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Pixels or Perish
By Brian Hayes
The art of scientific illustration will have to adapt to the new age of online publishing
The art of scientific illustration will have to adapt to the new age of online publishing
Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches, geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story. And, on top of all that, they are ornaments; they entice and intrigue and sometimes delight. A magazine like American Scientist would be impoverished without them.
Methods for producing scientific illustrations—and for reproducing them in publications—have been changing. Printing plates for figures were once engraved by hand, then made by a photographic process, and in recent years have been created by digital techniques. Now we are about to turn the page—if not close the book—on yet another chapter in publishing history. After centuries of reading and writing on paper, we seem to be headed for a world where most documents will be distributed online and viewed on a display screen of some kind. How will this transition to a new medium affect the practice of scientific illustration?
Print publishing has a centuries-long tradition and a rich culture. Generations of illustrators have developed technical knowledge, artistic sensibility and a highly refined toolkit. There's a huge body of existing work to serve as example and inspiration. In digital publishing, this kind of intellectual infrastructure is only beginning to emerge.
Yet the new computational media offer new opportunities for the exercise of creativity, especially in quantitative graphics, where illustrations are closely tied to data or mathematical functions. On the computer screen, graphs and diagrams can become animated or interactive, inviting the reader or viewer to become an explorer. I find this prospect exciting. But I'm also mindful that we don't yet have deep experience with the new graphical methods.
I offer the illustration below—along with the corresponding digital version further below—as a case study. Population pyramids are a well-established tool in demography. In this case the pyramids show the age structure of the global human population over a 150-year period, according to estimates and projections published by the United Nations.
Tracing change over time is the main point of the illustration, yet this is notoriously hard to do in a static picture. Snapshots at 50-year intervals give some sense of the overall outcome: What begins as a pyramid evolves into an onion dome. But it's not so easy to see how and why the shape is changing. One thing that's not made explicit is how cohorts (groups of people born at about the same time) move upward through the age categories as time passes. Consider the bar at the base of the pyramid in 1950, which measures the number of people who were less than 5 years old in that year. The survivors of this group reappear in the 50-to-54-year-old bar in 2000, and a tiny sliver of centenarians remain in 2050. There's nothing in the structure of the diagram to remind you that those three bars represent the same people.
No doubt a clever illustrator could improve the graphs in ways that would more clearly convey the basic facts of life: that births affect only the bottommost bar, and deaths shape all the rest. Showing more intermediate stages would certainly help. However, space on the page is always at a premium in a printed magazine.
The interactive version of the same illustration suggests some of the possibilities of more-dynamic visual media. Instead of looking at preselected snapshots, you can move through time, forward or backward, and watch the pyramid change shape as a result of births and deaths. Animated transitions emphasize the continuity of the human population, as cohorts migrate through the decades. With higher temporal resolution (5 years per step, rather than 50), it's easier to spot noteworthy moments of transition. For example, it appears there was a sharp drop in worldwide fertility in about 1990; that's when the sides of the pyramid grow noticeably steeper. And another landmark comes in about 2050, when each successive group of 0-to-4-year-olds ceases to be larger than the preceding cohort, so that the base of the "pyramid" becomes pinched. (Note: I am deeply interested in these demographic trends, but my aim here is to discuss the effectiveness of graphic presentations, not to debate the meaning or validity of the data.)
Interactive gadgets like the Web version of the population pyramid tend to be put in a category apart from the illustrations that appear on the pages of a magazine or journal. They are classified as supplemental material, or maybe educational software, and are not seen as an integral part of the publication itself. Years ago, many publishers segregated photographs and certain other kinds of illustrations in an analogous way. They were printed on special paper and bound in a separate section of "plates." That practice ended with improvements in printing technology. Likewise, when publications are distributed over the network and read on a computer screen, active graphics can be integrated into a document in the same way that ordinary photographs and drawings are. There's no reason to keep them out of the mainstream.
What do we stand to gain in going from paper to pixels? Animation—adding a time axis to a graphic—is the most obvious possibility, but there are many other ways to exploit the power of computation. For one thing, we are liberated from the fixed size of the printed page. Computer displays also have bounds, but when a figure is too large to fit, we can roam about in it by scrolling or by "panning and zooming." (Think of Google Maps.) When a diagram is too intricate for the reader to see all details clearly, we can offer tools to magnify selected regions. In a cluttered graph, we can highlight and label data points when the reader selects them, or else hide distracting features from view. We can offer the reader options, such as changing the scales of a graph from linear to logarithmic, or choosing a subset of the data. Three-dimensional graphics are easier to understand in a medium where the reader can rotate a diagram or change the point of view.
Of course good old-fashioned paper also has advantages, starting with the fact that everyone knows how to use it. No one needs an instruction manual for reading a magazine. No one needs any special hardware or software, either. Authors and publishers can be reasonably certain that all readers will see the same words and pictures; there's no need to worry that Internet Explorer will show one thing and Firefox another. And the printed page still offers a level of resolution and typographic refinement that cannot be matched on the electronic display screen.
At a deeper level, the producers and consumers of printed graphics have had many decades to develop conventions about various graphic devices and what they mean. For example, arrows are variously used to show the flow of material or time or interconnections between parts. Line graphs and bar charts have an elaborate semantics that is not obvious but is widely understood. Much of this knowledge and lore will transfer directly to new computational media, but we'll doubtless also need some new graphic metaphors, and it may take time for them to emerge.
Scientists make pictures for many purposes. Doodles and sketches in a lab notebook might serve a strictly private function; many graphs and charts are created in a process of exploratory data analysis, and are soon discarded. Here I want to focus on more formal illustrations—those destined for publication, perhaps in a journal or an American Scientist article, perhaps in a textbook or on an educational website. And because my interests are computational, I'm going to emphasize quantitative graphics.
Any account of publication-quality computer graphics has to begin with PostScript, the "page description language" developed in the 1970s and 1980s by John Warnock and Charles Geschke, the founders of Adobe Systems. Warnock and Geschke are computer scientists, but they worked closely with graphic artists, typographers and the printing trade, and the language reflects this influence.
PostScript is primarily a language for "vector" graphics, where objects are constructed from geometric lines and curves, rather than "raster" graphics, where an image is a rectangular array of discrete pixels. PostScript operators with names such as moveto, lineto and curveto construct a path in a two-dimensional coordinate system of almost unlimited precision, so that the geometry of the drawing is independent of the resolution of the output device. Paths can be built from straight line segments or from curves called Bézier splines, defined by cubic equations. The operators stroke and fill can then be applied to create a visible graphic object. Some aspects of the language seem almost comically fastidious, such as the elaborate specifications of beveled, mitered or rounded joints between stroked lines; but it turns out such fussiness makes a real contribution to the visual quality of the finished artwork.
PostScript has another distinctive property: It is not just a notation for describing drawings but a complete programming language, with features such as conditional expressions, iteration and named procedures. In this way PostScript blurs the distinction between drawing a picture and writing a program.
An illustration published in American Scientist in 1990 offers an example. Robert V. Levine of California State University, Fresno, had written an article on "The Pace of Life," measuring quantities such as walking and talking speed in 36 cities. As an aid to understanding this multivariable data, I experimented with a visualization technique invented by Herman Chernoff of Stanford University. The illustration mapped Levine's measurements to various features of a cartoon face. The PostScript file that generated this figure did not specify the coordinates of the various lines, arcs and ellipses in each of the 36 faces; instead, it had a single face-drawing procedure, which was invoked 36 times on 36 rows of raw data. Thus the illustration didn't exist, even as an internal data structure, until the program was run.
In 1990 the only way I could run a PostScript program was to send it to a laser printer or a typesetting machine; I had no way to see output on the computer screen. (The debugging cycle consumed reams of paper.) Today we have PostScript interpreters for the screen, but the language remains closely tied to its ink-on-paper origins and is useless for any kind of active illustration, where objects move or respond to events. In PostScript, all art is still life.
A later variant called Display PostScript was meant to bring the same elegant and precise drawing model to interactive graphics, but it never caught on. What did gain traction was PDF, or Portable Document Format, which takes a step in the opposite direction, away from programmatic graphics. PDF is essentially "flattened" PostScript; it's what's left when you remove all the procedures and loops in a program, replacing them with sequences of simple drawing commands.
From the outset, PDF aspired to be virtual paper—to re-create on the computer screen the experience of reading a printed document. It succeeds brilliantly. Layout and typography are carefully preserved; you get everything but paper cuts and inky fingers. This is a laudable achievement, but I also see it as a sad waste of resources. When I read a PDF on my laptop, I'm using a powerful and versatile computing engine to imitate a mere sheet of paper. The machine could do much more.
One remedy for this situation would be to re-engineer PDFs to make fuller use of the available computing capacity. Many of the necessary facilities, such as scripting languages, are already present in the PDF specification; they're just not used much. That could change. In the meantime, though, lively ideas for active graphics and scientific visualization are coming from another direction—from the world of HTML, the language of the Web.
In some respects the Web is an unlikely source for innovations in high-quality graphics. It began as a text-only service, and when graphics were first introduced—through the <img> element of HTML—the only acceptable formats were raster images. Proposals for including vector graphics in Web pages were discussed all through the 1990s, and standards were drafted soon after. Nevertheless, vector formats have become a convenient and practical option for Web graphics only in the past few years.
In spite of this long struggle to bring drawing to the Web, the medium has attracted a community of talented programmers, designers and artists, who find it a friendly place for experimenting with new ideas and showing off the results. By its nature, the Web is a very open system, where anyone who can view a page can also see the code that created it.
We now have two widely supported schemes for drawing on Web pages. (Two is not necessarily better than one.) The <canvas> element of HTML is closely analogous to the <img> tag but accommodates vector graphics. Scalable Vector Graphics, or SVG, introduces an entire sublanguage similar in structure to HTML.
The <canvas> element, as the name suggests, is a blank rectangular surface for drawing on. It has a fixed size and can be placed anywhere in a document. The dimensions are measured in screen pixels, so this is not a device-independent graphics protocol; however, coordinates can be specified with precision finer than the pixel resolution. The JavaScript methods that draw shapes on the canvas include procedures named moveTo, lineTo, stroke and fill, with an explicit nod to the PostScript heritage. There are even the same options for line caps and joints.
SVG works a little differently. Instead of setting aside a rectangular region that isolates the drawing from other elements of the document, SVG incorporates the drawing commands into the same data structure (called the Document Object Model, or DOM) that holds all the HTML. Indeed, the SVG language is a close cousin of HTML, with a similar syntax based on tags enclosed in angle brackets. And, like HTML, SVG is a noun language; but the nouns are different, defining lines and curves rather than paragraphs, tables and lists.
Whereas drawing on a canvas is done procedurally—by invoking JavaScript functions—SVG drawing elements can be defined in a declarative manner, simply by listing their coordinates and properties, in much the same way that text is entered into an HTML file. This declarative style might suggest that an SVG drawing is a static object, defined in advance and never changing. But it is brought to life by JavaScript, which can inject new drawing elements, remove old ones, rearrange objects or alter their style attributes. JavaScript programs have access to the entire DOM, so operations on drawings use the same basic mechanisms as operations on text.
SVG also borrows heavily from PostScript (including the line caps and joints). And in this case the drawing space truly is device-independent and capable of very high precision. Anything displayed on the screen must ultimately be mapped to a finite number of pixels, but SVG drawings take maximum advantage of the available resolution, just as PostScript figures do.
The interactive version of the population pyramid that I discussed above is an SVG graphic—although, as it happens, I did not write a single line of SVG code when I created the illustration. All of the SVG structures are generated by an embedded JavaScript program, which reads in a data file and constructs the corresponding bars for male and female population. (The architecture is the same as that of the 1990 PostScript program that read a data file to generate Chernoff faces.)
The pyramid visualization is built on a JavaScript library called D3 (for "data-driven documents") described in a 2011 paper by Michael Bostock, Vadim Ogievetsky and Jeffrey Heer of Stanford University. (D3 is an open-source software project managed by Bostock, who is now with Square, Inc.)
At the heart of the D3 framework is a simple but general mechanism for creating or modifying elements of the DOM based on supplied data. For example, in the pyramid figure, the length of each bar is determined by an entry in a table that lists population by age, gender and year. When the year changes, each bar length is relinked to a different entry in the table. The updating of the display and the animated transitions are handled behind the scenes by the D3 library.
In designing my population pyramid I was inspired by several examples and tutorials on the D3 website (https://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki) and I borrowed snippets of code from them. There are at least two more population pyramids among the examples, and many other delightful tools and toys worth exploring.
The D3 project is one of many to come from a thriving creative community that works under the banner of info vis or data vis (with close connections to those who do stat vis and sci vis). Michael Friendly of York University in Toronto has described the present era as a new golden age in data visualization. The old golden age was the 19th century, when William Playfair, Florence Nightingale, Charles Minard and a few others perfected many of the graphic devices (pie charts, line graphs) that are now standard apparatus throughout the sciences. The modern revival has brought us new forms of quantitative graphics suited to an age when considerable computational power is available even in a Web browser.
I am enthusiastic about the prospects of the info-data-stat-sci-vis biz. It has the potential to make science communication at all levels—from schoolbooks to scholarly journals—more effective and more fun. But worrisome problems remain.
First, creating active graphics takes a lot of work—and a lot of wonk, too. If this is an art form only for JavaScript gurus, it will not spread widely. The impact will be greater when the ideas from a program such as D3 filter into software environments such as R and gnuplot, MATLAB and Mathematica, or even Powerpoint and Excel.
Second, the quality of graphic output is not yet up to the highest publication standards. One reason is simply the low resolution of most computer screens. This will doubtless change, but in the meantime we have to cope with issues such as the Heisenpixel problem (see illustration above).
Finally, there's the nagging anxiety about entrusting the literature of science to digital formats that are not directly accessible to the human senses. Will we still be able to see those fancy JavaScript graphics in 100 years? In 10 years? As a matter of fact, they don't work reliably even now unless you choose the right combination of hardware and software to view them.
Another question arises from the choice of graphic formats whose native environment is the Web. My hope is to see these new forms of illustration become enhancements to scientific publishing, but the Web is not where scientists publish. It is a major channel for distributing science publications, including the 1,000 journal titles at JSTOR, for example, or the 700,000 preprints at arxiv.org. But almost all of that material comes in the form of PDFs rather than HTML documents. It's available through the Web, not on the Web. Even the conference papers and journal articles that describe the D3 system are not HTML documents with D3 illustrations; they are PDFs with still images.
Why do authors and readers prefer PDFs for this kind of publication? One factor may be this: A PDF is something you possess. You download it from a server, give it a name, store it in a folder. It's yours; it stays put. A website built out of HTML has a different character. It's not a thing you own but a place you visit. You can't take it home with you—although perhaps you can send a postcard or keep a small souvenir in the form of a bookmark.
Perhaps someday, when all information lives in the cloud, readers will give up their acquisitive desire for thinginess in publications. If not, documents created in the HTML/SVG/JavaScript ecosystem are at a disadvantage, because they cannot readily be turned into self-contained packages for downloading and safekeeping.
For the purpose of getting those nifty D3 graphics into science publications, there would seem to be two plausible approaches. We could open up PDF to accept a wider range of graphics formats. I'm told this is technically feasible; the challenge is making PDF a more attractive working environment for the young programmers who come up with the cool new graphics tricks. It's worth noting that an active community works on embedding three-dimensional graphics in PDF, with impressive results.
The alternative is to seek a better way to encapsulate all the bits and pieces that constitute a Web application, so that it can be distributed in the same way as a PDF. Something resembling encapsulated HTML already exists; it's the basis of several file formats for electronic books.
In J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter books, newspapers for wizards are ink-on-paper publications, but the pictures on their pages spontaneously come to life. It's the best of both worlds—the familiar physical form of reading matter we've known since Gutenberg, but no longer lying still on the page. Out here in the land of Muggles we may never quite attain that kind of magic, but we could come remarkably close.
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STOCKTON - Students wearing orange and black packed The Lair on the second floor of the DeRosa University Center, eager to root for the Pacific men's basketball team.
STOCKTON - Students wearing orange and black packed The Lair on the second floor of the DeRosa University Center, eager to root for the Pacific men's basketball team.
Meanwhile, the lunchtime crowd was brisk at Valley Brew Family Restaurant just off the Miracle Mile in Stockton with folks watching the Tigers take on Miami in the NCAA Tournament.
Prior to the 11:10 a.m. tipoff Friday, the tables inside The Lair were fully occupied, and dozens more stood along the perimeter of the on-campus spot where Pacific students meet, eat and imbibe. Some had - gasp - cut class, while others spent part of their day off to watch the Tigers compete in the Big Dance on national television. The room was abuzz and full of energy. Could the 15th-seeded Tigers possibly beat second-seeded Miami and become the talk of the nation by pulling off the kind of upset March Madness is known for?
The answer was obvious early, as the Hurricanes blew away Pacific 78-49 in the second round of the East Region in Austin, Texas. But for many at The Lair and Valley Brew, just seeing Pacific advance to the tournament and appear on TNT was victory enough.
"I love seeing these guys on TV," said Pacific senior Robert Keene, a mechanical engineering major from Albuquerque, N.M. "It's fantastic."
Pacific students Michsyl Montalbo, Danielle Banning and Bonie Soriano watched the game at Valley Brew. Montalbo and Banning are communications majors and share a class with basketball players Lorenzo McCloud, Colin Beatty and Markus Duran. Soriano, a sports medicine major, is classmates with Pacific forward Tony Gill.
"I'm proud of them for making it this far," Montalbo said. "I'm excited we're on TV right now. That makes me so much more proud of my school."
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'Girls who Code' is a program that trains young women for jobs in so called STEM jobs-science, technology, engineering and math - fields where women continue to experience a gender gap. NBC's Janelle Richards reports.
By Janelle Richards, NBC News
NEW YORK -- School was out and summer had finally arrived, but instead of hanging out at the beach teenager Jocelyn Stevens was sitting in front of a computer, using a software program to design jewelry. With just a click of her mouse, Stevens created a ring and used a 3D printer to produce it.
Before taking part in the eight-week summer program Girls Who Code, 16-year-old Stevens said the only thing she knew about technology was how to play computer games.
She wanted to change that.
"I felt like this program would benefit me, and I felt like I would rather do something that would be benefit me, than not doing anything [this summer]," Stevens said.
Now, Stevens is familiar with mobile applications. Last week she worked with her team – three other girls in the program -- to create an app that shows parents where they can take their families around New York City.
"Somewhere in my future, not so far from now, I could see myself doing computer science," she said.
And that's exactly what Girls Who Code aims to do: develop a passion for technology among girls who have not had much exposure to the field.
Changing perceptions
The program was created by Reshma Saujani, a former deputy public advocate for New York City.
"I think that this world would look like a very different place if we had more female developers and coders and engineers and entrepreneurs," said Saujani. "Girls are so passionate about technology...it's simply not the case that they aren't interested and it's not the case that they're not good at it....it's just that there's a perception out there that they're not interested, that they're not as good as the boys and that's exactly what we're changing every single day."
Saujani ran for Congress in 2010 and was struck by the number of girls in a public housing project who were interested in technology but did not have the resources to pursue it.
"They had like one computer in the basement of a church," said Saujani. "And then I'd be on the Upper East Side at a private school where there was a robotics lab -- and you saw how technology can be a huge equalizer, but it can enhance poverty if we're not giving young girls and young boys equal access."
The inequalities Saujani witnessed motivated her to start Girls Who Code this year. The students in the program are diverse, representing 12 different countries.
In addition to teaching the students hands-on skills like programming and coding, Saujani and executive director Kristen Titus are also preparing them for a future career at a major technology company. They partnered with Google, Intel, AppNexus and Twitter, among others, to help shape their summer curriculum and asked the companies what skills future employees need to be successful in the technology field.
Those companies also help fund Girls Who Code, making it free of charge for the students. Eventually, they plan to offer internship opportunities.
"We've built out a robust curriculum that teaches the girls everything from robotics to web design to how to build a company, how to build a mobile app, what is a bank account, how do I get a loan, all of these hard and soft skills that we know are instrumental," said Kristen Titus, executive director of Girls Who Code.
Closing the gender gap in STEM jobs
Developing women's interest in science, technology, engineering and math (often referred to as STEM) is an important goal for Girls Who Code. The U.S. Department of Commerce reported women are underrepresented in STEM undergraduate degrees and jobs. In 2009, there were 2.5 million college-educated working women with STEM degrees, compared to 6.7 million men. And throughout the past decade, women have held less than 25 percent of STEM jobs even though they fill close to half of all jobs in the U.S. economy.
Similar programs are popping up around the country. In Washington, D.C., CodeNow and Youth Lab train high school girls and boys, too. The students learn how websites work and are paired with mentors throughout their learning process.
In San Francisco, Calif., Kimberly Bryant, an electrical engineer, started Black Girls Code in April 2011 after she attended several technology events in Silicon Valley and noticed the lack of women and minorities at the events.
"I was networking to start my own company," said Bryant. "And then I ended up starting this nonprofit that directly introduces girls to technology and gets them in the pipeline."
Black Girls Code offers classes for girls ages 6 to 20 on how to develop video games, build a website, and study robots. And this summer, the program is hosting one-day workshops for minority students in several cities including Chicago, Atlanta, New York and Las Vegas.
'I think I'm going to change the world someday'
Back in New York City, the students at Girls Who Code are already thinking about how they can give back to their communities.
Khady Samb, 16, moved to the Bronx from Senegal in March 2011.
"Being here is like, it was my dream, I didn't know anything about computers," said Samb. "We had them [in Senegal] but I didn't know a lot of things on it. Here, it's like I have anything I need and I learned something about computers that I never learned, it is very exciting."
Just a few weeks into the program, Samb says the skills she has learned may help her Senegalese community one day.
"I think I'm going to change the world someday," said Samb. "I'm going to go to my country and help them use the computer and I will do it for free and I think that will change the world. I have a lot of things to think about."
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Myth-Busting: The Good Cancer . We're Talking About Thyroid Cancer
Often one hears that thyroid cancer is the so-called, "good" cancer. Is that true? Is there a, "good" cancer? Can it be? Well, I want to say a few words about this myth.
First off, let's define what cancer is. According to Answers.com:
"Cancer is not just one disease, but a large group of almost one hundred diseases. Its two main characteristics are uncontrolled growth of the cells in the human body and the ability of these cells to migrate from the original site and spread to distant sites. If the spread is not controlled, cancer can result in death…
That is certainly not, "good" No cancer is ever, "good"
There are, several types of thyroid cancers. One, the, anaplastic carcinoma, though, rare, is also very aggressive and quite deadly. 80% of all patients with this kind of thyroid cancer do not survive for more than one year. Making the situation worse, at least according to Drugnews.net, is the fact that their have been several Januvia thyroid cancer cases reportedly popping up. Apparently it is true, some medicines can help just as much as they can hurt.
Yikes!, That definitely and absolutely is not, "good"
The other common types of thyroid cancer are: follicular carcinoma (30% of cases), medullary carcinoma is a cancer that often runs in families, and then there is papillary carcinoma which is, by far, the most common of all thyroid cancers. I had a papillary carcinoma.
But all thyroid cancers can spread, to other parts of the body (or, metastasize). Usually first to one or more of the, lymph nodes; but they can also wander off (though rarely) to other parts of the body. These cancers also can kill you.
That doesn't sound, "good" to me!
To fight thyroid cancer one usually has the thyroid surgically removed. It is a major operation, the whole works, with full anesthesia, OR (that's "Operating Room" not my lovely home-state of Oregon). Thyroidectomy it is called.
Major surgery, hmm, doesn't feel too, "good" to me!
After your thyroid is removed, there needs to be a mop-up job. Any remnant thyroid cells in your body need to be hunted down and destroyed. This is where, RAI treatment comes in, it stands for "Radio-active Iodine" – How does this work? Well, thyroid cells really, really love iodine, they suck it up like candy (Yet, other cells in the body do not absorb the iodine). So, if you make the iodine strongly radioactive (that is something cells cannot stand), those cells die.
And to make those cells really go crazy about iodine, the doctors put you onto a "low iodine diet" for a few weeks. Oh, what fun it was! I hated that diet. Wrote about it in a previous post of mine. See: The Thing With The Fish Cravings.
Getting back to the topic: so they give you a strongly radioactive capsule, and either they lock you up in a lead-lined hospital room, or they send you home, sequestered to an isolated room in your house, for about 5 days. – Even your used underwear will be declared "radioactive waste" (I am not kidding)
Now, you tell me, – is that a, "good" cancer?
Since after thyroid cancer your thyroid is gone, you need to take a daily thyroid hormone pill. Problem with that is, it has to be adjusted and balanced. People with thyroid disease know the roller coaster effect of having to much (hyper) or too little (hypo) of the hormone in your system.
Believe me, this isn't so, "good"
And after you had the surgery and your radio-active "glowing in the dark" treatment to remove any remnant cells, you need to have check-ups to make sure no thyroid cells are left in your body. One way of checking is to test for, thyroglobulin values in your blood. After thyroid cancer and treatments, your thyroglobulin should be near zero. –
In addition, there is a way similar to the RAI treatment, only this time the radio-active dose is much, much lower. Just enough so that a sensitive scanner can pick up any thyroid cells that picked up the iodine. This is called a "whole body thyroid scan"
Follow-up with more radio-active scanning, not really, "good" is it?
The number of thyroid cancer cases in the US are growing recently. When I had my cancer the doctors asked if I was exposed to radioactive fallout or other sources during my youth. – Radiation exposure is one known trigger for thyroid cancers.
That sounds scary to me and not exactly, "good"
You are getting the message, aren't you? Well now that, on the other hand, is very, "good" !!!
So, after I scared you a little, in the next segment I will talk about some aspects of thyroid cancer that actually are quite positive. Stay tuned!
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38 Responses to "Myth-Busting: The Good Cancer . We're Talking About Thyroid Cancer"
i wasn't told to go on a low iodine diet.. yay, bad doctors!!
i'm so tired of hearing i had the 'good' cancer. that negates everything i've been through and will continue to go though.. it says that my concerns and fear were silly.
no cancer is good cancer. ever.
"Cancer is cancer, is cancer, is cancer; period." Yes it is!
To not be validated is horrible for anyone but to have cancer and be told, "it's the good cancer" and not have that validated has to be the most offensive feeling ever. I do not have thyroid cancer but every time I see this on the posts, it makes me feel physiclly ill, and I am so sorry there is such ignorance from the doctors that are supposed to be the one's helping you. They must be the one's responsible for making others believe this awful, untrue myth.
Also, HD, this is the best written explination of thyroid cancers I have seen put together for people that do not have it.
Thank You for doing this!
I had my surgeon tell me it was cancer and no cancer is good but this is the kind to have if you are going to have one. I understand what he's saying but it still made me mad. I felt exactly as above, that my concerns and fears were very silly and unfounded. No cancer is good cancer, period!! I have heard about many cases that had nowhere near a good outcome, many side effects, etc. We are lucky to have eachother for support as others don't necessarily understand it completely.
Thanks for your nice compliment!
Here is another story that shows how really bad thyroid cancer can become: Roger Ebert, the film critic, his thyroid cancer surgery unfortunately went very bad. See: http://is.gd/b5KZt
HD in Oregon
HD I put a link to this from my FB page. I hope people read it.
I have read Roger Ebert's story and had been to his blog several months ago. Very sad outcome but what a courageous, inspiring man, despite what happened. I will check out your link, as it has been a while since I was at his blog so I am not up to date on his progress.
This is a sad example why these myths need to go away because people are devastated and suffer horribly no matter what cancer they have. There are other ways a doctor can comfort a patient when being told they have cancer. I just don't understand how they could think this makes someone feel better, or do you think it makes it easier for them?
What an excellent article, HD! You wrote it so well in a way that those who are not as familiar with thyroid cancer will understand the process. You also have a very engaging writing style.
HD great article! You really summed it up. My surgeon told me there are "get your affairs in order types of cancer, and this is not one of those cases, but it is still cancer." That was a great way to put it. However, it's the well meaning but uninformed people who have said "good cancer" to me. The best was "well now you've had your surgery so we won't have to hear about this anymore." Really? Wow! … I'm currently waiting for the decision to be made about RAI, I'm in a grey area apparently…I realize the long road of scans and tests over the months and years to come. Right now however, in the quiet after the storm of surgery it's a weird little void. One could almost believe that is all there is to it. Anyone else feel that in the waiting period before RAI?
Yes the wait is hell. I remember just feeling so tired. Have had the RAI more than once. Gets easier, at least for me. Attitude is everything. One common thing in these posts – We all know someone worse off.
Thank you all for the nice comments. – I hope you like tomorrow's part two as well!
Be balanced and feel well!
Awesome article, HD! I really really loved it! You gave us the facts that prove thyroid cancer IS NOT GOOD. Thank you.
I'm so very fortunate to have a doctor who gets that thyroid cancer, like any cancer, is bad and nothing about it is easy. I truly love him for not minimalizing my cancer. Comments from others who do not understand can really hurt.
I look forward to reading part 2! I agree that there are positive aspects of thyroid cancer, so I am anxious to read your point of view on what you consider to be positive!
Just as usual you've presented some excellent tips. Been a lurker on the webpage for a while and wished to say thanks to you for taking the time to post it.
I have papillary and compared to my friends with stage 4 metastatic colon cancer, I do thank my lucky starts that I have thyroid cancer, but as you point out, my cancer is still hard, scary, and no picnic.
I think it is important to come up with good responses when people say this to us. I like to say,"Well, I'm happy to give it to you if you'd like it. I've had tons of medical bills and 19 tumors in my neck, so I'd love to give it away if you want it!" I say it sort of jokingly and non-offensively. It helps other people know what I've gone through and makes them realize that they maybe shouldn't say this to anyone else.
Good post.
Kairol – I'm glad you mentioned your friends who have colon cancer. I agree that there is no 'good' cancer, but which would you choose? Colon or thyroid? Breast or thyroid? Lung or thyroid?
It's all about perspective. I had a friend going through Chemo for hodgkin's lymphoma while I was dealing with my thyroid cancer. Anytime I started to feel sorry for myself, I thought of her and how lucky I was that I wasn't in her shoes.
It's all about perspective…looking forward to part 2!
Kairol, Amber,
I agree! I had both throat cancer and thyroid cancer and a skin cancer more or less all at the same time. Given the choice, I definitely go for the thyroid cancer myself. —
But that still wouldn't mean I call it a "good" cancer.
Re: my cancer story http://www.hd-una.com/hd-cancer.html
Thank you all for your comments! They are really great and very insightful!
Thanks for writing this blog, HD. Here's another statement from my surgeon that wasn't so helpful, and again harkened back to most doctors' impressions that thyroid cancer is the 'good cancer': "Just put it behind you." I don't think ANY cancer, no matter HOW good the prognosis may be, merits that kind of statement. No one can predict what will happen in the future, and all cancers have some risk of recurrence. Of course people with thyroid cancer, just like any other cancer, will continue to have concern and anxiety about how their bodies feel different after surgery, on the thyroid hormone replacement, etc. as well as about future risk of recurrence. I really think those kinds of statements are uttered more to help the doctors themselves (the vast majority of whom have NOT had cancer nor any other major medical condition), not the patient. (And FYI, I am a doctor myself as well as a thyroid cancer patient.)
thank you so much for writing this it helped me know i want the only one feeling that no cancer is good.
thank you
the good caner I always found that amusing I am stage III papillary I was diagnosed 4 yrs ago after my neck dissection I was told I am non responsive to treatment
and to live with my cancer, My response was how bout you get cancer and live with it then call it management
I am finding more and more people who are non responsive to treatment I think they need to find a new one then
or what hope do we have?
I wish more people would respect that thyroid cancer is not a "good Cancer" I just hung up with my radiation oncologist's nurse trying to get a referral to a good endo and she said that it would take 3-6 months. I asked if having had thyroid cancer would make a difference and she said, "No, it doesn't rank high on their priority list." Seriously???.
thats insane thyroid cancer takes the backseat to every other cancer it kills like all other cancers I wish they would change their thinking on this my cancer is non responsive to treatment what other options do i have? other than being told to live with it and management
And what if you have anaplastic thyroid carcinoma…..first off no cancer is good. The earlier you detect the better with any cancer. You can't generalize cancer it depends on the type you have of that organ. My father died from anaplastic thyroid carcinoma, most people don't live 1 year after they are diagnosed(it is the deadliest thyroid cancer,radiation or chemo arnt effective) I strongly believe we need to moniter our food (stop eating processed,artificial,hormone injected food).
Sorry about your dad. We found out in December 2012 that my dad has the same cancer. If you don't mind , how long after he found out did he died . He keeps getting choked and that scares us so much. Any info you care to share , we would love to hear. Sorry again
When I was told I had Thyroid cancer I was watching my mother go through lung cancer. They had given her one year to live. I felt bad telling her my cancer could be cured. You have to get over these labels. It is how YOU as the patient deal with your situation not how the doctors and other people deal with it. My mother was just glad I was not going to die from cancer like she was. She has been gone since Jan. 2007. I wish she had, had good cancer.
Our cancer is a life changing event…we are never the same, not only are we missing a vital body part, but it the so called cure rots out bones, saps our energy, causes cognitive delays, dries out skin, lessens out sex drive, raises our cholesterol, leaves us at higher risk for more cancer, heart attacks, diabetes, damages our teeth, and bone loss.
I have friends who survived other cancers, and they do not have the long terms health effects. All of us agree it takes a toll on us emotionally.
All cancer is bad~!
When I was first told, at the age of 32, that I had thyroid cancer-I was not thinking how "good" it was. Although I was thankful it was treatable, it was very difficult to go through surgery and be hypothyroid for months on end with little children to care for. I felt if I heard one more time, "thyroid cancer is a good cancer to have," I might just hit someone.
I went a second round with thyroid cancer and had radiation. It wasn't too "good" either.
So, I believe the medical community should offer hope and encouragement. However, skip the "good cancer" comments!
Thanks for a great article and one that makes me not feel de-valued! Thyroid cancer has been no picnic. I had total thyroidectomy with a lymph gland removed. It was followed with RAI which has caused many side effects – especially the swollen parotid gland which is persistent. My energy level is still not good although my thyroid globulin level is great and my replacement hormone said to be at the correct level. I also ended up with the frozen rotator cuff issue that can be related to thyroid cancer. It is extremely painful and I'm in my third month of therapy and cortisone injections. If that is not enough, last week I found out the surgeon "accidentally" took out two of my parathyroids and that I now have two more lymph node invloved. I'm looking at another surgery to have the lymph nodes removed and was told this surgeon has to be be highly skilled in order to not damage the remaining parathyroids or previous surgeon's work. Forgot to mention that I was a semi-professional singer … well, the vocal range has never come back and could be compromised more with the next surgery. Good? I don't think so. This is a lifelong battle.
I had a nodule come up about 2 months ago and had it looked at my family Dr.I went to have a ct scan then ultrasound and finally fine needle biopsy dont sound bad.It came back papulary carcinoma.Hit me like a brick wall.I had total thyroidectomy a little over two weeks ago.I started a low iodine diet one week ago oh by the way almost everything has iodine.I got a scan coming in a week the a week later radioactive iodine treatment.Its been up and down but i pray everything works out for all of the others..I say it is cancer and it is real cancer
hi there…I have been diagnosed with papillary thyroid cancer twice…the first time, I was 13!!! The dr. removed 1/2 my thyroid….and I was put on suppression synthroid….no issues…forward 25 years, and it came back…had a total thyroidectomy, and removed lymph node as well (spread)…I opted out of the RAI, because I have an autistic child that would not understand that he cannot come "close" for 5 days….I am being followed by a Dr. at Sloan kettering, 2x A YEAR….I feel great, thank God no chemo needed for this type of cancer…could be so much worse…so to me, it's more of a "nuisance"….not realy scary….
Just got Tg results back. I'm at 8.3, but thanks to the new "health care guidelines", I was turned down for further testing to see if a recently discovered mass in my neck is cancer! What's good about this?
It's interesting, I'm a victim of this in a totally different way. I had thyroid cancer when I was
16. Yup, crazy time to have it so young. Of course I was devastated at first, but then I thought "oh, it's just a surgery, I get it cut out and move on". That is legitimately what I thought and to this day I think I of it that way.
See, I was diagnosed right after my mom had gone through severe mental illness, as well as always her having heart problems. I went through so much shit that a major surgery seemed easy. The only thing I was scared about was having the IV put in. Its only just in the past year or so (several years after the surgery and treatment) that I'm finally giving myself credit for having gone through a severe illness. I still don't in a lot of ways. I don't think of myself as a cancer "survivor". It wasn't as hard as other things I went through so i marginalize it. And Itsme who's the only one saying "I had the good kind of cancer". Sorry for the novel, but I thought I'd offer this perspective and say thank you for helping me realize that the fact that I went trough having cancer actually is kind of a bigger deal than I think it is and that I need to not beat myself up over things that I've had to physically and emotionally deal with as a result of having thyroid cancer.
On another note, I've been wondering if people who have had thyroid cancer experience fatigue after going through it. I know other kinds of cancer do that but I'm not sure about thyroid cancer.
Fatigue is a definite effect of thyroid problems. It ranges from being "tired or fatigued", to "I can't get off the couch" to "I feel like I am wrapped with chains and weights and I can't move."
There are so many variables that affect your thyroid levels. Research has helped me to stay fairly stable,but it took years. Soy products and calcium taken too close to my morning dose of thyroid medication medication created problems.
I hope you are doing well, it sounds like you have been through a lot in your life.
I also was told repeatedly that it was the good cancer. It was/is amazing how completely isolating that statement can be.
The only comparisons being made were that I wouldn't have chemo or lose my hair.
I feel for people who have long drawn out battles and get really sick from chemo, I really do. But I didn't think I was in some sort of competition when I got diagnosed, and this isn't someone else's story, it's mine
Thyroid cancer for me has been no walk in the park.
I am just starting out .. They just did initial testing in my thyroid and I am waiting for diagnosis. I reading all of they letters has given me a much better perspective. I didn't know much about thyroid cancer before but I am learning ad much as I can now. Thank you. It is very helpful to hear about different treatments and input from people who are undergoing similar issues. Again, thanks for this informative forum. Cass
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Monday, June 2, 2008
Benson And Bestwick Riding High On Mondays
There was a triple-header of racing behind them, a controversial race at Pocono ahead of them, and Mike Massaro and Brad Daugherty seated on the NASCAR Now studio set ready to chat. Johnny Benson and Allen Bestwick were about to have a blast.
Bestwick jumped right in and set his normally fast-paced tone in reviewing the Dover Sprint Cup highlights. Soundbites from Kyle Busch were effective and started the discussion about the race as a whole.
Bestwick and company do something very effectively, and that is include the viewer as the fourth panelist. The NASCAR Now Director uses a wideshot constantly to reinforce the fact that this is a group discussion. Bestwick himself directly addresses the camera when he is asking questions or making a point.
The panelists are not afraid to talk directly to each other, or aim a comment straight into the camera and to the viewers. Even some of the jokes are made to the camera in the funny moments. This really does give the viewer a feeling of being part of the show.
The review of the big crash at Dover contained a nice selection of soundbites from the drivers involved. Their frustration was clear, and echoed by the panelists. Benson was firm in his view that some of the late arriving cars to the accident could have done a much better job of getting stopped.
Bestwick was very blunt in his assessment that the Dover race after the wreck was pretty boring. He tried not to blame the COT, since it had been used at Dover last season. Massaro tried to suggest that the race should be shortened to change the strategy and the resulting boredom of the current format. That is the type of topic that should be explored, rather than mentioned before commercial breaks.
Steve Addington was the first guest on the show, and talked about leading the Kyle Busch car to victory. Addington is very calm, and it is clear that he is key to the present success of the team. This time, only Bestwick got to ask the questions as the show continues to switch back and forth in format. Even if the interview was taped in advance of the full show, including other panelists would give this segment a different look.
A review of the Dover Nationwide Series race included the Joey Logano story and a good soundbite with winner Denny Hamlin. The panel was impressed with Hamlin and Massaro made the point that once a driver gets in a groove at Dover, it is tough to get around him. Benson was supportive in his comments about Logano, and used his veteran status to preach patience.
Nicole Manske lent her voice to a feature on Kyle Busch that tried to reset for the viewers who this young man really is and where he came from to get to this level. It was well done, but took up a good chunk of time on this program intended to be dedicated to discussion among the panel.
Finishing off the theme, Bestwick welcomed JD Gibbs and handled a wide-ranging interview alone. Once again, the panelists were not allowed to ask questions. The conversation with Gibbs was fine, and included several topics not related to Kyle Busch.
Craftsman Truck Series highlights and notes finished off the show that once again covered the content viewers wanted to see. With two guests and one big feature there was less time for discussion. Hopefully, the production staff will review this issue and make the final tweaks to the show before the heart of the season.
Monday now has a very familiar feel for NASCAR fans, and the flow of this program continues to be smooth and professional on-the-air. ESPN has to be happy as the network begins to gear-up for Sprint Cup Series telecasts in another month.
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- Anonymous said...
I found one glaring error in the interview with JD Gibbs. He was not asked directly about Tony Stewart's contract. I imagine Bestwick thought JD might touch on the subject in the generalized question about preparing JGR for business in the future. When JD skirted the elephant in the room, a more pointed question should have been asked.
- June 2, 2008 at 7:49 PM
- Geeze said...
They probably didn't ask because the answer would have been the same as it has been. " Tony has not asked out of his contract and we look forward to having him drive for us in 2009 and beyond". Or words to that effect.
- June 2, 2008 at 7:58 PM
- Sophia said...
I fell asleep during the first interview..and when I woke up I thought the piece on Kyle went on forever.
That should've been saved for regular NN and you are correct JD, it cut into 'conversation time'....same as TWIN which is why I don't like to watch that show anymore.
Hope Mon NN doesn't ruin a good thing by continuing to add video bits. I LOVED the mix of the panel tonight and could've taken more speaking time.
Good column.
- June 2, 2008 at 8:25 PM
- Ritchie said...
Good show as always. Benson is a tremendous guest panelist. Great insight and a lot of class. He handles himself as a television personality should.
I think the preproduced video pieces should be saved for the other NASCAR Now shows. We only have one night to hear the panelists and I don't want to lose a moment of that.
Still, great show overall.
- June 2, 2008 at 8:34 PM
- Matt said...
I again thought this show was excellent. Although I agree somewhat on the taped pieces, the conversation made up for it.
Benson was at his best on this show, and his explanations on topics was great.
This was a good mix of panelists. I would like to see these three more often.
- June 2, 2008 at 9:26 PM
- PammH said...
I taped & haven't watched the show (listening to Dialed-In) but it was on in the background & what I saw was the "this is your racing life in Nascar, KyBu" and thought it went on FOREVER!! Was this really necessary when you have folks on the set to talk to?? Talk about turning viewers off. I could hear the channels changing even in mute!! jmo, of course..:)
- June 2, 2008 at 9:50 PM
- Newracefan said...
I wonder if we would have seen all those taped pieces if their was more to talk about from the race. Great show, not as hysterical as TWIN but fun. We did get a few lines about the truck race but I wonder if that would have happened if JB wasn't there. Hopefully Delana Harvick will send AB and the guys some cookies at the next NW race and Brad needs to watch everyone else eat them this time ;)
- June 2, 2008 at 9:51 PM
- Anonymous said...
Someone please correct me if you know I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure the Manske piece on Kyle Busch had appeared on ESPN before. I don't remember if it was during Saturday's rain delay or if it was on one of the recent NASCAR Now episodes, but it looked very familiar. If this segment was a repeat, (again, I'm not certain) it was a very big waste of time.
Also, for those of you recording NASCAR Now this week, the show will have four different air times in the next four days because of the French Open. Jayski has the days and times posted.
- June 2, 2008 at 10:36 PM
- Unknown said...
I agree with your thinking regarding whether those taped pieces would have been shown if there had been more Dover racing to talk about. Honestly, it can be summed up as a big early crash and then KB won. Not much happened so there was little to talk about.
- June 3, 2008 at 7:15 AM
- Anonymous said...
I was lukewarm on last night's show. Johhny Benson does a very nice job. The problem I was having is that with the on-track incidents being discussed, the 'talking heads' did all of the talking instead of the only river on the set.No offense, but if you've never driven a race car, your opinion lf what happens out on the track is compromised.
- June 3, 2008 at 9:14 AM
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- June 3, 2008 at 11:10 AM
- Anonymous said...
Johnny Benson was always the one to interject the thoughtful, concise observation about the topic of the moment on Inside Winston Cup Racing.
He continues to impress that way now.
Having a rotation of Johnny and Ricky Craven on the Monday show's panel would be ideal.
- June 3, 2008 at 12:13 PM
- Lisa Hogan said...
JD- you continue to suggest that Bestwick should not do all of the guest interviews. I continue to appreciate that Bestwick is doing all of the guest interviews. After the embarrassing attempts at interviews last season, I find comfort in Bestwick being in charge.
I really enjoyed the panel last night. Johnny has been a favorite since the IWC days. I'm still not a fan of Massaro and don't think I ever will be. I like Brad on this panel and the infield studio.
I agree that the Kyle video was out of place on the Monday show. There were plenty of things the panel could have discussed to fill time, if that was needed.
- June 3, 2008 at 3:38 PM
- Anonymous said...
I found it interesting that they left out Kyle's immature remarks to the reporter after the incident between Kyle and Jason Leffler.
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Not even the 29-degree temperature at kickoff could cool off No. 23-ranked USC, which defeated lowly Colorado, 47-29, before 36,005 at Folsom Field. With UCLA losing to Arizona State, the Sun Devils clinched the Pac-12 South Division title.
That is unlikely to dampen USC's rejuvenation under interim coach Ed Orgeron. The victory improved the Trojans to 6-1 since Orgeron took over and in a reversal of fortune, the Trojans (8-3, 6-2) now have an identical overall record to crosstown rival UCLA (8-3, 5-3).
"All year we couldn't wait for (the UCLA) game," safety Dion Bailey said. "It's circled on my calendar. Especially because they think they are better than us."
Who would think a month ago the Trojans would have only one less loss than conference leaders Stanford and Oregon? Maybe Lane Kiffin, who said this week in a radio interview the Trojans had the best talent in the conference. Naturally, Kiffin never said that when he coached the Trojans.
"I never thought the situations could be what they are," USC senior associate athletic director J.K. McKay said. "The same record as UCLA. We feel good about ourselves."
McKay made an O sign with his arms to the crowd after the game. Asked about Orgeron's status, McKay sprinted away from reporters.
USC president Max Nikias confirmed before the game the coaching search would be run by Pat Haden and go through proper university channels without his influence.
But whether Orgeron is retained as many fans want will take a back seat this week to the crosstown rivalry. USC and UCLA play each other next week at the Coliseum to see who goes to the Sun or Las Vegas bowls, if you believed the Saturday night bowl projections.
Of course, there are still some other scenarios too because some Pac-12 bowls can leapfrog teams when choosing their participant.
Either way, USC figures to have a lively crowd at the Coliseum to see if the Trojans can finish the regular season with six straight victories. The game is expected to kick off at 5 p.m. and be televised by Channel 7 (ABC-TV).
"Things have worked out the way they are supposed to," USC safety Su'a Cravens said. "UCLA, they've been going downhill a little bit."
Orgeron is 3-0 in November after he vowed to emulate former USC coach Pete Carroll's methods in college football's crucial month. Carroll amassed a 29-1 record in November with the Trojans. Can Orgeron go undefeated this month?
"We'll find out next Saturday," Orgeron said. "Our objective is to beat UCLA."
Everyone was so happy late Saturday night, it almost didn't matter Arizona State won. USC players kept track of the Sun Devils game on the Folsom Field scoreboard.
"It's our fault, we let that (loss to Arizona State) happen," Cravens said. "Arizona State is a great team."
The Trojans' first-team defense did not allow any points and Colorado only scored against the reserves. That is why the Trojans led 23-0 at halftime and were so relaxed the USC coaches in the pressbox had a staff member fetch four hot dogs and three barbecue beef sandwiches to eat during the third quarter. The food probably tasted bitter for a second because USC tailback Javorius Allen fumbled on the first play of the second half and Colorado safety Jered Bell returned it 31 yards for a touchdown.
The indigestion was short-lived, though, because quarterback Cody Kessler threw a 10-yard touchdown pass to tight end Randall Telfer to boost the lead to 30-7. Allen then followed with a 23-yard touchdown run to make it 37-7 with 7:19 left in the third quarter.
Allen's fumble was the first by a USC tailback since Tre Madden fumbled against Arizona State back on Sept. 28.
Allen, the team's Cinderella story, rushed for nine touchdowns in the past four games. He gained 145 yards in 21 carries and scored three touchdowns against Colorado. Kessler finished 19 of 28 for 184 yards with two touchdowns and no interceptions.
"I can't wait for this week," Kessler said. "It's going to be exciting."
It was mostly a night of futility for Colorado (4-7, 1-7), but the Buffaloes did cut the deficit to 40-29 with 3:19 left in the contest. Unfortunately for Colorado, USC fullback Soma Vainuku responded with a 52-yard touchdown run.
The Buffaloes' best offense was the sight of the real buffalo, Ralphie, running around the field before the game. There was some snow inside the stadium but other than the crisp temperature, it really was a non-factor. Two years ago, Ralphie knocked several of his handlers to the ground when he raced around the field before the USC game. There were no incidents Saturday night.
"It was freezing but it was the altitude more than the cold," Cravens said.


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I've written a lot of love poems. This one is kind of a love poem for Japan or, more specifically, Tokyo. It is seductive and full of secrets . . . like a woman. It is probably a metaphor that would perplex most Japanese ñ a very male-dominated society. The women I spoke to in Japan seemed sadly resigned to, at some point in their lives, becoming part of a man's life as almost chattel. Some of the young women, who worked at the hotel I stayed at, told me that their mothers and their fathers encouraged them to find a man, rather than pursue an education or a business of their own. The encouraging thing in these conversations was that the women bristled at these thoughts. One young woman, Sayaka, made it clear that her parents were going to have to realize that it was a new Japan; that the cultural revolution, acted out between young and old, had already happened, albeit quietly. The young men did not desire to be salary-men and the young women wanted lives, careers and businesses of their own. It is ironic to view this very old culture and think it has taken this long for young women to liberate themselves from old patriarchal customs and expectations. Of course, many young women in Japan looked to American women as symbolic of the empowerment one can achieve in the new Japan. The image of the passive and quiet Asian woman is a quickly disappearing stereotype.
In Japanese art there is no small amount of erotic content; the woodcuts and paintings of artists like Hiroshige and Kuniyoshi are full of geishas and courtesans. Manga is full of some of the most brutal porn you'll ever see, replete with rape-fantasy storylines that are degrading and sadly very common. For centuries, women have very often been sex objects in Japanese art. There are young women artists in Japan who are turning these paradigms on their head. Mariko Mori, who seamlessly cobbles together Eastern myths and Western cultural motifs, often makes videos and photographs using herself, more often than not, as a goddess. Work like hers points to a newly realized "Girl Power" that emboldens other young women artists. She is a big deal–a real role model to young Japanese women . . . a woman in control of her own art and her own image . . . a woman who owns herself.
I also found out that the cherry blossom season of spring in Japan is a time when many young men propose marriage. It is a beautiful time of year when the blossoms are in full roar and the parks are full of bright, gauzy whites and pinks, plum wine and music. It is a lovely thing in a lovely city. This one is for Tokyo.


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Festival season continues with a new one called Deserted At The Palms, happening at The Palms bar May 17 out in Wonder Valley.
Where's that, you might ask? You may have heard of Pappy and Harriet's over in Pioneertown and the suddenly hip town of Joshua Tree, but just past those places, off Highway 62, is the even more remote Wonder Valley, home to the surreal Palms bar. It's a dusty, friendly saloon with an outdoor stage owned and run by the band The Sibleys, who also play at every show at the bar.
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Sound cool? You haven't even heard what bands will be playing yet. It's a doozy of a lineup—prolific Bay Area garage rockers Thee Oh Sees; Welsh songstress Cate le Bon, who just graced our own little stage; lo-fi greats White Fence; surrealist pop duo Prince Rama; dark disco diva Nite Jewel; jangle-pop maestros Dream Boys; minimal wave lady Geneva Jacuzzi, who will DJ at Amoeba Hollywood May 30 at 8 p.m.; wild folk band Bloody Death Skull; and so much more, including Chrome Canyon, Rainbow Arabia, Amanda Jo Williams, Hott MT, Alex Lilly, Gun Outfit, Sex Stains and, of course, The Sibleys. The show is put on by L.A. Record's Daiana Feuer and Jessica Espeleta, the latter of whom will be DJing here Friday May 23 at 8 p.m.
You can get tickets at Amoeba Hollywood for $30 (plus a $3 service fee). Get 'em and get weird out in the desert.


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ROME — Msgr. Marco Frisina, the director of liturgy for the Diocese of Rome, a composer and director of the diocesan choir, has written a hymn for the beatification of Pope John Paul II: "Aprite le Porte a Cristo" ("Open the Doors to Christ").
The Italian words of the refrain can be translated as: "Open the doors to Christ/Do not be afraid, Open wide your heart/To the love of God."
Msgr. Frisina said the eight verses of the hymn highlight the most important qualities of Pope John Paul: His witness of hope, his fatherly love for youth, his witness of faith, his love for the family, his work for peace and justice, his demonstration of the redemptive power of suffering and his love for Mary.
The monsignor told reporters yesterday that he has posted a sound clip and the words of the hymn so that people can practice before the big event.


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Wednesday on the NewsHour, President Trump's comments on North Korea raise alarms in Asia and elsewhere, and prompt a threat on Guam from Pyongyang. Also: Steps the U.S. is taking to upgrade its own nuclear arsenal, how livestock breed antibiotic-resistant superbugs, a woman who brings health care to others in Somaliland and a new book from a woman who dared to drive in Saudi Arabia.
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In 1968 Reich spelled out his new aesthetic in a terse essay titled "Music as a Gradual Process." "I am interested in perceptible processes," he wrote. "I want to be able to hear the process happening throughout the sounding music."
This philosophy differs starkly from the thinking inherent in Boulez's total serialism and Cage's I Ching pieces, where process works behind the scenes, like a spy network employing front organizations. Reich's music transpires in the open air, every move audible to the naked ear. Recognizable in it are multiple traces of the creator's world: modal jazz, psychedelic trance, the lyrical rage of African-American protest, the sexy bounce of rock 'n roll. But there's no pretense of authenticity, no longing for the "real." Instead, sounds from a variety of sources are mediated by the composer's personal voice.
The above is from Alex Ross's The Rest is Noise, which I am finally getting around to finishing. (If you're familiar with it, you may understand my reading strategy, which has been to savor the text over an extended period, rather than wolfing it down in a weekend or two.)
The quote got me thinking. Much of the material I write for the IJG is designed to be transparent, too. I hadn't thought of that in terms of audible processes, per se -- for me it's more about constructing things in such a way that the listener is thinking about the mechanisms that propel the music, and there's no sleight of hand. It's a bit different from, and even antithetical to, the idea of washing over your listener with a "narrative," or a seamless flow of polished and refined sound, in which the things that are going on under the hood are somehow less compelling than the ride you are taking. I've spoken of it before in terms of using art not merely to tell stories, but to tell how books are made.
Not sure if that is a comprehensible distinction at this level of abstraction, but that is basically how I think about it.
In any case, the really interesting question for me is whether this quality is, in part, dependent upon familiarity. Now that Reich's music is so much a part of the "art music" landscape, I wonder if anyone actually does still hear it in terms of "perceptible processes"? Does broad familiarity undercut the power of a completely open compositional strategy, to the point where however much the composer is trying to lay bare, all we hear is the surface sound?


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|Harley-Davidson XL1200C Sportster Custom
|Custom / cruiser
|68.5 out of 100. Show full rating and compare with other bikes
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|US$ 9695. Prices depend on country, taxes, accessories, etc.
|Engine and transmission
|1199.61 ccm (73.20 cubic inches)
|Engine type:
|V2, four-stroke
|107.25 Nm (10.9 kgf-m or 79.1 ft.lbs) @ 4000 RPM
|Bore x stroke:
|88.9 x 96.8 mm (3.5 x 3.8 inches)
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|Multi-plate with diaphragm spring in oil bath
|Fuel consumption:
|4.11 litres/100 km (24.3 km/l or 57.23 mpg)
|Greenhouse gases:
|95.4 CO2 g/km. (CO2 - Carbon dioxide emission)
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|Chrome, staggered shorty duals
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|254.9 kg (562.0 pounds)
|Weight incl. oil, gas, etc:
|267.2 kg (589.0 pounds)
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|711 mm (28.0 inches) If adjustable, lowest setting.
|Overall length:
|2,294 mm (90.3 inches)
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|112 mm (4.4 inches)
|1,534 mm (60.4 inches)
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Have you ever had problems socializing with others? Do you act differently with several groups of people? Ever felt needy of other people's approval? Almost all of the time, we blame ourselves for these undesirable traits, because we believe that our choices made us that way. In reality, some of these choices are not actually made by us; instead they are passed on to us the day we were born.
Birth order is defined as the rank in which a person is born relative to his/her siblings. Birth order is believed to have a profound effect in the psychological development of a person. Often, we could hear people say things like, "middle children are attention-seekers" or something like "last born children are always stubborn and spoiled". These statements are often stereotypes and may even be insulting, but we cannot deny that they hold some truth.
Alfred Adler was the first theorist to suggest that birth order does influence a person's personality. Even though the theory received much controversy and dispute, most of the theorists agreed that birth order does often affect the individual's style of life, how he deals with friendship, love and how he copes with problems. Some modern theorists also observed that some birth order traits can last an entire lifetime.
The theory of birth order influencing a person's personality is not yet proven scientifically up to this date. There are numerous published materials stating that birth order does dictate the role a child takes in the family. However, recent studies indicate that while birth order does influence certain aspects of personality, these aspects are usually those that are not considered to be enduring or permanent. And since most people do not spend most of their lives at their childhood home, effects are not life-long.
Here are some of the typical characteristics that can be identified with each group.
First Child
- Usually the most dominant and superior among the siblings
- May develop a sense of responsibility over others
- May be discouraged at times due to pressure
- Is often very competent
Second Child
- Inferior compared to first child
- Often seeks to differ from the first child
- May get rebellious
- Tries to compete with the first child
Last Child
- No sense of responsibility
- Develops sense of inferiority over other siblings
- May take up speed and become better than siblings
Only Child
- Almost definitely spoiled and pampered
- Self-centered
- Likes to do things his way
Middle Child of Three
- Usually has "Middle Child Syndrome"
- Feels unloved and left out
- Does not get enough attention
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Nobunaga is the main antagonist of Pokémon Conquest and is the warlord of Dragnor. A Warrior whose phenominal strength surpasses all others. Renowned for showing no mercy in battle, he is feared by all who cross his path. His subordinate is Ranmaru.
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Nobunaga first appears after the player captures the last two kingdoms that are not under his control, where he reveals that Oichi is his sister. He states that he will be waiting for him/her at Dragnor.
After arriving at Dragnor, Nobunaga is shown to be in control of a Zekrom, then challenges the player to a battle. After defeat, he merely laughs, then leaves. After the player links with Arceus, Nobunaga shows up again, this time with other Warlords, and says that he had planned for this, challenging the player to another battle, this time, with Arceus under the players control. After being beaten again, Nobunaga explains that Warlords have been treating their Pokemon with less respect and more like tools since starting to try finding the Pokemon of legend, and that if he could conquer all 17 kingdoms and destroy the legendary Pokemon, he could show others that it was not worth searching for so they would start treating Pokémon like their friends again.
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|Nobunaga - The warlord of Ransei. He is partnered with Zekrom.
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- Rank 1: Desire. Allows Warrior's Pokémon to move twice.
- Rank 2: Ambition. Makes enemies flinch and allows Warrior's Pokémon to move twice.
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