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Men and Skin Cancer: Solving the Knowledge Gap
It turns out that men's infamous indifference to skin care may often just be a knowledge gap. Once they're filled in, new research shows, they can be mobilized to take an active, effective role in their own skin health.
Ground To Make Up
It's well known that men take poorer care of their health than women do, especially when it comes to skin cancer prevention and early detection. Between outdoor work and play, they have more unprotected sun exposure than women do and examine their skin less often. Consequently, as the years pass, they develop more skin cancers - the majority of people who get melanoma, for example, are white men over age 50 - and they discover such growths later than women do, when they are harder to treat.
Are men, as many believe, simply too cavalier about their health to put on sunscreen or check their skin? One new study suggests otherwise. Alan C. Geller, at Boston University School of Medicine, showed that messages about the importance of sun protection just aren't reaching men. Geller's team discovered that advertisements for sunscreen, one of the crucial methods of UV protection, appear primarily in publications aimed at women. The researchers reviewed five years of advertising in 24 different magazines, finding that 77 percent of sunscreen ads were in women's mags. On average, four sunscreen ads appeared in each woman's magazine, compared with less than one in every six issues of men's magazines. (Not one ad in either men's or women's mags included guidelines for appropriate use of sunscreen.)
"Clearly, the ads aren't appearing in men's magazines because advertisers don't think they're interested," noted Geller. "But it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy - they don't learn if no one's teaching them."
Flicking the Switch
A second recent investigation shows that when given the health information they need, men respond. The study, from the Centre for Research in Cancer Control in Spring Hill, Queensland, Australia, found that a comprehensive education program can have a strong effect on how men take care of their skin. Monika Janda, PhD, and colleagues instituted the extensive program, called "SkinWatch," across 18 communities in Queensland, consisting of patient and physician education campaigns as well as the establishment of free skin cancer screening clinics. Information on skin cancer and skin screening was mailed to households; invitations to free screenings, signed Men and Skin Cancer: Solving the Knowledge Gap by famous athletes and celebrities, were distributed; and the screenings were promoted in the workplace and in local media.
The results were eye-opening. Men's screening rates went up in general, and the biggest increases were reported in men over the age of 50 - especially those in higher risk categories, such as men who had a mole removed in the past. A two-year follow-up showed that the more than 440 men who went through the program were twice as likely to perform self-examination of their skin, and four times as likely to visit a doctor for a skin exam. The authors credited both the men's increased understanding about skin cancer risks and the increased encouragement from doctors about the importance of early detection.
The wakeup call proved especially invaluable to the men over age 50. They accounted for almost half of the melanomas diagnosed. "By successfully motivating this high-risk group of men to attend screenings, the intervention program produced a high yield of skin cancers, hopefully catching the cancers at an earlier stage and saving more than a few lives," concluded Dr. Janda.
The Skin Cancer Foundation recommends monthly head-to-toe skin self-examination and an annual professional total-body exam.
Published on November 17, 2011


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|Canoga Park, Calif.
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|Canoga Park HS
If at some point last spring the UCSB coaching staff had sent a dozen roses and a big box of chocolates to NCAA headquarters in Indianapolis, it would not have been without provocation. In the spring, the NCAA awarded Cecil Brown a sixth year of eligibility. Brown, the team's leading scorer in 2005-06 at 13.1 points per game, missed two full seasons, 2001-02 and 2004-05, because of various injuries. At the end of last season, UCSB petitioned the NCAA for Brown's sixth year and late in the spring, the petition was approved.
Senior Season No. 2
It's not often that a college basketball player gets the opportunity to take part in a second senior celebration but thanks to the NCAA, Cecil Brown will. After a 2005-06 season in which he emerged as one of the top off-guards in the Big West Conference, Brown will undoubtedly be one of the leaders for the Gauchos, both statistically and in other intangible ways, in 2006-07.
An Honorable Season
Following the 2005-06 season Cecil Brown was selected Second Team All-Big West Conference. Not only did he lead UCSB in scoring at 13.1 points per game, he also had career-high averages of 3.7 rebounds and 2.3 assists per game and made a career-high 42 three-point baskets. In addition to his well-deserved All-Big West recognition, Brown was also the only Gaucho player to earn a Big West Player of the Week Award. He was selected Player of the Week after he averaged 18.5 points per game and made key baskets in the closing seconds of narrow road wins against UC Irvine and Long Beach State.
A Career Night
Entering the 2005-06 season, Cecil Brown's career-high for points in a game was 17. After five games of last season, his career-high remained the same, but in the sixth game of the season, at home against Pepperdine, Brown had a career-high 28 points. In the 65-56 win over the Waves, he made 11-of-17 shots from the field and 3-of-4 from the free throw line. The 28 points in 34 minutes represented 43.1% of the team's output for the night, the highest of any player in 2005-06. Also, Brown's 28-point outburst equaled the highest total by a UCSB player since Mark Hull poured in 31 in the first round of the NCAA Tournament in 2002.
Double The Pleasure
In last year's season-opener against San Francisco, an 82-59 Gaucho win, Cecil Brown was one of the few players on the team who did not have a good offensive showing. Brown scored just four points against the Dons. Three nights later, he scored 14 points in a narrow win over San Diego. The 14-point performance against the Toreros propelled Brown to a streak of 16 straight double-digit outings, the longest such run by a UCSB player since B.J. Bunton went for 23 straight games during the 1998-99 season. The game against San Diego not only began a streak of games in which he scored 10 or more points, it also sent Brown on a streak of 20 straight games with at least one three-point basket.
They're Free? Count Me In!
Cecil Brown shot 78.5% from the free throw line in 2005-06, but that doesn't do the story justice. Shooting in the low-60 percent range at midseason, Brown went on a tremendous run to boost his percentage nearly 20 points by the end of the season. Over an 11-game stretch beginning with a Jan. 15 game at UC Davis and ending with the Gauchos' home finale on Feb. 25 against UC Riverside, Brown made 41-of-42 shots from the charity stripe, 97.6%. During the 41-of-42 run, he began by making 11 in a row, missing one, and then making another 30 in a row. Brown's most impressive showing was a 12-for-12 effort in a win at San Jose State.
Cecil Brown petitioned for and was awarded a sixth year of eligibility by the NCAA...He missed the 2001-02 and 2004-05 seasons because of injury...Brown should again be a focal point of the UCSB backcourt in 2006-07...Healthy, he is one of the top guards in the Big West Conference...Arguably one of the most explosive offensive players in the program's history.
Brown was a Second Team All-Big West selection after leading the Gauchos in scoring at 13.1 points per game in 2005-06...Had easily the best year of his career, averaging 3.7 rebounds and 2.3 assists to go along with his scoring average of 13.1 per game...Scoring average was slightly higher in Big West games at 13.2 per outing...Had career-highs in virtually every statistical category...In addition to leading the team in scoring, Brown ranked second on the team in three-pointers with 42...Played in 28 of the team's 29 games, starting 27...Missed a home game against Long Beach State with a sprained knee...Scored 10 or more points 23 times...Poured in a career-high 28 points on 11-of-17 shooting overall and 3-of-6 from beyond the three-point arc in a home win over Pepperdine...Overall, Brown had three games of more than 20 points, scoring 23 in win at Long Beach State and 22 in a win at San Jose State...Scored 19 points in a home win over UC Riverside and 18 in a home win over Sonoma State...In the victory over Sonoma State, Brown nailed a three-pointer as the buzzer sounded to give the Gauchos a 67-66 win...UCSB was, in fact, a perfect 5-0 when he scored 18 or more points...Scored 15 or more points 10 times...Had a career-high eight rebounds at Fresno State...Also had seven boards at Cal Poly...Brown had five or more rebounds 11 times...Tied his career-high with six assists at San Jose State...Had a five-assist effort at Fresno State...Tied his career-high with three steals at North Carolina...Brown drilled a career-high four three-point baskets at Arizona State...He made three three-pointers five times and two or more 13 times overall...Did not make a three-point basket in the season-opener against San Francisco, but then made at least one in 20 straight games...After struggling from the free throw line early in the season, Brown finished at 78.5%, including a streak of 30 in a row...Ended the season by making 45 of his final 50 attempts, 90.0%...Earned Big West Player of the Week honors after leading the Gauchos to a weekend road sweep of games at UC Irvine and Long Beach State...In the wins over the Anteaters and 49ers, Brown averaged 18.5 points per game and hit several key field goals and free throws down the stretch...He was the only UCSB player to earn a Player of the Week honor in 2005-06.
Brown missed the entire 2004-05 regular season with knee and ankle injuries...Played in the Gauchos' first exhibition game and then injured his knee in practice soon after...Brown was expected to return late in December, but he injured his ankle in practice the day before a mid-December game at San Diego and he never did make it back.
Brown ranked fourth on the Gauchos in scoring in 2003-04 at 7.7 points per game...He was one of four UCSB players to score 200 or more points...Averaged 9.6 points per game in non-conference play and 6.8 per game in Big West games...The difference in Brown's scoring output from non-conference to conference games was no accident...He averaged 25.9 minutes per game prior to the start of league play and just 20.3 per game in Big West games...The drop in his playing time was due to the return of injured and suspended players...Brown actually closed the season strong, averaging 9.3 points per game over the final six contests...He scored his season-high of 17 points in a double-overtime win at Cal State Fullerton...Also scored 16 points three times, against Pepperdine, Westmont and San Diego...In all, Brown scored 10 or more 11 times...UCSB recorded wins the first nine times he scored 10 or more points...A twisted ankle in the first half of UCSB's win at UCLA hampered Brown for much of the middle of the season...Made a career-high four three-point baskets and played a career-high 44 minutes in a double-overtime win over Cal State Fullerton...Had three three-point baskets in games against Pepperdine, San Diego and UC Riverside...Overall, he had two or more three-point baskets seven times...Brown averaged 1.8 rebounds per game...Had a season-high five in wins over UC Irvine and Westmont...Had four or more boards four times...Passed off for 1.5 assists per game with a season-high four against San Diego...Brown played 30 or more minutes six times, including four times in the season's first five games...Seven of his 11 starting assignments came during the non-conference portion of the schedule...Brown missed a game against Alabama State with a sprained ankle, the only game he missed during the 2003-04 season.
Cecil Brown averaged 5.2 points per game as a freshman...Scored a total of 167 points...Played in all 32 games and started three of them...Averaged 5.4 points per game during Big West Conference play...Played a total of 519 minutes on the season...Averaged 16.2 minutes per game...Shot 39.3% from the floor on 57-of-145 shots...Drilled 22-of-64 three-point attempts to shoot 34.4% from behind the arc...Made 31-of-45 free throws on the season for a mark of 68%...Pulled down 19 offensive rebounds and 43 defensive rebounds for a season total of 62 boards...Averaged 1.9 rebounds per game...Pulled down 40 of his rebounds in Big West games...Increased his rebounding average to 2.2 boards per game during conference play...Dished out 32 assists and only turned the ball over 34 times...Blocked two shots and grabbed 14 steals on the season...Started the season on the right foot scoring 12 points in a loss to Weber State...Connected on 4-of-5 shots from the floor and 3-of-4 three-point attempts in the game against Weber State...Scored a career high 16 points in a victory over Pacific...Scored more than 10 points on five different occasions...Connected on all of his free throws in five different games...Pulled down a career high six rebounds in a victory over Pacific...Grabbed more than four rebounds on six different occasions...Dished out a season high six assists against Cal State Fullerton...Had his biggest game as a Gaucho against Pacific scoring 16 points on 5-of-9 shooting from the floor and 2-of-3 shooting from behind the arc...Played more than ten minutes in every game this season...Played more than 20 minutes on six occasions...Played a career high 37 minutes against Cal State Fullerton.
Brown redshirted his first year at UCSB.
High School
Brown had a tremendous senior season at Canoga Park High School...Led the Los Angeles City Section in scoring at 34.5 points per game...Also averaged 13.3 rebounds, 5.5 assists, 3.1 steals, and 1.6 blocked shots per game...Brown was selected Sunset Six League Player of the Year, First Team All-Los Angeles City, First Team All-San Fernando Valley, and First Team All-Sunset Six League...Selected to the Los Angeles Times All-Area Team...Selected Third Team All-State...Selected MVP of the San Diego Torrey Pines Tournament...Had career-highs of 53 points and 20 rebounds in a game against Edison HS of Fresno, during his senior season...Brown also had a 51-point game against Hollywood HS...Passed off for a career-high 12 assists against Deer Valley HS of Oakland...As a junior, he had career-best eight steals...Blocked eight shots against Granada Hills HS as a sophomore...Set a school record with nine three-pointers in a game, once each against Escondido HS and Reseda HS...His 53-point game against Edison was also a school record...As a junior, Brown averaged 20.1 points, 8.3 rebounds, 5.9 assists, and 2.3 steals per game...As a sophomore, Brown attended Taft High School in Woodland Hills and he posted averages of 8.2 points, 8.7 rebounds, and 3.3 assists per contest...Helped to lead Canoga Park and Taft to the L.A. City Playoffs all three of his years...Played for Ralph Turner.
Cecil Rudell Brown was born on July 27, 1983 in Inglewood, Calif....Majoring in sociology...Nicknamed Quiet Storm...His hobbies include reading...His favorite novel is Brave New World and his favorite author is Aldous Huxley...Also played volleyball in high school...In fact, as a sophomore, his Taft HS team won the L.A. City Championship in volleyball...His favorite athlete is Vince Carter...The son of Emily Jester and Cecil Brown.
Career Numbers
YearG/GSFG/FGAFG%FG/FGAFG%FT/FTAFT%PTSAVGORDRTRAVGPF/DASTTOBLKSTLMIN 2002-0332/357/145.39322/64.34431/45.6891675.21943621.931/13234214519 2003-0427/1173/178.41024/64.37539/59.6612097.7939481.835/24027216598 2005-0628/27132/314.42042/125.33662/79.78536813.125791043.743/06355321777 Totals87/41262/637.41188/253.349132/183.7217448.6531612142.5109/31351167511894

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Author Notes: Like many of the recipes in The Gift of Southern Cooking, this recipe is a little bit Scott Peacock and a little bit Edna Lewis. Stirred through the creamy grits, the shrimp paste goes further than a few pretty prawns piled on top ever could, pervading every spoonful with the pure essence of shrimp at its best and most seductive. The shrimp paste also makes a lovely spread for crackers and all-purpose flavor enhancer (just imagine stirring it into risotto, saucing fish, or filling tea sandwiches with it). —Genius Recipes
Serves: 6
For the shrimp paste
2 sticks (1 cup) unsalted butter
1 pound fresh shrimp, peeled and deveined (Scott Peacock likes small, sweet ones like gulf shrimp, but get whatever is freshest)
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1/4 cup sherry
2 tablespoons freshly squeezed lemon juice
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
For the shrimp grits
2 cups water
2 cups milk, or more
1 cup stone-ground or regular grits
1/4 cup heavy cream
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
Kosher salt
For the shrimp paste
- Heat 6 tablespoons of the butter in a large skillet until it is hot and foaming. Add the shrimp, salt, and pepper, and cook over high heat, stirring often, for 4-7 minutes, until the shrimp are pink and just cooked through.
- Remove the skillet from the stove and use a slotted spoon or tongs to transfer the cooked shrimp to the bowl of a food processor with the blade attachment.
- Return the skillet to the stove, and add the sherry, lemon juice, and cayenne pepper. Cook over high heat until the liquid in the skillet is reduced to approximately 3 tablespoons and is quite syrupy. Immediately add this to the shrimp in the food processor, and process until the shrimp are thoroughly pureed.
- With the motor running, add the remaining butter in pieces and process until thoroughly blended. Turn the food processor off and carefully taste the paste for seasoning, adding more salt, black pepper, sherry, lemon juice, or cayenne pepper as needed. Transfer the shrimp paste to a ceramic crock and allow to cool completely.
- If not using right away, cover the shrimp paste and refrigerate for up to 1 week. Refrigerated shrimp paste should be allowed to return to room temperature before serving. If it is still too dry to spread, you may work in some softened butter and salt to taste until it is spreadable.
For the shrimp grits
- Heat water and milk in a heavy-bottomed saucepan until just simmering.
- While the milk and water are heating, put the grits in a large mixing bowl and cover with cool water. (If you are using regular grits, skip this step.) Stir the grits assertively so that the chaff floats to the top. Carefully skim the surface of the grits to remove the chaff. Drain the grits through a fine strainer, and stir them into the simmering water and milk. Cook, stirring often, until the grits are tender to the bite and have thickened to the consistency of thick oatmeal. Regular grits are done in about 20 minutes, but stone-ground grits require an hour or a little more to cook, and you will have to add additional milk and water as needed. As the grits thicken, stir them more often to keep them from sticking and scorching.
- Stir in the cream and butter and season generously with salt to taste. Remove from heat and let rest, covered, until time to serve. If the grits become too thick as they cool, reheat them, stirring in a little extra water or milk to thin.
- Top hot grits with a generous dollop of Shrimp Paste. Scott Peacock likes to stir it in thoroughly, then let it rest for 5-10 minutes for the flavors to get to know each other. For every cup of grits, stir in about 1/4 cup or more Shrimp Paste, and sprinkle some chopped fresh chives on top, if you like them. Serve as an appetizer, a supper dish with buttered toast, or a savory side dish.
- This recipe is a Community Pick!
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MONROE — Under normal circumstances, drinking and hammering might seem like a bad idea.
That doesn't appear to be the case, however, if you're playing Hammerschlagen.
The German-inspired drinking game consists of driving a 3-inch nail into a slice of a stump. It sounds easy, but participants have to use the wedge-shaped end of a cross-peen blacksmith hammer, not the broad end, to do it.
While some of those who tried Hammerschlagen on Friday at Oktoberfest in Monroe lamented their lack of skill, they had fun with it nonetheless.
"I was surprised how hard it is," said Darren Hendrickson, 50, of Monroe.
Plus, "put a few of these in you," said his friend, Ken Makarin of Everett, 34, hoisting his beer.
Festivals Inc., which runs the Bite of Seattle, the Taste of Tacoma and Oktoberfest Northwest in Puyallup, brought Oktoberfest to the Evergreen State Fairgrounds in Monroe for the first time this year, said Cindy Stohr, media director for the company.
In the Hammerschlagen area, stump slices are placed waist high on large wooden spools set on their sides like tables.
The supervisor for the activity, Marcel Drew, gently hammers one nail per player into the stump just far enough so it stands on its own. Each player then takes a turn at driving their own nail downward, getting only one stroke each turn before passing the hammer to the next player.
The hammer goes around the table until one player wins by hammering his or her nail all the way down so the head is flat with the wood.
According to several sources, Hammerschlagen — "hammer strike" in German — is descended from a Bavarian drinking game called Nagelspielen, or "nail games."
Stohr and Brett Gorrell of Festivals Inc. said they came across Hammerschlagen at an Oktoberfest event in LaCrosse, Wis.
It was a wild event, they said, with people putting down a lot of money on the outcomes.
"This is a gambling game," Gorrell said.
At Oktoberfest in Monroe, as in Puyallup, a tournament is part of the weekend. The first two rounds were planned for Friday night with the next two scheduled for 6 and 7 tonight. The winners will square off at 8 tonight for the championship.
The winner gets $200, his or her choice of an Oktoberfest stein, free admission and free beer at next year's event and their photo on a wall of fame, Gorrell said. Second place brings $50 and choice of stein; third place, choice of stein.
The tournament is first come first serve and participants must sign up two hours ahead of time.
Before the tournament begins, anyone can go up and try their hand at Hammerschlagen.
Brothers Derich and Dustin Loudenslager and their dad, Frank, played a couple of rounds on Friday, beer in one hand and hammer in the other.
Often, players hit the nail with glancing blows that only serve to bend it over, meaning they have use subsequent turns to straighten it out.
Derich Loudenslager, 41, of Shoreline, had trouble hitting the nail on the head.
"How many rounds are there before we just accept our shame and walk away?" he said.
Frank, 66, visiting from Fresno, Calif., also was just grazing the nail.
"Do you know how to say 'suck' in Deutsch?" he said.
In the second round, Drew offered a Hammerschlagen T-shirt to the winner. Dustin, the youngest of the brothers, walked away with the prize.
Later, three beer distributors for the event, sampling their own wares, played a couple of rounds. Long rounds.
Todd Owsley of Arlington missed the nail several times.
"I'm just trying to scare the wood so it comes up around the nail," he said.
Travis Schallot of Seattle struck several off-target blows.
"These nails aren't regulation," he said.
John Tufano of Seattle also struggled in the first round.
"This game would be more entertaining if there was fire involved," he said. "Fire makes everything better."
The three started their second round with a rule that each player who missed the nail had to take a drink of their beer.
Often, the game is played so the loser has to buy the next round, according to organizers.
Drinking beer isn't a requirement for trying Hammerschlagen. The Monroe Oktoberfest also offers family-friendly features such as a root beer booth and a pumpkin-decorating contest for kids.
Abbie Rowland, who was staffing the Alaska Airlines booth at the event, took a few swings with the hammer.
Her advice for beginners?
"Keep your nail straight," she said.
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Tea Home Suffers Heavy Smoke, Water Damage During Fire
The Tea Fire Department was dispatched to reports of a house fire on Sunday night at around 8:00 p.m.
The owner, Brandy Storgaard, reported smoke filling the house. She told authories that she and her two children escaped the home along with the family dog.
The fire began in the basement and was contained to the fireplace and the family room. The home did suffer heavy smoke and water damage.
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Strangling victim was drinking among strangers
Jose Cartagena, a Puerto Rican native who had come to Connecticut eight years earlier, was an outsider among the people he drank with and then fought with on the last night of his life four years ago.
Details of that April 2008 night have been emerging at the manslaughter trial of 35-year-old Dirren T. Conyers in Superior Court in Norwich. He is accused of fatally strangling Cartagena after a melee in the Poquonnock Bridge section of Groton on April 13, 2008.
For the past week, prosecutor Christa L. Baker has been calling eyewitnesses to the incident, including, on Wednesday, James "Buddha" Smith, who also is charged with fighting Cartagena that night.
The state is expected to rest its case today after Chief Medical Examiner H. Wayne Carver testifies about the autopsy he performed on Cartagena. Defense attorney Tina Sypek-D'Amato then is expected to call several witnesses.
Conyers, who has been free on a $250,000 bond while his case was pending, sat quietly at the defense table in a dark suit Wednesday as the state called his longtime friends and associates to testify. If convicted of manslaughter, he faces up to 20 years in prison.
Cartagena, 36, whose family said he worked at PCC Structural, a Groton company that makes jet-engine parts, was out that night with Jeannette Johnson, a woman he had met just a few weeks earlier.
According to testimony, they went drinking at Sully's Cafe, a now-defunct neighborhood bar, with a group of friends and relatives, including Conyers, that Johnson had known for decades.
The alcohol was flowing, according to Darryl Sebastian, who hosted a cookout that afternoon with his wife, Stacey at their Miami Court home. Sebastian testified Wednesday that after the cookout, everyone went to Sully's and had a good time. He said they took turns buying rounds and estimated they each put down seven or eight shots before following him back to his house. Like several of the others who testified, Sebastian said he had just met Cartagena that night at Sully's.
Sebastian said he was intoxicated, but not "stumble drunk" when the "commotion" started outside his house. Still, he testified that he didn't see exactly what occurred. He didn't want any trouble and said he yelled out to the participants that they should "take it down the street."
Smith, on the other hand, testified that he was so drunk he doesn't remember what happened between him and Cartagena.
"We started fighting" Smith testified. "I don't even remember how."
Other witnesses have said that the fight started when a man claimed Cartagena made a disrespectful remark to someone's mother.
Smith said somebody pulled him off Cartagena and put him in his sister's car. He attempted to get out and resume fighting, Smith said, but his sister grabbed him and put him in the car again.
Conyers is then accused of placing Cartagena in a choke hold until he stopped breathing.
Johnson said that after Smith and Cartagena were separated, she and Cartagena were about to leave when a group of people, including Conyers, attacked Cartagena as he was trying to get in his car. At one point, according to one eyewitness, Cartagena was on the ground being punched and kicked by up to eight people.
Witnesses said two men carried the victim's limp body to the back seat of Johnson's car. Cartagena's cause of death was determined to be traumatic asphyxiation, or strangulation.
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The Sith Inquisitor isn't all force lightning and stoic standing in The Old Republic. During my brief spin in the role during the game's beta test I discovered a complex class with the potential for great killing power and crowd control alike. Plus you get to specialize into either an assassin or a sorcerer, two job titles that look amazing on business cards; trust me.


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Noosa attracts more than its fair share of visiting winemakers and most recently Margaret River winemaker, Vanya Cullen presented her wines to the locals. The occasion was a degustation dinner at Sails Restaurant, where I was able to chat to Vanya before guests arrived.
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In Washington state, 11 percent of the population is Latino and 50 percent are women, but the new legislature that will gather to represent them next year will be the least diverse group of state lawmakers in a generation.
Even as the U.S. Congress is becoming more diverse, Washington's 63rd Legislature will include 44 women, or about 30 percent, among its 147 members — the fewest since 1990, The Seattle Times reported Sunday.
Overall, nearly two-thirds of the Legislature, or 95 lawmakers, will be white men — the most since 1992.
Depending on a too-close-to-call House race in Vancouver — where Democrat Monica Stonier, who identifies as Asian and Hispanic, holds a 100-vote lead — there may be just one Latino lawmaker, the lowest number since 1996, the newspaper reported.
There will also be two African Americans, two Native Americans, five Asian Americans and, for the first time, an Iranian American, according to the latest vote tallies. There will be six openly gay or lesbian members.
The dearth of diversity is particularly apparent in the Republican Party, whose legislative ranks next year include no minorities and either 16 or 17 women, the Times reported.
Lawmakers and advocates say there aren't more women and minorities in the Legislature for a number of reasons, including poor recruitment, low salaries, competing needs for women and the rancorous nature of politics being a turnoff.
"This doesn't happen overnight," Tim Ceis, a Democratic member of the Washington State Redistricting Commission, told The Times. He said increased minority representation will come, eventually. "It takes organizing. It takes candidate recruitment. It takes time."
The commission, which redrew district boundaries last year after the once-a-decade census, made increased minority representation a goal. Among other moves, the commissioners created the state's first Latino-majority district, the 15th, in the Yakima area.
But few Latinos volunteered to run for office there this year. Democrat Pablo Gonzalez, 21, a Central Washington University student, challenged incumbent David Taylor, R-Moxee, in the 15th but took just 38.9 percent of the vote.
Gonzalez said he felt his surname hurt him.
Beth Reingold, a political-science professor at Emory University in Atlanta, said other state Legislatures are generally not losing female and minority representation, although few are experiencing the same gains as they did during the 1990s.
She called Washington's trend strange, noting that the ranks of U.S. female lawmakers and legislators of color have more or less remained constant over the past decade.
For Cyrus Habib, the Iranian American who just won an open Eastside seat, the problem is party leadership.
"We need to do a much better job of recruiting people into the party," said Habib, of Kirkland, who also will become the second blind state legislator in the country when he is sworn in. "The No. 1 reason people give for not running for office is that they haven't been asked."
Brown, the outgoing Senate majority leader, said women are often hindered by needs at home. "Women who could potentially serve in the Legislature still have a more difficult balancing act with respect to their families and professional life than men do," she told The Times.
Recruiting new people into political life has also gotten harder as politics has gotten nastier, said Kim Abel, co-president of the League of Women Voters of Washington. "I think the incivility is making it hard for some people to step forward," she said.
Several Republicans said they believe the party has been doing a good job of recruiting women and minorities.
"I think we have a lot to be proud of," said longtime Sen. Pam Roach, R-Auburn, adding: "We don't elect people based on gender or race. We elect people based on their philosophy."
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The Liberal National Party has announced the suspension of life member and major donor Clive Palmer.
LNP state director Brad Henderson says Mr Palmer's suspension is immediate.
"The LNP has suspended Professor Clive Palmer's membership of the party effective immediately, pending consideration by state executive," he told AAP.
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Speed salutes brilliant Bale
Wales manager Gary Speed hailed "phenomenal" Gareth Bale after the Tottenham winger proved to be the match winner in their 1-0 victory over Bulgaria at Vasil Levski Stadium.
Wales manager Gary Speed hailed "phenomenal" Gareth Bale after the Tottenham winger proved to be the match winner in their 1-0 victory over Bulgaria at Vasil Levski Stadium.
The 22-year-old grabbed the only goal of the game late in the first half as he cut in from the right to fire a deflected shot past Nikolay Mihaylov in the Bulgaria goal and end the Euro 2012 qualifying campaign on a high. The recently-crowned Wales Footballer of the Year also hit the bar with a fierce volley.
Speed said: "Gareth was phenomenal again. The pitch out there tonight did not suit his game, I have played on pitches like that and it's heavy and dead, the grass was long and we said to the players at training last night that if you run with the ball on that you are going to get caught, so to put in a performance like that is phenomenal."
The Wales boss added: "He is a match winner, but that said you have to give your match winners a platform to win games for you, and everyone else gave him a platform and he puts the hard work in too. That's how we will achieve things and he works harder than anyone and that's the situation we need if we are to keep improving."
The win gave Wales back-to-back victories in competitive fixtures for the first time since 2005, and the manner in which they ground out the result was particularly impressive, with Bale, captain Aaron Ramsey and Joe Allen once again outstanding in midfield.
The poor pitch and a sparse crowd of just over a thousand, due to a boycott by home fans disgruntled with their sides current winless run of seven games, provided difficult hurdles for Speed's young squad to overcome.
And the manager admitted that his players had surpassed his own expectations with victory, and praised their attitude in a testing environment.
He said: "I am really delighted. I was apprehensive before the game to be honest. We have come so far so soon that before the game I was thinking this might be one game too far because of the circumstances the players found themselves in.
"Many of them have not experienced it before. To come to Bulgaria, a place that is difficult to come to and try to grind out a result.
"I would have settled for a draw before the game. I wanted a positive result of any kind because we need this experience to make us better in the future. So to get a win; I did not expect it but it was brilliant."


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Sometime during the end of my sophomore year in college I decided to spend the following fall semester abroad. On a whim, I decided South Africa would be my destination. I applied and was accepted to the Organization of Tropical Studies program on African Ecology and Conservation Biology. The program took an integrative approach to exploring ecological issues in concert with human issues. As my fellow researchers and I traveled from one region of South Africa to another, our fieldwork focused on learning about the ecosystems surrounding us and the cultures we were immersed in. We were introduced to a host of black ethnic cultures, white cultures of primarily British and Dutch decent, and 11 official languages that collaboratively form the rich national ethos of South Africa.
Part of the program involved a homestay in which we lived with families in the rural village of HaMakuya. Situated north of Kruger National Park, bordering Zimbabwe, HaMakuya was part of the ex-homeland of the Venda people during the apartheid era, a period from 1948 to 1994 of legal racial segregation under the National Party of South Africa. As a result of apartheid, HaMakuya suffered extreme levels of underdevelopment.
My homestay mother taught me how to do daily chores and prepare Venda food, like mopani worms and a porridge called pap. When I joined my homestay family for the Zionist Christian Church service, we piled into a tiny, five-by-five-meter mud room to dance around a central pole. The room became increasingly dusty as the pastor read aloud from a Bible translated into TshiVenda, the local language. One of my most lasting memories of that first week in HaMakuya—and one of the main reasons I wanted to return—is of an experience I had during a celebration one night. I was invited to join in a traditional dance where one person is thrown down a row of interlocked arms. I fell into the dancers' arms as we sang "Shosholoza," a call-and-response style song originating from oppressed industrial migrant workers. Later, the song transformed into a symbol of the future democratic South Africa when it was used as the national sporting anthem in 1994. I looked at the stars above me and a lasting trust and relationship of reciprocity took root that night.
After my spring semester back in the States, I returned to HaMakuya the next June to conduct independent ethnobotany research. This time I was excited to be going alone and able to devote more time and energy into establishing relationships with people in HaMakuya. During those three months, I established close friendships with many people in the community and furthered my understanding of its complicated sociopolitical aspects. I also tutored individuals who were eager to practice their English conversation skills and review assignments from their 12th-grade English literature class. Many students seized the opportunity to receive extra help in English. I spent my weekends working for hours with many enthusiastic individuals—some of whom walked an hour to the camp and an hour back just because they'd heard I would assist with schoolwork. Three girls in particular joined me every weekend to go over course work and practice speaking English. At that point, I began considering the possibility of returning to the community after my research program was over to initiate a project aimed at improving English-speaking skills in HaMakuya.
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Acthar for Treatment of Proteinuria in Membranous Nephropathy Patients (CHART)
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01386554
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : July 1, 2011
Results First Posted : March 26, 2018
Last Update Posted : May 3, 2018
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|Condition or disease
|Proteinuria Idiopathic Membranous Nephropathy
|Drug: Repository Corticotropin Injection Drug: Placebo
|Phase 4
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|60 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|Double (Participant, Investigator)
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|Official Title:
|A Randomized, Placebo-Controlled, Parallel-Group, Double-Blind Study of H.P. Acthar Gel (Acthar) in Treatment-Resistant Subjects With Persistent Proteinuria and Nephrotic Syndrome Due to Idiopathic Membranous Nephropathy (iMN)
|Study Start Date :
|August 2011
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|November 21, 2016
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|May 5, 2017
Experimental: 80 U Acthar
Acthar (Repository Corticotropin Injection) 80 U (1.0 mL) two times per week
Drug: Repository Corticotropin Injection
Acthar given SC for 6 months
Other Names:
Placebo Comparator: 1.0 mL Placebo
Placebo (1.0 mL) two times per week
Drug: Placebo
Placebo contains the same inactive ingredients as that used for H.P. Acthar Gel without the API.
Placebo given SC for 6 months (80 U two times a week).
Experimental: 40 U Acthar
Acthar (Repository Corticotropin Injection) 40 U (1.0 mL) two times per week
Drug: Repository Corticotropin Injection
Acthar given SC for 6 months
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- Proportion of Subjects Who Have a Complete or Partial Remission in Proteinuria [ Time Frame: At Visit 8 (Week 24) ]The subject's response will be considered the average of the two PCR values from the 24-hour urine collections at Visit 8 (Week 24). Urine protein creatinine ratio (uPCR) was used to assess remission (partial and complete). Complete remission = uPCR < 0.3 g/g; partial remission = uPCR < 50% of baseline uPCR and > 0.3 g/g but < 3.0 g/g
- Proportion of Subjects That Have Sustained Complete or Partial Remission [ Time Frame: At Visit 9 (Week 28) ]The subject's response will be considered the average of the two PCR values from the 24-hour urine collections at Visit 8 (Week 24).
- Time to Single PCR Measured Remission (Complete or Partial) [ Time Frame: Up to Week 48 ]Summary of patients with complete or partial remission (using 24-hour urine uPCR) at any visit up to week 48 (excludes Week 24 primary outcome measure data)
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For complete list of inclusion and exclusion criteria, please refer to contact below.
Inclusion Criteria:
Male or female subjects ≥18 years of age, at screening Visit 1:
a. If potential subjects are >75 years of age, discussion between the investigator and the Medical Monitor must take place;
- Body mass index ≤40 kg/m2, at screening Visit 1;
A history of nephrotic syndrome due to iMN as confirmed by documented results from a renal biopsy performed within 4 years prior to screening Visit 1:
a. If a biopsy has been performed between 4-8 years prior to screening, and if the subject has no signs or symptoms of diabetes or other clinical diagnoses that could suggest a change in renal histology in the opinion of the investigator and the Medical Monitor, the subject is eligible.
Renal target disease requirements:
- Total urine protein of ≥3.0g (≥3000mg) from the 24-hour urine returned at Visit 1A, AND.
- An estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) value >25mL/min/1.73m2 at Visit 1A (as calculated using the abbreviated Modification of Diet in Renal Disease [MDRD] equation.
Any prior course of at least 1 month of treatment with ≥1 of an immunosuppressant therapy(ies) for iMN:
- Subjects must be followed for at least 3 months after treatment prior to screening with the exception of rituximab or a cytotoxic based therapy, where the follow-up period is 6 months after treatment. If after follow-up it was determined that the subject did not achieve a complete or partial remission or suffered a relapse after achieving a partial remission, the subject will be eligible for the study.
- If in the investigator's opinion, the subject should be enrolled prior to meeting the follow-up period criteria and the decrease in proteinuria is no longer occurring, discussion between the investigator and the Medical Monitor must take place for approval to enter screening.
History of treatment-resistant iMN defined as either having had no remission or having suffered a relapse after achieving a partial remission to their most recent standard treatment regimen as defined in the Definition of Response Status Table despite treatment with at least 1 month of treatment with a prior therapy for iMN. Note the following:
a. If the subject has been treated with prior standard therapy and can no longer be re-treated with any component of that therapy, regardless of whether a complete or partial remission was achieved, then the subject may be eligible, but approval from the Medical Monitor is required.
i. For example, if early discontinuation of standard therapy occurred because of a serious adverse event (Grade 3 or 4) during the treatment, regardless of whether a partial or complete remission was achieved, then the subject may be eligible.
b. If (a) does not apply, and the subject did not have either a partial or complete remission to the most recent treatment regimen, then the subject is eligible.
c. If (a) does not apply, and the subject achieved a partial remission from the most recent treatment regimen, and later relapse occurred, then the subject is eligible.
Antihypertensive treatment including use of ACE inhibitors and/or ARB:
a. Unless there is a history of intolerance to ACE inhibitors or ARB therapy, the subject must be treated with at least one of these agents.
b. Treatment with ACE inhibitor and/or ARB for ≥3 months prior to screening Visit 1A, with stable maintenance dose for ≥30 days prior to randomization.
c. If treated with other antihypertensive therapies, treatment duration of ≥30 days and stable maintenance dose for ≥7 days prior to screening Visit 1A.
Blood pressure determined by the average of ≥3 seated readings taken ≥5 minutes apart during the screening period at Visit 1A:
- Mean systolic blood pressure ≤140 mmHg and
- Mean diastolic blood pressure ≤80 mmHg.
Exclusion Criteria:
Therapies and/or medications:
- History of previous use of Acthar for treatment of nephrotic syndrome;
- Prior sensitivity to Acthar or other porcine protein products; or
- Planned treatment with live or live attenuated vaccines once enrolled in the study.
Contraindication to Acthar per Prescribing Information: scleroderma, osteoporosis, systemic fungal infections, ocular herpes simplex, recent surgery, history of or the presence of peptic ulcer, congestive heart failure, uncontrolled hypertension, primary adrenocortical insufficiency, or adrenocortical hyperfunction.
a. For the purpose of this study: "history" of peptic ulcer is defined as ≤6 months prior to Visit 1A.
Renal target disease exclusions:
- Subjects with known diabetic nephropathy or nephrotic syndrome due to a disease or process other than idiopathic membranous nephropathy, or
- Subjects requiring diagnostic or interventional procedure requiring a contrast agent must delay screening/randomization for at least 7 days.
- History of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus.
- Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes mellitus (prior diagnosis of gestational diabetes mellitus is not an exclusion).
- History of Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) ≤6 months prior to screening Visit 1A.
Presence of renal vein thrombosis:
- Known current diagnosis by ultrasound, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or computed tomography scan;
- Signs or symptoms consistent with occurrence of acute renal vein thrombosis (hematuria in combination with flank pain and >30% unexplained acute rise in serum creatinine) with renal vein thrombosis confirmed by ultrasound, MRI or computed tomography scan.
Cardiovascular exclusions:
- History of or active congestive heart failure (NYHA Functional Classification of CHF Class II through Class IV), or.
- History of known dilated cardiomyopathy with left ventricular ejection fraction ≤40%, or.
- Occurrence of any of the following within 3 months of screening Visit 1A:
i. Unstable angina. ii. Myocardial infarction. iii. Coronary artery bypass graft or percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty.
iv. Transient ischemic attack or cerebrovascular disease. v. unstable arrhythmia.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01386554
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|Responsible Party:
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01386554 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
Control No. 166679 ( Other Identifier: Health Canada )
|First Posted:
|July 1, 2011 Key Record Dates
|Results First Posted:
|March 26, 2018
|Last Update Posted:
|May 3, 2018
|Last Verified:
|April 2018
Keywords provided by Mallinckrodt:
H.P. Acthar Gel
nephrotic syndrome
idiopathic membranous nephropathy
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Kidney Diseases
Nephrotic Syndrome
Glomerulonephritis, Membranous
Urologic Diseases
Urination Disorders
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A mother in New Mexico chased down a driver who she says snatched her daughter off the street. KOB's Danielle Todesco reports.
A 31-year-old man was charged with kidnapping Thursday, a day after the mother of a snatched 4-year-old girl chased down a car and rammed it with her own.
Albuquerque police said David Jesus Hernandez ran away after the crash. According to authorities, the victim's mother did not realize he had pushed the child from his car while fleeing the apartment complex where the girl had been taken.
David Jesus Hernandez, 31, is wanted for questioning in a child kidnapping that took place Wednesday in Albuquerque.
A manhunt for Hernandez ended Thursday night when he turned himself in.
Hernandez was being held Friday on charges of kidnapping and child abuse, according to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Albuquerque.
Police said they were investigating a "possible connection" between Wednesday's incident and one last week in which a 6-year-old girl was kidnapped, driven away in a car and sexually assaulted.
In the latest incident, the victim was playing in her yard about 6:30 p.m. when a man forced her into a silver Buick, police said. As he took off, some teenagers hanging around outside ran inside and alerted the child's mother, police said.
As she jumped into her own car to chase the Buick, the suspect pushed the little girl out of his vehicle. The mother didn't notice and kept going after the man.
"She was involved in a high-speed pursuit," Police Chief Ray Schultz said.
After tearing down several streets, the mother rammed the Buick to get it to stop, police said. The driver jumped out and fled on foot.
"This appears to be a complete stranger abduction," Schultz said.
The 4-year-old was found wandering near the apartment complex.
Last week's incident also involved a man driving a silver or gray car, police said.
This story was originally published on Thu May 16, 2013 2:16 PM EDT


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Budapest DemoCamp
Revision as of 03:12, 25 October 2007 by Bulrich.b2international.com (Talk | contribs) (→Location)
- Either Minitur (II District) or Bar Martinez (VI District) where we had the Eclipse Birthday Party last year.
- If you are outside of Budapest and need suggestions for accommodation or transport, please contact Orsolya Bali (Hungarian / English) or Brandon Ulrich (English / German).
Date and Time
- The DemoCamp will be held on either Wednesday December 5th or Thursday December 6th. If you have a preference, please send it to Brandon Ulrich by October 26.
Brandon Ulrich, B2 International (B2i)
If you would like to present at a DemoCamp, please feel free to add your name and topic to the list. Depending on the number of people interested we may have to limit the number of presenters and time of each demo. You can make your presentations in either Hungarian or English.
- Attila Ruha, Istvan Benedek, Zoltan Verebes: Using Eclipse RCP for flexible Loan Origination and Servicing Systems
- Gabor Szentivanyi: TEAM Project: Tightening knowledge sharing in distributed software communities by applying semantic technologies
- Zsolt Torok: A Model Comparison Algorithm for Large Clinical Models
- Srdan Bejakovic: Summer of Code Project reflections, XML Instance Generation Tool
- Bence Olah: Visualizing Model Changes for HL7 v3 Clinical Models
Who Is Attending
If you plan on attending please add your name to the list below. We'd like to see as many people show up as possible.
- Eszter Varga, Central European Credit
- Attila Ruha, Central European Credit
- Gabor Szentivanyi, Linux Industrial Association
- Brandon Ulrich, B2i, Eclipse OHF committer
- Balazs Banfai, B2i, Eclipse OHF committer
- Zsolt Torok, B2i, Eclipse OHF committer
- Istvan Benedek, B2i, Eclipse OHF contributor
- Bence Olah, B2i, Eclipse OHF contributor
- Srdan Bejakovic, B2i, Eclipse OHF contributor; Summer of Code participant
- Zoli Verebes, B2i
- Leo Devai, B2i
- Orsolya Bali, B2i
- Nándor Előd Fekete, Quark Solutions
- Norbert Madarász, Quark Solutions
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- Viktor Kelemen, MTA SZTAKI
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's Taliban have threatened to dispatch suicide bombers and snipers to kill former President Pervez Musharraf when he returns home from exile on Sunday to contest elections.
In a Taliban video obtained by Reuters, Adnan Rasheed, who took part in a previous attempt to assassinate Musharraf, warned: "The mujahideen of Islam have prepared a special squad to send Musharraf to hell. There are suicide bombers, snipers, a special assault unit and a close combat team."
Musharraf angered the Taliban and other groups by joining the U.S. war on terror following the September 11 attacks and by later launching a major crackdown on militancy in Pakistan.
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"When the jackal's death is near he heads to the town," said Rasheed, who was among 400 prisoners who were broken out of a jail by militants in 2012.
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The government said 102 people were killed in fighting when the complex was stormed.
"The Pakistani Taliban is fully prepared to deal with this pharoah. If God is willing, we will give this devil what he deserves and give satisfaction to the victims of the Red Mosque," said Taliban spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan in the video.
In the footage, hooded militants in combat gear clutching AK-47 assault rifles conduct training exercises along hills. Some practice making a roadside bomb, which later explodes.
"Pervez Musharraf you see the death squad around me," said a bearded man who appears to be their trainer, in English. "We urge you to surrender yourself to us, otherwise we will hit you from where you will never reckon."
It's not clear whether Musharraf will manage to regain influence in Pakistan, where strong contenders for the election include Nawaz Sharif, the man he ousted in a military coup, and cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan.
But he remains ambitious. Musharraf has invested in his political party and has been apparently seeking support from influential Saudi Arabia.
But Musharraf has been far removed from Pakistan's stormy politics and its streets, where demands have been rising for an end to corruption, poverty and crippling power cuts.
In Dubai, he lives in a luxurious part of the emirate.
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Storing Banded Matrices for Speed
IntroductionA real n-by-n matrix A will, in general, be defined by its n2 elements that would need to be stored for computations to be performed using A. If n is very large, this can amount to a lot of storage.
Fortunately, many real world applications use sparse matrices that are comprised mainly of zero-valued elements; the number of defining elements that need to be stored is typically some fixed multiple of n (30n, say). A special case is the banded matrix:
While this is appealing in terms of being able to reconstruct readily in our mind's eye the original matrix, it is less well suited to solving problems (such as AX = B) as quickly as possible. The problem is that most matrix computations rely, for their speed, on very fast kernel operations (written by the likes of Intel or AMD) working on smallish matrix blocks; this requires matrix blocks to be stored as you would expect for a general matrix, while in B above the block elements have become higgledy-piggledy. What is required is a storage format that keeps some of the block structure of the original matrix A
The Simplest Case - to ease you inTo begin to describe an alternative storage scheme that preserves block structure, it is probably best to begin with the simplest scenario ... a symmetric matrix with bandwidth k and dimension n = (k+1)m (that is, n is an integer multiple of k+1)
Once you partition a lower band (including main diagonal) into triangles as above, the possibilities for improved storage forms become immediately clear. The B triangular blocks can either be slid up or slid across to the right to complete a square (k+1 by k+1) block with a neighbouring A triangular block. To make it easier to convert from LAPACK storage format, I will go for sliding the B blocks up, giving:
What can you do with these blocks?Those in touch with their linear algebra side will now wonder what can be done with the banded matrix stored in this form. In particular, they will whisper the words Cholesky decomposition. Don't worry, it is just the first of two steps in solving AX = Y, a set of simultaneous equations. Without going into the nitty-gritty, I will just say that the lower triangular banded L formed in this decomposition can be partitioned exactly as above, and it can work with each triangular block in turn, overwriting them as it goes. The second stage of solution, backsubstitution, then works with the triangular blocks of L to return the solution X
How do I put A into this strange storage format?You couldn't be expected to do this yourself. On the other hand it would be easy to write a utility routine that converted from the LAPACK style format to the above triangular block style; and this can be done in-place since columns are preserved. The mapping between elements of the blocked storage matrix (C, say) and the elements of A is also quite straightforward:
Cqj = Aij for j = 1,...,n and i = j,...,j+k, where q = mod(i-1,k+1) + 1.This makes life easy when Aij is a function of i and j.
The next simplest case -- to lessen your easeIn the simplest case everything fitted just nicely, but for more general n there are going to be some leftovers at the bottom-right of A. A picture tells the story ...
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An entire movie was made based on NYC bike messengers? You'd better believe it. And while the plot of the new Blu-ray "Premium Rush" is pretty slim, it's a somewhat enjoyable ride; all puns intended.
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