
The cost will be £50, to cover refreshments and lunches.
For more information and registration see:
Helen Walker
Co-Chair of She is an Astronomer
Chair of Organising Committee
Careers in Astronomy
3 March 2010
The IAU has published a new theme about Careers in Astronomy: http://www.iau.org/public/careers/
Bareket Observatory brings cutting-edge science education within reach
2 March 2010
Bareket Observatory (Israel) introduces teachers and students from around the country to other colleagues from all over the globe and provides them with the scaffolding to perform research projects in their classroom. Students are participating at the projects by using the observatory's on-line activities and completing observations on its state of the art remote internet telescope, analysing the data and interpreting their results.
The ASTRO-EDU programme's core actions give an opportunity to anyone who has an interest in the night sky and wishes to have fun learning about the Universe in a scientific manner. It is "research-based" in the sense that it integrates scientific research with education, globally speaking.
In order to achieve a comprehensive coverage for the project it was decided to start an initiative to create a large educational database for students and teachers. Over the following months a new state-of-the-art educational website, including lesson plans, online activities, video training, a CCD library, and much more will be released. A goal is to translate all materials into Arabic to make it more accessible to the Israeli population.
For more information about the Bareket Observatory, please see their official website: http://www.bareket-astro.com/
Galileo Teacher Training Program: deadline extended
1 March 2010
The Galileo Teacher Training Program has decided to extend the deadline of the call for proposals to 25 March 2010.
More information:http://www.astronomy2009.org/news/updates/768/
First Light: Photography & Astronomy exhibition
1 March 2010
Since the late 19th Century, astronomers have been exploring the limits of human perception by way of photography. Those limits were surpassed once and for all with the arrival of space travel and the satellite. In photographs, the seemingly infinite size of the Universe is reduced to human proportions, yet it remains an elusive idea. Partly for that reason, astronomy has had a long history of popularising research. In the past, original photographs appeared in illustrated non-specialist publications on astronomy. Nowadays the information that astronomers gather for their research is translated into spectacular and almost painterly images that reach us via newspapers, magazines, television and the internet.
First Light: Photography & Astronomy will be held at the Huis Marseille Museum for Photography in Amsterdam between 6 March and 30 May 2010. It will comprise a first-time combination of unique historical astronomy photographs, from Dutch collections, and present-day images made by famous telescopes and space probes such as ESO, Hubble and Cassini.
Organised in collaboration with the Stichting Academisch Erfgoed (SAE) and the Nederlandse Onderzoekschool voor Astronomie (NOVA).
For more information, please see: http://www.huismarseille.nl/
Space Education and Outreach Symposium call for abstracts
1 March 2010
Space Education and Outreach Symposium at this year's International Astronautical Congress is taking place in Prague at the end of September. This symposium deals with activities, methods and techniques for formal and informal space education at different educational levels, space outreach to the general public, space workforce development, etc. Each of the sessions in the symposium features an invited key note speaker followed by presentation of selected papers. Symposium sessions may also include panel discussions.
When submitting abstracts for consideration, please note that:
- Papers should have clear education or outreach content – purely technical details of projects, even if carried out in an educational context, will not usually qualify.
- Papers reporting on programmes/activities that have already taken place will usually be received more favourably than those dealing with concepts and plans for the future.
- More weight will usually be given to papers that clearly identify target groups, benefits, lessons-learned, good practice and that include measures of critical assessment.
You can find the full IAC call for papers and details of how to upload abstracts at: http://www.iac2010.cz/en/call-for-abstracts
The deadline for submission is this Friday, 5 March.
Details of the symposium and its sessions:
This session will focus on all aspects of primary and secondary (K-12) space education.
This session will focus on all aspects of undergraduate and (post)graduate space education.
This session will focus on activities that aim to promote awareness and understanding of space in the general public.
This session will focus on novel and non-standard methods of space education and outreach in non-traditional areas and to non-traditional target groups.
This cross-cutting session will focus on education and outreach activities that leverage the inspirational value of the International Space Station and which aim to prepare today's students and future generations to be actively involved in turning space exploration visions into a sustainable endeavour.
(Joint session with the IAA Commission VI, co-sponsored by ITACCUS). This joint inter-disciplinary session will explore the societal and cultural contexts of water as they are related to space. Possible topics include: political and economic issues; how the crises affecting oceans impact society; how the discoveries of water on the Moon and Mars impact both the human condition on Earth and human space exploration; the way the arts, popular culture and entertainment engage with cultural issues related to water, remote sensing co-ordination and public access; educational programmes relating to water from space and water in space, etc.
This session will focus on challenges, opportunities and innovative solutions for attracting, improving and retaining the future and current global space workforce.
March issue of Practical Astronomy magazine is available to download for free
28 February 2010
Practical Astronomy is a new magazine, distributed for free by means of digital download from the internet. The magazine is published by Structure Ltd (a UK registered company) in PDF format, making it readable and printable by most computers in the World. The contents of the latest issue are as follows:
- LOW COST ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY: Afocal imaging with a digital camera
- LUNAR FEATURE TO OBSERVE: The "Moon Maiden"
- READERS' IMAGE GALLERY: Your astronomy photos and images
- REMOTE TELESCOPE PROJECT (PART 1): Control from afar (read part 2 in the Members' Area)
- ASTRONOMY RECIPE OF THE MONTH: Asterism chocolate truffles
- BEGINNERS' GUIDE TO IMAGING (PART 2): Hugh's journey continues… this time, the Moon
- SAGAS – AN INTRODUCTION: The Southern Area of Astronomical Societies
- SKY VIEW – MARCH: Maps of the Night Sky – looking East, South, West, North
- OBSERVERS' DELIGHTS: Special observing sights not to miss this month
Download the issue here: http://practicalastronomy.com/
Help to collect stories about the stars
27 February 2010
The project "The Sky of our grand parents" involves the general public, in particular ancient people and rural and isolated populations, in collecting traditional stories in order to discover old myths and ancient knowledge of astronomy before they become lost.
The Science Museum of the University of Coimbra is looking for partners who are willing to collect texts and stories all over the world and make them available to the public.
Contributions in Portuguese or English will be included in this website, and a link to websites with contributions in other languages will be included as well.
For more information, please see: http://www.museudaciencia.pt/index.php?iAction=Actividades&iArea=3&iId=107
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Terrorist strikes on four American cities. Russia rolling into Eastern Europe. Israel hit by a nuclear bomb. Gay marriage in every state. The end of the Boy Scouts.
All are plausible scenarios if Democrat Barack Obama is elected president, according to a new addition to the campaign conversation called "Letter from 2012 in Obama's America," produced by the conservative Christian group Focus on the Family Action.
The imagined look into the future is part of an escalation in rhetoric from Christian right activists who are trying to paint Obama in the worst possible terms as the campaign heads into the final stretch and polls show the Democrat ahead.
Although hard-edge attacks are common late in campaigns, the tenor of the strikes against Obama illustrate just how worried conservative Christian activists are about what should happen to their causes and influence if Democrats seize control of both Congress and the White House.
'Smells like desperation'
"It looks like, walks like, talks like and smells like desperation to me," said the Rev. Kirbyjon Caldwell of Houston, an Obama supporter who backed President Bush in the past two elections. The Methodist pastor called the 2012 letter "false and ridiculous." He said it showed that some Christian conservative leaders fear that Obama's faith-based appeals to voters are working.
Like other political advocacy groups, Christian right groups often raise worries about an election's consequences to mobilize voters. In the early 1980s, for example, direct mail from the Moral Majority warned that Congress would turn a blind eye to "smut peddlers" dangling pornography to children.
"Everyone uses fear in the last part of a campaign, but evangelicals are especially theologically prone to those sorts of arguments," said Clyde Wilcox, a Georgetown University political scientist. "There's a long tradition of predicting doom and gloom."
But the tone this election year is sharper than usual and the volume has turned up as Nov. 4 nears.
Steve Strang, publisher of Charisma magazine, a Pentecostal publication, titled one of his recent weekly e-mails to readers, "Life As We Know It Will End If Obama is Elected."
Strang said gay rights and abortion rights would be strengthened in an Obama administration, taxes would rise and "people who hate Christianity will be emboldened to attack our freedoms."
Separately, a group called the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission has posted a series of videos on its site and on YouTube called "7 Reasons Barack Obama is not a Christian."
The commission accuses Obama of "subtle diabolical deceit" in saying he is Christian, while he believes that people can be saved through other faiths.
But among the strongest pieces this year is Focus on the Family Action's letter which has been posted on the group's Web site and making the e-mail rounds. Signed by "A Christian from 2012," it claims a series of events could logically happen based on the group's interpretation of Obama's record, Democratic Party positions, recent court rulings and other trends.
Among the claims:
- A 6-3 liberal majority Supreme Court that results in rulings like one making gay marriage the law of the land and another forcing the Boy Scouts to "hire homosexual scoutmasters and allow them to sleep in tents with young boys." (In the imagined scenario, The Boy Scouts choose to disband rather than obey).
- A series of domestic and international disasters based on Obama's "reluctance to send troops overseas." That includes terrorist attacks on U.S. soil that kill hundreds, Russia occupying the Baltic states and Eastern European countries including Poland and the Czech Republic, and al-Qaida overwhelming Iraq.
- Nationalized health care with long lines for surgery and no access to hospitals for people over 80.
The goal was to "articulate the big picture," said Carrie Gordon Earll, senior director of public policy for Focus on the Family Action. "If it is a doomsday picture, then it's a realistic picture," she said.
Obama favors abortion rights and supports civil unions for same-sex couples, but says states should make their own decisions about marriage. He said he would intensify diplomatic pressure on Iran over its nuclear ambitions and add troops in Afghanistan.
On taxes, Obama has proposed an increase on the 5 percent of taxpayers who make more than $250,000 a year and advocates cuts for those who make less. His health care plan calls for the government to subsidize coverage for millions of Americans who otherwise couldn't afford it.
One of the clear targets of this latest conservative Christian push against the Democrat is younger evangelicals who might be considering him. The letter posits that young evangelicals provide the margin that let Obama defeat John McCain. But Margaret Feinberg, a Denver-area evangelical author, predicted failure.
"Young evangelicals are tired — like most people at this point in the election — and rhetoric which is fear-based, strong-arms the listener, and states opinion as fact will only polarize rather than further the informed, balanced discussion that younger voters are hungry for," she said.
Last-minute push?
In an interview, Strang said there are fewer state ballot measures to motivate conservative voters this election year and that the financial meltdown is distracting some voters from the abortion issue. But he said a last-minute push by conservative Christians in 2004 was key to Bush's re-election and predicted they could play the same role in 2008.
Kim Conger, a political scientist at Iowa State University, said a late push for evangelical voters did help Bush in 2004, "but it is a very different thing than getting people excited about John McCain," even with Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his vice presidential pick.
Phil Burress, head of the Ohio-based Citizens for Community Values, said the dynamics were quite different in 2004, when conservative Christians spent some energy calling Democrat John Kerry a flip-flopper but were mostly motivated by enthusiasm for George W. Bush.
Now, there is less excitement about McCain than fear of an Obama presidency, Burress said.
"This reminds me of when I was a school kid, when I had to go out in the hall and bury my head in my hands because of the atom bomb," he said.


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A small Saskatchewan community is mourning the death of a former Humboldt Broncos player and his young family, who were among the six people who died in a car crash in southwestern Saskatchewan on Friday.
Officials identified Troy Gasper, 26, his wife Carissa Gasper, 28, and their three children as five of the victims of the fatal crash near Elrose, Sask.
RELATED: 14 dead after semi collides with Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team bus
Police said the family of five — including three children aged six, four and two — died after their SUV was involved in what RCMP described as a head-on collision with another vehicle Friday.
The mayor of the family's hometown of Rosetown, Sask., approximately 40 kilometres north of Elrose, said the news has left the entire town in "in a state of shock."
"To see a young, bright, well-loved family in the community like that just gone, it's incomprehensible almost," Adam Krieser said in a phone interview.
Krieser, who lived on the same street as the couple, described Troy Gasper as a well-known community member and a young father who coached his children in hockey and baseball.
The SJHL sends condolences to the families of the loss of former @HumboldtBroncos Troy Gasper, his wife and their three children.— #HumboldtStrong (@theSJHL) July 1, 2018
Carissa Gasper, he said, was born and raised in the 2,500-person town and worked at a family business.
Krieser said he last saw the family on Friday as they prepared to head to the lake for the weekend, just hours before the crash.
RELATED: Injured Broncos hockey player out of coma, unable to speak
"The kids were in and out of my house with my children all day, Troy was off a little early and they were getting ready to go to their cabin at the lake," he said.
"We had talked a bit about the weekend plans and the coming summer. It was a beautiful day, and it ended up ending tragically."
The Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League also expressed its sadness over Gasper's death, noting he played with the Broncos for two seasons between 2009 and 2011.
The team was hit by tragedy earlier this year when a bus carrying the team collided with a semi-trailer in rural Saskatchewan, killing 16.
An elementary school in Rosetown said one of its students, Kael Gasper, was killed in the collision along with her family. It said it would offer counselling services at the school on Monday and Tuesday.
The 71-year-old woman driving the other vehicle, who police say was from the Swift Current, Sask., area, also died in the crash.
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Since getting the bad news about the cancellation of Drive Extender from the "Colorado" family of Windows Server products--Windows Home Server (WHS) 2011 ("Vail"), Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials ("Aurora"), and Windows Storage Server 2011 Essentials ("Breckenridge")--I've been in a weird holding pattern. For years, I've been using and advocating WHS, since that product's early beta versions actually. But Drive Extender was a key WHS technology, one that was going to be a core part of the other Colorado server products. But now it's gone, thanks to server application compatibility problems. And readers have asked me, again and again, what they should do.
My advice, so far, has been to wait. When Microsoft announced the Drive Extender cancellation late last year, it said that it would be offering pre-release versions of the Colorado servers in January 2011. And I was told, rather subtly, that Microsoft would be offering some sort of storage improvement in these servers. This improvement wouldn't completely replace Drive Extender, but it would at least partially offset the disappointment.
Today, I can reveal that the release candidate (RC) versions of the Colorado servers are now available, and publicly too. And I can reveal that Microsoft's bone for those who miss Drive Extender is a combination of two things, a new storage feature called Move a Folder and a coming bit of documentation that will make RAID setups on WHS and the other Colorado products less painful.
I'll discuss the former in a bit of detail below, but before getting to that, I do want to address the central issue that was raised when Drive Extender was originally cancelled. And that is, will Windows Home Server 2011 (and yes, that is the official name of "Vail" now) be worth the wait? And if it's not, what do I recommend for those who were previously considering moving to Vail? What will I be using in my own set up at home?
These are important questions. And sadly, my answer is still the same: Wait. I will need time to more thoroughly evaluate the storage changes in the Colorado servers to determine if Move a Folder is really all that compelling compared to the stunning features that were lost with Drive Extender. Unfortunately, Microsoft only provided me with the code for the Small Business Server 2011 Essentials RC, and then only a day before the public release. I won't get access to the public RC version of WHS 2011 until the public. So I'll need to wait myself.
With that out of the way, I can only offer a cursory overview of what's new in the RC versions of the Colorado servers. And I can discuss this Move a Folder feature and provide a few quick thoughts on that. But a full understanding of these RC versions, especially for the storage functionality, will have to wait until I've had some time to sit down and really use the things. And I certainly do intend to do that.
What's new in the Colorado RC versions?
The Colorado servers include two new products, Windows Small Business Server 2011 Essentials (SBSE), and Windows Storage Server 2011 Essentials (WSSE), as well as the second generation version of WHS, called Windows Home Server 2011. Each are based on the same codebase and utilize much of the same technologies, including a Windows Server 2008 R2 base, an integrated management console, and so on. And each focuses very squarely on the small business market or, in the case of WHS 2011, the home and home business market.
With the RC version of these products, we're seeing the true focus of this product line for the first time, and that's for the add-in functionality that provides third parties with a standardized way to target these products with additional functionality. These add-ins can provide on-premises functionality, to improve the capabilities of the products on the local network, or cloud integration functionality, to extend the products to cloud services.
Microsoft showed reviewers some very interesting add-ins that were only hinted at in the past. An Office 365 add-in will allow an employee to manage the company's Office 365-based infrastructure directly from the management console, and will enable single sign-on capabilities between the local domain and the Office 365 services. A Windows 7 Professional Pack add-in will automatically configure Offline Files and Folder Redirection on connected clients and provide checkbox security templates for all PCs in the domain. A separate Windows Phone 7 add-in for each server, each customized to the server tasks specific to each product, will allow users to view alerts, trigger PC backups, reboot the server, and perform other actions from their phone. And Microsoft also showed off other add-ins, created by third parties, related to power management and cloud backup.
Microsoft also announced the licensing terms, though not the pricing, for the Colorado servers. SBSE does not require any client access licenses (CALs) but will instead by licensed for use with up to 25 PCs. A Premium Add-on for both SBSE and Windows Small Business Server 2011 Standard (the more traditional SBS product) will allow customers to purchase a second server with Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard (including Hyper-V, RDS Application mode, and other features) and SQL Server 2008 R2 for Small Business at a vastly discounted price. (And you can purchase it multiple times if required.)
From a usage standpoint, the removal of Drive Extender has driven some changes to the management console UI in all products. Where the Server Folders and Hard Drives area used to have three tabs--Summary, Server Folders, and Hard Drives--now there are just two--Server Folders and Hard Drives. (The Summary tab graphically displayed the now-gone DE-based storage pool.) And on the Server Folders tab, there's no longer a Duplication column because, well, duplication is gone now (it was part of DE). And on the Hard Drives tab, the console displays NTFS volumes instead of physical disks, and lists the remaining space available, since this is a now a concern. (That is, storage is no longer pooled so you'll need to know how much space is available on each volume.)
Oh, and there's this funky new Move a Folder feature, which works in tandem with the also-new Format a Hard Disk Wizard. Let's take a quick look at those.
Move a Folder: What it is, how it works
OK, so now you've got this server, and it's got whatever shared folders set up. But you want to add some storage in the form of an internal hard disk. Once the disk is installed, the Colorado (SBSE, WHS, WSSE) management console will fire an alert noting that one or more unformatted disks are connected. (Before DE was killed, the disk would have instead appeared in the Hard Disks tab of the Server Folders and Hard Drives area, allowing you to add its storage to the storage pool.) But rather than forcing you to figure out how to use Disk Management, the console now offers up a simpler and friendlier Format a Hard Disk wizard. This wizard does what you think it does, utilizing the NTFS file system, and automatically assigning it the next available drive letter. The newly formatted disk then appears in the Hard Drives tab as expected.
But when you add storage like that, you're typically doing so for a reason. Maybe you had a Videos share that was getting a bit low on space. So you want to add a new 2 TB hard drive, let's say, as explained in the previous paragraph, and now you want to move that Videos share to the new drive. In previous Colorado server betas, this would have been unnecessary, thanks to DE. But in most Windows Server versions, this would require making a new folder on the new disk, manually copying the contents over, changing the share, removing the original folder, and, if necessary, then changing the server backup scheme to include the new location.
In the Colorado RCs, this is a bit simpler. You can use the new Move a Folder wizard to move a folder and its associated share to a new location. To do so, simply select the folder in Server Folders and then click Move the Folder under Tasks. The Move a Folder wizard appears, of course, letting you choose a destination (or, optionally, it can recommend a location based on available storage). It will then move the folder and its contents, only deleting the original when various consistency checking tasks are complete.
OK, it's simple enough. But it is enough? Clearly, this little nicety is no replacement for Drive Extender. There's no data duplication, for example, and the lack of a storage pool will be sorely missed. But I've only played with this in the SBSE 2011 RC release. I need to see what it's like in WHS 2011 as well.
Looking ahead
While I have already installed the RC version of SBSE 2011, I need to get the new WHS 2011 RC up and running as well. Going forward, I'll provide a more formal review of these Colorado products, of course. But I'd also like to answer those remaining, nagging questions. By removing Drive Extender, did Microsoft effectively neuter WHS 2011? What will I be using for my own home environment going forward? And what do I recommend for you, those who have used and appreciated WHS for years? Stay tuned: It's gut-check time.


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Osimertinib front-line data wows European Lung 2016
Geneva – At the 2016 European Lung Cancer Conference (ELCC) today, one of the highlights to watch out for is the presentation of first-line data for AstraZeneca's ($AZN) third generation EGFR inhibitor osimertinib (Tagrisso), formerly known as AZD9291.
At 3.30pm in Geneva (9.30am on the East Coast of the United States), Dr Suresh Ramalingam (Winship Cancer Institute, Emory) will present updated data from two expansion cohorts of the AURA phase 1 trial (NCT01802632) with updated results on the use of osimertinib in the first-line setting:
LBA1_PR: Osimertinib as first-line treatment for EGFR mutation-positive advanced NSCLC: updated efficacy and safety results from two Phase I expansion cohorts. S. Ramalingam, J.C.-H. Yang, C.K. Lee, T. Kurata, D.-W. Kim, T. John, N. Nogami, Y. Ohe, P.A. Jänne
Do follow tweets from the conference (#ELCC16).
As Dr Ramalingam noted in a press release issued by the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO):
"The overall response rate was among the best reported for first-line therapy of EGFR mutated NSCLC. The PFS results are exciting, well exceeding the historical control rates of 10 to 13 months with first or second generation drugs. Many of the patients have not had disease progression on the study and are still benefitting from treatment."
Readers will recall osimertinib was approved by the FDA last November (link to press release) for the treatment of advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in patients who test positive for an epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) T790M mutation following prior treatment with an EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI).
Nearly two-thirds of patients who receive an EGFR-TKI develop a T790M mutation, and until the approval of osimertinib, there were no approved treatment options.
I vividly remember being in the audience at the European Cancer Congress in Amsterdam back in September 2013 and listening to Professor Malcolm Ranson (Christie, Manchester) present the first clinical data from the phase 1 study, which at that time was only a single center. See post: ECCO 2013: AZD9291 shows early promise in NSCLC.
Dr Ross Camidge (Denver), who was the discussant in Amsterdam, concluded his discussion with a picture of the first step on the moon. Cancer metaphors around the moon and moonshots have since become overused, but I think this one was justified at the time:
"By addressing acquired resistance at the molecular level potentially creating one small step in the EGFR treatment paradigm, third-generation inhibitors like 9291 are likely to represent one giant leap forward in the treatment of EGFR mutant disease."
~ Dr Ross Camidge at ECC 2013.
Whatever the role we play in cancer drug development, and most of us are but bit players, we live for moments like that. Dr Camidge's visual metaphor remains etched on my memory as a landmark moment when all in the audience saw the first glimpse of a drug that could make a difference.
We've been following the development of osimertinib over the past 3 years and the race to market with Clovis Oncology's rociletinib (formerly known as CO-1686). See e.g. AstraZeneca ramps up AZD9291 lung cancer clinical development, AstraZeneca leaps over Clovis with AZD9291 data at World Lung Conference.
Looking back, when you compare the development of osimertinib to rociletinib, it is a "Tale of Two Cities," to paraphrase the title of a novel by Charles Dickens.
In a recent article (open access) published in Annals of Oncology, Dr Antoine Yver, Senior VP at AstraZeneca described how fast the development of osimertinib was:
"The development programme for osimertinib is the most rapid to date, taking just 24 months from filing the FDA Investigational New Drug Application to submitting the FDA New Drug Application and just 2 years 8 months and 1 week from the first patient dosed to the first approval."
To put this in context, the speed of the osimertinib development rivals – and perhaps even just beats – the accelerated development of imatinib (Gleevec) by Novartis from Feb 1998, when the first patient was dosed, to approval in May 2001, a tremendous achievement.
Key to AstraZeneca's success was the company's previous experience in bringing gefitinib (IRESSA) to market in EGFR lung cancer.
The development of osimertinib by AstraZeneca offers a new case study to other companies in how to bring a drug to market.
Sadly, the drug development by Clovis Oncology offers the exact opposite, as evidenced by the recent meeting of the FDA Oncology Drugs Advisory Committee, which recommended (12 to 1) against accelerated approval of rociletinib for the same indication as osimertinib. See FDA ODAC meeting briefing documents (link).
So what do we learn from the first-line osimertinib data presented at European Lung?
I spoke with the senior author of the LBA_1 PR abstract at European Lung, Dr Pasi Jänne, who is Director, Lowe Center for Thoracic Oncology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) and Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School about the significance of the data presented at European Lung.
During the interview, excerpts of which I've posted for subscribers, we touched on acquired resistance to osimertinib and whether rociletinib has any future in the treatment of EGFR positive NSCLC.
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A forex broker is a person who trades on behalf of a trader. A forex Australia trader buys and sells currencies in the market with the aim of making a profit. When a broker makes a profit, the merchant gives the broker a commission. FX traders do not invest their money in the deal. Therefore, they should ensure that they buy and sell intelligibly and avoid making losses. If you are planning to be a forex broker, you should have the following qualities.
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Io Facts:
- Io is the most volcanically active body in the Solar System.
- Io is one of the few moons to have an atmosphere although it is very thin.
- At any given time, there are approximately 9 volcanoes erupting on Io.
- Io is so close to Jupiter that Jupiter causes "tides" in its surface. These "tides" are what makes it so volcanically active.
- Io is one of only five of Jupiter's moons that can eclipse the Sun as seen from Jupiter.
- Io is the fourth-largest moon in the solar system.
Io is the innermost moon to Jupiter. Be careful not to confuse Io the moon with 85 Io, an asteroid, or with I.O., an abbreviation that can stand for a number of different things.
How big is Io?[edit | edit source]
Jupiter has 66 moons, but only four are large ones comparable to our Moon. Io is one of these four, and the third largest. Io is 3642.6 km, or 0.28 Earths, wide. It only has a mass of about 1.4% of the mass of Earth. It is a similar size to our Moon (but a lot more exciting!).
What is its surface like?[edit | edit source]
Unlike most moons, Io has a "young" surface. Because there is so much volcanic activity, the surface is almost free of craters. Also, its volcanoes are quite unusual. Because of the low gravity of Io and the explosiveness of the volcanoes, sometimes they eject material as far as 500 km above the ground. 500 km is more than the distance from ground level on Earth to the International Space Station. Sometimes the volcanoes erupt more calmly, more like geysers on Earth. There are also shield volcanoes on Io, formed mostly from lava flows.
The temperature of Io varies wildly. At some spots, near volcanic eruptions, the temperature is very hot. But most of Io is very cold, as it is so far away from the sun. The average temperature of Io is -143°C. This is much colder than −90°C, the coldest it gets in Antarctica.
In addition to volcanoes, Io also has many mountains, lakes of molten sulfur, calderas, and flows of molten sulfur or silicate hundreds of kilometers long. The colour of the surface is due to sulfur being at different temperatures. When sulfur warms up and cools down, it changes colour. This is why the surface of Io has so many colours. Some people think it looks like a pizza!
Io has 10 named regions (regions on the Earth would be the Middle East, the Far East, the West, etc) which all end in the word Regio, which means in Latin Region. All of the regions are named after ancient kingdoms and empires of Earth, similarly to how most planets and stars are named after gods and other characters from mythology. For example, the largest regio, Colchis Regio correlates to Colchis Kingdom in 550-164 BC.
Io's volcanic features are all based on various beings in mythologies other than Greek mythology and Roman mythology. For example, Masubi is a volcano, but in Japanese mythology, he is the deity of fire who is said to have caused 8 volcanoes on earth. Another example would be another volcano named Ra. Ra in Egyptian mythology was the god of the sun.
Io's mountains are a mix of many mythologies, in the aspects of their names. They all end in several Latin words vaguely meaning mountain. Danube Planum is based on the Danube river, which runs from southwest Germany to the Black Sea, while Egypt Mons is based on Egypt. On the other hand, there are mountains such as Epaphus Mensa, named after Epaphus, son of Io and Zeus; and Ot Mons — in Mongolian mythology, Ot Ene (the final "e" is pronounced) is the goddess of marriage, who was born at the beginning of the world, when the sky and the earth separated.
How long is a day on Io?[edit | edit source]
It takes 42 hours (1¾ Earth days) for Io to rotate on its axis. It also takes 42 hours for Io to complete one orbit around Jupiter. Since these numbers are the same, it means that the same side of Io always faces Jupiter. (Earth's moon is the same way, which is why you can always see the Man in the Moon.)
Who is it named after?[edit | edit source]
Io (Ancient Greek Ἰώ) — pronounced eye-oh — is named after one of Zeus' (Jupiter's) 1000 lovers. She was a nymph. Nymphs are spirits of nature, associated with water, forests, and grottoes. According to the legend, Io was transformed into a cow by Zeus in order to hide her.
How would Io's gravity pull on me?[edit | edit source]
If you stood on the surface of Io, you would weigh less than you do on Earth. A person who weighs 200 pounds (90kg) on Earth would weigh about 36 pounds (16kg) on Io. So the gravity, of course, pulls less on you.
How was it discovered?[edit | edit source]
Io was discovered by both Simon Marius and Galileo Galilei. Galileo discovered it on January 7, 1610, and Marius discovered it around the same time.


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So, it's not exactly a tutorial. I got that impression about the new "Beginner Mode" of MLB 13 The Show in a talk with one of the game's producers last week. But having gone four innings with it myself already, I can see that label no longer applies.
Honestly, I'm not sure what label applies to it, really. It definitely is not a super-easy difficulty setting, as Sony's San Diego Studio promised. But it's more of an experience skinned over a regular exhibition game, as opposed to a set of exercises or a list of tasks to complete.
To recap, Beginner Mode grew out of developers' desire to chip away at The Show's intimidating reputation, not only to newcomers, but also to veterans who found some aspect of it difficult. This typically is hitting, an art that requires a ton of patience, something a video game experience rarely fosters.
With Beginner Mode turned on, you'll play a nine-inning game regularly. The pitchers' and hitters' behavior will be different depending on how far along you are in your progress. I was handed the controller to play Detroit versus the New York Yankees, switching sides between innings to hit against C.C. Sabathia (announced Thursday as The Shows second cover candidate, joining Washington's Bryce Harper) and Justin Verlander. You can apply Beginner Mode to any matchup involving any two teams.
As you progress in rank, your opposing pitcher—whoever he is—will introduce different pitches and locations into his delivery. At the beginning, you get nothing but fastballs down the middle. Then you get fastballs moved around the strike zone, but still inside it. Then it's fastballs plus another pitch, still in the zone. Once you see all the deliveries a pitcher can offer, then he starts throwing outside of the zone.
The point is to introduce you, in a safe environment, to the timing you'll need to get around on Verlander's heater, and then see it next to a curveball, or a slider, or another pitch. When I ranked up to get Verlander to start throwing me a breaking ball, I recognized it as soon as it left his hand, and, knowing this would be in the strike zone, I smashed the hanging pitch into the bullpen.
I'm of two minds on whether I really learned anything, though. The pitch confidence display was turned on, which showed me that demolishing Verlander's curveball also dinged his ability to throw it effectively. So it suggested to me that as you cuff around a pitcher at lower levels, you put him on a downward spiral in what he throws you, which could rank you up to a higher hitting difficulty before you're really ready for it. I'd rather face a consistent performer doing consistently the same thing to train my batting eye to each situation.
All the features of a normal game are present—including the "guess pitch" feature, if it's enabled. If you know that only the fastball is coming, and you guess it to add extra power to your hit, then the experience is open to abuse. It'll be incumbent on a beginner not to do such things.
As a pitcher, I'm not sure what beginner mode does for you, other than maybe stupefy the hitters and gradually make them tougher. I didn't see any structured progression telling me where and how to vary my location or pitch type. No setup inside/go outside, no fastball-fastball-curveball, no "going up the ladder," so to speak. Worse yet, I threw Austin Jackson a fastball apparently where he likes it most—low and inside—and he clobbered a leadoff home run against me.
Beginner mode is a nice thought but I'm dubious of it as a workshop you can revisit to tune your game. It is useful to help a beginner or someone returning to the series set his timing; the adjustments San Diego Studio made to timing, giving it a wider window of opportunity, were indeed stark. I'm usually a little late with my swing, trying to detect what I'm being thrown as it arrives. Here I could see the difference in Sabathia's 2-seam fastball and still blast the thing.
What San Diego Studio wants to do is have Beginner Mode advise you on an appropriate difficulty setting once you reach a certain mark. So, once you reach, say, level 40, you're advised to play at All-Star difficulty (the third of five settings). You might then return to a beginner mode game later to push your All-Star hitting knowledge into Hall of Fame.
But the range of recognizable pitcher behavior and tendencies seems limited enough that you'll see all of that by the time you're rated for Veteran difficulty. In my mind, after that the only difference in hitting in this mode and in a real game would be that you're graded on it. As for pitching, it may be that I already do a lot of that well, but I'm just not seeing what feedback Beginner Mode has to offer it.


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Friday, May 16, 2008
Crusty bread and gooey cheese... heaven!
If we have sandwiches, we tend to have them at lunch, rather than at dinner time - however, give me a hot panini anytime and I'm a happy camper! Such was the case tonight with this Italian Panini with Prosciutto and Fresh Mozzarella I made.
I had to stop by the market this morning as I needed to pick up some plum tomatoes and while I was out, I also also nabbed a freshly baked loaf of French bread to use for this sandwich tonight. If you fancy a chewy focaccia or ciabatta for bread, feel free to use whichever you prefer. The original recipe called for hollowing out the "meat" of the bread on both sides of the loaf... I'm sure that would be a more classic way to prepare this, but carb lovers that we are, we skipped this step and the sandwich didn't seem to suffer in our opinion.
The layering begins by spreading a very thin layer of creamy mayonnaise on each half of the loaf. On top of the bottom half, shredded fresh mozzarella and threads of sweet basil are placed on top. Fresh mozzarella can be somewhat difficult to work with - sticky and soft. To make it a little easier to shred, toss the portion you want to do into the freezer for 10 or 15 minutes to firm up. Topping the cheese are paper thin slices of salty prosciutto and deep red rounds of plum tomatoes for a juicy burst. We used a The Griddler to press these, but you can get the same effect by using a grill pan and weighing the sandwiches down with a heavy skillet. Our sandwiches had an ultra-crisp crust with a moist interior, oozing with the mild mozzarella. One word can simply define our thoughts... Delicious!
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Oh i LOVE sandwiches like that. I haven't tried shredding the fresh mozzarella... ill have to try that freezer trick. One thing I do love is mixing a little pesto into the mayonnaise for a delicious pesto mayo. Mmmm!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous5/17/2008 01:16:00 AM
Nice picture of Spike!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous5/17/2008 08:14:00 AM
How's Spike doing?ReplyDelete
Just wanted to let you know that because of all your posts about the magic Griddler, we registered for one as a wedding gift... no one has bought it yet, but it's something we intend to purchase even if no one gets it for us. You just make it seem so useful and versatile and glamorous ;)ReplyDelete
- Anonymous5/17/2008 07:17:00 PM
It was a gorgeous day here in the Twin Cities on Friday, wasn't it?! Perfect! Finally...spring has arrived! Hopefully it will STAY!ReplyDelete
Lauren - Pesto, eh? That sounds mighty fine to me!ReplyDelete
Anon - Thanks!
Quinn - Not well, but we are taking it one day at a time.
Lauren - As you know, we love it! Well worth the money.
Courtney - Seriously!
Looks fantastic - I'll have to give that panini recipe a try.ReplyDelete


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The cities of the future are massive, sprawling, beautiful monsters, covering entire coastlines — and in some cases, entire continents. Whether it's Judge Dredd's Mega-Cities or William Gibson's "Sprawl," future cities always devour land. Here's a map of future megalopolises.
So why are these cities so overwhelmingly large? And where do they come from? Here's a list, by region:
North America:
The city of North Am (in Magnus Robot Fighter) does just what it sounds like — it covers almost the entirety of North America, giving you lots and lots of space in which to (what else?) fight robots.
The Maze is a huge network of underground parking garages that stretches all the way from New York to Los Angeles, in the movie Circuitry Man.
Lots and lots of SF stories predict a huge swathe of city stretching along the East Coast of the United States. One of the most famous is Judge Dredd's Mega-City One, which eventually stretches all the way down to Florida.
In Neuromancer and other books by William Gibson, a mega-city stretching from Boston to Atlanta is known as the Boston-Atlanta Metropolitan Axis (BAMA) or The Sprawl.
In He, She And It by Marge Piercy, the urban megalopolis that stretches from the former Boston to the former Atlanta is called The Glop.
And similarly, in the novel The Rise Of The Conglomerates by Thomas Nevins, a huge sprawling "Conglomerate City" occupies most of the East Coast of the United States.
There's also BosWash, the city that stretches from Manchester, NH to Virginia Beach, Virginia. It was first predicted in the 1961 book Megalopolis: The Urbanized Northeastern Seaboard of the United States by Jean Gottman.
The City in Transmetropolitan is commonly believed to be a megacity including New York and stretching as far West as the Great Lakes, which are referred to as its Western lakes.
The Greater Chicago Industrial Zone: In Halo, the former city of Chicago now covers the former states of Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana. And Chicago is no longer really part of the United States — the people in this city-state consider thesmelves citizens of the United Nations.
In real life, some urban planners talk about an area called ChiPitts, which comprises Chicago and Pittsburgh, and everything in between.
Texarkana in A Canticle For Leibowitz, appears to cover a huge chunk of the former Texas and Arkansas, and becomes the capitol of an empire that rules the Western Hemisphere — and eventually wipes out its main rival, New Rome. (Map from Wikipedia page.)
Texas City, in the Judge Dredd comic, covers a huge area of the former Southwest — including Texas, of course.
Bay City is a massive conurbation covering San Francisco as well as its outlying areas, in Richard K. Morgan's Altered Carbon.
San Angeles appears in many different works of fiction, and it usually encompasses Los Angeles, San Diego and sometimes Santa Barbara. It's the setting for Demolition Man.
Mega-City Two also accounts for five thousand miles of California coastline — or it did, until it was nuked — in the Judge Dredd comic.
South America:
Sao Paulo/Rio: In Ben Bova's Mars, the rural poor stream into the cities of Sao Paolo and Rio De Janeiro in such huge numbers, the two cities grow into "a single urban megacity more than three hundred kilometers wide, that stretched from the beaches to the inland hills, sparkling high-rise towers for the rich, sprawling filthy slums for the poor, and smoggy lung-corroding pollution for all."
Ciudad Baranquilla, aka Banana City, is the mega city that covers most of Central America in the Judge Dredd comics.
Greater London — in Sunstorm by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter, London has grown outwards massively, swallowing up tons of villages and formerly independent towns. Clarke and Baxter describe London as spreading out, "kilometer upon kilometer of houses and factories... the scattered, helpless city that lay helpless below" a passing airplane.
Edinburgh/Glasgow — it's not strictly speaking science fiction, but there's a lot of talk about these two Scottish cities combining into one megalopolis in the coming century. The two cities could soon be linked by a high-speed maglev train. But it doesn't appear that any science fiction authors have written about EdinGow yet.
Metropia, in the animated film of the same name, is a massive network of subway systems and "undergrounds" linking all the cities in continental Europe. The world is running out of oil, so the leaders come up with the plan to link all of the subway systems into one huge network — which appears to be haunted.
City Europe, in the Chung Kuo series by David Wingrove, covers an enormous area of continental Europe, from Scandinavia to the Mediterranean. The city is made up of a series of "stacks" with the richest people living on the top levels and the poorest down in the wastelands below.
The south of England is occupied by Brit-Cit in Judge Dredd. Plus East Meg One is another mega-city in the Judge Dredd universe, which covers a big chunk of the former Soviet Union, including Moscow.
And of course, there's East-Meg One, the Soviet mega-city in Judge Dredd, which sprawls around the remains of Moscow — until it gets destroyed in a war with Mega-City One.
Pan-Africa is a continent-wide quasi-state comprising several mega-cities in the Judge Dredd universe: they include Umar (the former Libya), Simba City (Cameroon), Luxor (Egypt), New Jerusalem (the northeast of Ethiopia), and Casablanca.
Gauteng is another one that doesn't appear to have popped up in science fiction very much, but it's talked about a lot in real life. In a nutshell, Johannesburg (a city already growing way past its capacity) joins up with Pretoria/Tshwane and a number of other municipalities, to form a single megacity. There are already plans to join them via a high-speed "Gautrain."
Mega-Tokyo in Bubblegum Crisis. An earthquake splits Tokyo in two, and as the city rebuilds, it gets even larger and much more sprawling, coming to be known as Mega Tokyo. Here's a map of Mega Tokyo, from B-Club Special (via Igarashi) Likewise, Akira takes place in Neo Tokyo, a sprawling metropolis of steel and neon. And the anime Cyber-City Oedo 808 takes place in a fictional future "Edo," or Tokyo, which is apparently much larger than the existing city.
And real-life urban planners talk about the Taiheiyo Belt, which will cover the Pacific coast of Japan including Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya.
A single continuous robotic structure known as The Host covers almost all the islands of Japan, and 50 million people live inside it, in Magnus Robot Fighter and Rai.
And of course, Judge Dredd does not leave Asia untouched — Hondo City covers most of Japan, from Hokkaido all the way down to Wakayama.
Greater Sydney is predicted to encompass a region spanning from Melbourne, all the way up to Queensland along the coast. But as with Edinburgh/Glasgow and Gauteng, it doesn't appear that anybody's written science fiction about this megalopolis yet.
The South Pole:
A continent-wide city called Antarcto covers the whole of the Antarctic, in Magnus, Robot Fighter. Because robot-fighting is best served... cold.
And of course, the city of Holy Terra, or just Terra, occupies almost the entire planet's surface in Warhammer 40,000.
Additional reporting by Alexis Brown. Map layout by Stephanie Fox.
A version of this article originally appeared in 2009.


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The Navy Will Fight Pirates with Lasers
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Welcome to the future, people. The U.S. Navy has perfected a high-energy laser that can be aimed from a ship and can set another boat's engines on fire. The military thinks it will be perfect to prevent attacks by smaller vessels, so pirates being zapped with lasers won't be something you'll just read about in comic books anymore.


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Evaluating Rutgers through one-third of the season
Greg Schiano optimistic on the receiving core
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Rutgers commit AJ Surace developing into true dual threat QB
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Rutgers to play South Carolina in exhibition to honor Nikki McCray-Penson
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First 'The Three Stooges' Poster Shies Away From Revealing The Stooges
Fox's upcoming The Three Stooges, a long-time dream project of comedy directors Bobby and Peter Farrelly, is an object of curiosity for me. The movie has bounced through a couple studios, and once almost rolled with a high-profile cast that included Jim Carrey, Sean Penn and Benecio del Toro. Things fell apart, and early this year the project landed at Fox. Then it moved quickly, assembling a cast that includes Chris Diamantopoulos as Moe Howard, Sean Hayes as Larry Fine, Will Sasso as Curly Howard, and Jane Lynch, Larry David (playing a nun!), Sofía Vergara, Jennifer Hudson, Stephen Collins, and Carly Craig.
We've seen a few set photos and little else. Now there is a poster image of sorts, but it shies away from really revealing the new Stooges. (Even the old banner above shows more.) Check it out below.
A Nike knock-off? Really? OK, whatever Fox thinks works. We know that The Three Stooges is structured as three 30-minute 'shorts,' and that this is the plot of the film:
While trying to save their childhood orphanage, Moe, Larry, and Curly inadvertently stumble into a murder plot and wind up starring in a reality TV show.
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Adam Curry
Internet Celebrity / TV Personality
Date Of Birth:
3 September 1964
Place Of Birth:
Washington, D.C.
Television audiences know big-haired "video jockey" (VJ) Adam Curry as the host of the 1980s' "Top 20 Countdown" on MTV, and early online users know him as one of the first celebrities to emerge on the World Wide Web. Born in the United States, Curry spent most of his childhood in Amsterdam. Curry began his broadcasting career in The Netherlands as a teenager, then returned to the U.S. to become one of MTV's on-air personalities in 1987. During his tenure at MTV (1987-94) he also hosted a New York City radio show and a nationally syndicated radio program called "Hitline U.S.A." Since the early 1990s Curry has been involved in Web technology and media, first as the founder of a design and hosting company, then as an executive with a marketing and communication agency as well as a pioneer in podcasting.
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