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Module 5: Proton Therapy for Gastrointestinal Cancers: Review of the Evidence
The goal of this module is to review the dosimetric and clinical evidence around proton beam therapy (PBT) for esophageal, pancreatic, and anal cancers.
Esophageal Cancer
Radiotherapy plays an integral role for patients with esophageal cancer, both in resectable and unresectable cases. Nearby organs at risk include the spinal cord, heart, and lungs.
Dosimetric Studies
Several studies have analyzed dosimetric differences between IMRT (intensity modulated x-ray therapy) and PBT for esophageal cancer. Each study used unique planning techniques, but in general the results suggest PBT can limit radiation to nearby organs at risk.
Wang and colleagues investigated dosimetric differences between IMRT and PBT for 55 patients. Most cases were distal esophageal tumors, and all received 50.4 Gy. IMRT was planned with a 7-field technique. PBT was delivered by passive scattering using two beams, typically in a left lateral and posteroanterior arrangement.. Four-dimensional CT planning accounted for respiratory motion. The results showed less radiation to the cord, lungs, and heart with PBT. For the cord, PBT reduced the maximum dose by 8.4 Gy. For the lungs, PBT reduced the mean dose by 2.9 Gy and the volume of spinal cord receiving 5 Gy, 10 Gy, and 20 Gy (V5, V10, and V20) by 20%, 10% and 4% (absolute differences), respectively. For the heart, PBT reduced the mean dose by 0.5 Gy and the V10, V20, and V30 by 33%, 13%, and 3% (absolute differences), respectively. The heart V40 was 2.5% higher (absolute difference) with PBT.
Zhang and colleagues evaluated IMRT and PBT plans for 15 patients with distal esophageal tumors treated to 50.4 Gy. IMRT plans used 5 coplanar beams. PBT was delivered by passive scattering using either a two-beam
anteroposterior-posteroanterior (AP/PA) arrangement or a three-beam technique. Four-dimensional CT planning accounted for respiratory motion. The results showed that the three-beam PBT plans achieved the lowest cord dose compared to IMRT (15 Gy absolute reduction in cord maximum). The two-beam PBT plans maximally reduced the lung dose compared to IMRT (5 Gy absolute reduction in mean dose; 36%, 21%, and 6% absolute reduction in V5, V10, and V20, respectively). This lung sparing came at the cost of higher heart dose with two-beam PBT compared to IMRT (6% and 14% absolute increase in V40 and V50, respectively). The three-beam PBT plans best reduced the heart dose compared to IMRT (8% absolute reduction in V40, no difference in V50).
Welsh and colleagues compared IMRT with PBT in 10 patients with distal esophageal tumors. IMRT was planned with a 5-field step-and-shoot technique, using a simultaneous integrated boost to deliver 65.8 Gy to the gross tumor volume (GTV) and 50.4 Gy to the planning target volume (PTV) in 28 fractions. The same doses were delivered in the PBT plans, which used an intensity-modulated proton technique. Three different sets of PBT beam arrangements were explored: (1) anteroposterior-posteroanterior (AP/PA), (2) right posterior and left posterior oblique (RPO and LPO), and (3) AP combined with RPO and LPO. Four-dimensional CT planning accounted for respiratory motion. The results showed that the three-field AP/RPO/LPO PBT plans achieved the lowest cord dose compared to IMRT (12 Gy absolute reduction in cord maximum). AP/PA PBT plans maximally reduced the lung dose compared to IMRT (5 Gy absolute reduction in mean dose; 26%, 13%, and 7% absolute reduction in V5, V10, and V15, respectively). RPO/LPO PBT plans best reduced the heart dose compared to IMRT (9 Gy absolute reduction in mean dose; 50%, 22%, and 8% absolute reduction in V10, V20, and V30, respectively).
Clinical Studies
There are no comparative clinical studies of photons versus protons for esophageal cancer. However, several groups have published single-institution experiences with PBT.
Lin and colleagues reported the MD Anderson experience of 62 patients treated with concurrent chemotherapy and PBT. The cohort was predominantly stage II or III distal adenocarcinomas. The chemoradiotherapy was definitive for about half of patients, and the other half received neoadjuvant treatment prior to surgery. PBT was delivered with a passive scattering technique, and several beam arrangements were used (two-beam anteroposterior-posteroanterior; two-beam posteroanterior plus left lateral oblique; and three-beam left lateral, left posterior oblique and either a right posterior oblique or posteroanterior beam). Four-dimensional CT planning accounted for respiratory motion. The median prescription was 50.4 Gy, and the most common concurrent chemotherapy regimen was 5-FU, oxaliplatin, and taxol. A single patient had to stop treatment due to esophagitis. Grade 3 toxicities included esophagitis (10%), dysphagia (10%), nausea/vomiting (8%), fatigue (8%), anorexia (5%), and radiation dermatitis (3%). There was a single case of grade 3 pneumonitis. Two patients died during treatment, one from cardiac arrest and one from pneumonitis. With a median 20-month follow-up for living patients, the estimated 3-year local-regional control rate was 41%. Of the patients who underwent surgery, a complete pathologic response was seen in 28%.
The University of Tsukuba in Japan has also published clinical results of PBT for esophageal cancer. One series examined only squamous cell carcinoma treated with radiotherapy alone; the relevance of these results to current US practice (where concurrent chemotherapy is typically given) is challenged. A second publication from the Tsukuba group examined 40 patients treated with concurrent chemotherapy and PBT with definitive intent. Tumors were generally in the upper or middle thoracic esophagus and stage I-III. PBT was delivered with a respiratory-gated technique to a total dose of 60 Gy. Anteroposterior-posteroanterior beams were used for the first 40-50 Gy, followed by either the same fields or an anterior and lateral oblique arrangement for the conedown. Chemotherapy consisted on 5-FU and cisplatin. No patient needed to stop radiotherapy due to toxicity. Grade 3 toxicities included esophagitis (22%) and dermatitis (5%). There was a single grade 2 and no grade 3 late pulmonary complications. No treatment-related deaths were observed. With a median 2-year follow-up, 68% of patients achieved local control.
As a rough comparison, we can examine the toxicities reported for two recent phase III trials examining neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy using photons followed by surgery versus surgery alone. Twenty-eight patients treated to 50.4 Gy with 3D conformal photons and cisplatin/5FU on CALGB 9781 had toxicity data reported. Grade 3 toxicities included esophagitis/dysphagia (27%), pain (16%), other GI (14%), nausea (11%), weight loss (11%) and dysrhythmias (8%). Meanwhile, 171 patients treated to a notably lower dose of 41.4 Gy with 3D conformal photons and carboplatin/paclitaxel on the CROSS trial had toxicity data reported. Grade 3 or higher toxicities included anorexia (5%), esophagitis (1%), esophageal perforation (1%), fatigue (1%), and nausea/vomiting (1%). Pathologic complete response rate was 29% – very similar to the results from the MD Anderson PBT experience.
Open clinical trials
- A phase I dose escalation trial is open at the University of Pennsylvania (clinicaltrials.gov identifier NCT02213497). This study is enrolling patients with adenocarcinoma distal to the carina. Treatment consists of neoadjuvant PBT concurrent with carboplatin/paclitaxel followed by surgery. The main endpoint is the maximally tolerated radiation dose.
- A phase II trial is open at Loma Linda University (clinicaltrials.gov identifier NCT01684904). This study is enrolling patients with squamous cell carcinoma or adenocarcinoma of the mid or distal esophagus. Treatment consists of neoadjuvant PBT concurrent with cisplatin/paclitaxel followed by surgery. The main endpoints are overall survival and toxicity.
- A phase III trial is open at MD Anderson Cancer Center (clinicaltrials.gov identifier NCT01512589). This study is enrolling patients with either squamous cell carcinomas or adenocarcinomas. Patient can have resectable or unresectable disease, and treatment consists of concurrent chemoradiotherapy to 50.4 Gy. Patients are randomized to either IMRT or PBT radiotherapy. The main endpoints are progression-free survival and toxicity.
Pancreatic Cancer
The benefit of radiotherapy for pancreatic cancers is controversial – both in unresectable cases and following surgery. However, radiotherapy still plays a role for many patients in the United States. Nearby organs at risk include bowel, liver, stomach, and kidneys.
Dosimetric Studies
Several studies have analyzed dosimetric differences between IMRT and PBT for pancreatic cancer. Each study used unique planning techniques, but in general the results suggest that PBT can reduce low doses to many organs at risk. However, PBT may incrementally increase high-dose irradiation of the small bowel. Notably, severe bowel toxicity is thought to correlate to high-dose exposure.
Thompson and colleagues compared IMRT and PBT plans for 13 patients with unresectable pancreatic head tumors. Targets were the gross tumor with a 1-inch margin to PTV; elective nodal regions were not included. The total dose was 55 Gy in 25 fractions. IMRT was planned with a 7-field technique. PBT was planned with a three-beam arrangement (right superior posterior oblique, posterior, and posterior superior oblique). Both double-scattering and pencil-beam scanning PBT were evaluated. Plans were generated on static CT images under the assumption that patients would be treated with a breath-hold technique. The results showed that pencil-beam scanning PBT was superior to double-scattering PBT in reducing dose to organs at risk. However, the conclusions were mixed regarding the benefit of PBT relative to IMRT. For the kidneys, PBT reduced mean dose by 1.7 Gy compared to IMRT. PBT also resulted in a 50% relative reduction in mean liver dose, noting that IMRT was able to meet liver constraints for all patients. For the small bowel and stomach, PBT was superior in the low-dose regions (< 30 Gy) but IMRT was incrementally superior in the high-dose regions (> 40 Gy). For example, small bowel V20 was 20% vs 7% for PBT vs IMRT, but the V45 was 2.9% vs 2.4% for PBT vs IMRT.
Nichols and colleagues evaluated IMRT and PBT plans for 8 pancreatic patients in the post-surgery setting. The dose was 45 Gy to a larger post-operative field followed by a conedown to a total 50.4 Gy. IMRT was planned with 10 to 18 fields. PBT employed a passive scattering technique with either a two-beam or three-beam arrangement (one or two posterior oblique fields with a lateral oblique field). The results showed that PBT reduced the low-dose exposure for several organs, but there were mixed consequences for small bowel. There was no significant difference between modalities for the liver or the left kidney. The right kidney was better spared with PBT vs IMRT (mean V18 23% vs 51%). Low dose to the stomach was reduced with PBT versus IMRT (mean V20 2% vs 20%) but not different at higher doses (≥ 45 Gy). For the small bowel, PBT was superior in the low-dose regions but IMRT was incrementally superior in the high-dose regions. For example, small bowel V20 was 15% v 47% for PBT vs IMRT. But the V45 and V50 were 8% vs 6% and 6% vs 3% for PBT vs IMRT, respectively.
Ding and colleagues analyzed dosimetric differences between IMRT, volume-modulated arc therapy (VMAT), and PBT for 11 patients in the post-operative setting. Four-dimensional CT planning accounted for respiratory motion, and the dose was 50.4 Gy. IMRT used a 5-field approach, while VMAT was planned with 2 arcs. Both passively scattered and pencil-beam scanning proton techniques were analyzed, each with a two-beam arrangement (right lateral oblique and posterior oblique). The results showed that pencil-beam scanning PBT was superior to the passively scattered approach. PBT achieved lower kidney V18 and lower mean liver dose compared with IMRT or VMAT, although there were no differences in liver V30. Stomach V20 was 7% vs 26% for pencil-beam PBT vs IMRT. There were no differences among the photon and proton plans for absolute volume of small bowel receiving ≥ 15 Gy.
Clinical Studies
There are no comparative clinical studies of photons versus protons for pancreatic cancer. However, several groups have published single-institution experiences with PBT.
Nichols and colleagues reported the University of Florida experience of 22 patients treated standard fractionation PBT and concurrent capecitabine. Unresectable patients (n = 5) received a median 59.4 Gy, borderline resectable patients (n = 5) received 50.4 Gy, and post-operative patients (n = 12) received a median 54 Gy. Four-dimensional CT planning accounted for respiratory motion. The PBT technique (i.e. passive scatter, pencil-beam scanning) was not explicitly defined. Two- or three-beam arrangements were used, typically with one or two posterior oblique fields plus a lateral oblique beam. No patient needed to stop radiotherapy due to toxicity. With a median 11-month follow-up, there were no acute or long-term grade 3 treatment toxicities. The tumor control outcomes from this study are difficult to interpret given the heterogeneous population.
Terashima and colleagues reported a phase I/II Japanese trial of 50 locally advanced patients treated with hypofractionated, dose-escalated PBT and concurrent gemcitabine. The primary tumor, positive nodes, and regional elective nodes were targeted, and respiratory gating was used. Neither the PBT technique (i.e. passive scatter, pencil-beam scanning) nor the beam arrangements were explicitly defined. The majority (n = 40) of the cohort received 67.5 Gy in 2.7 Gy fractions with a field-in-field technique (1.8 Gy to the whole PTV with additional 0.9 Gy to PTV minus GI tract). For these 40 patients, 13% had to stop treatment due to side effects. Acute grade 3 non-hematologic toxicities included anorexia (8%), nausea (5%), abdominal pain (5%), weight loss (5%), vomiting (3%), and fatigue (3%). Late grade ≥3 gastric ulcers occurred in 10% of the cohort; one patient died from gastric hemorrhage. The one-year local control rate was 80%.
Hong and colleagues reported a Harvard phase I/II trial of 50 resectable patients treated neoadjuvantly with short-course hypofractionated PBT plus capecitabine followed by surgery. The gross tumor as well as regional elective nodes were targeted, and four-dimensional CT planning accounted for respiratory motion. Passively scattered PBT was delivered to 25 Gy in 5 fractions for 35 patients in the trial's phase II component. A three-beam arrangement was typically used, treating 2 fields each day. None of the 35 patients needed to stop treatment due to toxicity. Grade 3 toxicities were colitis (3%) and chest wall pain (3%). No grade 4 or 5 toxicities were reported. The rate of negative-margin resection was 84%. With a median 38-month follow-up, local control was achieved in 84% of patients.
As a rough comparison, we can examine toxicity on prospective studies treating pancreas cancer with photons. RTOG 9704 treated locally advanced patients to 50.4 Gy with 3D conformal photons along with 5-FU. Acute non-hematologic grade ≥ 3 toxicities occurred in 59% of the cohort17; late grade ≥ 2 non-hematologic effects were seen in 18%. An ECOG trial treated locally advanced patients to 50.4 Gy with 3D conformal photons along with gemcitabine. Acute non-hematologic toxicities were common (41% grade 3, 38% grade 4, and 3% grade 5). The University of Michigan phase I/II trial treated unresectable patients with IMRT to 50-60 Gy with gemcitabine. Eleven cases (22%) developed dose-limiting toxicities, including grade 3 or 4 nausea/vomiting, anorexia, dehydration, duodenal bleeding or perforation. Two patients had possibly treatment-related fatal toxicities.
Open clinical trials
- The University of Florida has two open phase II trials using protons for pancreatic cancer (clinicaltrials.gov identifiers NCT00763516 and NCT01553019). Treatment consists of PBT to 50.4 Gy along with capecitabine for borderline resectable patients, and PBT to 50.4 Gy alone with gemcitabine for post-operative patients. The main endpoints are rates of grade ≥ 3 toxicity.
- A phase II trial is open at Loma Linda University (clinicaltrials.org identifier NCT01683422). This study is enrolling patients with locally advanced disease. Treatment consists of PBT along with gemcitabine, erlotinib, and capecitabine. The main endpoint is the one-year survival rate.
- A phase II trial is open at Massachusetts General Hospital (clinicaltrials.gov identifier NCT01821729). This study is enrolling patients with unresectable disease. Treatment consists of PBT along with FOLFIRINOX and losartan. The main endpoint is feasibility of the regimen.
Anal Cancer
Most patients with localized anal cancer are cured with chemoradiotherapy. However, the treatment carries high rates of side effects. Nearby organs at risk include bowel, genitalia, and pelvic bone marrow.
Dosimetric Studies
Ojerholm and colleagues investigated dosimetric differences between IMRT and PBT for 8 patients with anal cancer. Tumor T category ranged from T1-T4, and half of patients had positive nodes. IMRT was planned with a 7-field sliding-window technique. PBT employed pencil-beam scanning with a two-beam left and right posterior oblique field arrangement. The most common dose was 54 Gy to the primary tumor/positive nodes and 45 Gy to uninvolved pelvic nodes. The results showed that PBT reduced radiation to most organs at risk. Compared to IMRT, PBT reduced small bowel V15, V20, and V25 by an average of 70 mL, 59 mL, and 36 mL, respectively. The external genitalia mean dose was 19 Gy vs 7 Gy for IMRT vs PBT. The external genitalia V20 was 40% vs 14% for IMRT vs PBT. The total pelvic bone marrow was exposed to less radiation with PBT for doses up to 30 Gy; however PBT was inferior in sparing the lumbosacral marrow component due to the posterior oblique beam arrangement.
Clinical Studies
There are currently no published clinical results with modern PBT for anal cancer.
Open clinical trials
- A phase 0 pilot study is open at the Massachusetts General Hospital (clinicaltrials.org identifier NCT01858025). This study is enrolling patients with all stages of anal cancer. Treatment consists of pencil-beam scanning PBT with concurrent chemotherapy (5-FU and mitomycin-C). The main endpoints are feasibility and toxicity.
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"I guess it wasn't a well-kept secret but yes, I am dating Tiger Woods," says the Olympic skier
After staying mum for months about a rumored romance, Tiger Woods and Lindsey Vonn are publicly stepping out as a couple.
In statements released simultaneously on Woods's official website and Vonn's Facebook page Monday afternoon, the athletic powerhouse duo confirmed their burgeoning relationship and posted a photo of themselves together.
"I guess it wasn't a well-kept secret but yes, I am dating Tiger Woods. Our relationship evolved from a friendship into something more over these past few months and it has made me very happy," says the Olympic skier, 28.
"I don't plan on addressing this further as I would like to keep that part of my life between us, my family and close friends."
Similarly, writes Woods, 37: "Something nice that's happened off the course was meeting Lindsey Vonn. Lindsey and I have been friends for some time, but over the last few months we have become very close and are now dating."
"We thank you for your support and for respecting our privacy. We want to continue our relationship, privately, as an ordinary couple and continue to compete as athletes."
RELATED: Lindsey Vonn Is 'Not Freaked Out' by Tiger Woods's Past
Rumors of a relationship heated up early last month when Woods sent his private jet to fly Vonn home to Vail, Colo., after a crash at the Alpine World Championships in Austria left her with torn ligaments in her right knee and a fractured shin.
Since then, the pair has only grown closer, spending time together in Vai, where Vonn is recuperating from surgery, and most recently, in Florida aboard Woods's yacht.
"Tiger and Lindsey have been friends for a while, and nothing started out romantically at all," a source close to Woods tells PEOPLE. "But they really have a lot in common and got closer and closer."
Woods made international headlines in 2009 when he was linked to dozens of women while still married to Elin Nordegren. Their divorce became final in August 2010.
The most decorated skier in U.S. history with an eye on the Winter Olympics, Vonn announced her split from husband of four years, Thomas Vonn, in November 2011.
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What you need to know to make the best use of the Nutrition Facts Label
The nutrition facts label can help you make better food choices, but only if you know what you are looking for. Labels for similar diced tomato products are shown side by side for reference.
Know your estimated calorie needs. If you don't know what your calorie limit is for the day, the calories listed on the Nutrition Facts Label won't be very useful. Look at the calories per serving and the serving size to estimate how many calories you would eat and then compare that to your daily calorie needs. In the example, ½ cup of diced tomatoes has about 35 calories. If you use the whole can in a recipe meant for two, you'd eat about two servings or approximately 70 calories. For a low-calorie food like canned tomatoes, multiple servings don't increase calories very much, but with a higher calorie food it would be more important to watch portion sizes.
Know what you probably need more of. Most Americans do not consume enough fiber, potassium, calcium, and Vitamin D. Increase your intake of these important nutrients by consuming more whole grains, fruits, vegetables, and low fat dairy or dairy alternatives like soy or almond milk. A single food seldom provides 100% of any nutrient, which is why the dietary recommendations emphasize a variety of foods in the diet. One serving of canned tomatoes would contribute to your daily intake of potassium, fiber, calcium, and Vitamin C for the day as well as hundreds of other nutrients and micronutrients not shown on a nutrition facts label.
Know what you probably need less of. Most Americans consume too much sodium, saturated fat, trans fat, cholesterol, added sugars, and alcohol. Although 'sugars' are listed on the nutrition facts label, added sugars are not. Some foods (fruit, dairy, vegetables) are naturally high in sugar, but may not have added sugars. Check the ingredients list to see if your food has added sugar. In our example, the label on the left is a 'no salt added' product and it contains about one-tenth of the amount of sodium as the product on the right. Although both products contain little sugar, the product on the left has a small amount of added sugar as seen listed in the ingredients list. These tomatoes contain no fat or cholesterol; typical of most vegetables.
Use the '% Daily Value' column to know if a food is high or low in a nutrient. Because the percentages are based on a 2,000-calorie diet, they might not be accurate for you. However, they can be used to determine relative nutrient content. In general, foods that provide 5% or less of a specific nutrient are low and those that provide 20% or more are high. In our example, the tomatoes on the left are a very good source of Vitamin C. Why aren't the tomatoes on the left? I'm not sure – this stumped me! The FDA allows citric acid to be called Vitamin C because, although not identical, they are very similar in structure and function. However, both ingredients lists show citric acid in about the same amount! My guess is that the company decided to list the citric acid as Vitamin C on one label and not the other.
Don't forget the food! The nutrition facts label is a nice tool, but don't forget its limitations. It only lists a very small number of nutrients and there are a lot of things it doesn't tell us. Some foods can seem healthy if they have vitamins and minerals added (like cereals), but it's always better to get nutrients from a whole food. All healthy diet recommendations come back to the same basic ideas: choose whole and less processed foods (shorter ingredients list); eat a variety of foods from all the food groups; and eat smaller portions.
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Actress Uma Thurman has called off her engagement to multi-millionaire Arpad Busson, according to a U.K. report.
The Kill Bill star began dating the French financier in 2007 and the couple announced its engagement in 2008, but Thurman returned her engagement ring to Busson in 2009.
The couple, who have a daughter together, became engaged again in 2012 after reconciling, but sources tell Britain's Mail on Sunday newspaper they have split once again after Thurman was spotted without her engagement ring.
One source says, "Uma and Arki (Busson) were due to attend a gala together on April 8, but Uma showed up without her engagement ring or her fiance. Arki was scheduled to attend and it seemed clear there was only one reason why he didn't show – because he and Uma are no longer an item."
Another source tells the newspaper, "Uma lives in New York while Arki lives in London. He has been out and about without Uma since October when he went to a Halloween party alone. They have been at one or two events together, like Harvey Weinstein's pre-BAFTA party in February, but on that occasion they looked miserable."
A spokesperson for Busson was unavailable for comment while Thurman's representative declined to comment on the report.
Actress Uma Thurman has called off her engagement to multi-millionaire Arpad Busson, according to a U.K. report.


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While today's consumers certainly scrutinize the foods that fill their pantries, they aren't just eating at home. In fact, eating out isn't just for special occasions; it's a way of life for nearly half of global respondents (48%), who say they eat at restaurants or other out-of-home dining establishments weekly or more often. Respondents in Asia-Pacific and North America are particularly avid out-of-home diners.
Dinner and lunch are the meals that respondents most commonly eat away from home, while fewer say they eat breakfast outside the home. But this trend may be changing in some markets. For example, respondents in the U.S. are more likely than the global average to say they eat breakfast at a restaurant (21% versus 16% globally), and many establishments are capitalizing on this by introducing convenient offerings for busy consumers who have little time for a formal meal. Coffee shops are expanding their menus to include more breakfast options, while some quick-service restaurants have introduced breakfast service or made their breakfast offerings available all day.
"Breakfast has been a growth driver for some fast-food and quick-service dining establishments, but it represents a strong growth opportunity for retailers as well," said Andrew Mandzy, Director of Strategic Health and Wellness Insights, Nielsen. "To win at breakfast, retailers should focus on healthfulness and convenience. Consumers often have less time for meal planning and preparation in the morning, but quality, taste and freshness remain critical. And products that pack a healthful benefit are even better positioned to succeed. For example, while the ready-to-eat cereals category is declining in the U.S., the gluten-free, GMO-free and no-high-fructose-corn-syrup cereal sub-segments are growing."
Other findings from our recent global Ingredient and Dining-Out Trends report include:
For more detail and insight, download Nielsen's Global Ingredient and Dining-Out Trends Report. If you would like more detailed country-level data from this survey, it is available for sale in the Nielsen Store.
The Nielsen Global Out-of-Home Dining Survey was conducted Aug. 10-Sept. 4, 2015, and polled more than 30,000 consumers in 61 countries throughout Asia-Pacific, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East/Africa and North America. The sample for the survey includes internet users who agreed to participate in this survey and has quotas based on age and sex for each country. It is weighted to be representative of internet consumers by country. Because the sample is based on those who agreed to participate, no estimates of theoretical sampling error can be calculated. However, a probability sample of equivalent size would have a margin of error of ±0.6% at the global level. This Nielsen survey is based only on the behavior of respondents with online access. Internet penetration rates vary by country. Nielsen uses a minimum reporting standard of 60% internet penetration or an online population of 10 million for survey inclusion.


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Lipscomb's Page earns spot on A-Sun All-Freshman soccer team
Lipscomb University freshman forward Ben Page has been named to the Atlantic Sun Conference All-Freshman Soccer Team.
Page, a forward from Woodstock, Ga., started 16 games this season. He led the team in shots with 33 and is tied for the lead in assists with three. He also had one goal.
"He's a very good attacker with good speed," said Lipscomb men's soccer coach Jon Goad. "Physically, he can match up with anyone on the field."


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Software AG Recognizes Digital Transformation Leaders With Its Powerup Partner Awards 2017
Awards Presented at Software AG Sales Kick-Off in Madrid, Spain.
Darmstadt, Germany, Thursday, January 18, 2018
Software AG (Frankfurt TecDAX: SOW) announced today the recipients of its 2017 PowerUp Partner Awards. The winners were selected from a competitive field of nominations from Software AG's expanding partner eco-system that best showcase their use of the Digital Business Platform to accelerate and simplify our customers' digital transformation journey.
Software AG is honored to announce the winners: Infosys for Global Go-to-Market Excellence, Deutsche Telekom for Solution Excellence, HCL Technologies for Customer Excellence, and Visual Enterprise Architecture for Market Excellence.
The awards were presented by Eric Duffaut, Software AG Chief Customer Officer, at Software AG's Global Sales Kick-Off 2018 in Madrid, Spain: "It is only through collaboration, co-innovation and deep partner relationships that the wide range of expertise needed to accelerate our customer's digital transformations can be optimized. This year we had the difficult choice of deciding which of 38 innovative partners' nominations exemplified our customer centric market approach and displayed practical innovation in rapidly returning business value. My congratulations to Infosys, Deutsche Telekom, HCL Technologies and Visual Enterprise Architecture for their outstanding capabilities and achievements in making our joint customers win in the digital world".
Infosys: PowerUp Partner Award for Global Go-to-Market Excellence
Infosys, a global leader in technology services & consulting, is recognized with the PowerUp Partner Award for Global Go-to-Market Excellence. Infosys's domain expertise and deep customer relationships were key success factors behind the large number of projects they supported across the globe–notably in the United Arab Emirates, Australia and United States. Infosys is expert in using Software AG's Digital Business Platform to help businesses digitalize mission-critical services. In addition, Infosys offers Software AG's Alfabet IT Portfolio Management as a service to any industry.
The other finalists for Global Go-to-Market Excellence were Cognizant and HCL Technologies.
Deutsche Telekom: PowerUp Partner Award for Solution Excellence
Deutsche Telekom, one of the world's leading telecommunications companies, is recognized for building Internet of Things (IoT) solutions on top of Software AG's Digital Business Platform and aggressively taking the solution to market. As the cornerstone of its Machine-to-Machine (M2M) / IoT solutions and services for enterprises, Deutsche Telekom now offers their own branded "Cloud of Things" IoT Platform—powered by Software AG's Cumulocity IoT,. As one of Software AG's first partners to leverage Cumulocity IoT, Deutsche Telekom's "Cloud of Things" is already used by leading companies in Europe.
The other finalists for Solution Excellence were CapGemini and Savangard.
HCL Technologies: PowerUp Partner Award for Customer Excellence
HCL Technologies, a multinational IT services company, is recognized for providing exceptional value to our mutual customers by delivering Digital Transformation projects. As the digital transformation partner of a leading global mobile services company, HCL successfully designed and delivered a 21st century Supply Chain Management (SCM) platform on Software AG's Digital Business Platform. The platform serves more than 40,000 retailers. HCL's unique expertise and success helped positioning Software AG as a strategic partner of the customer.
The other finalists for Customer Excellence were CloudGen and Cognizant.
Visual Enterprise Architecture: PowerUp Partner Award for Market Excellence
Visual Enterprise Architecture (VEA), a North American strategic consultancy focused on business process performance, enterprise architecture, and IT portfolio management, is recognized with the PowerUp Partner Award for Market Excellence. A Software AG partner for 18 years, VEA is committed to providing strategic services and solutions to optimize business processes, align IT landscapes to business needs, and manage IT portfolios so, the right decisions and plans are made to ensure IT will support the business of the future. Thanks to their domain expertise on Software AG solutions—especially ARIS for Business Process Analysis (BPA) and Alfabet for both IT Portfolio Management (ITPM) and Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) — VEA has built a strong market relevance with tremendous customer successes.
The other finalists for Market Excellence were Ferrologic and Scheer Group.
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You want to go to college but you are very busy and about the only time you have open is late at night. A very popular choice for you would be an online course of study.
Online courses alleviate the need to meet in a classroom or to pay for items such as books. There are many advantages to "attending" college on the internet.
Cost savings add up quickly. Tuition is usually lower than a normal college course. Attending from home means you do not burn gas in your car. A busy person does not even have to leave work to take a course if they choose. Materials are accessible via computer. This means no books to buy as well as other course materials.
The option to study in the wee hours of the night is a great benefit. This is especially true for a person with a full time work schedule. It is easy to study in many locations as long as you are able to hook up to the internet. Take your lap top to the local coffee shop and go to college.
You do not have to interact with other students and can wear whatever you want with no fear of being made fun of for that unfashionable mullet of yours. You can concentrate on being in the class and not the social pressures of being with other students.
In the past, you had to take time off of a job or quit one to attend college. This is not the case with online study.
You keep up with your usual job, most employers will let you take time off to do course study online and will work with you. Some employers actively encourage their students to further their education online.
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text: Yesterday, NPR had an interview with the legendary Canadian sex expert Sue Johanson about sex ed for teenagers as well as changes in sexual appetites in the general population. Sue noted that abstinence-only educations are pointless since "every single sex educator does emphasize abstinence" and she emphasized waiting until you can plan (i.e., get birth control) sex with your partner and be comfortable with your body. She also noted that "Anybody who's old enough to ovulate, to menstruate, to be involved in a sexual relationship is old enough for effective birth control and pulling out is not a method of birth control." Sue added that that teens will always be exposed to sex (with or without their parents' or educators' influence) through music and (gasp!) women's magazines. It appears Sue has no qualms about talking about sex with young people, but what sexual act "scares" her the most? Anal sex, which she says women should be "fearful" about. [NPR]


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There were many times when Juan Perez could have allowed the slights and injustices he faced growing up in Plumley Village to get the better of him.
There was the time, for example, when they closed the Boys & Girls Club at Lincoln Square, leaving a host of Plumley Village young people with limited options, if they couldn't get to the Ionic Avenue facility.
There was the day in 1991, when he was one of 32 young people arrested in front of the former Worcester Courthouse and charged with loitering, disturbing the peace and being a public nuisance. The city, while not offering much then for young adults like Mr. Perez, wasn't comfortable with them hanging out, particularly in the downtown area.
Then there was the time in 1994 when Mr. Perez, then a student at Quinsigamond Community College, stopped on a street one evening to use a public telephone.
"I knew as soon as I saw the cruiser slow down I was in trouble," he recounted that year to a reporter. "He put the light in my face and told me to hang up. I said it wasn't a crime to be using the phone to be talking to my girl. He said hang up or I was going to jail."
There were other experiences that tested Mr. Perez's tranquility, but there were other forces more powerful in this life that kept him on the straight and narrow, forces that prepared him for the leadership role he now has in the lives of hundreds of other young people.
He is the assistant director of the Carnegie Boys & Girls Club, the flagship of the Western Pennsylvania family of Boys & Girls clubs. He was formerly the executive director of the Walnut Avenue Boys & Girls Club in Duquesne, Pa.
"I had the support of adults, who were willing to work in partnership with young people," Mr. Perez said of his formative years in Worcester, mentioning Lynne Simonds, the first executive director of the Worcester Youth Center, and Anne Moriarty, a former director of program development at Plumley Village.
Under Ms. Moriarty's tutelage, Mr. Perez ran a number of youth programs for Plumley Village residents, and was one of a number of young people who worked with Ms. Simonds to create the Youth Center.
Mr. Perez, in fact, credits the Youth Center, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary, for "saving my life and making me the man I am today."
"I have stayed in touch with almost all of the young people who formed the center and they have all gone on to work in the youth development field," he said.
But he was also a beneficiary of the city's Summer Youth Employment Program, which provided participants opportunities to earn post-secondary education scholarships. Mr. Perez won a $1,000 scholarship one year, after running a program for 5- to 12-year-olds at Plumley Village.
And his leadership skills were recognized and celebrated by the Hispanics Striving for Excellence Committee, which would annually reward young people for their achievements in academics, the arts, leadership, athletics and community service.
He had successfully worked with the Ionic Ave Boys & Girls Club to open a satellite program at Plumley Village when he applied for the Walnut Avenue Boys & Girls Club job. He wasn't at all worried that his humble position at Plumley Village might not be a strong enough foundation for applying for the Pennsylvania executive position.
"We were put through such an extensive training regimen," he said of the Worcester adults and programs that helped him make his way in the world.
"Having been to New York and Pittsburgh, I can say I have not seen young people prepared for success as much as they prepared us."
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The in|situ| project develops novel interaction techniques as well as new tools to develop these techniques, and new methods to control the design process of interactive systems. The goal is to develop situated interfaces, i.e. interfaces that are adapted (or adaptable) to their contexts of use by taking advantage of the complementary aspects of humans and computers.
In the long run, the project seeks to create a new generation of interactive environments as an alternative to the current generation of desktop environments.
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The month of May has come to an end, and I am very happy I have participated in the Newbie Blogger Initiative as a newbie blog. My blog might be a little "old" but I am not an experienced blogger, and it was fun to post again more regularly and with lots of inspiration.
I also loved to meet new blogs and people. I will highlight three of them as requested by Ambermist's challenge:
I am not sure if this is the author's objective, but I really like his sense of humor and the way he writes, going on about something, then taking a turn somewhere else but being able to come back. Sure keeps me entertained.
Love the diversity on subjects and the easy to read design. This place doesn't help me and the way I'm avoiding to get Diablo 3 before I finish my other games.
The author is able to create long yet "not lost" posts, and as a "newbie", it is impressive. Not many can write long posts and keep me reading.
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Thank you Ambermist for all the challenges. It kept me both thinking and visiting different blogs, it was a ton of fun and inspiring!
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Choctaw Transportation Company, Inc., a marine construction and transportation company located in Dyersburg, Tenn., will pay $75,000 to an African-American job applicant to settle a racial discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.
In its lawsuit, the EEOC charged that the company violated federal law by refusing to hire a black job applicant for a deckhand position because of his race. The EEOC charged that Choctaw has for decades segregated its work force and has refused to hire blacks in deckhand positions. The EEOC further charged that Choctaw violated the record-keeping provision of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) when it failed to properly maintain medical and personnel records.
Race discrimination in hiring violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The EEOC filed suit, No. 1:10-cv-01248-JDB-egb, in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee, Eastern Division, after first attempting to settle the matter through its conciliation process.
In addition to monetary relief, the three-year consent decree settling the lawsuit enjoins Choctaw Transportation from further discriminating against blacks in hiring and requires it to use its best efforts to fill up to 25% of available positions with African-Americans. The consent decree further provides for training both on and off its vessels on employee rights under Title VII, and requires Choctaw Transportation to maintain records of discrimination complaints, provide annual reports to the EEOC, and post a notice to employees about the lawsuit that includes the EEOC's contact information.
"Employees should not be subjected to racial discrimination in hiring, as it is a violation of federal law," said Faye Williams, Regional Attorney for the EEOC's Memphis District Office. "The EEOC will continue to ensure that such barriers to employment are removed."
According to company information, Choctaw Transportation operates a marine construction and transportation company that works, in part, with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the marine/barge industry.
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about the EEOC is available on its web site at www.eeoc.gov..


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HOLING OUT: 803.13Starting in 2011, a player will not have to remove the disc to complete the process of holing out which was required under current rules. Once the group has decided the disc has come to rest, the player has holed out.
Several target related terms have been officially defined and added to the Definitions section 800 in support of the Holing Out rule. Definitions for Basket Target, Tray, Chains, Chain Support and Pole have been added.
Groups will now be responsible to make judgment calls on how discs enter the basket. Discs that attempt to enter or actually get all the way into the chains or basket thru the top of the chain support or thru the side or bottom of the basket now will not count if the group or official sees that happen. This means wedgies, most which wedge from the outside, now will not count unless it was a blind shot where no one saw how the disc wedged. Putts that are observed to properly enter the basket from above the rim and then wedge trying to get out will count as holed out like before.
These changes for holing out mean calls for the "putting tree" photo shown below that was in the Rules School story on Interference need to be updated. Under the old rules, only the yellow disc would not have been considered holed out when the player removed it. Under 2011 rules, the white and red discs are holed out (IN). The yellow disc as before and the orange disc hanging on the nub outside the basket are NOT IN. The orange disc balancing on the rim, which used to be considered IN, is now considered OUT in the 2011 rules because the disc is not entirely supported by the pole, inner wall or bottom of the basket. The orange wedgie is now NOT IN if the group observed it wedge from the outside. If the group did not see it or watched it clear the top basket wire then wedge on the way out, it is IN.


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Whether you've come to share a bottle and a gossip with friends, celebrate with a pint, or enjoy a family lunch, we'll fill your glass with something delicious.
With a huge range of alcoholic and soft drinks at Ember Inns in [town], we've got a tipple for everyone, whatever your occasion and whatever your drink of choice. Our carefully sourced range of cask ales are always served with our Perfect Pint Guarantee. If you love wine as much as us, we have a fantastic list of fruity reds, crisp whites and refreshing rosés too.
If gin's your thing, our Gin Palace might be more your cup of tea. At Ember Inns The Selly Park Tavern in [town], have a selection of traditional and modern gins, including Tanqueray 10 and Hendricks, perfect for amping up your G&T. If the sun is shining, make sure you try one of our new gin cocktails; the Raspberry Gin Spritz or Sevilla Spritz are just another delicious way to enjoy our national spirit! Whatever you do, make sure you check out our cocktail menu.
Looking for a drink that's a little softer to enjoy at your local Ember Inns in Birmingham? We have lots of juices and sodas, plus some great non-alcoholic versions of your favourite drinks, such as Old Mout cider and The Bees Knees 0%.
Add some sparkle to your weekend with bottles of fizz from £10 at Fizz Club on Friday and Saturday from 5pm. Or, make the weekend last a little longer with all wines just £10 in our Ember Inns The Selly Park Tavern Sunday Wine Club. Get yourself down to your local Birmingham pub to enjoy some of our favourite drinks.
Ember Inns are real ale pubs and proud of it – we even have our very own Ember Inns Pale Ale. It's a top-quality cask ale that's well balanced, with a crisp bitter finish, and we even use it to make our Steak & Ember Inns Pale Ale Pie and in the batter for our fish and chips.
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|Acer Extensa 5230
|Intel® Celeron 575, 2Ghz, 1MB Cache
|15.4" WXGA Widescreen non-glare
|Up to 4GB
|Up to 160GB
|Optical Drive
|Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD
|Ethernet, Acer InviLink™ 802.11b/g/n
|Changing brightness and turning the screen off work. Didn't try VGA-port yet
|Worked for some weeks, nowadays i sometimes get errors like "SATA revalidation failed errno=-5", appending "rootdelay=90" to the kernel-line in /boot/grub/menu.lst helps
|Optical Drive
|reading & burning
|1280×800, compiz & Fullscreen video with vlc works, 3D works
|Speakers, built-in-microphone and head-phone-jack work, didn't try the rest yet
|gigabit LAN works, 23MB/sec with FTP
|Works in Ubuntu 8.10 with driver ath9k and wext for wpa_supplicant
|56K Modem
|Not Tested
|mouse, keyboard, webcam, usb-hdd, …
|Card Reader
|4GB SDHC works (dmesg sounds like only SD-cards work)
|ExpressCard Slot
|Not Tested, but found by kernel in dmesg
|Not Tested
Tested with ubuntu 8.10 and modules acer_wmi & i915:
* Some of the special buttons work (screen brightness, volume, mail, home, … ) some not.
* Standby and "Suspend to disk" work. "Pressing the power button" and "closing the lid" is properly detected and configurable.
* the fan runs only seldom, quite laptop, goooood!
* touchpad works, also scrolling pages by moving the finger on the right side. tipping the pad works as a click.
* mine has a bluetooth-button but the chip is missing. acer says it's a built-option, not all models have it.
*Works with preinstalled Linpus Linux. Owner Icq:438-710-754
*works with ubuntu 8.10 except some 3d-stuff
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Bought mine about 3 years ago. Immediately re installed with Open SuSE 11.1. Only thing not working was Bluetooth and the extra keyboard keys. Also the card reader only works with SD cards and Skype can't seem to access the microphone. Everything else works fine.
Have recently re installed with Open SuSE 12.1 and it works with no problem. Even the microphones now work with Skype. Would be nice to have the extra keys working, but that is such a minor issue it's hardly worth mentioning.
Hello…can someone help me how to activate or use the bluetooth connection of my Acer Extensa 5230..i really have no idea. Thanks a lot.
to flash the bios without a windows installation:
1. download the new bios from acer (i used 1.28), unzip and burn to a CD
2. download the "ultimate bood cd" and burn to a CD
3. boot, choose "grub4dos", otherwise there will be an error like "invalid opcode at …" when booting freedos
4. choose "freedos"
5. choose the cd-rom drivers and a keyboard-driver for your language, no USB (didn't work for me)
6. choose "exit", now you are on the dos-prompt
7. change the CD to the one with the BIOS, drive T: is the CD-ROM, drive Q: the ram-drive
8. now directly flashing from CD doesn't work because the util can't make a backup of the old bios, gives error "BIOS ROM file may be corrupt (checksum not zero)" (which should rather be "can't write file to disk". one may choose to ignore that but at flashing a BIOS i prefer everything to be perfect, to rule out a broken ROM-chip for example
9. so use "XCOPY /S T:/BIOS Q:" to copy all files to the ram-disk, there the backup can be written and checked.
10. q:
11. bios.bat
now everything should go fine and end in a green screen.
hint: it's possible to upgrade the CPU to a core 2 duo. look out for socket P and no more than 35W TDP, f.e. T7250.
I just got this laptop for Christmas, and so far I'm loving it. First thing I did when I got it (after taking two minutes to register it) was install Kubuntu Karmic and wipe Vista off the harddrive; I have no use for it. Wifi has been good, speakers and video are better than my previous breaking-down Dell, very fast…I haven't tested the mic yet, and I've never had a webcam before so I've no idea how to use it or if it works…but what I'd really like to know is how to set up those special hotkeys. Overall, very satisfied with this machine so far.
j'ai acheté cet ordi avec vista que je n'ai jamais démarré je suis parti avec un cd ubuntu 9.04 et j'ai viré windows !
là je suis avec ubuntu9.10 et le portable arrive à s'éteindre car il chauffe plus sinon ca va
I have Acer Extensa 5230, first it prompted me with a passward that I have never put in. I pressed F2 and reset the setup to default. When I restarded it propmpted me a choice of starting windows in normal or safe mode. No matter what I press I go in an endless loop. Can someone help me !!
just installed Ubuntu 09.04 on Extensa 5230.
i cannot load the ttf-mscorefronts-installer. And Firefox does not work properly: I cannot go back to the previous webpage by using the arrow button. Als when starting firefox it says that there was a problem when closing firefox and I am asked whether I want to start a new session or to restore the previous one.
except for this, it seems to be working fine. can anyone help me out here with firefox?
Sorry,for my Bad English Skills…
Touchpad works,if not use the Keys Fn+F7
WIFI works,if not use the Keys Fn+F5
I guess everything works on this "lowcost" Notebook.For me it cost 329.-€ with a 15" "not-mirroring" Display.No more to say…
Don't stuck with Configuration,it could be a simple thing if Debian is not running
Debian Gnu/Linux on the Acer Extensa 5230-571G16 (LX.EBA0C.010) Linux:
So,I fixed it a little bit…
Processor Genuine Intel 2.00 Ghz!
Screen Yes Changing brightness and turning the screen off work. Didn't try
VGA-port yet!
HDD Yes 160 GB-Works!
Optical Drive Yes Burning DCs & DVDs (Data,Musik & .iso) WORKS!
Graphics Yes 1280×800, compiz & Fullscreen video with vlc works, 3D works
with no in google-earth!
Sound Yes Speakers, built-in-microphone and head-phone-jack works!
Ethernet Yes gigabit LAN works!
Wireless Yes Works in Debian 5.0.1.!You don't need Ubuntu or Mint Linux 6
or 7,but a Linux Driver for the Atheros WLAN Chip!
56K Modem Not Tested!No need in that anymore…
USB Yes USB Data-Sticks and Bluetooth Sticks Works!
Card Reader Yes SD-Cards Work!
ExpressCard Slot Not Tested!
PCMCIA Not Tested
Camera n.a.
You need the following tools/packages to make it work with Debian 5.0.1 (Lenny):
This is just a little list of the "helping" tools You need…if You are more interested,write a Mail to: firstname.lastname@example.com and You will get a full information (in German!) how to fix the Aver with Debian 5.0.1…
For me, everything works:
Zattoo-Watch IP TV
Burning DVD & CD ROM (.iso,Media,Music etc.)
Adobe Flash Plaer
Adobe Reader
SD Card Slot for my Digital Camera
Games like Doom 3,Alien Arena,Open Arena,Glest,Torcs,Planet Penguin Racer,Tuxcart,Chromium B.S.U….all that 3D Stuff!
X-Chat IRC
Elisa Media Center
and many,many more…to much to list here!
Don't give up and let unstable Linux Distributions make the way like Ubuntu or Mint.Stay with Debian
I have installed Windows XP and Linux Mint(based on Ubuntu) on Acer Extensa 5230 and I am very pleased! First, you have to change the HDD SATA mode from AHCI to IDE. Otherwise you will have errors with your windows installation. Then, I repartitioned the HDD with PQMagic (from Hiren's Boot Disk), some partitions for windows and some (swap and ext3) for linux. After installing windows, I have installed Linux Mint (Ubuntu based) with Grub as boot-loader, which gives me the posibility to choose which OS I want at boot. Linux Mint recognizes all the drivers, including wireless, bluetooth, webcam etc. Windows XP drivers are here: ftp://ftp.work.acer-euro.com/notebook/
Finally got PCLinuxOS to dual boot with Vista by burning a new CD with the latest (PCLOS 2009) Gnome .iso file. However, on a subsequent PCLinuxOS update it borked the separate Acer security partition that contains the Vista OS and allows you to burn a DVD security backup of your Vista system. Result is that I won't be able to reinstall Vista should it ever fail. Acer will supply new Acer Security image files at a (considerable) cost, so I am taking my chances and am not bothering with the Acer facility. Fingers crossed, Vista works well on dual boot at the moment. Acer tech support seems very quick and helpful.
The built-in wireless doesn't work with PCLOS, but I already had a a Belkin Wireless G Notebook Network PCMCIA Card, which works very well without ndiswrapper.
I've not had any HDD problems as described in the main section above. This laptop is being used for very basic computing (email & net surfing) and works very well in that mode, but I am unlikely to test many of its facilities.
Acer Extensa 5230 laptop: trying to dual boot with Vista. Deleted all the bloatware from Vista, defragged disk. Then I tried to use my Gparted live CD to create my Linux partitions, but it failed. So then I used Vista to "shrink" a partition to leave some unused space, and it seemed to work OK.
I then installed PCLOS using PCLOS-Gnome2.21.2.iso into the unused space - no problems - recognised my wifi, install looked fine, BUT it freezes during the reboot just after "Setting clock [ OK ]"; tried a Zen install, same thing happens.
After checking the messages in PCLinux forum, I used the live-CD to edit as root the /mnt/etc/fstab file, where all the partitions are shown as "sda" - changed them all to "hda", rebooted, but still same problem. My Filesystem is showing my two partitions as sda5 (/) and sda7 (home). If I try to reinstall right after changing fstab, I still see the partitions designated as "sda5" and "sda7".
Changed BIOS SATA to "IDE" - still freezes.
Perfect Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS 'Hardy Heron' installation.
See this link for simple tip to use backports to get the wireless lan working.
ok I found the solution if somebody have the same problem ….. in bios you have to change the hdd sata mode from AHCI in IDE and then it work. you can install eny OS you need
I have the same problem with this prodact I can not instal xp an it and I can't use limpus linux it give me some strange error
I bought this computer for I have no problem in the definition of the Bluetooth device is not Allowaer I tried with all definitions Is there a solution to this problem


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Boston school officials are expected to unveil five proposals Monday night for allowing students to attend schools closer to their homes, a move that potentially could end four decades of cross-city busing.
The proposals have been months in the making, and hundreds of parents and other interested parties are expected to turn out for a 6 p.m. presentation at the Lilla G. Frederick Pilot Middle School in Dorchester, the first in a series of public meetings where emotions could run high.
Details of the five student-assignment proposals were being kept secret until the Monday presentation; school officials last week spoke of the plans only in broad outline.
But Mayor Thomas M. Menino, who has tried unsuccessfully for more than a decade to change the assignment system, has promised that by this January the School Committee will have adopted a new system that is "radically different" from the current one.
The earliest any changes would go into effect would be for fall 2014.
"I'm confident there will be change," Superintendent Carol R. Johnson said Friday. "I'm not sure which model people will choose. We are not walking into the meeting saying this is our number-one option."
An advisory committee appointed by the mayor will sort through the five proposals, which will be presented to that committee Monday night. That panel will then suggest any alterations to the proposals before making a final recommendation to the School Committee, which is scheduled to vote on it in December.
Change is welcomed by some parents who are eager to see a return to neighborhood schools or something akin to it; Menino and school officials say the new system will still offer parents some choice in where to send their children to school.
But some parents and education advocates are skeptical that all students can get a good education at schools in their neighborhoods, even if they can pick from several schools. They point out that the city's poorest neighborhoods tend to have the largest concentration of low-achieving schools, a situation the School Department has been trying to remedy.
"This could affect many generations to come, and we have to make sure we do it right," said Kim Janey, senior project director for Massachusetts Advocates for Children, a Boston nonprofit. "We have to ensure there is equal access to high-quality schools."
The current system — enacted in 1989 to replace a court-ordered forced-busing plan to desegregate the city's schools — has long been criticized as cumbersome and confusing.
Under the system, the city is divided into three sprawling geographic regions, each providing a choice of about two dozen schools. But admission to a particular school is not guaranteed. A computerized algorithm sorts through applications, giving preference to students who live within walking distance to the school or who already have a sibling enrolled.
Each year, hundreds of families have their dreams dashed when they do not get a school they want.
The system applies only to elementary, middle, and K-8 schools. All high schools are citywide. Under the proposed changes, the three zones would disappear, while the high schools would remain citywide.
Johnson said Friday that four of the proposed models to be presented would have more than three zones and that the fifth model would have no zones. She did not specify how the no-zone proposal would work, but some parents and advocates have suggested adopting a system that simply allows students to pick any school within a certain distance of their homes.
Presenting five models to the public represents the biggest public outreach effort since 2004 when the School Department examined changing the student assignment system and offered eight proposals.
The 2004 proposals ran the gamut from keeping the status quo to creating a citywide school-choice system. In between, there were proposals for four zones, six zones, and 12 zones — to name a few — and varying boundaries through different neighborhoods.
All of those proposals ultimately failed to gain support amid concerns about a lack of high-quality schools. But the process did lead to some changes, such as reserving more seats at schools for neighborhood children and creating more K-8 schools — an option popular with parents.
In early 2009, the School Department tried changing boundaries again, offering a five-zone plan that was developed with no public input. The proposal died within a few months, amid a public uproar that some of the city's poorest neighborhoods would be stuck with too many low-performing schools.
School officials say they believe they finally have overcome the concern over low-performing schools by overhauling programs and teaching instruction at many schools. They noted that more schools now have waiting lists.
But they acknowledge that more work needs to be done. Johnson said she is planning to target 21 schools for more aggressive interventions.
"We are always trying to make our schools, schools of choice for families in the city," she said.
Since March, an advisory committee appointed by Menino — consisting of more than 24 parents, academics, business professionals, and other community leaders — has immersed itself in data, research, and public outreach.
In hearing from more than 2,300 stakeholders, the committee has heard what many parents and others want out of a student-assignment system: strong academics and a safe environment close to home.
But priorities differ based on where parents live. Those in Jamaica Plain and Roxbury, for instance, tend to place a higher premium on safety over proximity; those in West Roxbury, East Boston, and Charlestown like neighborhood schools.
It is the same dynamic of opinion that the School Department confronted in 2004 when it sought input from about 750 parents, community activists, and other interested parties.
"There is no way every neighborhood and every family will have quality choices" in 2014 if the School Committee adopts a plan for smaller assignment zones, said Mary Battenfeld, a Jamaica Plain mother of three children. "I think we need more investment in quality schools across the city."
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YOUNG HARRIS, Ga. – The Georgia College baseball squad (25-15, 12-10 PBC) fell victim to a walk-off two-run home run to drop a 6-5 game to Young Harris College (20-19, 8-16 PBC) Saturday.
The Bobcats led 5-4 heading into the bottom half of the ninth, thanks to a three-run eighth, highlighted by a Jeremy Donaldson (Winder, Ga.) two-run single. After two outs, Mountain Lion second baseman Mike Medori was hit by a pitch.
After Medori stole a base, rightfielder Trey Rogers hit a 2-2 pitch over the leftfield fence for the 6-5 win.
Bobcat junior Rob Hogenkamp (St. Louis) had an RBI single in that three-run eighth, finishing 2-for-5 with that RBI. Second baseman Ryan Sabalaskey (Carol Stream, Ill.) was the Bobcats' other multi-hit performer, going 2-for-6. Taylor Hinshaw (Winder, Ga.) added two RBI.
Bobcat reliever Jordan Brooks (Macon, Ga.) fell to 2-2 with the loss. YHC reliever James Mills (3-3) tossed 1 1/3 innings to get the win. First baseman Dom Wyshinski was the hitting star for the Lions, going 4-for-4 with a home run, two RBI and a run.
The Bobcats are back in action tomorrow, April 21 at 1 p.m. with a doubleheader, needing to win both to take the Peach Belt Conference (PBC) series from Young Harris.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 11 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/BobcatSports and www.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


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How Neutral Can Kazakh-Language Wikipedians Be?
from the telling-it-as-it-is dept
Although there has been some sniping about the quality of Wikipedia's entries from time to time, we generally take it for granted that when key articles are missing they will get written, and that if they are unbalanced, they will gradually get better -- all thanks to the open, collaborative editing process that sorts out such problems. But an interesting post on registan.net notes that these dynamics may not apply to some versions of Wikipedia -- for example, the one written in the Kazakh language:
I also find the idea that thousands of diligent volunteer Kazakh Wikipedians are hard at work writing up an unbiased encyclopedia of the world and of their country [hard to believe]. The incentives for it are all wrong. The rewards for glowing diatribes on [Kazakhstan's President] Nazarbayev's Kazakhstan are clear, but the risks involved in challenging that narrative are equally so.
It's an important point. Wikipedia may request a "neutral point of view" from all its contributors, but when the consequences of telling the unvarnished truth are rather less pleasant than embellishing the facts a little, we can hardly blame people in countries like Kazakhstan for straying from the Wikipedian ideal.
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I Got Your Back, PA
An Open Letter to the Internet from the Residents of Southern Pennsylvania
Dear Internet,
What did we ever do to you?
We are a region of good, decent, hard-working Americans and prized rutabaga growers* who always try to do right by our fellow man.
And how do you repay us? By staging protests! By telling the government to shelve us! By blocking our favorite cute cat picture websites with big "STOP SOPA" signs!
It's enough to make us think you don't like the area with the world's most colorful collection of soap shavings.*
Motto*: "It's good clean fun!"
Did you know your underwear was probably made with cotton from OUR* cotton fields?
And did you know that our official* tri-county* flower*, the Dryerious Lintitude*, has been hailed* by the scientific community* as a "marvel of nature?"*
That's right: a MARVEL OF NATURE*. Just try and stop THAT, internet.
Look, we SOPA residents are reasonable people. We don't want to hold a grudge over some obvious misunderstanding - and already you've given us a hip new acronym for next year's tourism brochures!
So what do you say we start fresh? We'll forget this whole "down with SOPA" business, and YOU can come visit the birthplace of Hannah Montana*!
It's a win-win!
*Sorry, Wikipedia was down yesterday.
Thanks to Michael S., Justin D., Anna D., & Karyn D. for helping me drag out a joke for five whole wrecks. Next I'll be writing** a letter on behalf of People In Pennsylvania - stay tuned!
**Just kidding. I'll make John do it.


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Horizontal card, size 7"x 5" with a top fold. Printed on 12 point Productolith cover stock with a gloss aqueous coating by an FSC certified printer. Price per card includes size A7 white envelopes, also manufactured on recycled stock. Inside verse is pre-printed in black as indicated and cannot be changed. Made in the USA.
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Since lately I have had difficulty being focused in my genealogy research, I thought the following gravestone might be appropriate!
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Boondall Wetlands lies on the edge of Moreton Bay between Nudgee Beach, Boondall and Shorncliffe and includes more than 1,000 hectares of tidal flats, mangroves, saltmarshes, melaleuca wetlands, grasslands, open forests and woodlands.
The Indigenous Australians have lived at Boondall Wetlands for a long time and continue to have links with this land. The Nurri Millen art totems in the wetlands celebrate this culture.
Boondall Wetlands has a diversity of wildlife. Mammals that live there include flying foxes, bats, possums and squirrel gliders. There are also a variety of frogs, reptiles and butterflies to be found within the reserve. An amazing variety of birdlife can also be found throughout the diverse vegetation types including mistletoe birds, tawny frogmouths, eastern curlews, kingfishers, rainbow bee-eaters, grass owls and wrens. At low tide, shorebirds feed on the mudflats. Cormorants, darters, egrets, ibis and herons can be seen year round.
The Boondall Wetlands Environment Centre offers a range of displays and activities on the environmental and cultural heritage of the reserve for park visitors and organised groups.
A track map brochure for Boondall Wetlands Reserve can be obtained from the Brisbane City Council Contact Centre.