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High School students in Knoxville will soon have the opportunity to voice their opinion on issues in the community as a new city board will soon be established. Knoxville Mayor Don Zoutte tells KNIA/KRLS news a Mayor's Youth Council will be officially added to the city committees by ordinance at the City Council meeting Monday. Zoutte says there have been issues in Knoxville recently including vandalism and suicide and he hopes letting children have a voice on what goes on in the city will help reduce these problems. Zoutte says the schools and an advisory board will help get the youth council started but essentially it's up to the next generation of Knoxville residents to make this group work. Soon applications will be available for students to apply for the Mayor's Youth Council. Zoutte says requirements include a minimum of a 2.0 grade point average and an explanation on what they want to see improved here in Knoxville.
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She LOVES loosing her teeth... LOL!!! And it's been soo easy, they just fall out:) And she's got another one that's loose right now... it's her top left!! We'll see if that's the next one to go:)
Nate is staying awake longer and needed more opportunities to sit up. He just seems to be happier when he's not always on his back. So we purchased a walker for him this weekend....
Think he likes it??
But I think it was cute that he still found his siblings more entertaining:)

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Gamers will soon be able to take a trip down memory lane and enjoy six classic Disney video games as Capcom announces The Disney Afternoon Collection for Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC.
The Disney Afternoon Collection is a compilation of a half-dozen games that feature the well-known Disney TV characters from the 1980s and 90s. Updated to 1080p HD, the games keep true to their original versions while also including brand-new modes that can be enjoyed by both first-time players and long-time fans.
Included in The Disney Afternoon Collection are:
- Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers – Originally released in 1990 for the Nintendo Entertainment System, the game lets players team up with a friend in co-op play as they assume the roles of the mischievous Chip and Dale as they take on memorable villain Fat Cat and attempt to solve the mystery of a missing kitten.
- Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers 2 – In this 1994 sequel for the NES, Fat Cat has escaped and his plans are even more dastardly this time. The titular heroes and supporting cast Monterey Jack, Gadget, and Zipper must stop Fat Cat from his evil dream of world domination.
- Darkwing Duck – Released in 1993 for the NES, gamers get to play as the original caped crusader and fight a city full of criminals from the infamous F.O.W.L. organization in this action-packed platforming epic.
- DuckTales – Considered one of the best video games of its era, it's a platforming adventure in which players help Scrooge McDuck fill his feathery pockets with vast riches from across the world. It originally came out for the NES in 1989.
- DuckTales 2 – The sequel to the original game came out for the NES in 1993 and features an even bigger caper set in new locations like the Bermuda Triangle and Niagara Falls.
- TaleSpin – Originally releasing on TurboGrafx-16 and NES in 1991, players take to the skies as Baloo the bear and navigate his plane through exotic and dangerous locations in this side-scrolling shoot-em-up.
The new play modes being added to each title include "Boss Rush" and "Time Attack". In the former, players battle through consecutive boss encounters, while the latter encourages time-based gameplay and provides online leaderboards that track the fastest times for each game. Furthermore, The Disney Afternoon Collection will be addidng a new "Rewind" feature that's designed to make these challenging titles more accessible for newcomers. It allows players to rewind time so that they may recover from in-game blunders. Additionally, the in-game "Disney Museum" will provide history buffs with a wealth of content to celebrate the era of the original releases, such as concept art, advertisements, character art, and music.
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The Disney Afternoon Collection will be available as a digital download across North America and Europe for $19.99 / £15.99 / €19.99 starting on April 18, 2017


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Shale gas revolution triggers FDI boom for US
FT front-page story on shale gas boom in US already identifiably responsible for additional $90b foreign direct investment flow into US.
Subtitles are telling:
- Investments drive US industrial renaissance
- European companies fear growing divide
Industries that benefit from cheap feedstocks are being targeted, and European counterparts fear they will be at systematic disadvantage in any industry that is fuel-intensive.
Yes, some of these same industries in US argue now for no LNG exports, lest the advantage slip away. But most energy experts say we can export at will and probably raise the MMBTU price by maybe only one dollar. We are now about 8-10$ cheaper than LNG prices in Europe and about $15 less than what Asians (mostly the Japanese) are paying.
So yeah, we can have our cake and eat it too.
No, but arguably for a solid generation's time.
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James Dean Died Here: The Locations of America's Pop Culture Landmarks
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Packed with historical information, this travel guide explores the sites where pop culture history was made. With hundreds of photographs, this encyclopedic resource covers approximately 600 sites of the most famous and infamous pop culture events. The greatest landmarks from Americana, movies, music, tragedy, crime, television, and sports are included, such as where George Washington crossed the Delaware River; the diner in the film Diner; the site of the Planet of the Apes finale; the Hindenburg crash site; the Brady Bunch house; and the location of the 1980 Olympic "Miracle on Ice" hockey team victory. This offbeat travelogue provides the armchair traveler or road warrior tourist with all the information needed to visit America's pop culture sites of significance.
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As we neared the jungle, we realized that it was actually a rubber plantation.
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Here is a beautiful view of the guard house from the plantation.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Two District of Columbia leaders are heading to the White House to talk about the possibility of President Barack Obama putting the city's "Taxation Without Representation" license plates on his official vehicle.
The city created the license plate in 2000 to call attention to its lack of a voting member of Congress. President Bill Clinton put the tags on his presidential limousine, but his successors have declined to do so.
This week, the D.C. Council passed an emergency resolution asking Obama to start using the tag in time for the inaugural parade. Now, Council Chairman Phil Mendelson and Councilmember Mary Cheh will meet Friday with White House intergovernmental affairs staff.
Cheh has requested a plate from the Department of Motor Vehicles that Obama could use on the limo.
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University of Pennsylvania / School of Medicine / Beers Lab
The Beers' Laboratory for Surfactant Biology in the Pulmonary and Critical Care Division in the Department of Medicine is housed in state of the art wet bench space at the Translational Research Center of the School of Medicine at 3400 Civic Center Boulevard. Opened in December 2011, TRC combines world class research, teaching, and animal care facilities, and is ideally positioned contiguously with the Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and adjacent to the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. This environment allows us to leverage the very best of both institutions in order to facilitate collaborative investigations in basic and translational biomedical research.
The pulmonary epithelium synthesizes and secretes a surface-active film of biochemically heterogeneous lipoprotein mixture (lung surfactant) that reduces surface tension at air-liquid interfaces and allows for maintenance of alveolar stability at low lung volumes. [Figure 1] In addition two collagen-like lectin ("collectin") protein components in surfactant are recognized for their importance in innate lung host defense and modulation of inflammation. Congenital and acquired abnormalities in surfactant component expression, in surfactant biophysics, and in the alveolar epithelial cells that produce it play an important role in the pathogenesis of adult and pediatric lung disease.
Our group is dedicated to the characterization of cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying surfactant biology and to an improved understanding of the role of the distal lung epithelium in the pathogenesis of lung disease. Current projects are focused on:
From studies of other neurodegenerative diseases associated with mutations in proteins such as huntingin1, a-synuclein, and presenilin as well as in chronic liver disease associated with mutant a-1 antitrypsin, the concept of 'conformational diseases' caused by aggregation prone mutant proteins is well-recognized. We are currently characterizing mechanisms by which "SFTPC BRICHOS mutations" induce cell dysfunction [Figure 4] including formation of protein aggregates, generation of inflammation, and induction of apoptosis [See Movie]. Exciting new studies examining the novel role for macroautophagy in the lung for clearance of these aggregates and epithelial cytoprotection are also in progress and offer new therapeutic targets for pulmonary fibrosis. [Figure 5]
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09 September 2011
Return of the Blog
In the mean time, as I'm coming back to this blog, I've decided it's in desperate need of an interface overhaul. So I'm posing a question to my readers: what would you like to see in the interface? How would you like to have the tutorials presented so as to make them more accessible?
I will likely go back through the past tutorials and clean things up, clarify specifics, and generally improve the quality of information in them as well as bring back some consistency in style and presentation. What else can I do to help this community effectively?
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I think the presentation is quite good as is. Nice, clean, no distractions, and if I choose "no page style" (so as to make the sidebar not to waste a good quarter of my screen real estate) the result is a perfectly accessible page. You simply can't do any better than that.
I would not change a thing.
- September 10, 2011 at 6:13 AM
I would love to see a tutorial that explains the flash memory register. It would be nice to see how to store data on a scientific instrument and then transfer that data back to a computer. For example a program that grabbed the temperature every minute for an hour. Once the data was captured you could hook the launchpad back up to the computer and import the data for graphing etc.
Take care,
- October 14, 2011 at 12:00 AM
Sorry for the double post. I just thought it would be cool if you could add an SD MMC card slot to the project I recommended above. Sparkfun has a cool breakout board at a good price. http://www.sparkfun.com/products/204 There are cheaper options but the would require soldering. Keep up the great work.
Take care,
- October 15, 2011 at 2:25 AM
- David said...
Those are excellent suggestions. Using flash is a topic coming up soon. I'd like to do SPI and I2C communication as well, and EEPROM is a convenient device to use as it's readily available to everyone. (You may even be able to get samples at no cost from Microchip.) I'll have to look into SD cards..
- October 15, 2011 at 10:03 AM
Sounds good! I can't wait to see the flash tutorial. I hope you'll explain how to pull the info back to a PC from the MCU flash.
Take care,
- October 16, 2011 at 4:27 PM
Publication SLAA281B has a good explanation of the Flash/MSP430 interface using SPI.
Take care,
- October 16, 2011 at 6:15 PM
- David said...
Thanks! I hope I can get around to it soon... I'll definitely get something written up about it eventually, but first I'll have to figure out how to do it. =)
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"Wayne State: Worth it?" Probably not.
pretty big assumption that there is a "boom" coming anytime soon...
You may be right, and it may be that folks entering law school now will skip over the ones who graduated earlier and will have career paths that will justify their large debt loads. But it's not a gamble I'd want to take.
To answer the question at the end of your post, almost all Wayne students are Michigan residents, so their transfer destination of choice is UM. In a typical year, after the 1L grades come out, about 3-5 will transfer. You need about a 3.7 to be confident of a transfer (that's top 5% or so) but I've heard of kids with a 3.5 getting in (and that's more like top 10%). People don't typically look at Ohio State or Notre Dame.


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The New Orleans Saints have almost reached the finish line for this year's tumultuous season.
The New Orleans Saints have almost reached the finish line for this year's tumultuous season.
The Saints found themselves officially eliminated from the playoffs on Sunday, meaning their game next week against the Carolina Panthers will be this season's last.
There was some good news on Sunday as well, though.
The Saints beat the Dallas Cowboys in overtime, making it that much tougher for Dallas to make the postseason.
While that game won't matter to the Saints' outlook, it does mean a lot that the Black and Gold have continued to fight even though their playoff hopes were nearly extinguished.
That is the mark of a team with character, the kind of team that will show its true colors in the years to come when it gets its head coach back from this year's suspension.
In the meantime, the Saints have a few good games under their belt heading into next week's finale.
This has been a troublesome year on a number of fronts.
Throughout much of the offseason, the team was the subject of stories about its alleged bounty program. That scandal ended up costing coach Sean Payton a year's suspension. The players who were suspended eventually had the penalties overturned, but by then, the story had been a significant distraction.
This season might not have ended with the Saints playing at home in the Super Bowl anyway. There is no guarantee that the players and coaches would have fared any better without the scandal.
The fans, though, have to believe it would have gone a lot more smoothly with Payton at the helm.
In any event, the team and its fans have made their way toward the end of the season with discipline and determination.
At 7-8, the Saints have an excellent chance next week to end the season at 8-8 — an impressive task given the 0-4 start to the season.
Of course, as Saints fans have long told themselves, there is always next year.
Far from the empty promise that phrase used to hold for a team mired in mediocrity and worse, "next year" now holds the promise of another chance to make the Super Bowl. And the team and its fans have every reason to think they can make it.
The offseason will allow the Saints to get their bearings, make some improvements and attack the new year with renewed vigor.
Geaux Saints!
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EX1 Cosmetics is a range of make up created by Farah Naz, who is British Asian, and wanted to create a range of products suitable for 'exotic' skintones after being frustrated at what the high street had to offer. The brand uses the term 'exotic', and by that, they are meaning Asian (which in the UK tends to refer to Indian and Pakistani races), Middle/Far-Eastern or Mediterranean complexions.
We are talking about quite a specific colour group, from golden yellow to deep olive skintones.
I fit into the Far Eastern category, and my skin is warm and medium toned. In terms of finding a good foundation on the high street, I find some are too yellow or sometimes the shades leave a whitish cast (although to be fair, foundations are much better these days then when I was younger).
I was sent 3 products to road test; the Invisiwear Liquid Foundation in F300 (right in the middle), Powder in P200 (also the middle shade) and the Delete Concealer (anti blemish/dark circle), D200 (yes, you guessed it, the middle shade!).
Here are the 5 liquid foundations currently in the range. I chose the middle shade as it looked right although I think the shade on the right could also work.
The Invisiwear Liquid Foundation they say is; A lightweight and luminous liquid base, formulated with light diffusers which unify skin tone and cover imperfections effortlessly. Cleverly designed light diffusing particles detract attention away from lines, wrinkles and blemishes.
It is non pore clogging, and is oil and fragrance free (hurrah!).
I found the foundation to be quite a rich creamy texture – when I pumped it out on to my hand, it stayed in a neat little dollop and it wouldn't move if I tipped my hand to the side (to make it clearer). It's certainly rich in texture, not runny or sheer, I actually found it quite pigmented and offered decent coverage of blemishes and redness.
I found it left my skin quite glowy – it definitely has light diffusing qualities, which looks very healthy although I wasn't so keen on the result over the areas where I have larger pores. A bit of powder helped on these areas.
I found the base wore quite well although it oxidised a little in the day and made me look a bit tanned! I found this less of an issue if I wore a primer underneath. Despite these issues, I found the finish quite flawless and the more I've used this, the more I think of it as a really easy to use every day foundation.
The powder and concealer:
My image is over exposed, the colours above are slightly deeper and more yellow in real life.
The powder:
Feather light and ultra finely milled, EX1's pressed powder is the ultimate skin finisher. Swirled over the skin it delivers just a hint of colour and offers lasting shine control, for a perfectly groomed look every time.
The powder is very silky soft and creamy to touch. I personally think the powder gives quite a lot of coverage -I would compare it to some of my lighter powder foundations in fact so I'd say you can use this with a large powder brush for a light finish or a puff for extra coverage. I am used to finishing powders at the moment, such as Sisley which offer nearly no coverage but set make up well….so it's a nice change to use a powder that adds an extra flawless finish, for bad skin days!
I don't mind a pot concealer and I find these are usually really creamy.
This concealer is actually a bit on the waxy side, but despite this it covered my blemishes really well – it's a heavy duty one which I would personally use very lightly under the eyes but would save mostly for the face.
They say:
Your ultimate skin-trick for banishing blemishes and concealing imperfections. Antioxidants defend against ageing free radicals while Vitamin E helps soothe and heal blemishes, all in a lightweight super-blendable formula. Press the delete button on flaws for a perfectly photo-shopped effect.
The packaging of these is decent they feel ok – not cheap although not very high end. The shiny compact is a bit annoying as greasy fingers = marks!
The concealer is £6.50, the pressed powder is £8.99 and the foundation is £10.99. For under £30 for the whole base kit, I think it is reasonably priced (with every day usage these products would last months and months).
On my face:
The more I use these products the more I like them; the finish is quite long lasting and flawless (since everything in the range is pigmented and has decent coverage) and for the price point I would definitely recommend them to women who struggle to match up to any decent foundation on the High Street.
You can buy the range from Look Fantastic (who offer free shipping).
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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – A total of 17 current UC Santa Barbara swimmers will compete at the 2011 ConocoPhillips USA Swimming National Championships in Palo Alto, Calif. next week. The event, which is being held at Stanford University's Avery Aquatic Center, will run August 2-6.
Along with selecting this year's USA Swimming National Champions, the event will serve as the selection meet for the 2011 Pan American Games, set for October 15-22 in Guadalajara, Mexico, and the 2011 FINA World Junior Championships, set for August 16-21 in Lima, Peru.
Many Gauchos have remained in Santa Barbara over the summer and will represent Santa Barbara Aquatic Club at Nationals.
Paige Bradley (200 IM), Andrea Ward (400 free, 100 and 200 fly) and Sophia Yamauchi (200 IM, 100 and 200 breast) will each swim for SBAC. On the men's side, Kevin Ferguson (100 back, 50 and 100 free, 400 free relay), Tim Freeman (100 and 200 breast), Ryan Hanni (50, 100 and 200 free, 400 free relay), Chris Peterson (50 and 100 free, 400 free relay), Garrett Thompson (50, 100 and 200 free, 400 free relay) and Kevin Kuhn (400 free relay) will each be making appearances.
Gaucho alum, Katy Freeman, will also be competing in the 100 and 200 breast as a member of SBAC.
Several swimmers will be swimming with their hometown clubs. Both Allie Knight (400 IM and 200 back) and Katie Tomkinson (400 and 800 free relays, 400 medley relay) will swim for North Coast Aquatics. Randy Aakhus (400 IM) will swim with Bakersfield Swim Club and Evan Simoni (200 IM, 100 breast and 200 breast) will compete with College Area Swim Team.
Andrew Latimer (50 free) will swim with North Bay Aquatics while teammate Mike London (400 and 800 free relays) will be swimming with Santa Clara Swim Club. Max Horrell (100 fly) will represent the Marin Pirates and Andrew Dossa (400 free relay) will swim for the Walnut Creek Aquabears.
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Hudson has been through a lot, which makes her live performances even more magical and powerful, especially her free streaming Live on Letterman concert from the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York, on June 13th at 9 PM ET. You can watch the entire concert, live right here!
- Hudson auditions in Atlanta singing [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Aretha Franklin[/lastfm]'s "Share Your Love With Me." Previously, Hudson was a Disney cruise ship singer.
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- Macmillan is the last of five publishers to reach a settlement
- Simon and Schuster, HarperCollins, Penguin, and Hachette settled earlier
- Litigation with Apple continues, with a trial scheduled to begin in June
The Justice Department has reached a settlement with Macmillan, the last of five large publishers to come to an agreement after being accused of conspiring with Apple to raise e-book retail prices, the department announced Friday.
The settlement should lead to lower prices for Macmillan's e-books, an official said.
Litigation with Apple continues, with a trial scheduled to begin in June.
The Justice Department had previously settled its claims against Simon and Schuster, HarperCollins, Penguin, and Hachette.
The latest settlement was filed in the Southern District of New York.
"As a result of today's settlement, Macmillan has agreed to immediately allow retailers to lower the prices consumer pay for Macmillan's e-books," said Jamillia Ferris of the Justice Department's Antitrust Division.
"Just as consumers are already paying lower prices for the e-book versions of many of Hachette's, HarperCollins, and Simon and Schuster's new releases and best-sellers, we expect the prices of many of Macmillan's e-books will also decline," Ferris said.
The government says publishers were unhappy that competition had pushed the price of its most popular e-books to as low as $9.99. After the alleged conspiracy consumers often had to pay $12.99, $14.99 or more.
Apple distributes e-books through its iBookstore.
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Browser StatsDecember 10, 2003
Where do you go for accurate, up to date numbers for current browser share?
There aren't many centralized resources aggregating this sort of thing on a wide scale anymore. Thanks to lazy developers who have written bad detection scripts over the past five years, plenty of browsers identify themselves as IE anyway, which makes tracking more of an art than a science.
One of my old monthly visits was thecounter.com's browser stats, which stopped being updated in May. Due to the distributed nature of their code, I always considered this a fairly accurate cross-section of the web.
Chuck Upsdell is still going strong after just about 300 weekly editions. However, as always, his stats are culled from 4 different sources with completely different target audiences, and while may be enough to spot trends, aren't as representational as they need to be for generalizing.
There are a handful of others that pop up after a quick Google, the most notable being an older page of Christina Wodtke's. But nothing screams definitive to me.
Aside from sifting through logs on servers under your control, are there any other resources out there worth a bookmark?
Reader Comments
Does DAS offer aggregate statistics? I know it'll track users for your own site, but I'm thinking more along the lines of displaying web-wide browser trends.
Whoa, am I late to the party. TheCounter stopped updating?!
Well, crap.
I keep an eye on the Google Zeitgeist, though their monthly updates are often delayed (November 2003 statistics aren't up yet), and they only provide a rough graph:
Also, I watch the stats for the sites that my company designs and hosts.
One thing I always tell clients is to weight their own traffic more heavily than general statistics. They generally tend to be similar but if for some reason 10% of your userbase still supports a legacy browser like NN4 or a niche one like a Linux browser, the site should be designed with that in mind.
I would think Google to be a decent source of stats considering how many people use it. I just wish that little browser graph was a little bigger!
Dave, on the Reinvigorate site, the column on the right shows aggregate stats. I imagine you'd want something more in-depth than this though, no? Or have I missed the point and you're after something totally different?
Actually, now that I actually visit the site those ReInvigorate graphs look pretty decent. 3-5 million hits a day works out to 100-150 mil per month, which is about a third of what thecounter.com was running at its peak. If they're reporting roughly similar to how thecounter.com did it, that's a reasonably good substitute.
Eric - excellent policy. Designing for your own audience is, of course, the best practice. Generalizing helps predict trends, but at the end of the day your site needs to cater to your user base.
The thought occurs that it would be interesting to just open up that part of your stats log publicly, and then let someone with some aggregation-fu put it all together.
I seem to say this a lot in this type of discussion but, despite it's huge popularity, I would expect google to be a worse source of stats than many other places. True, the huge visitor numbers mean that the random error should be low, but the systematic errors for google may be very large. Also, google is very much a 'black box'; it's not clear exactly how they are collecting and filtering their results. See these links, for example, for some further discussion of why I think that trusting google stats is likely to lead to incorrect conclusions:
I suppose if I had one of these newfangled weblog things (as opposed to a web page that occasionally gets new content in a reverse-chronological order), I could write that up and link to it. Hmm.
Back in Poland they have a wonderful resource called http://www.ranking.pl/ (browser stats are on http://www.ranking.pl/rank.php?stat=browAL ). It is very reliable, gathers data from six million sites, which is pretty big for Poland, and their customer service is actually very friendly (you can ask them for stats on specific subject – eg. only from Linux – and they'll to generate them and send them to you).
Now, I don't think many here will find it useful, but I just wanted to show it off :). And besides the page shows Opera 7 clocking in @ 1.8% ;)
the main problem i see with stats like thecounter is that - in my humblest of opinions - any self-respecting site with huge traffic will NOT be using some noob-ish off-site counter service…they'll be running their own stats packages on their servers. so i'm always a bit concerned that this skews the results simply due to the fact that it's mainly smaller sites that use those counters…
but yes, the most valuable stats: your own. sure, this creates a chicken/egg problem (e.g. my site is geared towards IE because my stats show low hits from other browsers, so i don't need to change my code/css…or is the low number of hits from mozilla/firebird/opera/co. due to my crappy site only being coded for IE ?)
I really like the idea Geof touched on, where 1000's of site admin's could upload their logs each month, and some bad-ass parsing could be done on the whole lot, giving a good indication of what's going on with some real, live sites.
That'd be some seriouse processing and bandwidth (uploading) going on though. Seems to me that it couldn't possibly be a free service.
Perhaps the processing could be done on the individual servers (get a common batch of parsers scripts Apache, IIS, etc), then only the *stats* could uploaded in XML or CSV.
Then only a nightly batch process of all the stats would be needed. Keeping it all confidential would be nice too.
If any one is keen, I'd be interested in helping out…
Did anyone else notice the number 3 browser at Re_Invigorate? Netscape 5?
Given that NS 5 never existed, does it perhaps refer to Mozilla/Gecko? It's unclear.
Either way I'm uninclined to trust that source. Not that I'm offering anything better, mind you! I usually try and wring some sense out of Google's Zeitgeist.
Just a thought, but wouldn't it be nice if Google shared their browser stats? I would suspect that being the search engine of choice would mean a fairly broad spectrum of users … anyone know if they provide such a service? Anyone got the connections to convince them to? ;)
NS5 does indeed represent Gecko/Moz. Typing the following into my Mozilla 1.5 and NS7.02 address bar returns that info.
javascript:alert(navigator.appName + parseInt(navigator.appVersion));
Assuming thats how they determine it, of course.
Steve - Safari v1.0 also reports 'Netscape5' by that method. Interesting.
A large percentage of traffic to my site (10%) comes from NS4.7, largely due to buddies in my school who use the unix boxes.
On a project I just did (in Feb 03, stats as of Sept 03) for a Non-Profit, about 41% traffic comes from IE5.x and 57% from IE6. This is because most of the people accessing this site are volunteers. Except for myself (Opera identified as IE6) and another guy (Moz on Linux), all others are most likely using IE.
"Trust your site hits more than anything else", and "Nothing is constant" is what I've learnt.
Then again, if I was to use a JS-based method, I'd use it to my advantage to accurately identify browsers. Instead of relying on the oft-tweaked user agent, you could feature-check things specific to certain browsers. Just a thought.
Do browser stats still matter? If you were to code a site as this one has been, it will work great in standards compliant browsers and degrade nicely in others.
What about reliable 'browser window' size stats? We all know there are screen resolution stats, but not everyone will view a web site with their browser maximized.
People might have the history side bar or whatever else is available open. Some people just use a smaller window.
Any suggestions or help here?
There is also:
It has some good stats, but I'm not sure how accurate they are because I think only geek-minded people run it. But it may have become more distributed since I used it…
Does anyone know if it's possible to detect an Opera-browser which wants to be identified as IE? Otherwise Opera-stats are not to be trusted. (the number should be higher).
It is always possible to detect Opera, since its identification string always has 'Opera' in it.
Of course most writers of browser detect scripts don't know that, because they don't know how to read a browser string.
I was interested to see the reinvigorate link, I didn't know it yet. Unfortunately the site doesn't seem to discuss its methodology, either.
Some conclusions:
1) Use *only* navigator.userAgent, all other properties are untrustworthy. navigator.appName, in particular, should NEVER be used.
2) Even navigator.userAgent can be untrustworthy. Safari can spoof itself completely. As far as I know no other major browser can (Opera is always identifiable, if you know what you're doing).
3) In any script, check the smaller browsers first, and IE last, after you've made sure that the browser isn't any other one. This offers the best hope for reliable statistics.
Whoever ran the service could write a script which the 'clients' downloaded. This script could parse the various servers logs and produce one small file with just the key numbers…
Then the host wouldn't need to do anything other than read the browsers / hit numbers into a db. Et Voila… Little bandwidth used, all the processing done by the clients.
Had a few headaches trying to set up my own stats system on my server using JS and PHP but found this site to be pretty useful.
In response to PPK they seem to recommend sniffing for mozilla and NN4 last rather than IE.
Somebody mentioned ideal page widths. I always refer to this article http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/99/41/index3a_page2.html , it has an excellent breakdown by browser and takes into consideration the default chrome of the browser and any scroll-bars that may result from page content exceeding the current window size. Choice.
navigator.appVersion is particularly misleading as it refers to the version of the rendering engine (correct me if i'm wrong) used by the browser and not the version of the browser itself. MSIE refers to itself as Mozilla/4.0, as does Opera - so as ppk said, don't trust anything other than userAgent (but even that can be misleading)
A more reliable way to detect your browsers would be a combination of the user-agent string and DOM support - so, if the browser supports document.all, its going to be either MSIE or Opera, check the user-agent string to differentiate.
if !document.all && document.getElementById then its Moz/Gecko/Safari/Konquerer/etc, check additional DOM support and UA strings to be sure which is which, ie !document.getElementsByTagName("*") would be safari.
I'm only guessing that safari bit would work as I dont have access to one, but you get the idea - I'm getting off topic anyway and probably not telling anyone anything they didnt already know.
PPK: reinvigorate uses an almost unaltered version of your browser detection script ( see http://www.reinvigorate.net/archive/app.bin/jsinclude.php?-1 ). They give no credit for that part in the JS file itself, but I don't know they do elsewhere.
Anyway, reinvigorate seems to be the most reliable source now considering its number of hits and the fact that we know how the browser/OS/screen/.. detection are done.
I'm a producer for http://www.multimap.com
We get nearly 4 million page views per day and collect the useragent for each. As yet, we've not done much with that particular data but your post, Dave, is the catalyst. I'll try and pull out what I can from the data and present it publicly.
The bulk of our traffic comes during working hours and mostly from the UK, but should give a reasonable indication of browser usage. I'll see if I can take two samples - one suring office hours and another during our evening peak (when people get home and go online). Could be interesting to see if there's much of a difference.
Funny. Yes, you're right, that's my script.
Well, we can trust their methodology, then. <g>
Chris W, you're right, we should check Netscape/Mozilla last. First the small fry, then IE, then Netscape.
Statmarket used to publish figures but now they seem to have put everything under a price tag. Like Reinvigorate, those stats are gathered through web beacons (from clients of WebSideStory in this case), not server logs, and are IMHO more accurate. My little finger tells me that Yahoo or Overture may soon be publishing figures as well, as they have started to tell clients of their hosted stat service KeyLime that they would aggregate their stats, most probably for the same reason.
In any case, as said before, always check the site's own stats for specific populations. I've never seen a site perfectly match such or such aggregated figures.
I understand everyones concern about browser stats. I have thought about it long and hard. My server comes with a wicked stats browser. But then I read…
"You cannot - as a web developer - rely only on statistics. Statistics can often be misleading.
Global averages may not always be relevant to your web site. Different sites attract different audiences. Some web sites attract professional developers using professional hardware, other sites attract hobbyists using older low spec computers.
Also be aware that many stats may have an incomplete or faulty browser detection. It is quite common by many web stats report programs, not to detect new browsers like Opera and Netscape 6 or 7 from the web log.
" at w3schools.com
in other words, well for me, forget about it.
Make it work in ie 5+, netscape 5+ and you are pretty safe. NN4…Just remember we are the masters… I'm not trying to be cocky but we are… Why did we stop using BETA and switched to VHS and now to DVD. Because the suppliers took control! You can still use your beta if you want but you won't find the movies you want and thats' no sweat off the movie industrie's back. Let's make it happen for the web, beside most of the nn4 stats probably come from "worried developers" testing out the site … :)
and that's the last word…..lol
What about Browser News at http://www.upsdell.com/BrowserNews/stat.htm? At least they're careful to point out the danger of stats.
I am surprised that W3C hasn't bothered to publish stats of it's own. Their http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/2001/01/22-stats.html page seems to be _very_ dated.


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One could hardly think that a sewing needle could be anything sinister. After all, it's nothing but a pointed rod of metal, several inches long; it's about as mundane as one gets.
This particular needle was one of a set of twenty owned by a house-wife, several centuries ago. Her name was Ilken Lillett, and she was well respected amongst the community as a cheerful family-woman of a struggling but cheery household. Nowdays, the name Ilken Lillett is synonymous with pain and sacrifice. Ilken Lillett had a secret love for necromancy, and her life came to a point where she had to choose between her art or her family. So one night, she plunged this needle into her womb, and took the life of her own unborn child. With the needle still inside her and her child, she drew the life force of her own husband and children away, using their energy to re-animate her unborn child. This needle was discarded on the streets by her after her horrific act, but these simple, practical things such as needles have a way of being scavenged and re-used.
Lady Remkan was the first to use it. She found it on the cobblestones and collected it, cleaning off the caked-on blood in a fountain without even a thought of what the red stuff could be. It soon found its way into her sewing box with all her other needles. It lay there unused for months, before by chance, she picked it out to sew a new lining on the leather-lined gloves which her husband, Lord Remkan, wore religiously.
The evening after, when Lord Remkan returned home to his wife after a busy day of jostling peasants and scoffing with the gentry, he appeared to be drunk, he entered the kitchen and complained to his wife that the gloves she mended had become tight over the course of the day and now he couldn't remove them; his hands itched terribly! The Lady rolled her eyes and fetched a pair of scissors to snip off the gloves. When she did The Lord and Lady both screamed as - when she snipped away the fabric - the leather fell to the floor. And so did the flesh of Lord Remkan's hands. All that remained were the bones and sinew of his hands, still able to flex and squeeze, thanks to some unidentified, unholy energy.
The needle was never considered as the source of Lord Remkan's malady, and it was subsequently traded on through time, as such objects always are.
The fel energies used on the foetus the needle was implanted in leeched over into the metal of object, instilling within it some dangerous qualities; any piece of clothing made or mended by the needle will slowly rot away the flesh of any living thing it touches, over the course of a day. It will also rot wood or other organic materials. Any bone left behind will remain animated, causing the person to have become part-undead. The skin won't hurt, but it will itch while the rotting takes place.
In addition, if someone were to stab someone with this needle, their skin will begin to die slowly, radiating out from the wound. Digging away into the healthy flesh around the wound will stop this process, otherwise the victim would lose all of its flesh in a few days.
The current whereabouts of this needle are unknown. Probably laying forgotten in the sewing kit of the house-wife next door.
Possible uses
- The enemy has built a wooden wall around their encampment... it can't be scaled! Using this needle, the infiltrators could sew a square of material to lay against the wall, rotting it over the day. Then, a good boot to the rotted area will let you in!
- Zombie Dogs! - The party needs to find a way to scare a family out of their old manor home so it can be searched for that treasure...! One of your party happens to have this needle and an idea - Sewing a couple of suits for the dogs or stabbing them with the needle will eventuate in their flesh falling off, leaving animated skeletons of dogs - after letting a couple of these loose through a broken window, the family will be gone before their bags are packed!
- Torture/Interrogation. "Hah! What, you think a single little needle prick to the gut is gonna make me talk!? You're crazy!"
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If you're like most iOS users, you have lots of apps. It's all too tempting and all too easy to buy new ones (or download free ones) from the App Store. As a result, you probably have a number of games, productivity apps, and utilities on your iPhone or iPad that you've hardly ever used and aren't likely to use in the future.
But if you keep doing that, those apps will start to crowd your iOS device (and your iTunes library), taking up space and requiring frequent updates. That's why it's a good idea to periodically get rid of the apps you don't use anymore. (You can always download them again from the App Store if you change your mind.) Culling your apps library can make managing your app collection easier and free up precious storage space. Here are four ways to do it.
Tap and wiggle
Deleting apps on an iOS device is simple: Just tap and hold any app icon until all the icons start wiggling. You'll notice that many, if not most of them, have a little X at the top left corner. (The ones that don't have the X are default apps that are part of iOS; you can't delete those.)
To delete an app, tap the X, then tap Delete in the dialog the displays. Note that doing so deletes not only the app, but also all of its data. So if you think you'll need an app again soon, and you have stored data, settings or completed levels and it, you might want to think twice before tapping on that X.
From Settings
Another way to delete apps on an iOS device is from the Settings app. Tap Settings > General > Usage, then look at the apps that display at the top of the window in the Storage section. This list is useful, because it shows how much storage each app actually uses. That may include just the app itself or the app plus all its attendant files and data. If you need to free up a specific amount of space--perhaps when you want to download a movie--this is a good place to look.
Deleting from here is simple, too: Tap on an app's name, then tap Delete App. You may find this quicker than tapping icons if you want to delete a lot of apps at one time.
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When you delete apps from your iOS device, iTunes will not copy them back on to your device the next time you sync it. So the above techniques are great if you want to delete apps from specific devices but still retain them in your iTunes library.
If, on the other hand, you want to nuke them entirely, go to iTunes and choose your Apps library. Click an app to select it, then press the Delete key. Another dialogue will ask you if you want to keep the app or move to the trash. (You may indeed want to keep them; Ted Landau recently posted a tip discussing why that can be useful.) You can remove the apps from your iTunes library, but keep them in a folder on your Mac just in case.
It may help to view the apps in your iTunes library in a list. Click the List button, then click the Purchase Date header to sort by the date you purchased the apps. (The Purchase Date is either the date you downloaded an app or, if it has been updated, the date of its last update.) Look at the apps with the oldest purchase dates to decide if you still use them. (If you don't see the Purchase Date column, press Command-J and select Purchase Date from the View Options window.)
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There's one other way you can delete apps from your iTunes library, and it's one I use often. I have hundreds of apps, many that I use regularly, but most that I only tried out. It takes too long to go through my Apps library and try and remember what each app does. So I wait until there are updates.
In iTunes' Apps > Updates window, you'll see a list of new versions of apps that you can download, when an app has been updated. When I see an app in the Update window that I don't use anymore, I delete it. To do this, right-click on an app's icon and choose Delete. This deletes the app itself from your iTunes library, and also removes the update notification. The next time you sync your iOS devices, the apps you have deleted from your iTunes library will be removed from your devices.


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First performed by English Stage Company at the Royal Court Theatre in London, October 16, 2003. First produced in the US by the Williamstown Theatre Festival, July 27, 2005.
Original Cast:
Dani Carter (17) Stephanie Leonidas
Jan Carter (45) Kate Duchene
Tim Saunders (38) Andrew Woodall
Lewis Sampson (22) Will Ash
Voices of the Internet
Director: Marianne Elliott
Set Designer: Jonathan Fensom
Lighting Designer: Chris Davey
Sound Designer: Ian Dickinson
Publication: Prebbles, Lucy. The Sugar Syndrome. Dramatists Play Service, Inc. Drama Library PR6116. R42 S84 2006..
Setting: England
Language: Contemporary with British slang.
It's only once you reach an age when you realize why you hate your parents that you become too polite to articulate it.
Genre/Style: Serio-comedy
Plot: A 17-year-old girl meets two strangers (a 22-year-old telemarketer and a 38-year-old convicted pedophile) online and develops relationships with them in real life. Manages to be funny while dealing with serious issues; looks at pedophilia from the point of view of the pedophile. Despite its subject matter, the play avoids being sensational or puerile.
Representative Monologues: Monologues contain the first few lines and the last few lines; please consult the published text for the monologue in its entirety.
p.25: Tim talks about his attraction to a little girl in his building
I just want to hear what her voice sounds like. (Smiles to himself.) She's a little madam. At the weekend, she was sitting on the wall, with this cloth doll, she wasn't even playing with it, she was watching her brothers. [Lines cut] So he takes the doll and he holds it over the skip like he might just drop it any second, but she just sits on the wall. Isn't even bothered, so he's got nothing on her. She just taught him a lesson and the doll can go hang.
p.33-34: Lewis hasn't been able to reach Dani for a while so he drafts an email to her, which he doesn't send.
Dani. You absent bitch. I miss you. It's been six days, man. I'm sounding a little bit mental, which I don't like. I rang you again and no answer. I get the feeling you're actively not ringing me now. What if you're dead? [Lines cut]Will you not write just write a little? Just to keep me going? 'Cause I just keep imagining what you could be doing and it's sending me mental. I'm sorry but it is. I miss you. Obviously in a manly, independent, not bothered way. But I do. (He sighs.)
Representative Scenes:
p. 13-15: Dani finds out that Tim has been in prison and he tells her how he was subjected to aversion therapy. Part of Dani's first line can be cut. Starts with
[Oh, well, that's alright then.] You've got a nice voice. Let me guess, unemployed actor? Late-night DJ.
and ends with
(Considers.) It made me want to electrocute kids.
p. 19-21: Dani and Lewis are hanging out at his place and Lewis is trying to get Dani to have sex with him even though she's having her period. Starts with
She doesn't think anything she doesn't say. It's like if she's putting something somewhere she goes, "I'll just put that there." Who the fuck is she talking to? Or she's driving and she's just, "Ooh, what's he doing? I think we'll park over there." Shut up. She's like Cassandra except her curse is to speak and have people want to beat her over the head with a hammer.
and ends with
(He squeezes her bum.) I'll see your kiss and raise you a bum squeeze. Com on, one bum squeeze to stay in the game. (Dany squeezes his bum, play-reluctantly. Throughout, Lewis moves to be on top of her.) Oh, she's seen it! She's staying in. Question is, is she bluffing? (American accent.) And here we can see, Marty, with our special under-the-table cameras that Dani the "D-Man" Carter has a pair she's been hiding. (He puts his hand up her top.) Can she go all the way? Let's find out with the rest of the flop.
p.24-26: Tim talks about his attraction to a little girl named Domino and his love affair with a boy named David. Starts with
You're going to read all those?
and ends with
Thing is with boyfriends, is eventually they're going to want to take you out to dinner.
p.41-43: Lewis goes to Tim's apartment looking for Dani and threatens Tim with exposure if he does anything to Dani. Starts with
Look mate. I know all about you and unless you want your neighbors to know and all I'd let me in.
and ends with
I know, Lewis, you could. And I'm terrified 'cause I've got just so much to lose.
Select Bibliography of Reviews and Criticism: (Note: article title links are to the online versions, mostly UW-only restricted unless designated as open access.)
Billington, M. (2003, Oct 21). Review: Last night's show: Theatre: The sugar syndrome: Royal court, london 3/5. The Guardian, pp. 30.
de Jongh, N. (2003, Oct 21). Depraved new world ; THEATRE. Evening Standard, pp. 46.
Macaulay, A. (2003, Oct 23). The sugar syndrome royal court, london. Financial Times, pp. 19.
Nightingale, B. (2003, Oct 21). The sugar syndrome. The Times, pp. 19.
Taylor, P. (2003, Oct 30). Theatre: Girls will be boys in a mixed-up world. The Independent, pp. 14.


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Fresh off another Wine Lover's Weekend that was by all accounts a smashing success, breaking wine news continues to pour out of Galena.
New releases from Galena Cellars and an inaugural wine and culinary event scheduled for this fall continue to make the quaint tiny hamlet nestled amidst rolling hills and majestic oaks a destination loaded with epicurean delights.
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There's a pleasant difference in current wines being made in Illinois. About two years ago I noticed and wrote about the increased quality Illinois wines showed. At the Illinois State Fair Wine Competition, wines from the northern Illinois region took four of the top six awards.
We are located at the epicenter where a talented group of winemakers craft the state's top wines and Galena Cellars has taken notice.
Winemaker Chris Lawlor has added three Illinois wines to the Galena Wine Cellars portfolio. Galena Cellars, Illinois Frotenac Gris 2012 ($12.99) was released in February, Galena Cellars, Illinois Marquette 2012 will be released Memorial Day weekend and Galena Cellars Illinois Chambourcin 2012 is set for a summer release.
"These varietals paint a picture of Midwest style with a unique palate of flavors," Lawlor said. "They invite you to actually experience the fruit that Illinois wines convey, the terroir, the sense of place. The personality of the soil and the vineyard extends into the personality of the wine."
What to buy
Galena Cellars, Illinois Frotenac Gris 2012, $12.99: A limited quantity release in February has this Illinois version of a rosé on the verge of being sold out. It's a crisp spring wine with fresh acidity.
Galena Cellars, Illinois Marquette 2012, price not available: Expected to be bottled in a few weeks for an anticipated Memorial Day weekend release, winemaker Chris Lawlor is excited about the potential of a varietal known to endure the winters of cold-climate vineyards. Lawlor said to expect a robust red with smooth tannins and cherry, currant and black pepper flavors. Sourced from a vineyard located just outside the Galena Territories.
"Galena Cellars has really focused on its Illinois wines," Galena Cellars spokesperson Janelle Keeffer said. "We've stepped up our efforts. The Marquette wine is one we are really excited about."
Where to go
The Taste of Galena and Wine Lovers Weekend have joined forces. The first Galena Food and Wine Festival will take place Sept. 6 at the Galena Convention Center. A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Galena Arts and Recreation Center.
Each event will still take place on its original date, but the Galena Food and Wine Festival will offer attendees a sampling of each. At least 150 wines and 12 restaurants will be part of the festivities. Visit www.galenafoodandwinefestival.com for more information.
• James Nokes writes a bi-weekly wine column for the Daily Chronicle. He's been tasting, touring and collecting in the wine world for several years. Contact him at email@example.com.


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News Headline: Added Benefit of Afatnib Depends on Mutation Status in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
Date: 2/21/14
Outlet Full Name: Medical News Today
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Lung cancer patients with Del19 mutation benefit most
Afatinib (trade name: GIOTRIF) has been approved in Germany since September 2013 for the treatment of adult patients with locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with activating EGF receptor mutations who have not been treated with an EGF receptor tyrosine-kinase inhibitor (EGFR TKI). In an early benefit assessment pursuant to the Act on the Reform of the Market for Medicinal Products (AMNOG), the German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) examined whether this new drug offers an added benefit over the appropriate comparator therapy.
Evaluable data were only available for non-pretreated patients in relatively good general condition (ECOG PS 0 or 1). According to the findings, there is an indication of a major added benefit in patients with the EGFR mutation Del19, and a hint of a minor added benefit of afatinib in patients under the age of 65 with L858R mutation. In contrast, the Institute found an indication of lesser benefit versus the comparator therapy in patients with other EGFR mutations. The pharmaceutical company presented no relevant data for pretreated patients.
Only indicated in activating receptor mutations
When a so-called non-small cell lung cancer is locally advanced or has already formed metastases, it might not be possible anymore to remove the tumour surgically. New drugs like tyrosine-kinase inhibitors are used to block specific growth signals that receptors on the surface of tumour cells receive and send to the inside of the cells.
How well patients respond to such substances depends on several factors, including the occurrence of certain mutations in the tumour cells which activate the receptors. The tyrosine-kinase inhibitor afatinib is only approved for the treatment of patients in whose tissue samples activating mutations in the EGFR gene were detected.
Several patient groups and comparator therapies
Depending on the pretreatment of the patients and their general condition (categorized according to the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group Performance Status, ECOG PS for short), the Federal Joint Committee (G-BA) specified several appropriate comparator therapies: In non-pretreated patients, afatinib was to be compared either with another tyrosine-kinase inhibitor (gefitinib or erlotinib), or – if they had an ECOG PS of 0 or 1 – with a combination chemotherapy with cisplatin and a third-generation cytostatic agent. In non-pretreated patients with ECOG PS 2, i.e. worse general condition, the new drug was to be compared with the third-generation cytostatic agent gemcitabine.
For patients with at least 1 previous chemotherapy, gefitinib or erlotinib were also stipulated as comparator therapy.
Only data for non-pretreated patients
The pharmaceutical company submitted data from a single randomized controlled trial (LUX-Lung 3) in its dossier. The non-pretreated participants in this study had an ECOG PS of 0 or 1 at the start of the study, and were either treated with afatinib or with a combination of cisplatin and the third-generation cytostatic agent pemetrexed.
IQWiG does not accept the manufacturer's opinion that the results of the LUX-Lung 3 study can also be transferred to non-pretreated patients with ECOG PS 2. For pretreated patients, the manufacturer presented data from a single-arm study, which are unsuitable for the assessment of an added benefit because there is no comparison with the appropriate comparator therapy.
Hence the added benefit of afatinib versus the respective appropriate comparator therapy is not proven for non-pretreated patients with ECOG PS 2 and for patients with previous chemotherapy.
Different treatment durations impair interpretation
In the LUX-Lung 3 study, afatinib was administered once daily until the disease progressed, treatment was no longer tolerated, or the doctor or the patient demanded treatment discontinuation. The comparator therapy "cisplatin with pemetrexed" could also be discontinued prematurely; however, it was not used for more than 6 cycles of 21 days each.
This led to considerable differences in the median treatment durations between the afatinib arm (336 days) and the comparator arm (105 days). This limited the reliability of the conclusions of the results on symptoms and quality of life. The data on side effects were so uncertain that only qualitative conclusions could be drawn.
It depends on the EGFR mutation status
The effect of afatinib in non-pretreated patients with ECOG PS 0 or 1 depends on the EGFR mutation present in the patients' tumours.
For patients with Del19 mutation, there is overall an indication of a major added benefit because afatinib had better results in overall survival than the combination chemotherapy, and positive effects – some of them age-dependent – predominated with regards to symptoms and health-related quality of life.
In L858R mutation, there was no statistically significant effect in overall survival. However, in patients younger than 65 years, overall, advantages of afatinib predominate in symptoms and quality of life, resulting in a hint of a minor added benefit for these patients.
In contrast, for patients with a different EGFR mutation than Del19 or L858R, the study data indicate that they have lesser benefit from afatinib than from the combination of cisplatin and pemetrexed. G-BA decides on the extent of added benefit
The dossier assessment is part of the overall procedure for early benefit assessments supervised by the G-BA. After publication of the manufacturer's dossier and IQWiG's assessment, the G-BA conducts a commenting procedure, which may provide further information and result in a change to the benefit assessment. The G BA then decides on the extent of the added benefit, thus completing the early benefit assessment.


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Last 10: New York 2-6-2; St. Louis 7-3-0
Season series: This is the first of two games this season between the New York Islanders and St. Louis Blues. They haven't played since Feb. 16, 2012, when Alex Pietrangelo set up three goals and Brian Elliott made 26 saves in a 5-1 Blues win in St. Louis.
Big story: The Islanders have been knocking on the door of a much-needed win in several games of late, but they carry an 0-5-2 skid into a difficult five-game road trip that begins Thursday at Scottrade Center. The journey continues with games against all three California teams and ends with a date against the Phoenix Coyotes. All five teams the Islanders play would qualify for the Stanley Cup Playoffs if they started today.
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Islanders: Three nights after giving up the tying shorthanded goal in the final minute of regulation before losing in overtime, New York dropped another game in frustrating fashion Tuesday against the Pittsburgh Penguins.
In a rematch of an exciting first-round Stanley Cup Playoff series from last spring, Kyle Okposo scored twice in a span of 3:02 in the first period to stake the Islanders to a 2-0 lead. But they gave up a late power-play goal to James Neal in the second, and then Sidney Crosby notched both the tying power-play goal in the third and the OT winner to send the Isles to a 3-2 defeat.
"We can talk about we did some good things, [but] we just didn't get the job done at the end of the day," captain John Tavares said. "That's what matters most."
Blues: For the first time this season, St. Louis has gone consecutive games without picking up a point. The Blues, who will start Jaroslav Halak in goal, start Thursday in second place in the Central Division, one point ahead of the Colorado Avalanche and two in front of the Minnesota Wild.
When the Blues score first they're almost unbeatable at 15-1-2, but against the San Jose Sharks and Los Angeles Kings they spent their time playing catch-up and coming up short.
"We just played two great teams, teams that are going to be in the playoffs at the end of the year. We have to realize that our game isn't there right now," defenseman Kevin Shattenkirk said in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "It's a learning experience more than anything. It's still early enough in the season that we can grow and become a championship-caliber team, and that's what we have to take away from this."
Who's hot: Tavares, who assisted on both of Okposo's goals Tuesday, is tied for third in the NHL with 32 points. … Shattenkirk and Vladimir Tarasenko each had a goal and an assist for the Blues against the Sharks. Jaden Schwartz had an assist and now has three goals and five assists during a seven-game point streak.
Injury report: New York has goalie Evgeni Nabokov (groin) and defensemen Brian Strait (upper body) and Lubomir Visnovsky (concussion) on injured reserve. Nabokov and Strait have been skating with the team. … St. Louis forward Magnus Paajarvi (flu-like symptoms) is day-to-day. Defenseman Jordan Leopold (hand) and forward Ryan Reaves (hand) are on injured reserve.


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I am looking for someone to hit with on a pretty regular basis and if can play doubles with as well. Looking for the Fairfax/Falls Church/ Tyson Corner area.
I am a teacher so I am on summer vacation and have a pretty open schedule to meet on the courts.
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I am a 3.0 player looking for playing during the week.
I am off from work on this week, and can play anytime.
We can meet somewhere around Falls Church or Tysons Corner area.
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Carlos arrived in Miami a few hours after I did. When I kissed him hello he asked if I'd been drinking. "Just one Cuba Libre with Carrie," I said. He sat down. He stared out the window. "You've only been here a few hours and already you're drinking? … That's not good," he said.
We weren't off to a very good start. I took his photo while telling him, "Cheer up! We're in Miami, trick!" … That didn't help. I promised no more drinking unless he was with me. He stopped pouting and we went for a walk.
The first order of business was to buy the boys a post card. I wanted to send it right away so it would arrive home before we did – We found a CVS and I bought one. (I later wrote the message, addressed it, put postage on it, and sent it… To this day, it has not arrived.) … While Carlos paid for the post card, I wandered outside. This dog was tied to the bike rack. I thought he was cute.
Both of us were starving so we continued to walk, in search of lunch. Carlos was looking for familiar fast food. I was looking for something new and exciting. This is a metaphor for our relationship in general. Carlos wants the comfort of the predictable. He wants things to stay the same – he wants to know what to expect. I, on the other hand, want to explore and discover. I want to try anything and everything. I think that frightens Carlos sometimes.
Eventually, Carlos relented and let me have my way, again, pretty typical for us… I think I'm just more willing to "argue to the death" as he says, and he gives up.
I was on a mission to find Cuban food. Every time someone who seemed "local" would walk by, I'd nudge Carlos and say, "Ask them!" and he'd say, "No, you ask!" … This happened a few times. When I finally got up the nerve to ask an elderly Cuban guy hobbling by with a cane, (I assume Cuban only because he was wearing a straw fedora, but I could be wrong), I realized we were standing in front of a place called "Bernie's L.A. Café." I saw some Cuban food on the menu in the window so we went in. The bilingual waitress was super nice, the prices were decent and the meal was simply amazing – very fresh, high quality food.
We both got the Cuban sandwich, (and tostones just because.) They served these really tasty pieces of toasted bread with a basket of different hot sauces. Mango habanero, (judging from the amount left in the bottles), is the most popular, and it was certainly my favorite.
The tostones came with "mojito dipping sauce" … I don't know what it was made of but I need to find out. It was one of the most delicious things I've ever had. The sandwich portion was so big that we both only ate half and brought the leftovers to our room for a second meal later.
By the way, another must visit place – InStyle Cupcakes. Last time I went to Miami, Carrie introduced me to them. I like cupcakes to begin with, but with varieties like Dulce de Leche and Churro, I became a little obsessed. Since I knew we'd be back in Miami, I took to Twitter stalking them. If we'd have been given more free time, I was more than willing to invest the money in taking a taxi to visit them, but thankfully InStyle delivered a box to Carrie's room.
Surprisingly, though I'm not crazy about fruit-flavored things most of the time, guava is my favorite. Next time I'm in Miami and don't have such a full schedule, hopefully they'll agree to a taste-testing tour of their actual location… for journalistic purposes of course.
Anyway, after lunch we stopped at Whole Foods which was like a block from our hotel, to buy bottled water and some snacks, etc. for our hotel room. We don't usually shop Whole Foods cause we're too poor, but it was a good experience. (And their sushi is awesome.)
After dropping our things off at the hotel, we went back out to make the most of our day. We met with Dean of Surropa.com, who I've been in touch with via E-mail, Facebook and Twitter for over a year now, but had never met in person. We had a nice chat and he gave us a lot of tips about where we should go for fun before dropping us off on Lincoln Road.
I could have walked around hand-in-hand with Carlos all night, but I had a busy two days ahead. During those busy two days, Carlos began to feel some discontent growing inside him. At first he couldn't sort out just what he was feeling and why. I became frustrated with his negative attitude, chalked it up to simple macho jealousy issues – so we argued, (apologies to whoever slept in the room next to 307 that night.) …Once we calmed down, we talked and talked until we unraveled the problem.
It turns out, Carlos is feeling "stuck." He see's me following my passions and he's proud of me, but he doesn't feel like he's growing or achieving anything himself – and he doesn't know what to do about it.
I told him he needs to mix it up, try new things, and see what happens. He was resistant at first, but then he made the brave decision, against his natural tendencies, to see what possibilities are out there. I'm happy for him because I know what he's capable of despite what he was told growing up – despite what he came to believe about himself, and despite the challenges of living in this country as an immigrant. He's the only one whose been holding himself back.
All these years he's supported me while I follow my passions – now I will be there for him.
Disclosure: I went to Miami at the invitation of Telemundo. I have not been paid by any companies or restaurants mentioned. All opinions are my own.
Special Thanks to Corrientes for the use of their song "Tiempo y Espacio" which was perfect for my video. (Check them out: Jamendo.com.)


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