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Alice Brown remembers the moment of dread when doctors diagnosed her with cancer. She imagines her terror and despair were much like what Jesus felt when he was sentenced to die on the cross.
Surgery, radiation and chemotherapy seemed to defeat the disease. But just when she thought she had conquered death, she absorbed another blow — doctors diagnosed her friend Carol Lydecker with cancer, too. After three decades of shared memories, this was one experience that Brown wished they didn't have in common.
To cope, Brown, a stage actress and parishioner at St. James Roman Catholic Church in Arlington Heights, turned to her craft and an ancient Catholic tradition that commemorates Christ's suffering and death — the 14 Stations of the Cross.
Just as Christians believe Christ's story didn't conclude on the cross, Brown realized her journey and Lydecker's didn't end with a diagnosis. There is always the prospect of the 15th Station — the grand finale of Easter, when Christians celebrate the miracle of Christ's resurrection.
And so began Brown's latest production: a modern adaptation of the Stations for those whose lives have been touched by cancer. She enlisted Lydecker and others to help. The show was performed at churches in the Chicago area during the days of Lent.
"On Easter, we celebrate moving from darkness to light," said Brown, 55, of Arlington Heights. "We celebrate moving from despair and hopelessness to hope and new birth. That's what the message of the Stations is. There is hope for you."
Within the Stations of the Cross, a typically somber series of meditations marking each phase of Christ's journey to the cross, Brown discovered a road map for rising above pain. She found consolation that she did not suffer in solitude and grasped that she had not been forsaken after all.
"Every day, whether it's Easter, whether it's tomorrow, whether it's today, there are people to help you through this," she said.
Stations agent
With closely cropped silver hair and a slender frame that never stops moving, Alice Brown is such a bundle of contagious energy that it's hard to believe she was ever sick. In fact, it was difficult for her to accept the diagnosis when she first heard the word "cancer" on June 15, 2009.
Before the end of the month, she had undergone surgery to remove the lump in her breast and a half-dozen other lymph nodes. She got a second opinion and a third opinion and a fourth on what to do next, and decided to go after the cancer with vehemence.
By the following February, chemotherapy had taken her hair. Combined with 30 radiation treatments, it also had eradicated the disease. Every three months, the doctors check to make sure.
"It's OK to be on a tight leash because I know there are a lot of people looking out for me," she said.
One of those people has been her parish priest, the Rev. Bill Zavaski, a cancer survivor himself, who knew Brown had a gift. A couple of years before, she had adapted and staged a Stations of the Cross for survivors of the 1958 fire that killed 92 children and three nuns at Our Lady of the Angels School on Chicago's West Side.
Brown's two older sisters had escaped the fire. Brown, only 2 at the time, had no recollection. But when she accompanied her sister to a memorial Mass 50 years later, she witnessed the unbreakable bond that united the survivors. She also realized the overwhelming grief that haunts them still.
"I can remember sitting in the church thinking: 'This is as close as you can get to Jesus walking to his death on the cross,'" she said.
Zavaski had seen how her modern twist on the ancient devotion had soothed audiences. He encouraged her to do it again, this time drawing from her own experience with cancer.
"One advantage cancer survivors have is we never take another day for granted," he said. "That's a great gift of having to take up that cross."
"As a person going through it, I didn't think about it that way," Zavaski added. "It's so beautiful to be able to step back and reflect on it now, to approach it from a very positive standpoint."
Ancient tradition, new look
Each of Brown's stations, presented by one of five readers, echoes the voice of someone touched by cancer: the husband who lost his wife, the oncology nurse awed by her patients, a woman who loses her hair.
All of the perspectives are based on real people who have inspired Brown or injected joy into her life. Brown wrote each part with the five readers in mind, including herself and her husband, Bill. He composed the musical refrain that follows each Station.
The original Stations of the Cross date to fourth century Jerusalem, when devotions were developed to commemorate the anniversary of Christ's crucifixion on Good Friday.
For some Catholics, the Stations conjure dismal childhood memories of parents dragging them to church, trudging around the worship space and struggling to recite the prayers tied to each step of Christ's brutal death march.
But many clergy and congregants have adapted the Stations to address social causes, appeal to certain audiences, or pay tribute to a loss. Some, such as the Via Crucis, or Way of the Cross, in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood, come alive as reenactments performed in period costumes.
The Rev. Edward Foley, a Capuchin priest who teaches liturgy and music at Catholic Theological Union, said the ritual always held more purpose than simply retracing Christ's footsteps to the cross.
"One of the reasons why over the centuries people have contemplated the death and suffering of Jesus is to recognize that also in our own lives our suffering can be life-giving," he said.
A friend in need
Of course, it took a while for Brown to appreciate the gifts that cancer had laid on her doorstep: the unexpected kindness of acquaintances, a greater sense of purpose.
She had just begun to celebrate her recovery and breathe her first sighs of relief when her best friend Carol Lydecker, 56, complained of a mysterious pain in her hip. Within months, doctors linked it to advanced colon cancer.
Brown met Lydecker in 1979 when Lydecker choreographed a ballet for Brown's character in a production of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "Carousel." At the first rehearsal, they plopped on the gym floor in their leotards and chatted for an hour before remembering they had work to do.
"You know how you just like someone right away?" Brown said.
At one point, the two quit their jobs and drove across the country to Oregon. They returned to Chicago when they realized there were far fewer theater jobs in Oregon. After a while, they met their husbands and pursued different paths.
Brown, an actress, raised a family in the north suburbs. Lydecker, a dancer and choreographer, lived in the west suburbs and pursued her passion. They shared the stage only once, in a community theater production of "A Chorus Line." But they never grew apart.
The day after Brown's surgery in June 2009, Lydecker drove up from Forest Park for the afternoon. When Brown debated undergoing chemotherapy, Lydecker urged her to do it because she wanted her friend to stick around a while longer.
Looking back, though, Lydecker wishes she had called more often, the way Brown does for her now. Brown believes her cancer taught her to anticipate Lydecker's needs, including the longing to perform. Within a few months, Brown began to write her version of the Stations.
"The Stations were written with her in mind and for her to be a part of it," Brown said. "Carol may not be able to do pirouettes across the stage or sing a song ever again. But she's touching people's lives and feeling like her life has meaning more now even in these simple Stations of the Cross that she can share."
Taking up their cross
While chemotherapy and radiation wiped out Lydecker's colon cancer, the cancer already had spread to her lungs. It has now spread to a lymph node that has pressed and paralyzed one of her vocal cords.
Still, Lydecker never missed a rehearsal.
"I don't get to perform anymore and reach people," Lydecker said in a raspy voice during a recent chemotherapy session with Brown by her side. "This reaches people. We're hoping people leave knowing they're not alone."
The Stations transcend the Lenten season and the Catholic Church, she said, adding that the troupe plans to perform at a United Church of Christ in June.
"While Easter comes only once a year, the reality is that people walk the cancer journey 365 days each year," Brown said.
On a recent Friday, Lydecker rose from her chair next to the altar at St. Mary of the Woods Catholic Church, lit a candle and stepped to the podium to present Brown's take on the second station — Jesus taking up his cross. Though the words reflected Brown's perspective, Lydecker identified with the script.
"The bottom line is, I didn't want to be the poster child for cancer — nobody does," she strained to tell the audience, her hoarse voice crackling. "It's just the cross we take up. Underneath our diagnosis, we're still the people we always were — looking for answers, needing positive support and praying for God's grace."
Later, Brown rose from her chair to share the ninth station — Jesus falling the third time.
"I had gotten through surgery, chemo and radiation, and before my hair even had a chance to grow back, my best friend was diagnosed with cancer," she told the audience.
"In less than a year's time, she went from being my rock and my refuge, to looking cancer in the face herself. It was just too much. My spirits hit rock bottom and I was powerless to pull myself up — until I saw my friend walk by carrying her cross. … Now, we walk together, my friend and I — hand in hand, heart to heart."
She returned to her seat beside Lydecker. They each exchanged knowing glances and reached for the other's hand.
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Stephen Strasburg helps pitch competitive gaming
USA TODAY's Mike Snider sits down with Washington National's Stephen Strasburg for a game of Call of Duty. USA TODAY
Watch out Monday Night Football. There's a new sport looking to sack your audience. Professional competitive video game competitions are gaining players and fans.
VIENNA, Va. -- Washington Nationals flamethrower Stephen Strasburg stares down his opponent and lets it fly. "Pop!" Another one bites the dust.
But Strasburg isn't on a baseball mound pitching fastballs. Instead, the 24-year-old Major League righthander, whose pitching season ended a month ago, is sitting on a couch, game controller in hand, deftly dispatching enemies in the video game Call of Duty.
A diehard online competitor who takes his PlayStation 3 with him on Nationals' road trips, Strasburg is stoked not only for his team's continued playoff run -- baseball's Nationals are back on home turf Wednesday -- but also for the Nov. 13 release of Call of Duty: Black Ops II.
In late April when the Nationals traveled to Los Angeles to play the Dodgers, Strasburg visited Black Ops II development studio Treyarch in Santa Monica, Calif., to see the work in progress. Last week, when the developers were here showing off the near-finished project, he couldn't resist dropping in.
STORY:Strasburg dishes on video game obsession
Some of those new features coming to the multibillion-dollar game franchise could help make organized video game competitions as commonplace as bowling leagues. While the NFL and other pro sports probably aren't worried yet, they'd better step up their defense. Call of Duty's coming offensive could snare enough eyeballs to transform the game into a full-fledged spectator sport.
Strasburg is a believer, noting that millions already watch amateur Call of Duty video clips on YouTube. "It definitely seems like there's a demand for it," says the Nationals star, who isn't playing in the post-season because the team didn't want to overwork his right arm, which required Tommy John reconstructive elbow surgery two years ago.
Professional video game competitions are not new. Thousands of gamers have turned pro -- the best can earn upwards of $100,000 annually, along with sponsorship perks -- and millions of aspirants play regularly online. But next month's Black Ops II launch might one day be looked upon as a turning point in eSports, or electronic sports, as professionally sanctioned video game competitions are currently labeled.
In addition to Black Ops II's single-player story campaign -- it begins in the post-Vietnam era and transports players to the year 2025 -- the newest installment will also let players join and compete in regular match-ups in ranked Call of Duty leagues. They'll be able to broadcast their firefights over the Internet, as well as add commentary.
The goal of adding these features to a game that is already expected to sell 20 million-plus copies worldwide is to drive interest in online competition and spectating. "You put this stuff in the game, and you can blow it up big time and make it available and accessible to everyone," says David Vonderhaar, game design director for Treyarch.
While millions were watching baseball playoffs and college and pro football over the weekend, hundreds of thousands of viewers were on their computers watching the qualifying rounds of the world championship for a computer game called League of Legends. Teams from the U.S., China, Korea, Taiwan, Europe and Russia competed for an industry record $3 million in prizes at a packed house at the 10,000-seat Galen Center Arena on the University of Southern California campus in Los Angeles.
Overall, the three days of competition attracted a total audience of in the millions. "Events like this rival the audience sizes of cable and broadcast TV," says Matthew DiPietro, vice president of marketing for Twitch, which broadcast the competition on the Net at twitch.tv.
Out of the shadows
For more than a decade, pro gaming existed in the pop culture outback. But sanctioned events began cropping up on broadcast TV five years ago. As the size of the game-playing public grew, video game pro leagues blossomed and bypassed traditional TV networks for Internet broadcasts. Today, more than 211 million in the U.S. play games at least occasionally, according to market tracking firm The NPD Group.
That's paid off for Major League Gaming, a group founded a decade ago, that last year attracted more than 15 million online viewers during its Pro Circuit events, which included team-based matches on games such as Halo: Reach and StarCraft II. This year's MLG Fall Championship, to be held Nov. 2-4 in Dallas, could draw more than 15,000 in-person attendees and millions of viewers to its live online broadcast over the weekend.
MLG's last major event, the Spring Championship held June 8-10 in Anaheim, Calif., had 4.7 million unique online viewers, with 2.2 million tuning in on Sunday alone. "We take the competition that is inside the game and patch it together and create ESPN-style programming," says MLG CEO and co-founder Sundance DiGiovanni. "Although the medium may seem a little strange to some people at first, the level of competition, the engagement, the size of the fan base and the excitement that we are able to create lends itself incredibly well to an experience, whether you are viewing it on your computer or streaming it through your television."
Pro video game competitions are a glitzy mashup that's extremely alluring to generation Y and Z, young adults under age 35. There's a dash of Ultimate Fighting Championship events, a pinch of reality TV game shows such as Who Wants to Be a Millionaire and The Voice, and slices of indoor athletic events such as basketball and hockey.
Online viewers not only get a taste of that atmosphere but also generous helpings of video production values, such as face cams and picture-in-picture swiped from other sports. "We borrow the very best things from the NFL and the NBA, and there is a definite ebb and flow and style to it," DiGiovanni says. "The only difference is, our sport is a digital one. It happens on screen and gets broadcast out to folks like they would see any traditional sport."
Since pro gaming happens online and has a hodgepodge of international organizations, it's not easy to get at overall viewership or industry figures. But it's safe to say that "pro gaming is not only growing, it's exploding, and with it, pro gaming purses and salaries sufficient to pay the mortgage," says Min-Liang Tan, CEO of game hardware company Razer, which sponsors 400 pros worldwide. "If you practice enough, if you get good enough,you just might get your own YouTube channel, six-figure contract and million-dollar payday at the world championship."
The developers of Black Ops II hope to fuel that growth. Last June, Vonderhaar and several members of the Treyarch creative team went to MLG's pro event in Anaheim where 2010's Black Ops was among the games competed on. The level of competition was really impressive," he says. "But something was missing," Vonderhaar says.
Treyarch decided the game itself needed new bells and whistles to raise the excitement level. In addition to fine-tuning the storyline within the game --the literary and visual equivalent of a TV miniseries -- and the maps and inner-workings for the hugely popular multiplayer game, Treyarch tackled the addition of broadcasting and competitive play features.Just as players now join into online multiplayer matches, they will be able -- in the upcoming Black Ops II game -- to decide to sign into a broadcasting mode. Matches could be live-streamed over the Internet.
Some could choose to provide commentary, while others watch games with the ability to switch to different views of the map, as well as see or hear the action from the perspective of any of the competitors. Participants will have the equivalent of a football jersey, detailing their team and skills. "It's fun as a spectator to be inside their team and see how they are working together," Vonderhaar says.
A ripple effect
The possibility of millions playing nightly in Call of Duty: Black Ops II leagues after the game is released on Nov. 13 could possibly rival participation in such sports as bowling.Black Ops II's new features are "going to make the viewer experience that much better," says Matthew Haag, a 20-year-old pro gamer who will participate in MLG's event next month. "It's really going to drive more players to compete and watch more tournaments."
Growth in amateur competition will not only help energize interest in pro gaming but will build a larger base from which pro players emerge, says MLG's DiGiovanni.
Team play certainly appeals to Strasburg. Playing on the same three-man team in a new Black Ops II multi-team death match mode called, he avenges the death of another player's character. "I got him for you, don't worry," he says calmly, with a smile above his reddish-blond goatee.
Adds Strasburg: "It's pretty amazing to think that you are able to do all of these things against people all over the country, all over the world, for that matter."

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Problems for Moyes
Are United's slow starts costing Moyes? Why is the pressure on Allardyce? What is going wrong for Villa and Southampton? Will Everton struggle? We analyse the weekend's big talking points
By Daniel Storey - @danielstorey85
Last Updated: 10/01/14 10:48am
Slow starters
Worst start to a new year in 82 years. Four defeats in six home games for the first time in 27 years. Four home league defeats in three months. Manchester United had suffered five in the previous three-and-a-half years. First Everton win at Old Trafford for 21 years. First Newcastle United win at Old Trafford for 41 years. First West Bromwich Albion win at Old Trafford for 35 years. Worst start to a season since 1989/1990.
After four months of first and worsts, David Moyes could sure do with a win against Swansea City on Saturday Night Football, live on Sky Sports 1HD, to try and get things slightly back on track. Interestingly, though, one of United's biggest failings this season has been their lack of resilience when falling behind. This was an issue that Sir Alex Ferguson managed to neatly sidestep last season, with United conceding the first goal of the game on a rather worrying 22 occasions in all competitions. However, more often than not, United responded, going on to take 38 points from those 22 games. In the Premier League last season they took 29 points from the 16 games they went 1-0 down in (1.81 points per game), by far the best in the division.
Under Moyes, this has changed dramatically. United have conceded first 12 times, but have gone on to win only three of those games (drawing one), gaining just 0.83 points per game. The shift from 1.81 to 0.83 is significant enough that if United had matched their resilience from last season, they would be sitting second in the Premier League, one point behind Arsenal.
Whether or not the pro-Moyes chants on Tuesday were genuine or a thin facade by fans desperate to convince themselves that this is not a crisis, it is evident that belief is low at Old Trafford - it has been more funfair than fortress for opposing sides this season. A fast start, an early goal and a confident performance will be tiny steps on the road to recovery, but anything else takes Moyes and United even closer to the mire. Concede first, and United look beaten.
One answer to this particular problem is obviously to score first, and Moyes' side have taken 23 points from a possible 27 when they have taken the lead. That is easier said than done, but underlines emphatically the need for a positive start against Swansea on Saturday.
Paul Merson is backing Manchester United to beat Swansea. Find out why.
Play it again, Sam
"We are not the first team to get beaten here by many, many goals and we will not be the last having seen Manchester City through this season."
Whilst West Ham United boss Sam Allardyce is indeed correct with his quotes following Wednesday's first-leg thrashing in the Capital One Cup, the fact that particular shambles came after the manager effectively sacrificed West Ham's participation in the other cup competition will have only further served to alienate him to the club's support.
Ignoring the Capital One Cup, Allardyce's side have now won one of their last 14 games, losing nine. No Premier League team has taken fewer points over this time period and they sit one point from the bottom of the table.
Sacking Sam Allardyce will only result in West Ham's weak squad being relegated, says Jeff Stelling.
Villa struggles
Despite being 11th in the table, Paul Lambert is a man whose employment seems to be under sustained pressure. Last weekend's FA Cup defeat by Sheffield United (after Lambert himself demeaned the importance of the competition) ended with a quarter-full Villa Park voicing its evident displeasure at the fare served up.
It is a sound which Lambert is getting rather used to. Villa may sit in mid-table, but that place is anything but comfortable. They are just six points above the bottom three and have won three of their last 15 Premier League matches, taking two points from five matches against Stoke City, Fulham, Crystal Palace, Sunderland and West Ham.
Pochettino's defensive selections
The pressure piled on Lambert clashes slightly when it is considered that Pochettino's Southampton are actually just four points ahead of Villa in the table, and after receiving deserved eulogies for their wonderful start to the season it is now one win in nine league games. Whilst defeats by Arsenal and Chelsea (twice) are nothing to be ashamed about, home performance has certainly regressed worryingly since the 4-1 win over Hull City in early November - one point in four games and 10 goals conceded.
A game at home to West Bromwich Albion, who have appointed Pepe Mel but will still be under the caretaker charge of Keith Downing, should provide an opportunity to get things back on track at St Mary's, but after conceding three goals to Championship Burnley last weekend, surely the time has come for Pochettino to stop tinkering with his centre-back pairing?
Martinez headache
Roberto Martinez has not been forced to deal with too many headaches since taking over at Goodison Park, but injury concerns will have caused him some concern this week.
The first possible casualty is Leighton Baines, who missed the FA Cup cruise over Queens Park Ranger with a back spasm. "Leighton is recovering as we expected so I do not think he is going to be too far from being able to train," were the Spaniard's words over his left back. "Any player needs to be 100 per cent to be able to play and to be considered to play, so we will assess him on Thursday."
In addition to Baines, both of Everton's first choice central defenders (Phil Jagielka and Sylvain Distin) have already been ruled out with hamstring injuries, meaning Martinez will be forced to again name a pairing of Antonin Alcaraz and John Stones. It worked against QPR, but Norwich (and a relatively in-form Gary Hooper) will provide a sterner test. After the draw against Stoke and defeat at home by Sunderland, Martinez will hope that his new look defence can hold firm.


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Thats a quote of yours. So are you saying the 2006 Nemi is also a copy of a 5 year old kite seeing they have similar designs.re the lack of bridles on the cabrinha, thats probably cos you cant see the pulleys, and also cos that looks like a 7m kite, i'm guessing the bigger they come the more bridled they are.
and it still looks like a copy of a 5 year old kite...
Here you are saying that the original design goes back to previous kites, and yet Best claim its their own idea from "thinking outside the box". So who is lying? You also claim its simply a cheaper foil without anyone noticing? I didn't notice anything like that on the best site either.goatboy: thats some funny shit, some newby 8 post master telling me to get back to my own forum...
maybe if you'd been kiting long enough to have seen all of the other kites from 5 years ago that were the pro-genitor of this takoon and cabrinha design, then you might know what you were talking about.
check the pictures out son...
maybe then you'll check this for what it is, a way to make a cheaper foil kite without anyone noticing, but without the true aerodynamic beneifts of a twinskin.
and yes we are rolling with the serial kites.
Surely if you were experimenting with this shapes so long ago yo would know the answer to this seeing as the picture of the best prototype has a similar bridle?i'm not bagging it, greg i'm asking a simple question, i cant see the full leach from any of the pictures so i'm interested in how they hold a flat leach.
obviously a curved leach is easier to hold with distributed load than a flat leach is, so i'm genuinely interetesed in how thats been achieved.
hence my question about its shape in flight,you can see the nova is actually quite curved but that cabby picture makes it look as flat as a foil.
And yet you say the best will have a simple bridle so is a simple bridle okay?i'm having a hard time figuring how adding bridles is a step forward from the rapture....
Why the questions? Well, very simple, you seem to claim a lot of knowledge about how long the Best guys have been working on this design so I'm asking why you don't have the answers to these questions if your designers are so amazing and you have first hand experience with some of the prototype you have already built and shown on the best website? All of these posts were taken from the Amazing New cabrinha post where you saw fit to comment on the kite although you hadn't seen it or tried it yet. I only got up to page 16 and then gave up with the quotes.
It seems you were really pesimistic about the takoon and nova until best produced something similar and suddenly its an idea best has been working on for a while.
I also notice best still haven't bother to respond to the comment regarding the use of the cabrinha slogan on their website. highly unethical and definitely not gaining them any fans. where do you draw the line? they going to use the takoon user manual and the cabrinha videos to promote their kite?


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In a statement, Obama called Pyongyang's third nuclear test in seven years a "highly provocative act" that threatens U.S. security and international peace. The reaction from the White House was significantly stronger than after North Korea's long-range missile test in December, when the administration only promised "appropriate action" alongside America's allies.
"The danger posed by North Korea's threatening activities warrants further swift and credible action by the international community," Obama said in a statement early Tuesday. "The United States will also continue to take steps necessary to defend ourselves and our allies."
North Korea said it successfully detonated a miniaturized nuclear device at a northeastern test site Tuesday. South Korean, U.S. and Japanese seismic monitoring agencies said they detected an earthquake in North Korea with a magnitude between 4.9 and 5.2.
North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency said the test was conducted safely but with "great explosive power." The test counters the "ferocious" U.S. hostility that undermines the North's peaceful, sovereign right to launch satellites, it argued. Last month, North Korea's National Defense Commission said the United States was its prime target for a nuclear test and long-range rocket launches.
"These provocations do not make North Korea more secure," Obama said. "Far from achieving its stated goal of becoming a strong and prosperous nation, North Korea has instead increasingly isolated and impoverished its people through its ill-advised pursuit of weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery."
The test occurred hours before Obama was to deliver his prime-time address to the nation. While the bulk of the speech will focus on the economy and job creation, the administration had sought to emphasize that it wants to work with Russia on further reducing the amount of deployable nuclear weapons each power maintains, building on the U.S.-Russian New START accord that took effect in 2011.
It's unclear how North Korea's test would affect the planning. Tommy Vietor, a spokesman for the White House's National Security Council, said Obama would make the case Tuesday evening that the "only way North Korea will rejoin the world community is if they stop these threats and live up to their international obligations."
The Obama administration's options for a response are limited - even though it is committed to protecting America's key Asian allies, South Korea and Japan.
The U.S. already maintains severe unilateral sanctions against North Korea, and commerce between the two countries is nearly nonexistent. Tougher global sanctions are dependent on the participation of China, Pyongyang's primary trading partner, but Beijing has resisted measures that would cut off North Korea's economy completely.
At the U.N., the Security Council opened an emergency meeting Tuesday and condemned North Korea's action. But any new, binding international sanctions will now have to be worked out.
More forceful U.S. consequences, in the form of a military response, are highly unlikely even though the United States remains technically at war with the notoriously unpredictable North Koreans, whose opaque leadership has confounded successive American administrations. Only the 1953 armistice ending the Korean War keeps the U.S. and the North from hostilities, and some 28,500 U.S. troops in South Korea to deter potential aggression.
But with the South Korean capital of Seoul just 40 miles south of the nuclear-armed North's border and its million-man army, the risks involved in any military action are great. And just raising the rhetoric can even serve as a reward to North Korea's attention-seeking government, which starves its citizens while seeking to leverage any military advance it makes into much-needed aid.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, in remarks Tuesday morning to Pentagon workers gathered in the building's courtyard, said the U.S. is going to have to continue to deal with rogue states like North Korea.
"We just saw what North Korea has done in these last few weeks, a missile test and now a nuclear test," he said. "They represent a serious threat to the United States of America, and we've got to be prepared to deal with that. "
The chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, California Republican Ed Royce, called for even tougher sanctions and demanded that the administration "replace its failed North Korea policy."
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On Tuesday, China expressed firm opposition to the test but called for a calm response by all sides.


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Capt. John Smith's first accounts of their remarkable size and abundance must have seemed incredible to the English back home -- where sturgeon were so rare that any one caught was reserved for the king. And since the devastation of the American population caused by overfishing at the turn of the 19th century, no one has seen the amazing prehistoric fish in such size and numbers for more than 100 years.
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Joanna Coles told us she was "not going to muddle" with Cosmopolitan when she took over as editor in chief in September, but she clearly wasn't referring to staff changes.
Coles has reportedly sacked nine members of the magazine's team, including seven on the editorial side and two from the photo department. And while she's hired British GQ's Paul Solomons as creative director and Marie Claire's Joyce Chang as executive editor, a litany of other positions have yet to be filled.
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Over the last several months, the desks at New York's glossy fashion titles have operated more like a game of musical chairs than anything else. The latest departure in a round of shuffling that started in August sees Elle's style director Kate Lanphear leaving her position. It's unclear where she's headed next.
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Brides executive editor Anne Fulenwider replaced Coles as editor in chief of Marie Claire. Her first big staff changes have been to promote Nina Garcia from fashion director to creative director and to hire Alex Gonzalez as artistic director. Fulenwider was herself replaced by Keija Minor, becoming the first black editor in chief of a Condé Nast title.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates Iran's supreme leader is supposed to be many things in the eyes of his followers: Spiritual mentor, protector of the Islamic Revolution, a moral compass above the regular fray.
Political referee is not among them.
Yet that is the unfamiliar role Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has adopted as the political mudslinging gets heavier ahead of elections in June to pick a successor for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
"Bad, wrong, inappropriate," scolded Khamenei on Saturday in his most stinging rebuke of Ahmadinejad for his mounting attacks on rivals - including an ambush earlier this month in parliament when he played a barely audible videotape that purported to show corruption inside the family of the chamber's speaker.
Khamenei then went on to chide the parliament speaker, Ali Larijani, for publicly humiliating Ahmadinejad in response to the tape.
"When there is a common enemy and conspiracies are hatched from all sides, is there any way other than strengthening brotherhood and resisting the enemy?" Khamenei said in reference to widening Western sanctions and pressures over Iran's nuclear program.
Hardball politics are nothing new in Iran, whose elected parliament and government can make even Washington's bickering seem genteel. It also is unlikely to threaten the real power in Iran: The ruling clerics and their guardians led by the Revolutionary Guard.
But the deepening nastiness inside Iran speaks volumes about the importance of the presidential election on June 14 and how it could reset Tehran's political order.
- Kerry: Confronting N. Korea sends message to Iran
- Iran touts installation of advanced enrichment centrifuges
- Iran supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei rejects direct talks with U.S.
Khamenei seeks to tamp down the rising political spats that could signal weakness to the West in nuclear negotiations set to resume next week. He also wants to close off any openings for public complaints over the economic pain from the expanding sanctions.
At the same time, however, Khamenei risks blows to his image if his unprecedented personal intervention fails to calm the growing tremors whose epicenter is Ahmadinejad.
Parliament on Sunday showed obedience. More than 260 lawmakers - nearly the entire 290-seat chamber - expressed loyalty to Khamenei. Ahmadinejad made no immediate comment.
"The presidential election has raised the stakes in the ongoing blame game," said Abolghasem Bayyenat, a former Iranian trade official who runs the website irandiplomacywatch.com.
Khamenei "certainly does not want the political wrangling ... to get out of control," he said.
But Ahmadinejad shows no signs of heading into a quiet retirement after his second and final term. This raises the possibility he could become something Iran has rarely seen: a political wild card able to muster allies and grass roots backers to complicate life for rivals such as Larijani.
And one of those rivals could very well be sitting in Ahmadinejad's old office in Tehran. Khamenei has pushed back hard against Ahmadinejad's attempts to challenge his authority in the past two years. As payback, the ruling clerics are likely to block any key Ahmadinejad backer from the presidential ballot and bring in someone who has sided with Khamenei as his relationship with Ahmadinejad drifted from cozy to cool to outright hostility.
In the meantime, Ahmadinejad heads into his final months eager to land some punches on his opponents.
"We are witnessing a new precariousness in Iran's internal politics," said Suzanne Maloney, an Iranian affairs expert at the Brookings Institution in Washington.
There's no clearer evidence than Khamenei, whose hard-core followers believe is answerable only to God. Yet even he can't seem to calm Iran's political tempest with rare - and increasingly sharp - orders from on high.
It suggests a diminishing regard for Khamenei and the ruling clerics to fully set the political tone inside Iran - which could be the ultimate political legacy of Ahmadinejad from his defiance while in office and his possible gadfly role after leaving later this year.


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|Director Abrahams returns to the "Airplane" well once again as he takes aim at the Mafia movies of Coppola and Scorcese. As usual, the results are hit and miss, with the joke machine gun set on full automatic. Plot follows that of the Godfather trilogy most closely, with Bridges (in his last film) as klutzy patriarch Vincenzo Cortino. His sons, sensitive war hero Anthony (Mohr) and hot tempered Joey (Burke), wrestle for control of the keystone kriminal empire after pop takes the dirt nap. Basically, the actors' jobs are to remain deadpan while all manner of shenanigans and hijinks take place and hilarity allegedly ensues. This genre is quickly running out of ammo. It's time for someone to administer the kiss of death.
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As the Internal Revenue Service begins accepting returns this week for the 2012 tax season, the agency has begun a $320 million upgrade over 10 years to improve its website content, design and usability, according to a new GAO report.
But the IRS' website plans need to be more strategic to address a need to shift incoming inquiries from the public to less expensive online customer service tools while minimizing use of expensive telephone customer services, the Jan. 17 report said.
IRS' current $320 million investment for its website includes new, more secure portals so that taxpayers can access more information. The new website is expected to go online in 2013.
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However, the IRS needs to be more strategic about exactly what online customer services it intends to improve, and what it hopes to achieve, the GAO said.
"IRS does not have concrete plans that define what additional online services the new website will ultimately provide and how much the services will cost," the report said. "To their credit, IRS officials have begun developing a roadmap that identifies some online services they would like to provide, and IRS has periodically added new online services in the past. However, the roadmap omits several fundamental elements. "
Missing from the roadmap are a cost-benefit analysis for the new services, schedule for deployment or specific plans to revisit and make changes to the strategy.
The IRS ought to consider specific plans for more automated phone service as a partial substitute for telephone service with a customer service representative.
"The extent to which taxpayers can be diverted to the Web will allow IRS to assist them at a much lower cost and more quickly," the GAO report said.
Adding urgency to the efforts is that the IRS' telephone service is showing strains. Taxpayers who called IRS phone lines in 2011 waited an average of 11.7 minutes in 2011, up from 9.5 minutes in 2010 and 8.4 minutes in 2009, the report said.
The GAO recommends that to reduce telephone problems the goal should be to shift calls to self-service tools, such as interactive automated telephone lines or the IRS website.
"In 2011, through June 30, CSRs answered over 22 million calls at a cost of about $30 per call, for a total of about $660 million. Conversely, IRS said this year it cost $0.36 to answer an automated phone call," the report said.
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i went to JH to file and my sister used Ttax and she got hers within 7 buis days does irs favor filing if the person has kids?
I also paid extra to get my refund back quickly and made promises to bill collectors according to the dates I received from the people that did my taxes. This has really caused a lot of stress for me!
The IRS wont pay our refund until Feb 7th
because of a glitch in the system and i pay my tax person over 200.00 to get it back quicker than the mail.They have done this from a lot of Vas.
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BofA/Merrill Lynch: Three Reasons to Own Stocks Now (GSK, BMY, SNY, ABBV, PM, MSFT, INTC, BP, KRFT, GE)
Stocks have rallied sharply during January after the last-minute congressional compromise on the fiscal cliff. While the deal was far from perfect, it averted not only a disaster for the U.S. economy, but also a potentially painful hit to risk-asset markets. With the Treasury bond market at perhaps the most overbought level ever, and corporate investment grade bonds also expensive, those who continue to avoid buying stocks may soon regret it. Bank of America/Merrill Lynch chief economist Ethan Harris offered three very compelling reasons to own stocks now and going forward. In addition, Harris noted the danger of owning Treasury bonds.
To some it may seem a little after the fact to be extolling the virtues of owning stocks with the S&P 500 hovering around 1,500, which is a five-year high. However it is important to remember that we have been in a secular bear market for the past 13 years. As we pointed out yesterday, when the transports start to break out and offer sector leadership, the long bear market may be coming to an end.
The push from bonds (interest rate risk): The historically low level of bond yields offers a bleak outlook for fixed income returns and significant interest rate risk for bondholders. If the 30-year Treasury yield, which is currently 3.1%, were to rise above 3.32%, the return over the next 12 months would be negative.
The pull from equities (attractive yield): Global equity dividend yields and payout ratios have been on the rise in recent years, and the removal of uncertainty regarding tax policy strengthens the case for owning dividend stocks.
Investors are far from being "all-in": Recent fund flow data shows early signs of investor rotation from bonds to equities, but the stubborn preference for exchange traded funds over long-only funds indicates cautious, rather than confident bullishness. Moreover, a long-run look at positioning shows that investors have shunned equities in favor of bond funds (which saw record inflows in 2012).
With these three solid reasons as backup, here is a list of Bank of America/Merrill Lynch Buy-rated stocks with dividend yields that are higher than their own corporate debt. We screened the names to find the top 10 highest yielding stocks in this universe.
- GlaxoSmithKline PLC (NYSE: GSK) yield 5.20%
- Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. (NYSE: BMY) yield 4%
- Sanofi S.A. (NYSE: SNY) yield 3.50%
- AbbVie Inc. (NYSE: ABBV) yield 4.20%
- Philip Morris International Inc. (NYSE: PM) yield 3.80%
- Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) yield 3.30%
- Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC) yield 4.30%
- BP PLC (NYSE: BP) yield 5.53%
- Kraft Foods Group Inc. (NASDAQ: KRFT) yield 4.30%
- General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) yield 3.50%
With interest rates almost certain to rise at some point, money that flowed into bond funds will come out and search for a home in stocks. It makes sense to get involved before and not after rates go up.
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DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh's figurehead president, Zillur Rahman, died Wednesday at a hospital in Singapore. He was 84.
Rahman was a top leader of the ruling Awami League party before Parliament elected him president in 2009.
He was flown to Singapore's Mount Elizabeth Hospital on March 10 for treatment of respiratory problems. His body will be flown back to Dhaka on Thursday, the president's office said.
The government declared three days of mourning starting Thursday.
Rahman's death does not affect the government since Bangladesh is a parliamentary democracy, with the prime minister holding executive powers.
The president's office said parliamentary speaker Abdul Hamid will be acting president until the legislature elects a new president.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina offered her condolences and described Rahman as a patriotic leader.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the late president "made important contributions to the country's democratic transition throughout his political life" and sent "heartfelt condolences" to Rahman's family and the government and people of Bangladesh, U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky said.


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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 2nd Mar 2009 12:18 UTC, submitted by gh
Thales, an aerospace, defense and security company (68000 employees), releases MyCCM High Integrity, a software component framework targeting mission- and safety-critical distributed real time embedded software. It integrates components written in C, and generates code for handling inter-component communication, threads (priorities, periods), locks, and mode-based reconfiguration. In addition to the software components, MyCCM-HI takes as input a model of the application in a so-called Component-Oriented Architecture Language. Open licensing policy is seen as a mean to improve industry standards.
Interesting ...
by Hypnos on Tue 3rd Mar 2009 05:30 UTC
... that I am the first to comment on this. Isn't this precisely the kind of software that OSS advocates should urge companies to open up?
Specialized technology that requires expert time to develop, and yet widely applicable -- in this case, to mission critical systems. Finally, because this is indeed for mission critical systems, that it is now open source should make deployments all the more robust and easy to maintain.
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Scientists have found that a protein expressed by some cancers is a good predictor of how the cancer will respond to standard chemotherapy for osteosarcoma, the most common bone cancer in children. Knowing whether a patient's tumor has this protein biomarker could help doctors determine if a patient should undergo standard treatment or if a more aggressive or alternative therapy may be more effective.
The study findings were published in Human Pathology and are available online at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22578565.
"This is the first time that a biomarker has been identified that predicts treatment success for osteosarcoma," said Dariusz Borys, assistant professor in the UC Davis Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and lead author of the study. "It is a first step in individualizing therapy to maximize success based on a protein that the cancer expresses."
Osteosarcoma is usually diagnosed during the teenage years. It also may affect people over 60.
Osteosarcoma is typically treated with "neoadjuvant therapy," which involves several cycles of chemotherapy using a combination of drugs to shrink the tumor before it is surgically removed. How effective the chemotherapy is in inducing cancer cell death (necrosis) is the best predictor of a patient's survival following surgery. But a tumor's response to chemotherapy varies widely among patients, and until now, a way to predict whether the chemotherapy will work well has not been identified.
The investigators focused on a protein expressed by cancer cells known as P16, which inhibits cell growth. For unknown reasons, some cancers stop expressing P16. The researchers found that patients who had cancers that still expressed P16 were more likely to respond well to chemotherapy.
"It is useful to know ahead of time if patients are likely to respond to standard therapy," said Borys. "Those who have tumors that do not express P16 would be especially good candidates for more aggressive or experimental treatments to see if they might respond better."
The study enrolled 40 patients, aged 9 to 75 years old (median age, 15 years), with osteosarcoma at UC Davis and UC San Francisco. Pathologic specimens of the tumors before treatment were collected for study from each patient and were analyzed for P16 expression. After chemotherapy, during surgery to remove the tumor, specimens were again collected and analyzed for the extent of tumor cell death. A little more than half of the patients responded well to chemotherapy, and these patients were found to be significantly more likely to have had tumors that expressed the P16 protein.
Data on how the patients fared clinically were not available for this study, but it has been well established from other studies that the amount of tumor killed preoperatively is strongly associated with survival.
Borys said more patients will be studied to strengthen the findings, and on a molecular level, more study is needed to clarify why some cancer cells stop expressing P16.
The study was a collaboration among three institutions on the west coast (UC Davis, UC San Francisco and University of Washington) and involved pathologists and surgeons. According to Borys, pathologists traditionally have been used to help establish a diagnosis, but are now moving toward an equally important role in helping clinicians determine treatment strategies.
"Pathologists will one day be able to provide answers to better help clinicians cure their patients," said Borys. "Our work to improve the treatment of osteosarcoma is an important step in that direction."
The article is titled, "P16 expression predicts necrotic response among patients with osteosarcoma receiving neoadjuvant chemotherapy."
Other UC Davis study authors were Robert J. Canter and Steve R. Martinez, surgical oncologists at the Comprehensive Cancer Center, Robert M. Tamurian of the Department of Orthopedic Surgery, John Bishop of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Brian Murphy of the Veterinary School's Department of Pathology. Andrew Horvai of the UC San Francisco Medical Center was co-principal investigator with Borys. Benjamin Hoch of the University of Washington was another study author.
UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center is the only National Cancer Institute-designated center serving the Central Valley and inland Northern California, a region of more than 6 million people. Its specialists provide compassionate, comprehensive care for more than 9,000 adults and children every year, and access to more than 150 clinical trials at any given time. Its innovative research program engages more than 280 scientists at UC Davis, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Jackson Laboratory (JAX West), whose scientific partnerships advance discovery of new tools to diagnose and treat cancer. Through the Cancer Care Network, UC Davis collaborates with a number of hospitals and clinical centers throughout the Central Valley and Northern California regions to offer the latest cancer care. Its community-based outreach and education programs address disparities in cancer outcomes across diverse populations. For more information, visit cancer.ucdavis.edu.


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Levi Johnston will now use protection.
The teen dad turned pistachio pitchman jokes that he will use "protection" in a new commercial for Wonderful Pistachios for a campaign that pokes fun at the hockey hunk who fathered a son with Bristol Palin -- the daughter of former veep candidate Sarah Palin.
The spot shows the 19-year-old stud in a green Alaska T-shirt and flanked by publicist and bodyguard Tank Jones as a phalanx of off-camera paparazzi shout his name.
"Now, Levi Johnston does it with protection," says a voiceover as Levi shoves a nut into his mouth.
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