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SUNDAY, June 2 (HealthDay News) -- A drug already used for advanced kidney and liver cancers may help slow the progression of thyroid cancers that do not respond to standard treatment, a new clinical trial finds.
Researchers found that the drug, called sorafenib (Nexavar), taken as a pill, nearly doubled the length of time that patients remained progression-free -- from about six months to 11 months.
It's not a cure, and no one knows yet whether sorafenib can ultimately extend people's lives. But experts said the findings offer some hope to a group of patients who currently lack good options.
"If we can control the disease, and do it with tolerable toxicity, that's a good thing," said Dr. Gregory Masters, a medical oncologist who was not involved in the research.
In general, thyroid cancer is a highly curable disease. But about 10 percent of patients do not respond to the mainstays of treatment: surgery and radioactive iodine, a form of radiation taken by liquid or pill.
On average, those patients survive for another two to three years, said Dr. Marcia Brose of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, the lead researcher on the new study.
"We've taken a big step with this study," Brose said. "The message for these patients is that there is hope."
The findings come from an international trial of 417 patients with thyroid cancer that had failed to respond to standard treatment and had spread beyond the thyroid -- a gland in the neck that secretes metabolism-controlling hormones.
About half of the patients were randomly assigned to take sorafenib, while the rest were given inactive placebo pills. Overall, 42 percent of sorafenib patients had no cancer progression for at least six months, versus one-third of placebo patients. And 12 percent of patients on the drug saw their tumors shrink by 30 percent or more -- versus 0.5 percent of the placebo group.
Brose is scheduled to present the findings Sunday at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, in Chicago. She is a paid consultant to Bayer HealthCare and Onyx Pharmaceuticals, which co-market Nexavar and funded the trial.
Because this study was presented at a medical meeting, the data and conclusions should be viewed as preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed journal.
Sorafenib has not yet won approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat thyroid cancer. If it does, it would be the first new drug for the disease in almost 40 years.
The thyroid is a gland in the neck that secretes hormones involved in metabolism. Thyroid cancer, which is diagnosed in about 60,000 Americans each year, has a high cure rate -- a fact that, in a way, has worked against the few patients with resistant tumors, Brose said.
"It's given the misperception that this disease is all wrapped up," she said.
Still, it's not that there has been no research into ways to help patients with resistant thyroid cancer, Brose pointed out. But the chemotherapy drugs that have been tried have met with little success. Doxorubicin was the last drug approved for advanced thyroid cancer, back in 1974, but doctors rarely use it because its benefits are minor and its side effects are severe.
But now there are newer, so-called targeted chemotherapy drugs that are designed to zero in on tumor cells and spare more healthy cells. Sorafenib is one of those; it's in a class called kinase inhibitors, and it blocks certain enzymes that help feed the growth and spread of tumor cells.
"We're excited to have an option for these patients that has less toxicity," said Masters, a spokesperson for ASCO who specializes in cancers of the throat and chest. And because it's an oral medication, he added, it spares people from having to come to the hospital for treatment.
In the trial, the most common side effects were skin reactions on the hands and feet, diarrhea, hair loss, fatigue and weight loss -- which is what's been seen with the drug in other cancers. "The side effects were tolerable to patients," Brose said.
There are still unanswered questions -- including whether sorafenib gives patients a shot at a longer life. "We won't know that for a few years," Brose said. And there's no way to predict whether or when the FDA will clear the drug for thyroid cancer.
Because sorafenib is approved for other cancers, doctors can use it on an "off-label" basis for thyroid cancer. However, that makes insurance coverage a thornier issue, and the drug costs several thousand dollars a month.
"Most people would not be able to pay for it on their own," Masters said. Insurance companies may pay, he noted, but doctors need to work it out with health plans on a case-by-case basis.
If the FDA approves sorafenib specifically for thyroid cancer, that would make insurance coverage much easier for patients, Masters said.
He added that sorafenib is not the only drug under study for resistant cases of thyroid cancer; other types of newer, targeted medications are being tested.
Study author Brose said that should be welcome news to a group of patients who may have thought their disease was forgotten. "There are options out there," she said, "and researchers are pursuing them."
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SOURCES: Marcia S. Brose, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor, otorhinolaryngology, head and neck surgery, Abramson Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Gregory Masters, M.D., spokesperson, American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO); June 2, 2013, presentation, ASCO meeting, Chicago


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So far we've been concentrating on the low-level infrastructure support for governance, both with JON and more native support within the ESB and other projects. Plus, from the start we've made the registry (UDDI in our case) a central component within the ESB. Plus, the Drools team have been making waves with their BRMS implementation, which is important in governance too. And of course there's the tried and tested jBPM Graphical Process Designer (not directly related to governance, but definitely to tooling) and our friends from MetaMatrix. However, what we haven't been able to do until now is discuss where we are going (both with in-house development as well as with partners).
As well as tools from the individual projects within the SOA Platform, here is a brief synopsis of architectural requirements on SOA-P specific tooling and governance. I don't want to go into details about how these tools (and the necessary supporting infrastructure) are implemented. Depending upon the role of the user or component (more in another posting) it makes more sense for some of them to be Eclipse based, whereas others will be Web console based. There will be some tools that ideally would have representations in both arenas. It's important to realise that some of the capabilities I'm going to mention will have to be duplicated across different tooling environments. For instance, sometimes what a sys admin needs to do is also what a developer needs to do (e.g., inspect a service contract). We won't require the sys admin to have to fire up the developer tool in order to do that. And vice versa.
Governance of SOA infrastructures is critically important. If any of you have tried to manage distributed systems in a local area before, you'll understand how difficult that can often be. Imagine expanding that so it covers different business domains where you (the developer or deployer) do not control all of the underlying infrastructure and cannot work on the assumption that people are trustworthy. With SOA governance, there is a runtime component that executes to ensure things like SLAs are maintained, but there is also a tooling component (runtime for management and design time).
With the JBoss governance/tooling effort, you'll be able to graphically display:
MTTF/MTTR information on behalf of specific nodes and services on those nodes. Also for all nodes and services that are deployed.
- throughput for services.
- time taken to process specific types of messages (e.g., how long to do transformations, how long to do transformations on behalf of user X).
- number of requests services during the lifetime of the service/node (in general, it is always important to distinguish between services and the nodes on which they execute).
- number of faults (service/node) in a given duration.
- information about where messages are being received.
- information about where messages are being sent (responses as well as faults).
- potential dependency tracking data. This can be used to determine sources of common failure. Can also be used when deciding whether or not (and where) to migrate services, for improved availability or performance.
- what versions of services exist within a specific process (VM).
- Includes sending probe messages that can test availability and performance on request. However, this functionality needs to be duplicated into the design-time tooling.
Note, you can do some of this with the current releases!
All of this information may be obtained periodically from a central (though more realistically a federated) data store or direct from the services themselves. However, both sys admins and developers (more of them later) will need to be able to connect to services (and composites) and inspect their governance criteria, e.g., when was the last time they violated a contract, why and under what input messages/state, at will: the dynamic factor is incredibly important. This information needs to be made available across individual services as well as the entire SOA-P deployment.
Going back to what I mentioned earlier about governance. We're working on a separate and dedicated governance console that is used to receive alarms/warnings when contracts/SLAs are violated or close to being violated. Obviously the console is only one such destination for these alerts: sys admin inboxes are just as important. However, that's where the infrastructure comes into play: remember that JBossESB has a very flexible architecture.
Traditional management tooling (e.g., via JMX) would include:
- start/stop a service.
- suspend/resume a service.
- add/update restriction lists for services. This limits the list of receivers that a service considers valid and will process messages from. A similar list of destinations for responses will exist. This plays into the role/relationship concept because although a developer may not consider the issue of security (maybe can't, given that services could be deployed into environments that did not exist when the developer was building the service), the sys admin (or service container admin) will have to.
- migrate services (and potentially dependent services).
- inspect service contract.
- update service definition.
- attach and tune specific service parameters.
Design time tooling includes:
- defining the service definition/contract, which includes specifying what message types it allows. This is tied into the service implementation in order that the ESB infrastructure can verify incoming messages against this contract for validity. Part of the contract will also include security and role information which will define who can interact with the service (may be fine grained based on time of day, specific message type, etc.) Policies are attached at this level on a per service or per operation basis (if not defined on an operation basis, the service level policy is taken if defined).
- policy definition/construction, tracking and enforcement. Not just part of the development tool, but also an integral part of the underlying ESB infrastructure. Policies need to be shared so that other developers can utilise them in their own service construction. Typically these will be stored in the repository.
- service construction from other services, i.e., composite services. This has an input on SLA and on governance enforcement. In some cases a physical instance of the service may not exist either and the infrastructure becomes responsible for imposing the abstraction of a service by directing interactions accordingly.
- inspecting the registry and repository during design time to locate and inspect desired services for composition within applications. Also ties into runtime management so that the user can inspect all running services. This would also tie into our graphical process flow tool, by allowing a drag-and-drop approach to application construction.
- service development then into service deployment. The tool will allow the user to view a list of available nodes and processes. The availability, performance etc. of those nodes will also be displayed (more tooling and infrastructure support). Then you can drag a service implementation on to the node and deploy it, either dynamically or statically. This ties into the runtime management tool that allows the user to view deployed services on nodes (see previously).
Service implementation tool:
- from the client perspective you go to the registry and select the right service based on requirements (functional as well as non-functional). The associated contract defines the message format, as mentioned earlier. The tool will either auto-generate an appropriate stub for the client code or provide a way of tying state variables (from the application code, or incoming messages etc.) in to the outbound invocations on the service. Fairly obviously we cannot prevent developers from ignoring the design-time tools and coding their applications without that support, which is really where the need for stubs comes in. At the tooling level, we're really looking at defining client tasks that the developer writes and defines the output instance variables that are hooked into the service's input variables. As far as the client tool is concerned, we are simply tying together these variables. Under the cover, the tool generates the right set of service-specific messages. The ESB infrastructure sends and receives and dispatches accordingly. Capabilities such as security and transactions may be exposed to the client.
- from the service developer perspective, we are defining services as compositions of tasks, actions, dispatchers etc. In the graphical designer we specify the input variables that are required for each operation type (defined as specific messages). This also plays into the contract definition effort mentioned earlier, since the message formats accepted by a service are implicitly defined by the requirements on input state variables.
- there's a separate discussion to be had about the term "task". The OPENflow work that originated within Arjuna can help here.
- WS-CDL tooling here as well.
- the need to be able to deploy services into a virtual environment to allow it to be tested without affecting a running system. A service has to be able to be deployed in a test mode. What this means is that at a minimum the service is not available to arbitrary users. Test services should also not be deployed into a running process/container that is being used by other (non-test) services and applications in case they cause it to fail and, worst case scenario, take the entire process with them.
Some things that I have not had a chance to write up yet include roles and relationships between roles, and (related) security and ACLs. Task definitions (lots of notes on that). Diagrams illustrating the kinds of things I want to see. So expect more later.


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Has foreign aid been helpful for development? What helps and hinders it? What does the evidence say?
The key challenge facing foreign aid globally is its effectiveness.
Research on aid effectiveness has focused on outcomes such as a country's economic growth or quality of institutions. These studies came to mixed conclusions over whether aid can effectively promote economic development.
Microeconomic evidence paints a reasonably positive picture. The World Bank's Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) finds that the average rates of return to aid are generally above 20%. Evidence based on randomized program evaluation techniques is also largely positive, indicating that aid-financed interventions can generate substantial benefits for individuals.
The most common approach to evaluating the macroeconomic impact of aid examines the relationship between total aid flows and the economic growth rate. Normally, this has been done with the expectation that, other things equal, countries receiving more assistance would grow more rapidly. Early prima facie evidence suggested the opposite: countries that received the most aid also grew relatively poorly—a paradox often referred to as the micro-macro paradox.
A large number of studies attempted to demystify this paradox. When countries do well for a while, average incomes increase. Donors then tend to transfer less aid. This implies that, over time, the best performing countries receive less aid and the worst performers receive more. A leading study of the World Bank argued that although aid has no impact on growth on average, it can work as long as recipients pursue 'good' policies. This result suggested how donors and aid recipients can learn from mistakes in the past to improve aid effectiveness in the future. However, the upshot of the studies that followed suggested aid "is probably not a fundamentally decisive factor for development".
Recent theoretical exercises give further weight to the need for modest expectations regarding the magnitude of the possible impact of foreign aid on growth. Overall increase in the growth rate accruing from aid inflows of 10 percent of GDP may only be 1- 2.5% depending on the share of aid that is invested and productivity impacts. These effects are very difficult to distinguish from business cycle fluctuations and external shocks at the levels of aid seen by most countries.
The discussion about whether foreign aid works takes place in two platforms. One is the research platform, in papers full of technical language and numbers. Outside, the arguments are plainer and the audience broader. It is far easier to evaluate a school-building project, say, on whether the school was built and children filled its seats than to determine whether all aid improved national school enrollment or made the economy grow faster. The biggest challenge is to show not just that aid went hand-in-hand with economic growth, but caused it.
The one challenge on which views appears to converge is the importance of strong government leadership as well as effective and efficient public institutions as critical ingredients to ensure aid effectiveness. The international development community has been grappling with this problem for decades.
Most aid effectiveness reforms over the years have been focused on improvements at an operational level-- improving management, coordination, evaluation, and project design for technical or capacity-building. These solutions usually miss the underlying political dynamics that block real change. The more fundamental problem undermining aid effectiveness is the assumption that poor governance, weak institutions, and fragile conditions can be fixed through technical assistance. The roles of powerful actors who use their influence to prevent change are typically treated as external to assistance programs, if not ignored altogether.
Development assistance models tend to focus on limiting the power of elite actors through institutional means like anti-corruption bodies or formal legal and judicial institutions. Unfortunately, in too many cases, powerful elites are able to ignore or capture these institutions. Aid effectiveness can be enhanced by shifting the focus to the interests of elite actors, identifying where the interests of certain elites might be served by advancing selected reform, and working to draw those elites into alliance and collective action with others.
This is easier said than done. Advancing reforms will still involve a struggle against powerful actors defending the status quo. But the chances of success are brighter when other powerful elites are on the reform side. In this context, it is important to understand the interests of powerful elite groups, and identify scenarios where they have a shared interest in advancing a set of particular reforms.
Many international development organizations are not adequately equipped to work effectively on these issues. It requires the capacity to acquire a thorough understanding of the range of local actors and institutions, and the history of power struggles in the country, as a foundation for gauging the current environment. It also requires drawing on other disciplines such as social anthropology and political science. The distribution of aid benefits can be heavily influenced by the political interests of those in power inside and outside the government. By overlooking these issues, aid may be slowing down the process of change by contributing to corruption and impunity.
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I would suggest a further differentiator as to aid disbursement is whether it is targeted to the individual or to broad projects. The former is where we see hope that progress can be made, as long as we can get away from cash as the payment method - and we can deliver the funds at an acceptable, auditable cost.
The key to any such aid delivery is to link the settlement with any other funds that may be going to the beneficiary in a single, electronic structure. For instance, they may have government benefits (such as pensions), wages, financial inclusion investments and funds from families at home and abroad.
The last of these is where our non-profit group has been concentrating efforts, with a target of zero cost for both the sender and the recipient as long as the transaction stays electronic.
When a merchant is able to accept electronic payments, i.e. from a mobile-phone based message or even from a card on a mobile POS reader, the zero cost for the merchant as well is another important incentive to motivate all unbanked and under-banked recipients to stay cashless.
It would be naïve to imagine that cash will ever be ruled out entirely, so there does have to be a simple facility to get such funds from local agents. The cost of doing so, under our formula, of 4.5% is within the World Bank and G20 target range, but has sufficient variance with the zero cost as to still incentivize staying cashless.
The other facet we see as being highly desirable for optimizing aid to the poorest is to enable them to use their money for investment, insurance and managing their payments for utilities, rent etc. in as friendly and efficient a manner as possible.
The involvement of national and local governments is clearly important, not least in communicating to the unbanked how they can get these basic financial services - and in helping secure such facilities. Similarly, there is a need for at least one local partner in every country, such as telcos and banks, who will have commercial interests in this delivery format.
We welcome any show of interest from governments and aid agencies looking to distribute funds to the least advantaged, as well as encouraging regulators to contact us to ensure that all aspects of AML and general anti-criminal and tax evasion issues are confronted head on.
The problems of very high costs for P2P transfers, often up to 20%, are significant and need rectifying by joint action. This is not just an unjustified fee on the poor, but is also an encouragement for them to use the black market, operated by criminal groups. The more we can do to make sure the flow of all funds, whether from family, aid agencies, employers or governments, are managed at zero cost, the better for creating effective support for the most needy.
Thanks for commenting Christopher Williams. Interesting thoughts! Not sure I understand how to target official aid given in the form of concessional credit to individuals? Who will be liable for repayment--the government or individuals? How will such a system be enforced?
Given that much of the funding will never be repaid, assuming it is targeted at the most needy, we should look at how to optimize the value proposition in other ways. I do not think that laboring under a debt burden is a good start point for new workers; think of student loan problems in the West and how they create significant stress at a time when we should be encouraging positive thoughts on building a future.
The overall funding we see, as mentioned, comes from a variety of sources, depending on circumstances. Family assistance will always be an important factor - and one to be greatly encouraged - as it has its own personal monitoring. It can also be considered as having an implied debt for those who become successful to hand onto the next generation.
Our core aim of moving to reportable, real time transactions at all levels of society, is so that taxes, duties and fees can be collected by the government in a manner that is seen to be open and fair. That is where 'repayment' can be generated, from those who are capable of building a business that reaches a stage where it can afford to be taxed.
The key aspect of tax collection is to manage it in real time. Wages should be calculated centrally, whether from one employer or many for any individual, with the net settled in conjunction with any other funding sources. Just as importantly, VAT or Sales Tax, should be deducted from the settlement of the clearing of an electronic payment to a merchant or service provider, so there is less room for evasion.
(One separate but attached point on this collection method, relates to the capability of showing suitable respect for the confidentiality of each individual's financial circumstances. The merchant may sell goods at 100, of which VAT is deducted of 10, so the merchant receives 90. The purchaser will have transacted for 100 with the merchant, but may have been entitled to a significant reduction - based on product type, financial circumstance - and only paid 50 at the central clearing point. So, the government will have lost its 10 tax, and the funding source will have paid 40, while the individual will have had complete privacy as to this structure.)
Returning to the question of repayment as a general part of the aid structure, I feel that we should look at the world as it is, rather than how we want it to be. The rich/ poor divide is widening in many parts of the world to a frightening degree, so much of what we see as aid is actually never going to be repaid. It is there to keep a very low floor under those at the bottom of the ladder, in terms of food, clothing and accommodation. But what it can also do is create hope through opportunity for individual achievement to learn and prosper.
To sum up my response, I look at fair, automatic tax collection - just from those who can afford it, as the best way to get 'repayment' of aid, assuming the government is held to reasonable standards of reporting, from those who have received individualized funding in one form or another. Of course, this does not address large scale projects, funded at government level, but it relies on helping the 'light at the end of the tunnel' for those who want to work towards it.
My final point is that the big hole in any such scenario is cash. As we see in the EU, with its $200 billion annual hole in VAT alone through evasion and failed collection, if you allow significantly large cash transactions to escape tax, you blow the system apart. When you have VAT rates that keep going up -now 25% is the norm - you have an ever-increasing reason to evade by choosing the black route. We must work harder to reduce this problem by ensuring we have a reliable transactional flow for everyone to use electronic payments.
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Zahidbhai: Thanks for reviving this important issue. Your last point, that it is difficult to advance reforms in the face of powerful elites, raises a fundamental question about aid. How can government-to-government aid be a way of achieving reforms when forces within the government are resisting those same reforms? Elsewhere (http://www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/02/12/2013/donors%E2%80%99-dile…), I have suggested that aid can be effective only if it is "disruptive." But few governments want to be disrupted. Perhaps aid should be used for only two things: (i) knowledge about government failure that is transferred to the poor, so they can bring pressure to bear on the elites; and (ii) cash transfers so that citizens, not governments, decide what to consume. Shanta
Thanks Shanta for commenting. The poor experience government failure day in and day out, but perhaps they do not always see where it is originating from. So yes we should equip them with knowledge on government failures. Cash transfers are good, but how do we find ways of using aid to build transformative public assets in countries like Bangladesh? What aid delivery mechanisms can effectively do so?
Zahid: Transformative public assets will be built only if there is a political consensus within the country that such assets should be built (and resources redirected from other uses towards these assets). Aid cannot create this political consensus (indeed, it may undermine it, by pushing a project that is one of the donor's "favorites" even if there is no domestic consensus for it). Once such a consensus has been reached, aid can help relax the financing constraint (if there is one), but remember that money is fungible, so aid may simply be financing other expenditures of the government even if it is directed at the transformative project. Shanta


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Holy tornado! Via and friends blow you away
On a shelf near the top of my bookcase, above the unread copy of Anna Karenina, but below the dog-eared Naked by David Sedaris, sits my collection of CD's– the spoils of my career with the outstanding publication you hold in your hands.
Most of them are staying up there, a tribute to getting free stuff, but not much else. Few end up making the leap into my permanent collection. When one does, I try to shout the group's praises from every rooftop, and this week the bluegrass group David Via & Corn Tornado made that always-welcome but rarely achieved leap.
David Via, the group's songwriter, mandolin player, and lead vocalist, has racked up quite a few awards in recent years: first place in the 1997 and 2001 Merlefest Chris Austin Songwriter's award, second place in the 2000 version of the same award. The Merlefest, for those not up on your roots music, is a yearly celebration of that genre, held at Wilkes Community College in Wilkesboro, North Carolina.
This year the likes of Bruce Hornsby, Emmylou Harris, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, and god knows how many others will be gracing their stage. So Via (pronounced "Vye") has some nice trophies, or ribbons (or maybe gold dobros), or whatever they give out at Merlefest.
But what's his music actually like? Intensely listenable, with splashes of near-genius. You're left with an all around good feeling long after the record has stopped revolving.
Song two on the group's 2001 CD, It All Comes Down To A Song, is the mildly meta, "I Wrote This Song." Via's mandolin leads off the piece, soon joined by Daniel Knicely's simple guitar strumming, with John Flower's soft bass notes flavoring the background. After one complete intro line, Dave VanDeventer's sweet, slow fiddle enters on your left, and Corn Tornado is complete.
David Via's honey-drenched (but in a manly way) vocals start soon after. "Well I wrote this song for I must do you wrong / 'Cause I can't be the man that you need me to be," he croons/belts to a lover with a great– or at least pop-informed– melody. After two lines of solos, the chorus starts, and the group's three-part harmonies (Via, Knicely, and Flower) sweep you away.
Other songs on the group's album are equally enjoyable. "Virginia Ground," which won the above-mentioned 2000 Merlefest award, is traditional-bluegrass informed, while "For Pete's Sake" is pickers playing jazz. And these are just two of an album of varied but solid songs.
David Via & Corn Tornado play bluegrass, but it's bluegrass influenced by more than just the ghost of Bill Monroe. Ranging from traditional to contemporary, with strong doses of other genres such as pop and blues, it's bluegrass for the current millennium. It's bluegrass for the rest of us.
David Via & Corn Tornado perform at the Prism Coffeehouse February 1. $14/$12 advance, 8pm.


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CHICAGO POEMS, published by Carl Sandburg in 1916, is an ode to a city. It's a clear eyed and unapologetic love letter: where you tell your true-love you love them not in spite of their imperfections but because of them. This was Sandburg's first volume of poetry, written in the years just after 1912 when he moved to Chicago.
In some ways, Sandburg's writing was before its time–more like the social realism you associate with the later 1920s and 1930s–think Grant Wood's American Gothic, think Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother. This was a time when industry, agriculture, and the worker were the heros of popular art.
Sandburg starts Chicago Poems with "Chicago." Read it here and see its opening stanza visualized in poster art.


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ISLAMABAD, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- As Pakistan marks the 67th anniversary of its independence from the British Raj on Thursday, tens of thousands of anti-government protesters are expected to demonstrate in Islamabad.
The Tehreek-e-insaaf (PTI) political party organized the protest to coincide with the national holiday, declaring it a "march of independence," to seek the removal of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
Sharif has been accused of vote rigging during last year's election.
Around 100,000 people are expected to join Thursday's protest.
Pictures from outside governor house. Received from pti supporter. #AzadiMarchPTI pic.twitter.com/SsOKSCpc0K— PTI (@PTIofficial) August 14, 2014
On Wednesday, Sharif publicly addressed the accusations. He refuted any wrong-doing and pointed to improvements made since his election with regard to "currency value, foreign investment and economic growth." The prime minister also offered to form an investigative commission comprised of three Supreme Court judges to examine the allegations of electoral fraud.
The prime minister's response to the corruption allegations is too little, too late, opposition leader Imran Khan said at a press conference following Sharif's remarks.
The demonstration, led by Khan and anti-government cleric Tahir-ul-Qadri, was expected to start at 6:00 p.m. local time (9 a.m. EDT) in Islamabad's "red zone," an area of government buildings.
Shortly after the demonstration officially began, Khan posted a photo to Twitter, remarking on the "Amazing crowds on both sides of the Mall," adding "Change will come Insh'allah."
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We can understand that Appalachian State fans would want to remember their upset victory over Michigan forever, keep it close to them so that, in moments of despair, they can remember that anything is possible, that the world can be a transformative place. (Particularly when Michigan is terrible.) But, frankly, this seems a bit over the top.
You see, some App. St. fan got a tattoo of the Michigan Stadium scoreboard on his ass.
"There was one guy just last night - an older, wealthy type - and he wanted a tattoo of the scoreboard from last week right on his [butt]," said David King, co-owner of Ink Link (tattoo shop in Boone) whose arms have more color than an ice cream shop's freezer. "We put it on him - the score, the game clock, the whole thing - right on his [butt]."
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Leading entertainment executives and Hollywood industry gurus from all over Southern California addressed the changing landscape of Hollywood as the nation's entertainment headquarters at the quarterly UCLA Anderson Forecast Conference held March 27 at UCLA Anderson.
More than 300 attendees filled Anderson's Korn Convocation Hall for the conference titled, "Entertainment: L.A.'s Most Important Industry," which featured speakers Jim Hahn, mayor of Los Angeles, Jeffrey Berg, president of International Creative Management, Jean Prewitt, president of American Film Marketing Association and Cody Cluff, president of Entertainment Industry Development Corporation.
Berg, the morning keynote speaker said Hollywood will remain show business's financial and administrative center, but will continue to lose film production opportunities as the forces of globalization impact the region.
"Artists are now global artists; they don't necessarily live here anymore," Berg told the crowd during his keynote, "The Cluster We Call Hollywood."
Berg noted that the industry began changing two years ago when financing grew far more complex than ever before, and studio ownership shifted to mega-conglomerates.
"Studios today are principally sources of financing, marketing and distribution," Berg said.
Mayor Jim Hahn of Los Angeles also made a keynote appearance at the conference, emphasizing the key role that entertainment plays in the L.A. economy and his commitment to maintaining its position as the industry headquarters.
"I want to do whatever I can to create the kind of business environment that is going to nurture the entertainment industry," Hahn said. "An environment that is going to keep all of the jobs and the small businesses here because it is so important to the L.A. economy."
The conference also featured two timely panel sessions focusing on how technologies shape the business of entertainment and the effect that runaway production has on Hollywood.
Economists with the UCLA Anderson Forecast found that Los Angeles County's entertainment biz lost nearly 18,000 jobs over the past year due to the combined effects of the de facto strikes, runaway production and the recession.
Christopher Thornberg, senior economist with the Forecast, said the 12 percent drop in industry employment is similar to the plunge in aerospace jobs in the early 1990s. But he said it hasn't registered a similar shock on the regional economy because the entertainment industry is fundamentally healthy.
"Were evolving from a production center to a design center," Thornberg said. "But that's not a bad thing."
As customary, quarterly reports on the nation and California were also presented at the conference.
Edward Leamer, director of the UCLA Anderson Forecast and author of the national report, "This is Our First Business Cycle," predicted that the national economy is looking at a very sluggish period ahead with no obvious driver to power an economic recovery.
Leamer notes that past recoveries have been fueled by consumer spending on goods and real estate-- essentially "consumer cycles" driving the economy.
"This time it is virtually impossible that consumer spending will power the economy in 2002 and 2003," Leamer said. "Consumer spending hasn't collapsed and there is no valley from which to emerge."
While the nation is at considerable risk for another recessionary dip, California is preparing for a recovery after the 2001 downturn, according to Tom Lieser, senior economist and author of the state report.
In his report titled "California: How Strong an Expansion?" Lieser asserts that the critical question now facing the Golden State is the strength of the impending recovery.
"By the second half of this year, areas of current strength should be augmented by a turn in the technology sector. A pickup in computer services and personnel services will bring about a resumption growth in business services," Lieser said. "By 2003, sectors including aerospace and motion pictures will rebound and contribute to a growing California economy.


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VIA plans to raise its fares every two years
The VIA Metropolitan Transit board supported a slate of fare boosts Tuesday, and approved a fare policy calling for small, incremental price increases every two years.
If the fare increases are OK'd by a local governmental approval committee, the basic one-way bus fare will rise by 10 cents to $1.20, starting Feb. 1. Under the approved policy, that fare would go up to $1.30 in 2015 and $1.40 in 2017.
After the board vote, VIA Interim President/CEO Jeffrey Arndt said the bus agency is following through on efforts to improve service and help offset any negative impact the fare boosts could have on ridership.
VIA has installed Wi-Fi service on some buses, reduced stops and used signal priority technology to speed up service, and on Saturday will give the public a "sneak preview" of its new South Texas Medical Center transit station and 60-foot articulated Prímo rapid-transit buses.
"The Prímo service is an example of where we are investing in improved service," Arndt said.
VIA has projected it will have provided 45.7 million rides in 2012, an increase of more than 3.5 percent above its 2011 ridership.
VIA officials had heard concerns about the impact of the fare increases on students, the disabled and other low-income riders who rely on VIA buses for daily transportation.
However, VIA officials said the regular monthly bus pass, which would rise from $30 to $35, is less than half what riders pay in Dallas, where a monthly system pass costs $80.
"VIA will continue to be an excellent value for the community," Steve Lange, the agency's chief financial officer, told VIA trustees.
Last year, fares covered just under 17 percent of the overall cost of service, Lange said.
The new fare policy, which recommends a 10-cent increase in the basic fare about every two years, seeks to keep that cost-recovery ratio at 18 percent to 20 percent, in keeping with transit industry trends.
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Lange said it's better to raise fares incrementally than adopt large increases every four to five years.
Board member Doug Poneck said VIA is doing "quite a bit, with really relatively very little," but needs to try to identify other revenues to keep improving service in a growing city without relying on fare increases.
"I think there's still more work to be done," Poneck said.
VIA has begun a process for selecting and installing new automated fare-collection equipment on vans and buses that Arndt said will improve convenience for all VIA riders.
Rather than using coins and paper, riders will be able to purchase a "stored value" card that uses a magnetic reader, bar-code scanner or other technology to board the bus. Those improvements are being financed with federal funds.
VIA officials have said the transit agency last raised fares in 2009 but has been saddled with rising costs for operations.
Arndt said VIA is exploring all avenues for increasing revenues through grants, advertising and other sources.
In selling the fare increases to riders and board members, VIA staff has compared the agency's current basic bus fares with those in Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston and El Paso, where riders generally pay more. VIA collects a sales tax of 5/8-cent, compared with a 1-cent tax in Dallas, Houston and Austin.
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The New York Times reported today on The Fiscal Times scandal that has the Washington Post on the defensive. And the NYT framed the controversy in the exact right way (emphasis added):
[The Fiscal Times'] financing was provided by Peter G. Peterson, the billionaire investment banker who advocates deficit reduction and restrictions on entitlement programs.
On Dec. 31, The Post published the first news article produced by The Fiscal Times, a report on the support in Washington for a proposed deficit-reduction commission. The primary expert quoted in the article is from the Concord Coalition, whose mission is also balanced budgets and limits on safety-net spending.
But the article did not mention Mr. Peterson, his backing of The Fiscal Times, that he was a co-founder of the Concord Coalition or that his foundation was a major underwriter of the coalition.
Most of the time, the media treats Peterson as an oracle, our nation's only budgetary truth-teller. The most egregious example of this was one year ago when CNN gave Peterson a two-hour special to air his ideological and factually-flawed documentary "I.O.U.S.A." as if it was straight news.
But the NYT piece accurately defined Peterson an activist who wants to cut "entitlement" programs such as Social Security and Medicare. Most importantly, the NYT treated Peterson's rigid views on deficit reduction as a political view among several, not a singular ultimate truth.
(A separate NYT piece today also properly reported there is a robust debate over how to manage the current deficit, noting: "the [Democratic] party is somewhat split over how aggressively to pursue deficit reduction, with many liberals warning that fiscal contraction could set off a double-dip recession as well as crimp their agenda.")
There is a critical media ethics issue at stake, as it is an open question if financially unstable traditional media outlets can withstand the incentive to sell-out their pages to wealthy benefactors.
But it is also important for reporters covering the ongoing fiscal debate to recognize Peterson is an ideologue advocating an agenda in that debate, not an objective expert truth-squadding the debate.
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"I am grateful that the Board of Curators has approved this raise, and I deeply appreciate the display of confidence in my leadership. However, because of the continuing tight financial situation faced by our University, I have decided to donate this year's raise, divided equally, to the development campaigns supporting our four campuses."
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Multiple controlled pasture fires — including one that grew as large as 16 miles wide — raged out of control this past week as multiple fire departments were required on at least two occasions.
The largest fire, near where Marion, Chase, and Morris counties meet, required the combined efforts of six fire departments Thursday.
The fire threatened at least eight farmsteads. Burdick fire chief Glenn Carlson said flames got within 10 feet of several homes. Some farmers used pickup sprayers to help fight the fire and keep it from spreading to big round hay bales, although one old barn burned.
It began near the Marion-Chase county line southeast of Lincolnville when a pasture burn got out of control. Fed by strong southwesterly winds, it quickly spread to the northeast, eventually reaching almost to Diamond Springs, seven miles east of Burdick in Morris County.
A Marion County 911 dispatcher reported the fire to be six miles east of Lincolnville. Lincolnville and Lost Springs Fire Departments responded, as well as the Burdick Fire Department.
According to Carlson, the fire was 15 or 16 miles wide by the time it was controlled shortly before dark that evening. He said fire departments from Chase County, Delevan, and Wilsey fought the fire on the east side.
Water became a big issue as firefighters worked throughout the afternoon to contain the fire.
"Everybody was yelling, 'Where's the water truck?'" Carlson said.
He refilled his 350-gallon brush truck six times. Bigger tankers were filled at least five times from ponds and other sources. At one point, firefighters called for a tanker truck from Marion. A tanker truck from the old air base at Herington also responded.
Several firefighters were still feeling the effects of fighting the fire on Monday. They had bloodshot eyes and were fighting congestion from smoke they inhaled.
Lost Springs fire chief Brad Pagenkopf said Lost Springs firefighters got back to town at 9 p.m. Carlson said he got back home about 8 p.m., but he and his son, Andy, were called out two more times that evening to extinguish flare-ups near Burdick. He figured it was midnight or later before he got to bed.
"Fighting fire in the dark is interesting," he said.
He was thankful that no one got hurt. He said he appreciated the help Burdick received from Lincolnville and Lost Springs and all those who volunteered to help.
Another large pasture fire struck Sunday northwest of Tampa near the intersection of 350th and Falcon Rds.
Tampa Fire Department was called to the scene at 3:48 p.m., and over the course of the afternoon and evening Durham, Ramona, Hillsboro, and Roxbury fire departments were called to assist.
Flare-ups rekindled the fire Monday, around the same time Marion County Commission considered modifying how the county issues burn bans. Tampa Fire Department responded to the flare-ups and quickly extinguished them.
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New data from YouGov.com confirm what you probably already knew: Your fellow American is likely a stuffy know-it-all.
The research organization's survey targeted the perceptions of Americans regarding their peers, particularly their intelligence.
Out of 991 people surveyed, 55 percent believe they are smarter than their fellows. Among that group:
More males thought they were smarter than females did
More 18- to 29-year-olds said they were slightly smarter than others … while more 45- to 64-year-olds thought they were much more intelligent
More Republicans thought they were slightly more intelligent … while more independents believed they were much more intelligent
YouGov also asked this question: In general, how intelligent do you think American people are? Among the various demographic groups interviewed, 44 percent believed we possessed average smarts.


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Plans and specifications are available for inspection, along with bidding proposals, and applications for the TxDOT Prequalified Contractor's list, at the applicable State and/or Dist/Div Offices listed below. If applicable, bidders must submit prequalification information to TxDOT at least 10 days prior to the bid date to be eligible to bid on a project. Prequalification materials may be requested from the State Office listed below. Plans for the above contract(s) are available from TxDOT's website at www.txdot.gov and from reproduction companies at the expense of the contractor.
State Office
Constr./Maint. Division
200 E. Riverside Dr.
Austin, Texas 78704
Phone: 512-416-2540
Dist/Div Office(s)
Paris District
District Engineer
1365 N. Main St.
Paris, Texas 75460-2697
Phone: 903-737-9300
Minimum wage rates are set out in bidding documents and the rates will be part of the contract. TXDOT ensures that bidders will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, color, sex, or national origin.
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Obama sending Muslims subtle message?
Exclusive: Andrea Shea King questions president's disrespectful 'gestures'
How many of our fellow countrymen thought the same thing when viewing this official White House photo (by Pete Souza) of the president with his shod foot firmly planted upon an historic American treasure – the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office?
Is it possible I might have misinterpreted this photo, which played prominently on the Drudge Report site last Sunday? Is it possible President Obama had a White House photographer release this official image to the world to send a wordless message of support to the Muslim Brotherhood, Arab street and Islamic community in general? To convey his disdain and disregard for all things traditionally American? It is, after all, common knowledge that the Arab world considers the bottom of one's shoes the ultimate sign of disrespect. And it's not the first time he's done it.
"In Arab culture it's considered rude even to display the sole of one's shoe to a fellow human being." … "The sensitivity is related to the fact shoes are considered ritually unclean in the Muslim faith." Now that makes a lot of sense, and should BBC readers wish to keep the matter firmly in mind for a future visit to the Muslim world: "Shoes should either be left at the door of the mosque, or carried (preferably in the left hand with the soles pressed together)." – Al Jazeera
It also wouldn't be the first time Obama has used photos to convey a not so subtle message to his intended audiences.
Twitchy gathered comments from others on Twitter who were incensed to see Obama's careless disrespect for America's treasures. And though I agree with their righteous indignation, is it possible they missed the intended point Obama sought to make?
Secretary of State John F. Kerry's appearance on Fox News' Sunday program was described as "painful to watch" by Fox News éminence grise Brit Hume. Show host Chris Wallace's questioning reduced Kerry to a meltdown, according to this Twitter observer.
The Right Brothers tweeted: "Laughing aloud watching
#Kerry stumble and fumble thru the intvw on @FoxNewsSunday Wallace pounding him. Kerry stammering, rambling. #Syria".
The inimitable Lucianne Goldberg tweeted, "Now is the day for the question to John Kerry, 'Why the long face, Mr. Secretary?'"
Well now that you mention it Lucianne, Kerry's visage actually seemed fuller and smoother than usual, as though it had been prepared for a funeral home viewing. Hmmm … facelift? Botox? Paint and powder?
Many more comments here.
Related: Famous war quotes, Obama-style.
Speaking of "War and Facepaint," Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich., tweeted, "Americans don't support war in #Syria & neither does Congress. No clear U.S. interest or strategy. We don't want entanglement in this war" – and also amplified the voices of veterans opposed to Obama's intervention in Syria by retweeting dozens of their comments:
The Michigan representative also had a thing or two to say about POTUS' about-face regarding "pinpoint" attacks on Syria:
Where's Waldo, redux.
By the way, anyone know when Hillary will weigh in on this Syria business? The folks at I Own the World are wondering. If you find out, let us know. Thank you.
And I'm the idiot?
"So we're bombing Syria because Syria is bombing Syria? And I'm the idiot?" former Alaska governor Sarah Palin Facebooked to her followers in an August 30th post.
"Bottom line is that this is about President Obama saving political face because of his 'red line' promise regarding chemical weapons," Palin wrote.
The title of her Facebook post? "LET ALLAH SORT IT OUT." A "capitol" idea, Governor!
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"Come fly with me, let's float down to Peru
In Llama land, there's a one man band
And he'll toot his flute for you
Come fly with me, let's take off in the blue" – Frank Sinatra,
(lyrics by James Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn)
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There are thousands of aircraft in the air right now. And you can watch them move across the globe. Want to know what types of plane they are? The origination point? Where they're going? What altitude they're flying in real time, and at what speed, what direction longitudinally and latitudinally? Want to view your region or town? Info is re-calculated every 10 seconds. On some aircraft, you can also click "view from the cockpit" and "see" what the pilot is seeing.
Flight Radar 24 is free and gives you a fascinating look at flights coming and going all over the world.
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From the home page http://www.ps3grid.net
quote:If you enjoy science, you can participate by donating the computing time of your PlayStation3 or your NVIDIA graphics card to scientific research by running molecular simulations while not playing.
Also listed at http://tech.slashdot.org/artic.../19/1543204&from=rss
This project uses the latest CUDA libraries and beta BOINC releases to allow participants to utilize the CUDA compatible cards and PS3's to run molecular simulations.
This project is bleading edge using unreleased versions of almost everything. Installation can be a little rough but it supports the Windows, Linux and PS3's.
According to http://www.gpugrid.net/forum_thread.php?id=328
quote:This is performance guide of nVidia graphic cards on PS3GRID:
1. GeForce 280GTX: 25000 sec/WU
2. GeForce 260GTX: 28000 sec/WU
3. GeForce 9800GTX+: 44000 sec/WU
4. GeForce 9800GTX: 47000 sec/WU
5. GeForce 8800GTS512: 50000 sec/WU
6. GeForce 8800GT: 58000 sec/WU
7. GeForce 9600GT: 70000 sec/WU
8. GeForce 8800GS: 74000 sec/WU
which are close from what I can see. Each WU is 3232 cobbles so my 9600gso (8800gs) should produce 3800 cobbles/day with the 20 hr wu's. Performance appears to scale well with number of shaders * shader clock.
So, for those of you who want to take a break from GPU Folding while they work out some of their issues, give PS3GRID.NET a try.


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Fishing at Castlepoint - The Great Gurnard Hunt
They say the fish are always biting at Castlepoint, the Wairarapa's most spectacular beach.
We've all heard the story about the one that got away? But guess what? This is a story about the one that didn't. It's a story about a bright orange Gurnard l hooked off the impressive limestone reef at Castlepoint.
Castlepoint Beach is a 50-60 minute drive from Masterton on a sealed country road that weaves through rolling farmland. It's a spectacular beach famous for its 100-year-old lighthouse, lagoon and surf break. It's also a terrific spot for gathering kai moana (seafood) including crayfish.
It is also where several fishing competitions are held each summer including one just for women and The Great Gurnard Hunt. I've never competed in it before but sitting there in the sunshine, fishing rod rigged and cast and the fish nibbling away I couldn't help but think this is the best way to spend my time.
Despite reeling in several small kahawai, it wasn't until I reeled in a 1.05kg Gurnard that I felt satisfied with the catch. My patience was further rewarded with "the biggest Gurnard" prize for land-based anglers. No tall tales here.
The Wairarapa coastline is blessed with top notch diving and fishing spots and several fishing competitions are held from Cape Palliser in the south to Castlepoint in the north. Whether you're a serious angler or not, the coast is always a great places to visit. The fish taste pretty amazing too.
For more information about the Wairarapa head to www.wairarapanz.com or contact one of our i-SITE Visitor Centres:
Masterton i-SITE Visitor Centre
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+64 6 370 0900
Martinborough i-SITE Visitor Centre
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I have my "real life" tribe (support network) of girlfriends
and my "on-line" tribe of bloggy girlfriends --
both groups are critical to my emotional and creative well-being.
Get Outside *
get outside and "walk your dog"
everyday to clear out your head and get
This was easier to do when I was still in college
and had to walk outside to get meals three times a day
but now I find that I can go several days
without leaving my home, office, studio, or car.
If you can take a 1-hour walk at least once a week,
that's great - as a busy mom I do mine on the weekend
while hubby plays with our girls.
Julia Cameron suggests taking a "prayerful" walk once a week.
I call it a gratitude walk where you conscientiously list
and vocalize your gratitude
for everything about your life that you enjoy.
I also find that simple stretching (Yoga is great)
and deep breathing/meditation can be very restorative.
I also enjoy gardening and doing this with my hands in the dirt
when the weather cooperates!
Here are my own additions to the list:
Sunrise, Outer Banks North Carolina (2010)
*Get Enough Sleep*
I aim for 7 hours a night and am a better mother for it.
It means less time spent in the evenings online and
watching shows in the DVR, but by shutting down
and going upstairs by 10pm,
I'm actually a pretty nice person during the day
and I get a lot fewer colds than I used to!
E's sandy toes Outer Banks, NC (2010)
* Decompress and Communicate *
Being home with small children is very isolating.
It's rewarding but also very. hard. work.
It's strange to go all day without talking to anyone
over two feet tall -- talking to your spouse
(or a friend, other mom, etc) is something that can easily
be pushed to the back of the priority list.
If I don't unload my brain and
talk to another grown-up
regularly, my brain gets too full and overwhelmed
then I have a mini mental breakdown where I'm
crying and snapping at my kids. Nothing creative
is going to happen when I'm like that.
Hubby and I try to skip turning on the TV a few nights
a week (we can't give it up completely)
and just sit and talk to each other
(Shocking! I know!)
Frequently, we'll have a glass of our favorite wine
(Bogle Cabernet)
and just turn on some classical music.
Hillwood House Gardens (2010)
* Drink Enough Water *
I really don't feel well when I skip this one...
As a girl who has a special gift for growing
kidney stones, I can't stress this one enough.
I'll get through a day and realize the only thing I drank
was my cup of coffee and one sip of milk at dinner...
If you drink water daily your skin will be clearer,
you'll have more energy,
and you'll get fewer colds.
I'm also a fan of taking daily Probiotics and Vitamin D
(Florastor for me, Jarrow Formulas: Yum-Yum dophilus
chewables from Whole Foods for the girls)
If you don't stay hydrated and rested, your brain
doesn't work at full speed and that inhibits your inner artist.
I know this is a departure from my regular posts,
but this one has been rattling around in my brain for months!
Thanks for sticking with me and I'll
get back to my regular crafty goodness this week. : )
Happy CREATING!


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The legacy of Star Wars: Dark Forces and Star Wars: Jedi Knight lives on in the intense first-person action of Jedi Outcast.
In the tradition of the highly acclaimed Star Wars: Jedi Knight series, Star Wars: Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast features rebel agent Kyle Katarn in exhilarating first-person action. Several years have passed since Kyle avenged his father's death and saved the Valley of the Jedi from Jerec and his band of Dark Jedi. Allowing his Force powers to languish for fear of falling to the dark side, Kyle entrusted his lightsaber to Luke Skywalker, vowing never to use it again. But when a new and menacing threat to the galaxy emerges, Kyle knows he must reclaim his past in order to save his future.READ MORE
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Newbies: What to Look For
As a Linux newbie sure you have a lot of choices out there but what should you look for in a distro? I've come up with a few tips to help the new guy decide what he's going to try first.
From full Debian DVD sets to lightweight Mini distros, Linux distributions come in about every size possible. So one of the first things you'll need to decide is what you'll be installing this disto on. If it's an older computer or your hardware is outdated be sure to look at the large selection of lightweight distros like Damn Small Linux, Tiny Core, xPUD, Puppy and many others. Linux distros like this are known for getting the most out of older hardware so you should see some significant improvements on computers that were previous running older versions of Windows.
Desktop Environment
You may have noticed that many Linux distros offer releases that feature GNOME, KDE, Xfce, and many other desktop environments. These desktop environments are basically the interface of your Linux desktop. It is important to decide what environment will work best for you so you can be matched to the best distro. Once you've experienced KDE on OpenSUSE for example, that knowledge will be useful while using other distros that offer KDE. Most users find a desktop environment they like and stick to it regardless of distro.
This one seems obvious but needs to be mentioned. Not so much for English speakers but for everyone else. A Linux user that speaks Spanish may have a much more gratifying experience on Mandriva because Spanish languages support has been included in Mandriva for a long time. Some distros have been optimized for specific languages like the recent version of Greenie Linux which focuses on Czech and Slovak speakers. If you're more comfortable in another language check around to see if distros optimized in your language are available.
I see Linux newbies selecting distributions that aren't very popular based on one or two things they like about them. Keep in mind that you can make distros like Ubuntu and Fedora do just about anything. How? Support. Without a base of other users that you can talk to in the forum, chat room or at your local LUG, it's pretty hard to figure things out when you're stuck. With such a huge number people using distros like Ubuntu finding help will be much easier than if you pick the latest and greatest from distrowatch and try to figure it out on your own.
Many factors go into choosing a distribution, taking some time to think about your needs first may save you some time in the long run.
June 12, 2009 at 4:19 am
I agree with you: language and support are two factors that newbie users tend to forget when choosing their first distribution, but these are important. Having a support forum in your own language is a big advantage if you are not fluent in English.
I personally consider Linux Mint as the easiest distro for new users (with Ubuntu and Mandriva are battling for the second place), but if the person wants to have professional support Ubuntu or Mandriva are better, because Mint doesn't offer paid phone support.


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Let tipster hoseman666 explain this bit of profane professional-bowling fury for you:
During the Geico PBA Shootout in Chicago this week, there was an outburst on the lanes by Sean Rash. His opponent, two-handed thrower and fan favorite Jason Belmonte repeatedly "crinkled" his water bottle while Rash was on the approach. The video I linked to starts off with the outburst, then at the 20-second mark, shows the previous frame and a longer 2-minute span of events leading up to it.
Belmonte had been accused of the same no-no when he fondled his bottle against Brad Angelo on TV earlier this year. Belmonte apologized to Angelo after their match, but blamed it on cheap plastic bottles.
Rash was fined an undisclosed amount by the PBA for conduct unbecoming a PBA member. Belmonte is getting hammered in bowling circles for either being inconsiderate, oblivious, or unsportsmanlike.
The 11th Frame: 'The most controversial, emotionally-charged, confrontational televised moment in PBA history' [Madison.com]
PBA bowler fined for incident at 10pin [Marina City Online]


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Seasonal & Summer Jobs
Looking for a way to make your summer worthwhile? Below are a few of the many resources for opportunities tht will help you expand your resume while having a great time!
Summer Camps
Spend time in the summer sun while gaining experience with kids, teens, and families!
Theme Parks
Hone your customer service skills while working in a fun environment!
- Cedar Point
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The Great Outdoors
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I am basically trying to solve the cannonball problem using elliptic curves.
In other words I have to show that the only integer points on the "elliptic curve" $6y^2 = 2x^3 + 3x^2 + x$ are $(0,0), (1,\pm 1), (24,\pm 70)$.
Now my plan is to find the torsion group via Nagell-Lutz and then show (somehow) that there is no integral point with infinite order (maybe even find that there is no point of infinite order).
My problem is with the fact that when written in standard form the curve is defined over $\mathbb{Q}$. How do I find a global minimal model for this curve?
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I voted down a bad answer. When I came back a bit later I found that the problem that caused me to downvote had been fixed and I tried to vote up once to return it to a zero state. Strangely enough this ended up with it showing one point instead of the zero it should have.
I figured my downvote had been replaced with an upvote so I tried clicking right on the number itself in the hope that was neutral--but this resulted in it showing +2/-1. What?!
Edit: Nobody has addressed how the votes ended up +2/-1. How was I allowed to upvote twice?


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Buy Gods of Football DVD: Making the 2009 Calendar DVD
North America | UK/Europe
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Gods of Football: The Making of the 2009 Calendar DVD is out now!
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This provocative new DVD goes behind-the-scenes as more than forty Australian professional footballers pose nude for a charity calendar.
The nude rugby player charity calendar is an annual tradition in Australia, but this is the first time a video crew has recorded the production.
The Gods of Football DVD follows these Hollywood-handsome players to beautiful Australian locations for their male model makeovers and photo shoots.
Because the calendar and DVD raise funds and awareness for a breast cancer charity, these Aussie sports stars mustered the courage and accepted the challenge to get "naked for a cause" and create some of the hottest and sexiest images ever captured on film!
The Gods of Football 2009 Calendar was an international bestseller.
The Gods of Football calendar and DVD raise awareness and funds for The McGrath Foundation. The non-profit places breast care nurses throughout rural and regional Australia and campaigns to educate young women to be "breast aware."
"I'm overwhelmed by the support the players have shown us and we really hope the public gets behind Gods of Football to help us raise funds for much-needed breast care nurses," said Tracy Bevan, Executive Director of the McGrath Foundation.
Gods of Football: The Making of the 2009 Calendar grants unprecedented access to these sexy pro athletes and their transformation from macho "footy" players to nude calendar models for a day.
Fly-on-the-wall style camerawork captures all the sizzling action on set and many players share touching and surprisingly personal motivations for taking part. Funny outtakes and bloopers give the DVD an element of lighthearted fun.
Gods of Football: The Making of the 2009 Calendar DVD brings to life the stunning, iconic images of the footballers captured for the Gods of Football calendar. Built, hot, sexy, and getting "naked for a cause!" These men are The Gods of Football!
Gods of Football: The Making of the 2009 Calendar
Release Date North America: Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Distributed by Ariztical Entertainment
Directed by Grant Carroll
Produced by Gabriel Ayoub for Gods of Football Pty Ltd, Sydney Australia
Director of Development for Gods of Football is Dan Whitehead
Format: DVD
Running Time: 80 minutes + extras