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This camps provide outstanding instruction in lacrosse! Each camper's training will include basic skills and development of stick work. Experienced players will be taught advanced skills. Emphasis is on teaching fundamental, individual and team skills. Camper's will be separated by grade and ability. Campers are encouraged to bring full equipment. TPK Player Development Camp Flyer West Windsor: CLICK HERE Shore Camp in Wall: CLICK HERE
Dates: June 21st-24th (Tuesday-Friday) West Windsor
July 11th - 14th (Monday-Thursday) Wall, NJ
Times: 9:00am - 1:00pm West Windsor and Wall Shore Camp
Eligibility: Boys entering grades 3-9
Location: West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South Turf Field CLICK HERE
Wall Township Municipal Complex (One Mile to the Beach )
Cost: $160 West Windsor
$225 Wall Shore Camp
Online Registration: West Windsor CLICK HERE
Wall Shore Camp CLICK HERE 732-577-1745
Director: Kerry C. Weigner - Team Turnpike ELITE Lacrosse
Coaches: Team Turnpike ELITE Lacrosse Coaches and Current Turnpike College Players
Equipment: Each camper is encourage to provide their own helmet, stick, gloves, shoes (preferably cleats), athletic supporter and mouthpiece.
Pennington Prep Camp July 11th-15th 9am to 3pm
The camp will be designed to give players, ages 10-15 (Grades 5-8), a better understanding of the game of lacrosse in a fun and exciting manner. All skills and drills will be age appropriate and will help foster the fundamentals and demands of the sport in a positive way. Skills emphasized will include individual stick work, agility and fitness training, shooting fundamentals, communication activities, multiple player concepts, game situations and team building.
Camp Flyer: CLICK HERE
Director: Jason Carter, Pennington Boys' Lacrosse Coach
Register: CLICK HERE


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Jan 22, 2013
Pitman, N.J. - The New Jersey Athletic Conference announced its Week 4 NJAC Indoor Track & Field Athlete of the Week selections on Monday, January 21st.
To view the men's report, Click HERE.
To view the women's report, Click HERE.
This week the Rams will compete in the Flat Track Invitational held at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn. on Saturday, January 26th.

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- I didn't want to root my phone. While this is technically a cool thing to do, I just don't want to do that right now.
- I need to be able to connect natively to an Ubuntu linux machine. All my computers are currently running ubuntu and I didn't want to screw around with wine or a virtual machine.
Enter easytether. In 5 minutes I had internet connectivity... here's what I did:
- downloaded easytether
- downloaded the ubuntu driver to the phone
- connected the phone to the computer (via usb)
- installed the .deb located in phone's download folder
- ran easytether on the phone
- ran "easytether enumerate" on my computer
- ran "sudo dhclient easytether0" on my computer
I'm impressed! What's more telling (aside from this just working) is that there is not yet a Mac version, but there is both a 32 and a 64 bit Ubuntu package. It makes me wonder exactly how many Ubuntu users there really are and how long until it surpasses the Mac market.
Speed results:
Last Result: Download Speed: 674 kbps (84.3 KB/sec transfer rate) Upload Speed: 635 kbps (79.4 KB/sec transfer rate)


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Tuesday, May 01, 2007
Seeing raspberry red
Whilst on the topic of all things red-ish, I'm loving these merino wool arm warmers from NZ etsy seller overcast (love that name). At the moment they're a great desk companion for designing/crafting when one feels guilty about putting the heater on at this time of year.
Thanks to Modamuse for spotting them a few months back :)
13 comments:
- Kate said...
Love the raspberry!
- 8:11 pm
- Melissa said...
Those arm warmers are adorable. I've been getting bruises on my forearms from leaning on the edge of my table so much lately. I might need a set with some padding!
- 11:57 pm
- Shona said...
Great new color! I've been working with your fabric this past weekend, making book cloth (backing your fabric with mulberry paper + a home brew wheat paste) + the fabric you use is beyond wonderful to work with. Great weight, density + material. This method can sometimes be hit or miss in the way the wheat paste adheres to the fabric, but I have had amazing results. Thank you.
- 12:22 am
- Tan said...
You had me at `raspberry red'...I have a living room with a red leather couch that is just going to love that fabric...will you be doing the new designs in the red also?
- 9:20 am
- samantha said...
raspberry - my favourite.
- 5:46 pm
- Heather Moore said...
And that strangely tubey green top? Verrry nice. It's great to see other Southern Hemispherers starting to don their woollys too.
- 12:19 am
Love the orange and green combo, I'm sure it provides inspiration as well as warmth. Can't wait to see the new designs!
- 2:36 am
- Heather Moore said...
Hey, you're on Print and Pattern today! Fantastic!!! You deserve all the accolades.
- 7:17 pm
- Jayson said...
I have tagged you! See my blog for the rules!
- 10:51 pm
- Anna said...
OMG just saw your work on print and pattern! that is so cool! well done! :)
ps. agree with Heather over the southern hemispherers donning their winter woolies- mustard yellow moss stitch scarf is a go go :)
- 7:17 am
- hmc said...
This is my fav colour by far... but red *is* my fav colour!
PS: you have been tagged (oh no, not this again!)... check out my blog.
- 9:56 am
- dizzyjadey said...
Loving that colourway in your fabric! Can't wait to see it in your shop.
- 2:18 pm
- annalaura said...
congrats on the Etsy blog write up!
- 3:46 pm


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Blues vs. Kings series previewby NHL.com Staff
St. Louis BluesSeed: 4 • 29-17-2 • 60 Pts.
Los Angeles KingsSeed: 5 • 27-16-5 • 59 Pts.
The Los Angeles Kings open defense of their Stanley Cup against one of their victims from last spring. The Kings finished fifth in the Western Conference rather than eighth, as they did last season, and have had their ups and downs, including a marked difference in the play of goaltender Jonathan Quick at home and on the road. Jeff Carter's 26 goals gave the Kings an offensive spark: They averaged about half a goal more than they did last season. But Quick's numbers are way down from, especially on the road. Including last spring's sweep, the Kings have won eight in a row against the St. Louis Blues.
St. Louis closed the season on a roll, going 11-2-0 in April behind the goaltending of Brian Elliott, who was 3-6-1 before allowing 16 goals in the Blues' 13 games this month. The Kings shredded him last spring after Jaroslav Halak was injured; Elliott got to play down the stretch because Halak was hurt again. Chris Stewart bounced back with a career season, but he was one of three Blues to reach double figures in goals. Alex Pietrangelo is a premier defenseman.
Each team plays a grinding game that figures to limit chances; they are second and third in fewest shots allowed. The winner figures to be the one that gets the better goaltending -- Quick and Elliott finished with below-average save percentages that belie their goals-against averages.
These teams have met three times in the Stanley Cup Playoffs, and if history is any indicator, winning Game 1 will be important. All three previous series ended in a four-game sweep.
As with most teams coached by Ken Hitchcock, the Blues generally didn't win games with their overwhelming firepower. The team ranked around the middle of the League in goals per game, and Stewart (36 points) was the only player on the team to rank among the NHL's top 97 point-getters. What they may have lacked in the offensive zone, though, they more than compensated for in every other area of the ice.
The Blues allowed 24.2 shots per game this season, second-fewest in the League. That was in large part because of the tight checking of their forwards in all areas of the ice. That game plan perhaps is best exemplified by captain David Backes, who didn't score a lot but led the Blues in hits and takeaways and the forwards in blocked shots.
When St. Louis did score, the load was distributed evenly throughout the roster; 10 forwards have at least six goals. That depth could get a boost from T.J. Oshie, whom Hitchcock told reporters will be ready for Game 1 after missing a month with an ankle injury.
St. Louis' tight-checking forward attack proved especially efficient when games were close; the team went 14-4-2 in one-goal games, the League's third-highest win percentage in such contests, behind the Pittsburgh Penguins and the Chicago Blackhawks.
The Kings struggled to score in 2011-12 but have been a lot more proficient this season. They're in the top half of the League in goals per game, largely because of the big season by Carter. He was a contributor in the drive to the Stanley Cup last spring after being acquired from the Columbus Blue Jackets, but became the go-to guy on offense this season. Carter was the only player in the Western Conference to reach 25 goals, and was tops in the NHL with eight game-winners.
Captain Dustin Brown was second on the team with 18 goals, and he provides a physical element few scorers can match. Anze Kopitar led the Kings in scoring for the sixth consecutive season; he, Brown and Justin Williams form a solid first line. Carter usually plays with former Philadelphia Flyers teammate Mike Richards, an excellent two-way forward; the other berth on that line could go to inconsistent Dustin Penner or rookie Tyler Toffoli.
Jarret Stoll is a solid No. 3 center with a big shot who can provide some scoring, and bottom-six forwards Dwight King and Jordan Nolan did most of their best work last spring banging bodies on the forecheck rather than putting pucks behind goaltenders. That trend has remained: The Kings were in the top three in hits during the regular season. Stoll is one of the NHL's best faceoff men and a big reason the Kings were in the top five at winning draws.
The Kings are not the offensively challenged team that barely made the playoffs last season. They have enough firepower to keep up with anyone, and their scoring is spread out enough that opponents can't gang up on one line. The re-emergence of Carter as a big-time sniper has made a difference.
The Blues came into this season already boasting two of the top young defensemen in the NHL, Alex Pietrangelo and Kevin Shattenkirk. Neither player is older than 24 and the pair formed one of the League's highest-scoring defensive duos while leading the Blues' stingy defense, along with stay-at-home veterans Barret Jackman and Roman Polak.
Seeing some deficiencies in a defensive unit during a February stretch in which the team went 4-6-2 while allowing 3.33 goals per game, Blues general manager Doug Armstrong shored up his blue line at the NHL Trade Deadline, acquiring veterans Jordan Leopold from the Buffalo Sabres and Jay Bouwmeester from the Calgary Flames. In their first 12 games after the trades, the Blues went 9-3-0, allowing one goal or fewer in eight of those nine wins.
The real test for this unit will come now. The deadline deals added some much-needed playoff experience; Leopold has played in 59 postseason games and skated in the 2004 Stanley Cup Final with the Calgary Flames, but Pietrangelo and Shattenkirk have combined to play in 17 playoff games, and Bouwmeester, a veteran of more than 750 regular-season games, will play in the postseason for the first time in his 10 NHL seasons.
Drew Doughty is the biggest name on the Kings' blue line, but Slava Voynov and Jake Muzzin outproduced him for much of the season. Doughty didn't score his first goal until March 19 and did not have another before April, but he found his scoring touch in the final month. Voynov and Muzzin give the Kings the kind of offensive depth on the blue line they didn't have last season.
Doughty raised his game markedly last spring, and the Kings need him to do it again.
The defense has gotten a boost from the return of Matt Greene, who missed almost all of the season with a back problem that required surgery. Greene and Rob Scuderi don't provide a lot of offense, but they are solid in their own zone and can get the puck to the forwards. The late-season addition of Robyn Regehr from the Buffalo Sabres added some muscle and a minute-muncher on the blue line, helping to make up for the season-long absence of shutdown defender Willie Mitchell, who's not likely to return to action because of a knee problem that cost him the entire regular season.
Los Angeles has a good mixture of strength and skill on the blue line, along with the depth a contender needs for a long playoff run.
What appeared to be the backbone of a stout St. Louis defense last season has been the most inconsistent aspect of their game in 2012-13. The combination of Halak and Elliott seemed unbeatable at times last season, allowing 1.89 goals per game as the duo combined to win the William Jennings Trophy. This season, Halak has battled injuries and Elliott struggled to the point he wound up back in the American Hockey League for a spell. Those issues gave Jake Allen time in the Blues' net, and he went 9-4-0 with a 2.46 goals-against average.
Halak has been nursing a lower-body injury, and Elliott seems to have found his game at the perfect time. The veteran, who started St. Louis' last seven playoff games last spring, has been close to unbeatable through most of April, at one point enjoying a span of 209:02 without allowing a goal. Elliott has been sharp, but if Halak can return in time for the playoffs, the Blues could look to him to flash the form that helped him carry the Montreal Canadiens to the 2010 Eastern Conference Finals.
Quick hasn't been able to match his Conn Smythe Trophy-winning performance of last spring, yet the Kings were never in danger of missing the playoffs -- unlike last season, when they barely qualified for the postseason before becoming the lowest-seeded team to win the Cup.
Quick had offseason back surgery and got off to a slow start, but he began to pick up his play down the stretch and showed the kind of consistency he had last spring.
Quick's play at home has been markedly better than on the road, a big reason the Kings were desperate to finish in the top four in the West and get the home-ice edge for the first round. His performance for the first 10 weeks of the season was so inconsistent coach Darryl Sutter gave backup Jonathan Bernier an increased amount of playing time. The 2006 first-round pick had better numbers across the board and gives Sutter another option if he feels Quick can't carry the load.
No one collects more than 600 NHL coaching wins without knowing a few things about hockey. Hitchcock has racked up 40-win seasons with four teams by coaching the signature style that won him the Jack Adams Award last season.
That means tight checking and opportune scoring, a game plan that immediately turned around the Blues when he took over in November 2011. That system paid off last spring, when St. Louis won its first playoff series in a decade. The team is hoping to improve on that this season, but Hitchcock's teams have advanced to the third round of the playoffs once since he led the Dallas Stars to the 2000 Stanley Cup Final.
After leading the Kings to the first championship in franchise history last spring, Sutter had to deal with a lockout, injuries, inconsistency and the Stanley Cup hangover during a compressed 48-game season. Though the Anaheim Ducks' early surge took a division title out of play quickly, Sutter kept his team focused on what it could achieve rather than what it couldn't. He wasn't afraid to cut Quick's playing time when his No. 1 goaltender struggled, he didn't panic after a slow start, and he's been successful at demanding defensive responsibility from everyone on the roster.
Perhaps most important is the fact he appears to have his team playing its best hockey as the playoffs approach.
Special Teams
The Blues' efficient penalty kill took a slight step back this season compared to 2011-12, but their power play, which ranked in the bottom half of the League last season, improved from 16.7 percent to 19.5. That was mainly because of the play of Stewart and Patrik Berglund, who combined to score 11 of St. Louis' 29 power-play goals.
Berglund emerged as a key part of the team's penalty kill, scoring two shorthanded goals this season; three players in the League had more. St. Louis showed it could capitalize on the power play but had trouble earning many man-advantages, ranking 24th in power-play opportunities.
It's on special teams the team's deadline acquisitions could come in most handy. Bouwmeester in particular has shown the ability to contribute to the power play, although St. Louis went 5-for-41 (12.2 percent) with the man advantage in his 14 games with the team.
The Kings finished in the top 10 on the power play and the penalty kill, one of four teams to do so. Having Carter for a full season has given the power play a boost; his eight man-advantage goals were tied for seventh in the NHL, and though Kopitar didn't have a power-play goal, he did have 16 assists. Richards added six goals and 15 points on the power play.
L.A.'s penalty-killers have been among the NHL's best at home but have struggled on the road, a major reason the Kings' home record is much better than their record away from Staples Center. Richards has been one of the NHL's more prolific shorthanded scorers during his career.
Series Changers
David Backes: The Blues will go as far as their captain can take them. The two-time 30-goal scorer can provide leadership on and off the ice and plays the kind of game that is built for the playoffs. St. Louis has shown the ability to win big games, but it's the intangibles provided by Backes that can take them to the next level.
Jeff Carter: The Kings won the Cup last spring without a real home-run hitter up front. They have one this time; Carter had more goals in a 48-game season than he had in a full 82-game campaign in 2011-12. He is the one Los Angeles forward opponents must keep an eye on at all times, and he's the best finisher on the roster. Carter had more goals than anyone in the Western Conference this season, and he has to produce for the Kings to win.
What If...
Blues will win if … They continue to play the stifling defense they have become known for. In winning four straight games against the San Jose Sharks in the first round of the 2012 playoffs, St. Louis gave up five goals before allowing 15 while being swept in the second round by the Kings. The Blues need to maintain that tight defense from round to round this year.
Kings will win if … Quick plays up to the level of last spring, the Kings give him some offense to work with, and the physical style of play that carried them to the Cup last spring returns. The Kings don't want to place all their eggs in Quick's basket, not after his up-and-down season. They have more offense than they did last spring; if the other parts of their game can match last spring, there's a good chance Los Angeles will become the first team in the 21st century to repeat as champion.
Analysis by Tal Pinchevsky and John Kreiser


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If you missed it earlier, be sure to check out Barry Schwartz's live blog coverage of SMX Live: You&A with Matt Cutts, head of Google's Webspam team. For those interested, I have posted my notes from the session below.
- The lead engineer for what would come to be known as "Penguin" picked that name.
- Penguin addresses spam.
- Impacted sites are believed to be in current violation of Google Webmaster Guidelines.
- The only way to recover from Penguin is to properly address guidelines violations.
- Impacted site experience an algorithmic demotion in search results but not a penalty.
- Penguin is not a "penalty" or "manual action" because it is algorithmic and therefore not manual.
- There is no whitelist for Penguin.
- Google uses 200+ signals for rankings and Penguin is the latest.
- Sites hit by Penguin can fully recover once guidelines violations are resolved.
- Panda was named after the lead engineer who's last name is Panda.
- Addresses thin and/or low quality content.
- Prior to Panda low quality content fell between the Search Quality team and Web Spam.
- Since Panda, Search Quality and WebSpam teams at Google work closer together.
- Sites hit by Panda can fully recover once content issues are resolved.
"Manual Actions" the new "Penalty"
- According to Matt, "We don't use "penalty" anymore, we use "manual action" vs an algorithmic thing."
- Manual reviews result in a manual actions whereas algorithmic detection results in a demotion.
- 99 percent of manual actions are accompanied by webmaster notifications via Google Webmaster Tools.
- Algorithmic issues do not result in a notification via Google Webmaster Tools.
Unnatural Link Notifications:
- Unnatural link messages imply a manual action (penalty).
- For unnatural link notifications webmasters should submit a reconsideration request.
- According to Matt, "typically if you get a notification you will see a downgrade in rankings."
- Google wants "to see a real effort" on the part of webmasters when it comes to removing unnatural links. Some webmasters have gone so far as to scan in images of letters sent to domain owners requesting links be removed.
- When reinclusion requests are submitted for unnatural link notifications, "Google reviews a random sample to see if those links are removed."
- Webmasters should attempt to remove at least 90% of unnatural links pointing to their site.
- Google understands it is difficult to remove links and is working on alternative solutions.
- Google is working on a new feature which will allow webmasters to "disavow" links pointing to their website.
- If you cannot remove some links, it may be possible to remove the entire page if it is not the homepage or similar.
Paid Links that pass PageRank:
- Despite the fact that Google is able to detect paid links passing PageRank and does not count these links, Google recently started taking manual action by penalizing these sites.
- According to Matt, Google is taking manual action and penalizing sites with links passing PageRank because companies continue to profit off of these practices.
- Google wants people to understand that PageRank passing paid links are a link scheme, a waste of time and money.
Affiliate links:
Negative SEO
- The recent reaction to "Negative SEO" has been interesting.
- Negative SEO has been around a long time.
- According to Matt, "It is possible for people to do things to sites, like steal domains."
- Matt pointed out that Google changed the wording of Google Webmaster Guidelines some time ago to address negative SEO. It says, "Practices that violate our guidelines may result in a negative adjustment of your site's presence in Google, or even the removal of your site from our index."
Bounce Rate:
- According to Matt, Google Analytics data is not used for rankings.
- Bounce rates from search results is noisy because of redirects, spam and/or other issues.
- Bounce rates do not accurately measure quick answers.
- Because users often get the answer they want and then leave, bounce rate is not a good metric for Google to use.


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Cisplatin (Intravenous route)
Brand Names:
- Platinol-AQ
Dosage Forms:
- Solution
Warnings:Intravenous route(Powder for Solution)
Administer under the supervision of a qualified physician experienced in the use of cancer chemotherapeutic agents. Cumulative renal toxicity associated with cisplatin is severe and other major dose-related toxicities include myelosuppression, nausea, and vomiting. Ototoxicity, which may be more pronounced in children, is significant. Anaphylactic-like reactions to cisplatin such as facial edema, bronchoconstriction, tachycardia, and hypotension have been reported and may occur within minutes of cisplatin administration. Exercise caution to prevent inadvertent cisplatin overdose as doses greater than 100 mg/m(2)/cycle once every 3 to 4 weeks are rarely used. Avoid inadvertent cisplatin overdose due to confusion with carboplatin or prescribing practices that fail to differentiate daily doses from total dose per cycle .
Antineoplastic Agent
Platinum Coordination Complex
Uses of This Medicine:
Cisplatin belongs to the group of medicines known as alkylating agents. It is used to treat cancer of the bladder, ovaries, and testicles. It may also be used to treat other kinds of cancer, as determined by your doctor.
Cisplatin interferes with the growth of cancer cells, which are eventually destroyed. Since the growth of normal body cells may also be affected by cisplatin, other effects will also occur. Some of these may be serious and must be reported to your doctor. Other effects may not be serious but may cause concern. Some effects may not occur for months or years after the medicine is used.
Before you begin treatment with cisplatin, you and your doctor should talk about the good this medicine will do as well as the risks of using it.
Cisplatin is to be administered only by or under the immediate supervision of your doctor.
Before Using This Medicine:
In deciding to use a medicine, the risks of taking the medicine must be weighed against the good it will do. This is a decision you and your doctor will make. For this medicine, the following should be considered:
Tell your doctor if you have ever had any unusual or allergic reaction to this medicine or any other medicines. Also tell your health care professional if you have any other types of allergies, such as to foods, dyes, preservatives, or animals. For non-prescription products, read the label or package ingredients carefully.
Hearing problems and loss of balance are more likely to occur in children, who are usually more sensitive to the effects of cisplatin.
Older adults—
Many medicines have not been studied specifically in older people. Therefore, it may not be known whether they work exactly the same way they do in younger adults or if they cause different side effects or problems in older people. There is no specific information comparing use of cisplatin in the elderly with use in other age groups.
|Pregnancy Category
|All Trimesters
|Studies in pregnant women have demonstrated a risk to the fetus. However, the benefits of therapy in a life threatening situation or a serious disease, may outweigh the potential risk.
There are no adequate studies in women for determining infant risk when using this medication during breastfeeding. Weigh the potential benefits against the potential risks before taking this medication while breastfeeding.
Other medicines—
Although certain medicines should not be used together at all, in other cases two different medicines may be used together even if an interaction might occur. In these cases, your doctor may want to change the dose, or other precautions may be necessary. When you are receiving this medicine, it is especially important that your healthcare professional know if you are taking any of the medicines listed below. The following interactions have been selected on the basis of their potential significance and are not necessarily all-inclusive.
Using this medicine with any of the following medicines is not recommended. Your doctor may decide not to treat you with this medication or change some of the other medicines you take.
- Measles Virus Vaccine, Live
- Mumps Virus Vaccine, Live
- Rotavirus Vaccine, Live
- Rubella Virus Vaccine, Live
- Varicella Virus Vaccine, Live
- Zoster Vaccine, Live
Using this medicine with any of the following medicines is usually not recommended, but may be required in some cases. If both medicines are prescribed together, your doctor may change the dose or how often you use one or both of the medicines.
- Adenovirus Vaccine
- Bacillus of Calmette and Guerin Vaccine, Live
- Cholera Vaccine, Live
- Dengue Tetravalent Vaccine, Live
- Doxorubicin
- Doxorubicin Hydrochloride Liposome
- Furosemide
- Influenza Virus Vaccine, Live
- Paclitaxel
- Poliovirus Vaccine, Live
- Rituximab
- Smallpox Vaccine
- Thioctic Acid
- Typhoid Vaccine
- Valproic Acid
- Vinorelbine
- Yellow Fever Vaccine
Using this medicine with any of the following medicines may cause an increased risk of certain side effects, but using both drugs may be the best treatment for you. If both medicines are prescribed together, your doctor may change the dose or how often you use one or both of the medicines.
- Aldesleukin
- Docetaxel
- Fosphenytoin
- Lithium
- Phenytoin
- Tobramycin
- Warfarin
Other interactions—
Certain medicines should not be used at or around the time of eating food or eating certain types of food since interactions may occur. Using alcohol or tobacco with certain medicines may also cause interactions to occur. Discuss with your healthcare professional the use of your medicine with food, alcohol, or tobacco.
Other medical problems—
The presence of other medical problems may affect the use of this medicine. Make sure you tell your doctor if you have any other medical problems, especially:
- Chickenpox (including recent exposure) or
- Herpes zoster (shingles)—Risk of severe disease affecting other parts of the body
- Gout (history of) or
- Kidney stones (history of)—Cisplatin may increase levels of uric acid in the body, which can cause gout or kidney stones
- Hearing problems—May be worsened by cisplatin
- Infection—Cisplatin decreases your body's ability to fight infection
- Kidney disease—Effects of cisplatin may be increased because of slower removal from the body
Proper Use of This Medicine:
This medicine is sometimes given together with certain other medicines. If you are using a combination of medicines, it is important that you receive each one at the proper time. If you are taking some of these medicines by mouth, ask your health care professional to help you plan a way to take them at the right times.
While you are receiving this medicine, your doctor may want you to drink extra fluids so that you will pass more urine. This will help prevent kidney problems and keep your kidneys working well.
This medicine usually causes nausea and vomiting that may be severe. However, it is very important that you continue to receive the medicine, even if you begin to feel ill. Ask your health care professional for ways to lessen these effects, especially if they are severe.
The dose of this medicine will be different for different patients. Follow your doctor's orders or the directions on the label. The following information includes only the average doses of this medicine. If your dose is different, do not change it unless your doctor tells you to do so.
The amount of medicine that you take depends on the strength of the medicine. Also, the number of doses you take each day, the time allowed between doses, and the length of time you take the medicine depend on the medical problem for which you are using the medicine.
Precautions While Using This Medicine:
It is very important that your doctor check your progress at regular visits to make sure that this medicine is working properly and to check for unwanted effects.
While you are being treated with cisplatin, and after you stop treatment with it, do not have any immunizations (vaccinations) without your doctor's approval. Cisplatin may lower your body's resistance and there is a chance you might get the infection the immunization is meant to prevent. In addition, other persons living in your household should not take oral polio vaccine since there is a chance they could pass the polio virus on to you. Also, avoid persons who have taken oral polio vaccine within the last several months. Do not get close to them, and do not stay in the same room with them for very long. If you cannot take these precautions, you should consider wearing a protective face mask that covers the nose and mouth.
Cisplatin can temporarily lower the number of white blood cells in your blood, increasing the chance of getting an infection. It can also lower the number of platelets, which are necessary for proper blood clotting. If this occurs, there are certain precautions you can take, especially when your blood count is low, to reduce the risk of infection or bleeding:
- If you can, avoid people with infections. Check with your doctor immediately if you think you are getting an infection or if you get a fever or chills, cough or hoarseness, lower back or side pain, or painful or difficult urination.
- Check with your doctor immediately if you notice any unusual bleeding or bruising; black, tarry stools; blood in urine or stools; or pinpoint red spots on your skin.
- Be careful when using a regular toothbrush, dental floss, or toothpick. Your medical doctor, dentist, or nurse may recommend other ways to clean your teeth and gums. Check with your medical doctor before having any dental work done.
- Do not touch your eyes or the inside of your nose unless you have just washed your hands and have not touched anything else in the meantime.
- Be careful not to cut yourself when you are using sharp objects such as a safety razor or fingernail or toenail cutters.
- Avoid contact sports or other situations where bruising or injury could occur.
If cisplatin accidentally seeps out of the vein into which it is injected, it may damage some tissues and cause scarring. Tell the doctor or nurse right away if you notice redness, pain, or swelling at the place of injection.
Side Effects of This Medicine:
- Less common
- Black, tarry stools
- blood in urine or stools
- cough or hoarseness accompanied by fever or chills
- dizziness or faintness (during or shortly after a dose)
- fast heartbeat (during or shortly after a dose)
- fever or chills
- lower back or side pain accompanied by fever or chills
- painful or difficult urination accompanied by fever or chills
- pain or redness at place of injection
- pinpoint red spots on skin
- swelling of face (during or shortly after a dose)
- unusual bleeding or bruising
- wheezing (during or shortly after a dose)
- More common
- Joint pain
- loss of balance
- ringing in ears
- swelling of feet or lower legs
- trouble in hearing
- unusual tiredness or weakness
- Less common
- Convulsions (seizures)
- loss of reflexes
- loss of taste
- numbness or tingling in fingers or toes
- trouble in walking
- Rare
- Agitation or confusion
- blurred vision
- change in ability to see colors (especially blue or yellow)
- muscle cramps
- sores in mouth and on lips
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Pandering alert! A bookstore chain called Family Christian has taken a crappy Android tablet, slapped a new logo on it, and rebranded it as the Edifi—the world's first Christian tablet!
And what makes it a Christian tablet? That would be 27 translations of the Bible, Christian internet radio, and safe search (no porn allowed). For $149, you can get the holiest slate on the market (save for the Good Book). But really, this is just a seven inch piece of junk. Without the godly branding, is the Cydle M7, a garbage gadget made by a company you've never heard of. Although maybe the good lord is really into a 2010 POS running Android 2.3. We have no way of knowing. At least the unblessed version is $20 cheaper. If you're looking for a deal, you're really really better off going with Amazon's Kindle Fire or Google's soon-to-be-released Nexus 7 or even an iPad and downloading one of the dozens of iOS or Android Bible apps out there. But of course, those aren't officially branded as holy. [Family Christian via Fox News via The Verge]


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Hamilton was 0.868s quicker than Jenson Button, who was top of the timesheets until the final ten minutes of the session, while Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg was limited to just nine laps and was fifth fastest. Rosberg spent most of the session watching on as mechanics worked on his car, which was suffering with an ERS cooling problem, and he will be frustrated after hoping for a clean weekend to regain momentum in his battle with Hamilton in the drivers' championship.
Daniel Ricciado was third fastest and the only Red Bull driver to set a competitive time after Sebastian Vettel came to a halt early in the session. Vettel had completed just four laps when his Red Bull stopped at Turn 6 with a suspected electrical issue and he remained with the car, armed with a fire extinguisher, as it was lifted onto the back of a truck. Fernando Alonso was fourth fastest and 1.105s off the pace of Hamilton, while Ferrari team-mate Kimi Raikkonen was another couple of tenths off in sixth.
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The session featured another couple of bizarre incidents, with a mirror falling off the Force India of Sergio Perez and into the cockpit, where he held it while driving one-handed back to the pits. Ricciardo also appeared to lose something from around the cockpit of his Red Bull in the final sequence of corners but a quick visit to the pits remedied any issue and he was sent back on track.
Pastor Maldonado showed some promising pace in the upgraded Lotus, with the eighth fastest time and an impressive 34 laps in total. Perez and Felipe Massa ensured Force India and Williams remained in the top ten, but both teams could be a little bit further off the pace than in recent races due to the characteristics of the circuit.


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The official London 2012 Olympics website, london2012.com, has been found to be the worst performer in a number of online tests carried out to gauge end user experience amongst key 2012 Games websites.
Other sites tested include londonolympics2012.com, visitlondon.com/london2012, timeout.com/London/Olympics-2012, tfl.gov.uk and lastminute.com, all of which are expected to experience high demand and traffic during the event.
The London 2012 Olympic Games begin at the end of this week.
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London2012.com performed badly in a number of key areas. For example, the Alexa 100 median for server requests, which looks at the number of client/server interactions required to load the content of a web page, is 61. A high number of server requests indicates inefficient content delivery to the end-user, whilst putting pressure on the server.
London2012.com ranked worst in this test with 261 requests, which compares to a mere 36 requests on londonolympic2012.com. Michael Allen, Director of IT service management at Compuware said that the high number of requests could lead to the website buckling under high demand.
"As the traffic increases we expect that some of the architectural issues that we have identified will proliferate to what is a performance problem. The number of requests, for example, is probably okay if you only have a few hundred users accessing it concurrently.
"However, if you have thousands it's going to put the servers under increased pressure. People will be denied content because a server can only have so many open connections," said Allen.
Compuware suggests that to help resolve this issue, those working on the website should look to group images, such as logos, into one request to reduce the burden on servers.
Wait times were also an issue for london2012.com. The amount of time the browser spent waiting until it could start downloading resources was 1.9 seconds, which compares to 0.04 seconds on lastminute.com. This is likely to be due to a slow network connection or a large number of resources that have to be downloaded.
The total load wait time, which is when all the content on the web page is loaded, was 12.2 seconds for london2012.com, compared to the Alexa 100 median of 4.9 seconds and just 2.3 seconds on londonolympic2012.com.
Also, the amount of time spent executing client-side logic implemented in JavaScript was 3.7 seconds for london2012.com, compared to an Alexa 100 median of 0.8 seconds, or londonolympic2012.com's time of 0.4 seconds.
Compuware's Allen believes that these metrics are all things that should have been designed for when the official Olympics site was built, especially considering its high profile.
"I think a lot of these things they won't be able to change rapidly, it's probably too late now. Many websites look at performance and design from the outset, you would think that if you were building the Olympics website you know it's going to have a relatively short lifespan, but in that time it's going to be under huge amounts of pressure and have high visibility," he said.
"You would think they would have built performance in from the outset."
Although Allen said it would be "very difficult to make significant changes now that we are a few days away from the Games", he does recommend a few measures to reduce pressure on the websites.
"I think you could look to make some rapid changes. One of the problems with london2012.com was the size of the site – the homepage was 4.3MB, which compares with the Alexa median of 0.4MB and tfl.gov.uk's website of 0.6MB," said Allen.
"That's pretty heavy for a homepage. You could compress a lot of the images, which you could do pretty quickly. That would take a lot of the burden off the network. Or they could look to rapidly provision extra datacentre capacity, but that's an expensive option."
Meanwhile, he also warned against too much major architectural work, like changing all of the JavaScript, because it would be too time-consuming.
In other Olympics news, G4S' CEO, Nick Buckles, confirmed to MPs last week that problems with the company's scheduling system is partly to blame for the shortfall of over 3,000 security staff for the London 2012 Games.
Speaking at a parliamentary committee meeting, Buckles told MPs that he got a call from the group's COO, David Taylor Smith, on 3 July, while he was on holiday in the US, citing problems with the company's rostering software.


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Tomorrow Asphalt & Rubber must make the trek down from perfect Northern California, to SoCal and the pits of Los Angeles, where dreams go to die. As we descend down through the lower rings of Dante's ladder and into hell that is the perpetually sunny and warm Los Angeles, our final destination will in fact bring us face-to-face with The Devil himself. Riding the latest creation from Bologna, the American motorcycle press will get its first chance at the highly anticipated Ducati Diavel.
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Editor's note: This corrects the day Leeza Gibbons will be in Orange County.
The Philharmonic Society of Orange County in association with Soka University hosted a Cherry Blossom Celebration at South Coast Plaza's Jewel Court.
The traditional Japanese custom of hanami or flower viewing is held for a few very brief weeks when the petals of the cherry blossoms (sakura) explode on the trees and then gently float to the ground.
This season the event carried very special meaning in light of the recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Not only did the coming of he blossoms represent the rebirth of spring, but also of an entire nation, as well as the world, coming together to face the enormous challenge.
South Coast Plaza's Debra Gunn Downing shared with the cocktail crowd that the massive retail center is partnering with the Japan America Society of Southern California collecting donations for the 2011 Japan Relief Fund during the entire month of April.
In the crowd sharing conversation and compassion for the victims of the tragic natural disaster in Japan were Soka University's Linda Kennedy, Suzan Paek, Michael Cho, Bonnie Lee, Loretta Zimmerman, Carol and Gary Crane, South Coast Plaza's executive Werner Escher and Eric Finley of Oscar de la Renta, who graces Riviera magazine's cover this month focusing on men's fashion.
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Gibbons founded the Leeza Gibbons Memory Foundation in 2003 establishing "Leeza's Place" as a gathering center for support services assisting family caregivers of relatives suffering from chronic illnesses. Today there are eight such facilities around the U.S.
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After his first day on the practice field at rookie minicamp, Eagles quarterback Matt Barkley heard the question he's been hearing since he was drafted: Is he a fit in Chip Kelly's offense?
Barkley said that whether Kelly runs an offense like he ran at Oregon, or whether Kelly changes his schemes in the NFL, Barkley will find a way to make it work.
"You know, I'll make it fit," Barkley said, via CSNPhilly.com. "It doesn't matter what plays we run, I'm going to find a way to help this team out, and I know Coach Kelly has a way of working things out as well in terms of how he schemes and how he calls plays, so I'm not worried. I'm just worried about the here and now and what I can do right now."
Although Barkley is third on the depth chart behind Michael Vick and Nick Foles, he said he expects to compete to start in Week One.
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Following is a synopsis of some responses to a viewer mail we received from "Aaron." I gave up hope that Aaron would be able to go very deeply into a dialog about his own beliefs, but felt it was worth recording for the edification of blog readers.
Hello Aaron:
This may be my last reply, because you demonstrate a level of understanding of the history and reality of your own religion and holy book that really requires a "Bible and Christian History 101" course, not a few letters from an association volunteer. And even though I am involved in Austin with an Educational Foundation, I'm not here to spoon-feed you a semester's worth of information you could easily find online if you honestly even wanted to know how your Bible came to exist. I suggest you start here and follow the links to educate yourself on at least the basic facts about your own holy book:
There have been many versions of it—including many "final" versions of it. And today there are in fact at least three "orthodox" Bible versions that are accepted in mainstream Christianity; and these are not all based upon the same set of base manuscripts for their content. When you say "The Bible," then, you are using a word that refers to at least three different widely used anthologies of early Christian writings that are all considered "THE" holy Bible by different, large groups of people who all call themselves "Christians."
>The Bible was written by Moses – who yes, was a shepherd
There is no compelling evidence that Moses even existed, let alone that he wrote any part of the Bible. We have wildly exaggerated tales about him, mostly in Jewish mythology, but nothing to confirm this was ever a real man, any more than a figure like Paul Bunyon.
The idea Moses wrote the first five books of the Old Testament is a Jewish myth. Christian Bible scholars know this. May I ask where you obtained this information and who told you this was true? Further, can I ask you why you believed it without researching it yourself? Many Bibles today come with Translator's notes which would tell you—right there inside your Bible—that we don't have the identity of the author of the Pentateuch—the first five books that Moses is said to have authored.
"Modern biblical scholars see no signs of Mosaic authorship, but indications of much later writing"
>but also by a doctor/historian (luke)
Again, this is not a valid claim. It is not known who authored the gospel of Luke. It's just an old church traditional tale:
> and a guy who was a master of Jewish law (Paul).
Again, some books are attributed to Paul. But authorship assignment still requires speculation. There is no "fact" of who wrote the books within the Bible. But it is an undisputed reality that whatever is in there now is a revision of whatever was originally composed (which we no longer have).
Whoever is feeding you your information is unreliable and/or lying to you. Go to a Bible shop and open up the first page of each book in a NIV. You will see a page that tells you who the authors are *suspected* to be (if there is even a suspected author) and whether those assignments are based on scholarly guesses or just old religious traditions. What you will not find is anything conclusive to identify authorship to any high degree of certainty. And what you will not find is any credible Bible scholar who has studied these texts—believer in god or not—claiming they know who the authors actually are.
>Why would guys like Peter put embarrassing things about themselves in book where they're just trying to gain followers (Jesus calls Peter "Satan," peter deneies Christ). If you're tyring to lie to build a following, you don't do that.
Can you demonstrate Peter authored any book of the Bible and explain how you can be sure he did?
More importantly, when did I claim to know what anyone's motives were for authoring 2,000-year-old letters? I have no idea what motives some anonymous author had 2,000 years ago for writing a letter—and I am sure you don't, either. More importantly though, whatever was originally written is now gone. What we have now are altered texts that are no longer representative of the original writings.
I don't know if you're inclined to read more. I had been giving you very brief replies. My thinking was that if you couldn't even recognize your own reasoning was absurd (in my examples of how you reasoned about Gremlins vs. god), I wasn't sure a lengthy and densely informational response would be of any use to you (and would just waste my time). That said, I did put together a response to you, but mainly to post to our blog for the benefit of others who might actually be inclined to learn from it. However, if my assessment of you is incorrect, and you can follow the information below, here it is for your edification, broken down into three (hopefully easy-to-digest) parts.
1. Your support for your belief using "you can't prove it's not true" is irrational. And here is why:
You asserted god exists and the Bible is true; and you challenged someone who does not believe god exists and the Bible is true by asking if the claims "god exists" and "the Bible is true" could be disproved. However, you admitted you could not disprove gremlins exist; and when you admitted that, you acknowledged only that "maybe" they exist, but you "don't know" (meaning you aren't committed to saying if they do or do not exist).
But as someone who did not believe gremlins exist, who admitted he could not prove they do not exist, if your argument (i.e., I believe god exists because that claim cannot be disproved) is convincing, why do you not now believe gremlins do exist? Until you say it is true that gremlins exist, you are not a person who believes gremlins exist. That is you are still a nonbeliever in the existence of gremlins. Your position is merely it is possible they could exist, not that you believe they, in fact, do.
If you do not find an inability to prove gremlins do not exist to be a convincing argument for their existence, why did you use that same line of argumentation with me for your god, repeatedly? If even you demonstrate you don't accept it as compelling–what on Earth made you think anyone else would find it compelling?
2. "The Bible is true" does not make sense based on my understanding of the word "true."
"True" as I understand it, generally means "correlating to demonstrable reality." So, when you say "the Bible is true," I assume you mean that if we examine all of the best evidence for things claimed in the Bible, it will show a consistent positive correlation to what the Bible claims about reality. Since this is not the case, I don't know how you're using "true." Here are two examples of what I mean, one addressing extra-Biblical reality, and one addressing internal Biblical reality.
Example 1: Extra-Biblical example:
You asserted not that evolution is false, but that you believe god was the catalyst for evolution. If you aren't disputing evolution, then we can say that, in fact, we agree the Bible is not true in the case of Genesis and the account of how humans came to exist on Earth. According to the Bible, man popped fully formed and already communicating using language. And ultimately this same first human was wearing clothing and using agriculture–straight from his magical beginnings from dirt.
If we look at what evolutionary biologists put forward as the model of human evolution, then the Bible is not "true." There is fossil evidence, DNA, and beyond b
iological evolution, a demonstrable history of how and when human agriculture is first evidenced compared to how long humans had existed previously in nomadic or hunter-gatherer cultures. Additionally we can tell from excavations approximately when people began to fashion tools (and by proxy when the idea of "manufacturing" things, such as clothing, may have been introduced), and there is simply no evidence to support that the earliest humans would have been "truthfully" represented by the Genesis account. All of the evidence appears, in fact, not to correlate to that account as "true."
Example 2: Internal Biblical Example:
The New Testament passage (Gospel of) John 7:53-8:11 is as good an example as any. As an atheist, I have no objection to agreeing that the men and women who are hired to translate the best modern translations of the Bible are qualified people for the job. They are expert at reading and interpreting ancient languages that the average person wouldn't begin to have a clue about. Additionally, they are devoted specifically to the texts used within the Bible. These are men and women who have devoted significant portions of their lives and careers to the Biblical manuscripts specifically. And I accept them as "expert" when it comes to claims about those manuscripts.
In the NASB and NIV versions of the Bible (both reputable translations), if any person takes an interest in doing so, they have a wealth of input from these experts, literally, at their fingertips. There are marginal notes, footnotes, endnotes, etc., right on the pages where the text appears. Anyone can see what the translators have to say about the texts Christians are reading in their Bibles. And I can't imagine anyone claiming the people inserting these notes are not qualified to giving the best opinions of what the best and most current data demonstrates about what is "true" about these texts.
Throughout the pages, there are many insertions of notes that alert the reader that the text is in question or is disputed. It will alert you that this or that verse here says X, but in some other available manuscripts it does not say X (or says Y instead).
I chose John 7:53-8:11, because it is probably one of the most famous stories in the Bible about Jesus. It is the story of the adulterous woman–who is brought before Jesus for judgment. He there puts forward the famous line "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone." This has become a very popular story with Christians.
Yet, according to the translators' notes, it isn't included in the oldest and most reliable manuscripts. They say outright and boldly, right on the pages of the NASB, that the story was added to the text later. These are translators who have a vested interest in the production and sale of Bibles being a successful industry. They have no cause to undermine their source of income by claiming "it's a fake!" And yet, that's what they're saying if you are someone who accepts this book as "true." If any group had a reason to lie or be biased about the Bible including reliable content, it would be people who work in the Bible-selling industry, selling to people who, like you, want very badly to believe it is "true"–and yet they're telling you (and me) it's not.
So, the best and most reliable evidence, considered by the best experts in the field, with no reason for bias against the text, does not align with your claim "the Bible is true." And you can see this yourself–as any Christian who is interested can also–just by opening a good Bible translation that includes translator notes.
So, I have no idea what you mean when you say "the Bible is true." I see no evidence that it should not be considered to include lies, errors, falsehoods–whatever you want to call them—basically statements that do not correlate with the best evidence we have to judge against in reality.
3. Your claim "god exists" is so far a meaningless statement, to which I cannot respond—since it makes no sense as you have stated it.
So far you haven't really explained what this claim means. I don't know what you're calling god, so I have no idea what to say about whether it exists or not. But for example, I accept the existence of many things—books, water, chairs, even oxygen (which can be demonstrated using balloons and fire, and many other methods). To me, "exist" is a word we use to assert that a particular item manifests in some way in demonstrable, material reality.
This is why it's interesting that you said only that "gremlins may exist" after admitting you could not disprove them. If I were to go into a classroom of 10-year-olds and ask them if gremlins exist, they would inform me gremlins are fairytale, mythical creatures that do not, in fact, exist. Their assessment has nothing to do with gremlins having been disproved. It would be a statement of the extreme lack of evidence for the existence of gremlins. In other words, the people who assert gremlins cause machines to malfunction, have never been able to produce a demonstration of what they're talking about. This leads the reasonable 10-year-old to assert that gremlins do not exist. That is, their manifestation within reality so far cannot be discerned from nothing.
So, we have two bins. One labeled "nonexistent" and one labeled "existence." Everything starts off in the "nonexistent" bin. And once it unambiguously manifests in reality in some way—either on its own, like the sun, or by some demonstration, like oxygen–it goes into the bin of "existence." What we don't do is put items into the "existence" bin BEFORE they are demonstrated to exist or before they manifest self-evidently in some measurable fashion.
Interestingly, a 10-year-old gets this, but you are so unwilling to admit your argument "you can't prove it doesn't exist, ergo it's reasonable to accept that it does" is a fail, that you have demonstrated you will even dishonestly assert you can't really say gremlins don't exist—even though you and I both know that if you were honest, you'd admit you don't give a second thought to asserting gremlins are myths. A 10-year-old is not only more reasonable than you, then, but also more honest.
My question to you is whether this thing—whatever it is you're calling god—"exists," in that it demonstrates a manifestation in reality that we can discuss. Or whether it is indiscernible from nothing? And if it's no different than nothing, I can't agree that "nothing exists." And I can't really examine what we're supposed to be talking about in such a case—and I can't see how you could, either? I have no data points to confirm to even begin a dialog with you about it. When you have some manifestation or demonstration, come back and we'll have "something" to talk about (rather than "nothing").
Thanks for writing.
I'm sorry to say that after this exchange Aaron replied that he'd rather believe in god and be wrong, than not believe. That's right, he threw Pascal's Wager at me, after all this trouble I went to jotting down these notes. But knowing it would go to use at the blog allowed me to avoid feelings of futility and disappointment.
When I replied that Pascal's Wager is a fail, but that he'd have to research it to find out why, he sent back a fairly large cut-and paste-apologist's Web site content that asserted Pascal's Wager was a fail because god demands devotion and real belief, not just someone playing a part.
I congratulated him on finding one reason Pascal's Wager fails, and gave him a few others as a bonus point for having looked it up at all. Then alerted him that copying and pasting without giving credit to a source is plagiarism, because it's like trying to claim someone else's ideas as your own. He had asked me if maybe
Matt would write back to him. I told him Matt is copied on all the tv e-list correspondences, but that his probability of a reply from Matt was quite low for two reasons:
1. He'd already said he'd rather believe and be wrong. If someone asserts they don't care if they believe falsehoods, what is the point of anyone arguing with them about the their beliefs? I can't imagine a greater waste of time to enter into.
2. The last copy-and-paste note (paragraphs and paragraphs of material) was indicative of a problem we often see with some mail correspondence. We ask people to contact us to discuss what they believe and why they believe it. Sending us reams and reams of what someone else believes for us to rebut is senseless. If they can't explain what they believe and support what they believe, providing their own reasons, then maybe they're not ready to assert it as their belief? If the person who wrote the content Aaron had stripped and sent to us wanted to challenge us about his beliefs, he's welcome to do so. But nobody on our list is interested in arguing with random apologists' web content through Aaron's endless relays. What an easy conversation that would be from Aarson's perspective? He wouldn't have to think or type or explain anything—just copy and paste while we spend time crafting thoughtful responses using our actual reasoning.
To summarize: Nobody on our list is interested in a one-sided waste of our time.


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2nd loaf - found a great lame
I made my 2nd loaf today. I modified the recipe in lesson 2 a bit by adding whole wheat flour, AP (unfortunately bleached - all I had on hand), and KAF bread flour. I used one of my tissue blades for the scoring, and I'm very impressed how well it worked. It was like slicing through air, absolutely no drag at all. Granted, tissue blades were originally used in order to take very thin slices of tissues for sampling, so I shouldn't be surprised. They're also used in some crafts (like beading) which is why I had some on hand.
I also cut down on the sugar. I practically inhaled the first bread, and I decided I really didn't need to be having that much sugar in the next one.
While the loaf's not bad, I'm definitely going to try some new things next time. For one, I need to increase the hydration in the dough. The crust really dried out on me this time, partly due to not enough water in the dough and also I think partly because I baked it too long. I cut 15 minutes off of the baking time, but I should have cut 25 instead. Next time I'll know not to ignore my gut instinct. Additionally, I'm going to try misting the crust with water and putting an upside down roasting pan on top of the bread for the first 10-15 minutes so I can get the crust I want without it drying out. I also need to shape it a little more firmly if I want it to retain its shape. This one expanded a bit more laterally than I expected.
Eventually, I also want to try to get a larger crumb. I'm going to experiment a bit with moisture content and see if that helps. I kind of want to 'perfect' this version before I move on to fermenting dough overnight, but we'll see if I get impatient.
Here's the first loaf I made, just for comparison. Also, any tips/comments are definitely welcome.


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This feels like a 30′s movie still to me – the little movement of the window curtain real makes the photo for me.
please click on the image to view at a larger size – the tones and contrast are better
Friday, July 13, 2007
This feels like a 30′s movie still to me – the little movement of the window curtain real makes the photo for me.
please click on the image to view at a larger size – the tones and contrast are better
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Immediately makes me long to be in Italy! Beautiful shot and yes, the black and white is simple and perfect.
I find it best when you comment on your shots and, as in this case, give us some of the context.
For what it's worth, back in the sixties, at least in London, straight guys talked to each other about fashion and style at the drop of a (Locke) hat. A 'find' of authentic American button-downs was news!
In David Bowie's first hit "Space Oddity" this is reflected in the line "…and the papers want to know whose shirts you wear!" At the time celebs and wannabes belonged either to the tribe who had their shirts made at Mr Fish or the clan who preferred Blades as their supplier. (I still own a tie which matched on of my Mr Fish shirts.)
This is really a brilliant photo indeed.
The font, the shadows, and composition are all super.
Great photo, the larger shot really tells the story. I have a question though, did you shoot in black and white or color and then convert to black and white in photoshop?
Fantastic shot. Your artistry is made so much more valuable by your understatement & reserve; speaking not through agitation but through holding very still.
thanks for your kind words
When I am traveling I always feel bad that i am not able to write more but I am so tired from shooting all day then correcting etc all night that I am mentally drained.
It is great to be home when it is a little quieter so I can write more and participate in my own blog!!
You're right that men use to discuss style more
I was just watching a Fred Astaire movie – I think Top Hat- am they were very earnestly discussing square or butterfly bowties.
well captured
What a beautiful photo. Working on a book soon?
I love your sign shots. Please give us more! And it would be great if you could tag all your previous signs so we can easily access them. Thanks!
Remarkable! You've caught the subtle movement you describe….
You are absolutely right. Without the curtain in that way, the shot would be all very hard-edged and abstract. It still is to a great extent-and very beautiful in that way– but the curtain also adds a "real effect" that makes it all the more interesting.
You're very good.
This shutterbug wants to know.
1. What rig were you using?
2. What was the setting used?
3. Any post production?
Is it just me or is it a bit over exposed in the sign area? I think this is why it is nostalgic, to me; it appears like an old faded photograph from the 60′s.
Lovely and evocative.
you should make a book… I'd buy it
what is the shadow of on the street in the photo? you?
Beautiful shot.
I love seeing the world through your eyes! The pictures of people are fascinating and fun, yet this is like a fine sorbet between dinner courses.
Nice pic!
Looks like this is a continuance of Sart's "font phase," y'all.
Sart, you need to start selling signed copies of your pics off this site. (Although it depends on what kind of waiver your subjects sign).
You can't tell me your biz friends haven't mentioned this to you yet!
I'd get some/several/ALLLLLLL!
It's so lovely to see a bit of typography sprinkled into the Sartorialist. A marriage of two of my loves: fashion and good old typography.
Congratulations, Sart! This is an incredibly good photograph. Photos like this one – mainly in b&w – are precious to photographers/travellers, as they catch the aura of the place.
Doesn't surprise me…
This is so beautiful.
I love the shadows cast on the building- makes me wonder what time it was when this photo was shot..And the stone flooring just strike me that the colouring of the stone is probably the same whether the shot was done in black and white or colour…The hanging curtain was indeed a comforting contrast against the solid surroundings.Beautifully serene!!!:)
Long admired your website, first time writing in. I like the way your photos not only highlight the style of your subjects, but also capture aspects of their personalities.
This Pellicerie photo is so rich in nuance and moodiness. Great shot!
Have you seen the Foto exhibit at the National Gallery in DC? It's terrific – many similarly complex-textured black and whites.
Long admired your site, first time writing in. Love the way you capture your subjects' personalities as well as their style. And doesn't that highlight the self-defining power of fashion itself?
Great shot of the Pellicerie – so nuanced and moody. Have you seen the "Foto" exhibit at the National Gallery in DC of Central European photography 1918-45? Lots of richly textured black and whites.
Thanks for your thought-provoking and inspiring blog!
Dear Sart
The photo is pure Edward Hopper; two or more sources of light, the sharp angles on the architecture caused by the light sources, and the ambivalence of the moving curtain.
Thank you for sharing this …
beautiful shot.
i've got the same question as another fan…does your camera have the ability to digitally switch from black and white to color, or do you do that in post?
Quaint. I'm quite fond of the back streets of Florence.


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When Did The Issa - Hillary Relationship Go South?
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The same day yet another House Republican investigation into the attack in Benghazi debunked tired conservative myths, The Hill excerpts a piece of Amie Parnes and Jonathan Allen's book HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton, detailing an interesting twist in the relationship between Darrell Issa and the former Secretary of State.
"When the call came in at three o'clock in the morning, the failure wasn't viewed, at least as of today, as Secretary Clinton's. It was really an Obama failure," the GOP House Oversight Committee Chair told the journalists in December 2012. "Her legacy is mostly intact for 2016, if she chooses."
"The front end of it, Hillary's part of it, was very good," he continued. "I don't think she'd lie to me. In that sense, I trust her like any politician and particularly any diplomat - every word within a statement has to be carefully made sure you heard it correctly."
The Hill also cites Issa favorably comparing Hillary Clinton to other Obama officials.
"When you look at Eric Holder, I do not trust him. I do not believe he is trustworthy. I do no believe he is honest," he said. "In the case of Secretary Clinton, I think her personal standing - her legacy of tough but honest, diplomatic but not disingenuous - I think it's important to her."
So if Darrell Issa had such a positive view of Hillary Clinton in December 2012, it raises the intriguing question of when the relationship went south. A look at the public record would suggest this change might have taken place the following spring, when Republicans and the conservative media shifted their ire from the President to Hillary Clinton in anticipation of her Presidential campaign.
In April 2013, with the release of a Benghazi investigation from five Republican congressional chairman which mentioned Hillary Clinton 30 times and mentioned the President only 11, came Issa's first major attack on Hillary Clinton's credibility -- and one that represented a huge embarrassment for the GOP.
The report referenced a cable from March 28, 2012, sent from then-U.S. Ambassador to Libya Gene Cretz to Hillary Clinton asking for additional security resources in Libya. A reply containing the Secretary's signature was delivered in April "acknowledge[ing] then-Ambassador Cretz's formal request for additional security assets but ordered the withdrawal of security elements to proceed as planned" from Libya.
On the day the report came out, Darrell Issa appeared on Fox & Friends claiming "The secretary of state was just wrong. She said she did not participate in this, and yet only a few months before the attack, she outright denied security in her signature in a cable, April 2012." Issa and the conservative media believed they had caught Clinton in a lie, as she had testified before Congress in January "that the security cables did not come to my attention or above the assistant secretary level."
Republicans and the conservative media trumpeted their evidence, but all they demonstrated was their own ignorance. As The Washington Post fact checker Glenn Kessler, who spent years covering the State Department, explained, "every single cable from Washington gets the secretary's name at the bottom, even if the secretary happens to be on the other side of the world at the time."
There was no reason to believe Clinton ever saw or knew about the documents in question, yet to this day neither Issa nor any of his Republican colleagues have apologized for their smear job.


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Compassion Australia has saved thousands of dollars since shifting to a bring-your-own-device (BYOD) mobile strategy, according to the non-profit organisation's systems administrator of projects, Blessing Matore.
Compassion is a Christian non-profit devoted to child development and advocacy. In August, the organisation met a 10-year goal of reaching 100,000 children living in poverty around the world. The non-profit has about 130 staff in Australia with a head office in Newcastle and regional offices in Sydney, Queensland, Perth and Melbourne.
Compassion mostly uses mobile devices for calls and email, Matore said. Before moving to BYOD, the non-profit provided users with BlackBerry devices and managed them with the BlackBerry Enterprise Server platform.
"That was working well until the iPhones and the [Android smartphones] came along and we started having a bit of pressure from the users wanting to use the new devices."
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Besides answering demand from employees, the non-profit saw an opportunity in BYOD to reduce costs, Matore said. Under BYOD, the organisation now provides employees with a monthly allowance. As a result, it doesn't have to pay for additional costs or overages a user may have.
The allowance ranges between $60 and $120 depending on the employee's role. If the bill goes over that amount, "it's on them," Matore said.
The move to BYOD has saved Compassion Australia at least $8000 per year, Matore said. Taking into account money potentially saved from not paying unplanned extra charges, "it might even be double that," he said.
After deciding to do BYOD, the non-profit searched for a tool that could manage multiple kinds of devices easily and without great expense. Matore said he looked at AirWatch and MobileIron as possible vendors for mobile device management (MDM), but chose AirWatch because it provided a discount for non-profits and came with a strong recommendation from Gartner.
It wasn't difficult to transition to the BYOD platform "because the only thing we really had to focus on at the time was making sure users had access to email," Matore said.
Employees now use one device for both work and play, Matore said. "To them, the work part of the event is only emails. The rest of the device is personal to them."
Management had worries about giving up control of the mobile devices, and staff voiced privacy questions about whether calls or messages would be monitored, Matore said. "So we had to come up with a policy" with clearly written rules, he said.
The non-profit asked users to sign a MDM policy explaining that "it's your personal device and this is what AirWatch allows us to monitor on that device," he said.
Compassion allows users to install whatever app they like on the device. However, the non-profit reserves the right to wipe data and lock or track the device if it is lost or stolen, he said.
Lingering security concerns have kept Compassion from giving users' devices access to more than corporate email, Matore said.
"It's not yet clear cut with BYOD as far as security is concerned," Matore said. "Because we're not very confident about security at this point, we don't allow those devices on our corporate network."
While the BYOD initiative has focused on smartphones, the AirWatch mobile management platform also supports about 10 Apple iPads, Matore said. The non-profit is currently looking at Windows 8 tablets, and is waiting specifically for the Microsoft Surface Pro, he said.
"We are familiar with Windows and how it operates," he said. "We don't have much depth in terms of iOS skills."
Windows 8 tablets would integrate better than iPad with the enterprise network, he said. "There's hope that it will seamlessly integrate with SharePoint and people can still access the Internet and document management system on the road."
In addition, Matore said he feels more confident about securing a Windows computer. "We're not too sure about security on the [iOS] devices."
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I passed the PMI-PBA exam on 8 March 2017, and believe I am the 2nd person in VietNam holding PMI-PBA if Tungnx is the first one
All credits and thanks to Izenbridge, Saket and Seema, I would like to share my learning tips and Exam exp as below:
1/ Learning Tips:
- Keep learning everyday until the exam date, I know all of us are very busy in daily life but you need to keep study even the busiest day. Depend on time on that day you can just read a chapter, read a note or do some test. The key point is keeping your mindset along with it otherwise you will start over and over.
- Write your own note, since only you know which is good for your memory and understanding. Let's write a summary of all the knowledge that you have.
- Read more book to understand the concept. The Business Analyst for Practic... handbook is not enough to understand the concept, some concept about risk management, some project life cycle, Stakeholder management, traceability are mentioned in other text book like PMP or over the internet. You don't know how much you need to read, but just as much as you can understand the ideas clearly.
- Many people said you don't need to remember everything, just understand it. But my recommendation is getting it understandable and memorize it as much as you can. Because you understand it but you don't remember it you still cannot answer the question which is a definition or a context.
- Keep practicing daily over and over. Take the handbook as foundation and extend your knowledge on that.
- Watch Saket video for his explanation to get used to the topic before you explore it by yourself.
2/ Exam Exp and Tips:
- The exam is different with the assessment test, so you don't need to be relied on that or over confident when you can done all the mock exam well.
- However, the assessment test will have the same question style with the real exam, and it can help you to get familiar with the way questions in real exam are given out. Therefore, you need to do the assessment test in the program to get familiar with the question style. Don't need to remember the answer in assessment test, that is hopeless for the exam.
- Majority (90%) of questions are situation / case study question. They give you a situation and you need to answer it in the way that you understand from the text book.
- Even if the question is about definition, they also put it in the situation. For Ex: my case, I still remember, the exam said :" If you are in the meeting and three quarter of the participant agree on the topic and the number of participant who don't agree on the topic is no more than 25%. What is this called ? A. Majority, B Plurality, C. Dictatorship, D........)
- There are for options multiple questions, which one of them are very ridiculous and the rest three you need to fight for your life
- Don't leave any question blank and just mark it for return, NO, you don't have time to return for all, 200/240min -> you have only 1m20s / question. That is not enough even for those who are not using English as mother language. If you don't know the answer, just select the most viable one and click mark, then click next.
- My exam, the majority of questions falls into Traceability, they asked a lot questions on this chapter. All are situation (Ex: changing before approved, after approved, how to find out the gap, missing features and problem solving .....).
- Since majority are situation based, if you don't know the answer, just be proactive and think in the way the BA thinks, or in the way use think that it is most suitable for the answer. Make sure that you always protect the business goals and objective, verify and validate are two different things and put your self as a business owner to think what is the most valuable in this situation to find out the answer in the most viable way. Hope you can get my idea.
- Take rest, don't nervous and don't be so excited, just confident. You may feels a bit frustrated after 2.5 hours, keep calm and read fast. All question are made up from 3 to 4 line of text except the answers. Reading fast is an advantage here.
- No question on Value Stream, or financial calculation, but do have question related to PMP knowledge on risk management or stakeholder communication. I don't know why , but my exam falling too much on traceability and monitoring, this also include the communication solution to relevant stakeholder while there is a change and how you need to monitor the matrix or relevant features.
- Don't need to buy another account for mock exam. I used to think that I should buy more account to practice like watermark but I decided not to do that because I trusted what I learned and I trusted what other people said about I zenbridege. After the exam, I felt that is true, because you never expect the exam mockup will be given out in the real exam. That is never, all you need is the exam style and izenbridge is enough for you to get used to the style. The rest is BA knowledge and problem solving in situation. That one you need to read and practice not relying on the mock exam. Agree ?
Last word, be prepared and be confident. Everyday you study now is very sleepy and tired, I know that. I even get mad with Seema when Quampus had technical issue to access. However, in the last minute when you click the "Yes" button to confirm for submission and loading result come with PASS. It's worth the effort. Very, Very Much
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