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Of course, if I were really channelling Tara, I'd have topped off the look with a bright pink blazer and turquoise heels. Couldn't you just imagine her wearing something like that? She has a special touch when it comes to pairing brights perfectly!
I already have the perfect pair of turquoise heels, but I'll have to keep my eyes open for a pink blazer. ;)
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BofA $8.5 Billion Mortgage Bond Pact gets Court Approval
northjersey.com | February 2, 2014
Bank of America Corp.'s proposed $8.5 billion settlement with mortgage-bond investors including BlackRock Inc. and Pacific Investment Management Co. was approved by a New York state judge, except to the extent the pact releases some loan modification claims.
Bank of New York Mellon Corp., the trustee for more than 500 residential mortgage-securitization trusts, filed a petition in June 2011 seeking approval of the settlement, which aimed to resolve claims that the loans backing the bonds didn't meet their promised quality.
For Bank of America, the settlement is part of Chief Executive Officer Brian Moynihan's efforts to resolve liabilities tied to faulty mortgages that have cost the company at least $50 billion since the financial crisis, most inherited from its 2008 purchase of Countrywide Financial Corp.
Pools of home loans securitized into bonds were a central part of the housing bubble that helped send the U.S. into the biggest recession since the 1930s. The housing market collapsed, and the crisis swept up lenders and investment banks as the market for the securities evaporated.
Investor Accord
New York State Supreme Court Justice Barbara Kapnick in Manhattan authorized Charlotte, North Carolina-based Bank of America's accord with investors in a judgment issued today. She delayed the entry of the ruling until Feb. 7.
Kapnick qualified her approval of the pact, allowing some loan modification claims by investors to continue. She said the trustee "abused its discretion" on that issue "without exercising their potential worth or strength." It wasn't immediately clear how Kapnick's caveat would affect the settlement terms.
Lawrence Grayson, a spokesman for Bank of America, declined to immediately comment on the ruling. Kathy Patrick, a lawyer representing BlackRock and other institutional investors who back the settlement, and Matthew Ingber, a lawyer representing Bank of New York, didn't immediately return calls seeking comment on the ruling.
Bank of New York asked Kapnick to approve the accord under Article 77, a state law that allows trustees to seek judicial consent for their actions, saying the settlement benefits investors by giving them a known recovery instead of years of uncertain and costly litigation.
Nine Weeks
Kapnick presided over a nine-week settlement hearing that began in June and featured testimony from almost two dozen witnesses, including Bank of America's chief risk officer, Terrence P. Laughlin, who led the settlement negotiations for the lender.
Dozens of investors in the securities objected to the deal, led by American International Group Inc., which said the settlement resolves claims for "pennies on the dollar" while losses totaled more than $100 billion. Only about 15 objectors remained as closing arguments in the hearing began in November.
Kapnick found that the trustee "did not abuse its discretion in entering into the settlement agreement and did not act in bad faith or outside the bounds of reasonable judgment."
AIG said in a statement that it's "pleased that the court refused to approve the proposed settlement in its entirety" and found that the trustee acted unreasonably in agreeing to compromise billions of dollars of investor claims, the insurer said in a statement.
"We respectfully disagree with the other aspects of the court's ruling, which are not supported by the record and which set a dangerous precedent that could eliminate important protections for investors," said Jon Diat, a spokesman for AIG. "This case is very far from over because the settlement will not take effect until a variety of potential post-trial motions and appeals are resolved."
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Rob Ryan is hot on the trail of another NFL defensive coordinator gig.
NFL.com's Ian Rapoport reported Friday that Ryan is traveling to St. Louis to interview with the Rams. The meeting will take place Saturday.
The Rams are looking to formally replace Gregg Williams, who joined the team last January but never coached a down after being suspended indefinitely for his role in the New Orleans Saints' bounty program.
The Rams used a coordinator-by-committee approach to get through the 2012 season, finishing 14th in total defense. Ryan coached the Cowboys' defense for the past two seasons. The unit -- hit hard by injuries -- finished 19th this past season after ranking 12th in 2011.
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones explained that struggles by a healthier version of the unit early in the season led to the team's decision to move on from Ryan.
Ryan said he would be out of work for "like five minutes" after Dallas dismissed him on Jan. 9. It hasn't quite worked out that way, but he gets a shot to sell himself this weekend.
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Apple Pushes Out WiFi Fix for iOS 6
Dec 19, 2012 9:59 AM PT
Apple on Tuesday began pushing a fix to a WiFi bug in iOS 6 that targets the iPhone 5 and iPad mini.
Apple has released very little information about the fix. Its support site simply describes the 6.0.2 update as "fixes a bug that could impact WiFi."
This latest fix for iOS 6 is the second since the software was released in September. The first fix addressed a number of problems including the display of horizontal lines across the iPhone's virtual keyboard, inability to perform over-the-air updates on the iPhone 5 and the removal of meetings from the calendar after the user accepts an invitation to attend.
Apple did not respond to our request to comment for this story.
No Quality Concerns
Several iPhone owners running iOS 6 reported receiving no update notice early Tuesday, though one had, so it appears the fix is being rolled out slowly. None of the iPhone owners said they'd experienced any WiFi problems with iOS 6.
Fixes like those released since the introduction of iOS 6 should be expected and aren't necessarily signs of quality control slip-ups at Apple.
It's not unusual for a new release of a product to need bug fixes, according to Tim Bajarin, president of Creative Strategies.
"A major release will have some bugs, but Apple's quality control is best-in-class, and their releases go out with minimal bug issues," he told MacNewsWorld.
Apple releases updates only when they're ready for market. In some cases, that may be twice a year, in others, it could be as long as eight months, he explained. "And if there are security issues, they may update it more often."
On-The-Fly Fixing
It does appear, though, that Apple is pushing out fixes for iOS 6 at a brisk pace. "This is bug fixing on the fly," observed Carl Howe, research director at the Yankee Group.
"As soon as they find cures for problems, they release them," Howe told MacNewsWorld.
The latest bug fix addresses a compatibility problem with 802.11 routers that use the 5-GHz band, he explained.
Routers that comply with the 802.11 standard may support the 2.4-GHz or 5-GHz bands, or both. Routers supporting 802.11a, for example, only support 5 GHz. Those with 802.11g support only 2.4 GHz. Those with 802.11n support both.
The 2.4-GHz band is crowded, however, because it's used by lots of devices -- Bluetooth gadgets, cordless phones, baby monitors, even microwave ovens. Access to the 5-GHz band, which is less crowded, can result in cleaner reception.
Record Sales?
The problem with the standard for 5-GHz WiFi, according to Howe, is that it's not a fully specified standard. In other words, there's room for router makers to vary their implementation of it. Not all vendors do 5 GHz right, he asserted, but users expect their devices to work with their router, even if its maker did it wrong.
Such inconsistencies can trip up a device maker, and that appears to be what happened to Apple. "You can be connected to [5-GHz] WiFi, but all your data may not be going over that WiFi network, so you end up using some cellular data when it should be going over WiFi," explained Michael Morgan, mobile devices analyst at ABI Research.
Between bug fixes and the Apple Maps fiasco, the iPhone 5 has received more adverse publicity than most new iPhone models, but that isn't affecting sales, according to Morgan.
Apple will sell 40 million iPhones in the quarter ending on Dec. 31, he predicted. That would be a 48 percent increase over sales during the previous quarter, when 27 million iPhones were sold.
However, that's less of a sales bump than occurred when the iPhone 4S was introduced in 2011. Then, quarter-to-quarter sales jumped almost 118 percent, from 17 million to 37 million units.
Nevertheless, the iPhone 5 will be a winner for Apple, Howe believes. "I think people are going to be amazed at how many iPhone 5's will be sold. There's every possibility that it will set a new record."


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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — If 2013 was the education session for Mississippi's Legislature, it will be followed by the implementation season.
State leaders will have to create structures to authorize charter schools and fund prekindergarten programs. Literacy coaches will have to be hired to implement a new focus on reading grades K-3, along with training for thousands of teachers.
Along the way, more money will be required to bring some of the visions to fruition. And traditional demands for higher teacher pay and more state aid to local schools could rebound, especially as the 2015 state elections near.
At the end of the 2012 legislative session proponents vowed they would try again to push a bill expanding the opportunities for charter schools in Mississippi. In the summer of 2012, Gov. Phil Bryant, began setting the table for a broader education agenda. The Republican governor didn't get everything he wanted — for example lawmakers ditched his call to allow students to enroll in any public school anywhere in the state — but he was successful in several efforts.
"We started out from the very beginning talking about this being a transformational session, and indeed it was," Bryant told reporters the day lawmakers adjourned.
Charter schools won the most attention, as many House lawmakers continued to fight broadened authority. In the end, Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves decided to accept the bill the House had passed, though it was more limited than the Republican preferred.
"If the charter school bill compromise had been made at the beginning of the 2012 session, I don't think you'd have seen the acrimony we had along the way," said Rep. Wanda Jennings, R-Southaven, who fought charter school proposals.
Legislative success, though, may not signal acceptance from everyone. Though a handful of black Democrats ended up voting for charter school bills, most remained stout opponents. They represent some of the struggling school districts Republicans say they most want to help.
"It makes no sense to me, the areas that need the most help are the ones that vote against getting the help they need," said Sen. Angela Hill, R-Picayune.
But opponents continue to say that charter schools — public schools run by private groups — aren't truly aimed at helping black children.
"I see charter schools as being a back door to individuals who have their children in private school to have the state to be able to pay for it," said Alyce Clarke, D-Jackson, vice chairwoman of the House Education Committee.
Proponents predict that when charter schools begin to open their doors, some resistance will soften. "People will see what charter schools really are, instead of the caricature painted by opponents," said Forrest Thigpen, president of the Mississippi Center for Public Policy.
Next up will be appointing a seven-member authorizing board to solicit and approve charter school applications. Bryant says he's already looking at names for his three appointments. Reeves gets three and the state superintendent of education gets one.
The board would begin operations Sept. 1, hire a combination executive director and lawyer under the law and seek proposals for schools by Dec. 1. Charter schools would be authorized for five-year terms.
Two other significant programs were also approved by lawmakers. One effort aims to improve student reading instruction in early grades, capped with a pledge to flunk third graders who can't score at a basic level on the state test. The other would funnel money to groups of preschool providers in hopes of expanding and improving prekindergarten instruction.
"A lot of it will be decided on how all these programs are implemented," said Rep. Toby Barker, R-Hattiesburg, who authored the House pre-K bill. "We can't be a group of policy makers who pass some legislation and walk away thinking the problem is solved."
The prekindergarten program, if Bryant signs it into law, would only offer 1,325 spots statewide in its first year. And the reading program was allotted much less money than similar efforts in Florida and Alabama. For prekindergarten, at least, lawmakers will have to add money next year if they want to follow advocates' growth plan.
"If they prove to be successful programs, we want to find ways to support them," said House Speaker Philip Gunn, R-Clinton.
Increasing funding would be easier if the state has $300 million in the bank in embarking on the 2015 budget year, as lawmakers expect. If tax collections continue trending modestly updward, there could be even more money. That could help Democrats press the argument that the state should fully fund its education budget.
The gap between what the state is spending and what the formula calls for, about $300 million in the just-approved budget, will fall when a mandated once-every-four-years recalculation of the formula occurs later this year. That's because the formula bases adequacy on what a group of average districts spend, and schools have been spending less after earlier cuts.
"I think the main thing is, we continue to fail to fund our basic funding formula," said Sen. Hob Bryan, D-Amory.
Some Republicans, though, are trying to shatter the idea that improvement is tied to money. "I don't think money is going to solve our problems," Gunn said.
But it could increase pressure for an across-the-board teacher pay increase.
"I'm certainly in favor of a teacher pay raise, but you've got to have the money to do it," Jennings said.
There too, Bryant and some other Republicans want to break the old model forever, ending blanket pay increases in favor of merit pay.
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Dragonair has completed the upgrade of its new passenger reservations system as planned over the weekend.
The changeover to new technology to replace a system introduced in the 1980s will ensure that Dragonair can continue passengers' needs in the future as the airline continues to grow.
The major systems are online and functioning as planned, and one more customer facing system, Advance Seating Request, will be scheduled to go back online Tuesday, 14 February.
The carrier thanks its customers for their patience and continued loyalty. It will continue to strive to minimise and avoid any inconvenience that may cause to its customers and looks forward to serving them better with the new system.
As expected, call volume at the airline's worldwide call centres has been greater than normal resulting in longer hold times. The Dragonair team is working hard to assist customers as quickly as possible. With the Manage My Booking function back online, passengers already holding reservations will find they can make desired changes via www.dragonair.com.
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But behind the scenes, Ball was an astute entertainment executive, first heading Desilu Productions, then buying out husband Desi Arnaz's share, then selling the company for $17 million. Her New York Times obituary quotes her describing the keys to her success--skills that also help her communicate effectively:
Discussing how she became an executive, Miss Ball said: ''My ability comes from fairness and a knowledge of people. I ran my studio like I run my home, with understanding of people. We touch in our house. I tell my children, 'There's so little time.' '' ....on the set, she was said to know every term, every lighting fixture and every worker.At the end of a career in which she dominated popular television, the tributes began, including a Kennedy Center award and more. But it's her speech at the end of an all-star tribute show, a benefit for Variety Clubs International, that I think best shows the mix of talents Lucille Ball brought to her work in front of and behind the camera. Here's what I think you can learn from this famous speech:
- Her trademark shtick was mentioned, but put aside for the night: Right at the start, Ball refers to crying at some of the tributes, then points to her fake eyelashes and jokes about not wanting them to run down her face. But she does it in a way that makes clear her remarks will not be funny in that way: "I did that in a show once and it worked, but not tonight." That line lets her transition to a more serious tone.
- She devotes ample time thanking others: As a hardworking executive, she knew the effort that went into mounting such a show, and devoted much of her speaking to thanking others. "The entertainment tonight was special. Really special, perfect," said the perfectionist herself. "I heard different things tonight from different people, and for all of you who shared your talents so generously, I applaud you again." Then she leads the group in applause. She also devotes significant time thanking the behind-the-scenes person from Variety Clubs International, producer Mike Frankovich. Since this was a televised special, using on-air time to thank others was a generous gesture.
- The humor was gentle, and used sparingly: "For all of you who said such really wonderful things about me, I just wish you were all under oath" is a line anyone might use at such a speech. It doesn't distract from the proceedings, and lets the audience have a brief emotional outlet in laughing that helps balance the rest of the remarks.
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How did you get involved in the retail industry?
I worked in consulting for more than a decade early in my career, advising clients in industries including financial services, consumer goods and retail. Of these, retail was always my first love because I found it fascinating to work with brands that my family and friends knew.
I ultimately made the transition from consulting to the industry. I wanted to get closer to the action—to be in a position to make decisions, not recommendations. I got an opportunity with Target, which was then Dayton Hudson.
Thinking back on it, I remember that I actually took a pay cut to make the change, but I was so happy to have the chance to immerse myself in something I was so passionate about.
What retailers have you been impressed with and why?
I'm pleased to say that I am impressed by a lot of retailers that are doing a consistently great job.
I admire Costco for many reasons. The company is decades old, but it always comes across as fresh. Members are loyal, the company offers great value every day, merchandising is strong, and there are always products to get excited about.
Too many retailers make the mistake that it's all about entertaining customers in the stores these days. It's the products that draw people in, not the "elephant bouncing on the ball."
If you hadn't pursued a career in retail, what industry or business would you have followed?
My inside-the-box answer would have to be financial services, as I was very involved with this industry during my time in consulting.
On the other hand, my outside-the-box answer is that I have always dreamed of becoming a science fiction writer. Who knows, maybe someday I will. I just haven't had the time to give it the necessary focus and attention to make true progress.
My favorite sci-fi author is Isaac Asimov. You'll find that so many of the fundamental themes in contemporary science fiction come from writers like him who were writing several decades ago.
What has changed for the better—and for the worse—in the retail industry over the last 10 years?
All-channel retailing makes retailing both frightening and cutting edge. Retail is no longer a sleepy industry. It is on the forefront of emerging technologies, which are changing at rapid pace.
Retail is more quantitative and analytics driven than it ever was—it's gone from basic math to advanced calculus. These dramatic shifts are due to the evolution of all-channel and the advent of CRM analysis that offers total views of customers across channels and over time.
To succeed in the all-channel world, traditional retailers need to have the bricks and mortar infrastructure, the online presence and the social retailing know-how. They must do all of this while still providing excellent service. Some are doing this amazingly well, while others are struggling.
Accenture's recent retail research revealed a trend of people going back to stores. Do you agree? If so, why do you think this is happening?
I actually don't think people ever left the store. They just started shopping in the store less often and for more targeted shopping missions.
Some people like to say that they never leave home and always shop online in their pajamas, which they think is a death knell for physical stores. I don't think this is true at all. People are social, and they like to go to stores. What's more, the store is the center of the all-channel model.
Stores are superior to virtual experiences in many ways. For example, they allow for hands-on information exchange and education. Customers can look at, touch and try products.
Creative display and merchandising that attract and engage customers are the best in-store entertainment. These are the areas where retailers should make their in-store investments, not in flashy in-store "entertainment" experiences.
Moving forward, I think Internet-only retailers will be at a disadvantage to all-channel retailers because of this key role for the store.
What was your biggest accomplishment and biggest challenge as a retail leader?
I love the creative and innovative side of the retail business, and this is where I see my biggest accomplishments.
At Target, I led the development and growth of target.com, founded the Target grocery business and oversaw the Target Financial Services credit card business. I love being first and different.
The challenge with the drive to innovate is that you have to fund it. Traditional retailers are measured on bottom line performance—as opposed to Internet retailers that are measured on growth. So the fundamental challenge is innovating while growing earnings, and this is so difficult to do at the same time.
What perspective can you offer today's retailers on the industry that might surprise them?
Global expansion is a top-of-mind issue for many retailers. The surprise is that in retail, unlike other industries, there are not global economies of scale. The cultural differences are so important, and retailers need strong local teams to succeed.
To be a great global retailer, companies must decentralize around these local teams instead of centralizing. What's fascinating about this model is that each country becomes a unique learning lab, and successes can be shared across countries as long as cultural differences are considered and addressed.
What kind of shopper are you? Do you enjoy it? Considering your day job, are you a difficult customer to please?
I've always loved shopping. I think the store is the fulfillment of the capitalist ethos. People work hard to get money, and stores are the places they go to spend it.
When I shop, I enjoy being an observer. I can spend a couple of hours in stores looking at products, which is the exact opposite of how my wife likes to shop. I'm not demanding as a shopper, but I am particularly observant. There is always something to learn. That's why retail genius Sam Walton spent so much time in the stores.
What's fascinating about retail—and different than almost any industry I can think of—is that you can visit your competition.
If you could go back in time and give your 30-year old self some business advice, what would it be?
To enjoy the ride. I think so many of us work so hard to achieve our goals. And in doing so, we often worry too much. Life is too short, so it's so important to enjoy it along the way.
How do you like to spend your free time?
I travel so much for work that when I have free time, I enjoy staying home and simply relaxing, enjoying time with my wife and our cats. It's wonderful to have the opportunity to relax and enjoy a cup of coffee or a good book—preferably sci-fi.


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Your moody prince
by Rob Kerby, Senior Editor
What does the Bible tell us about raising sons? About surviving their teenage years? "My own mother cried over me for 15 years," says Bible teacher Kenneth Copeland . "Then one morning she threw her Bible on the kitchen table and said, 'Lord, I've cried over him for the last time. I'm turning him over to You. If You can do anything with him, do it. I'm through!'"
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Two-goal Robbie Keane marked his full Aston Villa debut with a superb second-half winner against 10-man Wolves in a pulsating Barclays Premier League 3-2 derby at Molineux.
The on-loan Los Angeles Galaxy striker's double helped Villa to come from behind against his old club after Darren Bent's early penalty had been cancelled out by goals from Michael Kightly and Dave Edwards.
Wolves had been reduced to 10 men with 15 minutes remaining after midfielder Karl Henry kicked out at winger Marc Albrighton and received a red card.
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Two lanes of the M1 were closed this morning while emergency services deal with the aftermath of a vehicle fire.
Crews from West Yorkshire Fire Service were at the scene of the incident near Wakefield shortly after 9am this morning.
Two lanes of the northbound carriageway were closed between Junction 40 and Junction 41 until they had put the fire out.
One lane remain closed until the vehicle had been recovered.
Highways England said the earlier congestion had now cleared and the carriageway was fully reopened.


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Aww! Jessica Simpson's little girl is growing up so quickly! The Fashion Star mentor, who is currently pregnant with her second child, couldn't resist sharing an adorable snapshot of her daughter Maxwell Drew on Twitter on Friday, Feb. 1.
"My lil dollface is 9 months today!" Simpson captioned the shot. In the photo, the singer's precious firstborn, clad in a tiny navy, red and white-striped sweater and snug jeans, looks awestruck as she balances precariously inside a sink.
Maxwell (whose papa is Simpson's fiance Eric Johnson) even shows off a full head of blonde hair, just like her mom.
Simpson, 32, initially confirmed her second pregnancy on Christmas Day, with a shot of Maxwell sitting on a beach with the words "Big Sis" written in front of her in the sand. Us Weekly revealed the news just one month earlier, on Nov. 28.
"Merry Christmas from my family to yours!" she captioned the shot. Simpson's second pregnancy "definitely wasn't planned," a friend told Us at the time, though she "loves being a mom and "is overjoyed."
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The 28-year-old mom, who is shares son Bronx, 4, with ex Pete Wentz, told Us that her little boy is protective of little Maxwell, and will likely be the same for Jessica's second child.
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December 15, 2008
How to Control Animata With OSC from Max/MSP and Pure Data
NOTE! I am moving my website over to http://mansteri.com/. The commenting has been disabled on this site. You can find this same article with commenting and everything by clicking this link: http://mansteri.com/2008/12/animata-osc/.
If you haven't heard of Animata yet, you should head over to http://animata.kibu.hu/index.html and educate yourself. Download the software and go through the tutorials. I also recommend reading through the mailing list, it has tons of useful information.
Controlling Animata with a mouse and doing real-time animations is pretty cool by itself, but Animata really shows its true potential when you control it with OSC. Then you can start doing something like this:
There is a Processing example available from the Animata site that controls Animata with sound input.
Unfortunately, the Kitchen Budapest guys are busy improving the software and there isn't really good documentation available about the OSC messages needed to control Animata. I'll try to go through all of the available messages and give you some examples in Pure Data and Max/MSP
I assume that you know something about OSC, Pure Data and Max/MSP, because I don't want to write a huge post explaining everything from the beginning. I'm also assuming that you have spent some time learning the basics of Animata.
One more important thing. I'm using revision 35 of Animata compiled from the svn repository. NOTE! YOU WILL NEED TO COMPILE ANIMATA FROM THE SOURCE CODE TO MAKE THE /LAYERPOS MESSAGES WORK. IT IS NOT AVAILABLE IN THE BINARY VERSION ON THE ANIMATA WEBSITE. All the other messages I'm showing here do work with Animata 003 that is available from the site. OK, let's start.
DOWNLOAD MY EXAMPLES. Contains the Animata Scene + Max and PD patches.
All incoming messages to Animata must be sent through port 7110. The "name" in the message refers to the name of the joint, bone or layer.
Moving a joint, x and y are float values:
/joint name x y
Control the length of a bone, value is a float between 0 and 1:
/anibone name value
Switch on and off a layer, on_off is 0 or 1:
/layervis name on_off
Set the transparency of the layer, value is a float between 0 and 1:
/layeralpha name value
The next two messages require the svn version:
Moving a layer in absolute mode, x and y are the position coordinates as float values:
/layerpos name x y
Moving a layer in relative mode, x and y is the amount of pixels you want the layer to move from it's current position:
/layerdeltapos name x y
I'm not really comfortable with Pure Data, but I was able to get all of the messages working
except /layervis. I believe this is because Animata is very picky and is looking for real boolean values and Pure Data is sending integers when sending 0 or 1. This was just fixed by the Kitchen Budabest guys. The /layervis message works now. I have updated the code so please download the .zip again. You need to compile Animata again from the svn for this to work.
Pure Data to Animata with OSC from Matti Niinimäki on Vimeo.
There is a little problem, because Animata needs float values in the messages and Pure Data doesn't have a separate number box for floats, so have to make sure the number you are sending is never an even number. I did this by multiplying the values by 0.999. If someone knows a better way, let me know.
It's pretty much the same deal with Max/MSP.
The /layervis doesn't work here either. This was fixed in the svn version (>36). My Max-patch has been updated so please download again.
Max/MSP to Animata With OSC from Matti Niinimäki on Vimeo.
I didn't add the /layerdeltapos to the example patches, because it's really easy to lose your layers somewhere outside the window.
There is also an option to send OSC messages from Animata. For this you need the SVN version. It simply works by clicking on the small OSC tick box on the Skeleton tab. The messages are sent through port 7111. The message format is: /joint name x y
I've made a plugin for Quartz Composer that makes it really easy to control Animata from Quartz Composer. Check it out over here.
Basically, any software or programming environment that is able to send OSC messages should be able to communicate with Animata.
Processing works perfectly and you can download the Sound Input example from the Animata website that will get you started. I'll see if I can find the time to do a similar sample file for Processing also.
I've also had luck testing OpenFrameworks. Download the FAT version of OpenFrameworks and modify the oscSenderExample.
Whatever you want! Hook up audio input, MIDI controllers, sensors or computer vision to control real-time animations.
Check out my Mickey Mann project for an example on how to control Animata with an Arduino.


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Actor Liev Schreiber played the role of a peacemaker over the weekend after breaking up a fight between a waiter and a photographer outside a Los Angeles eatery.
The star had just finished dining at Giorgio Baldi in Santa Monica when a crowd of snappers gathered around his car to get an image of Schreiber as he exited the restaurant.
A male staffer came to the actor's rescue to help part the paparazzi, but he then got into a heated altercation with a female photographer, who appeared to take a swing at him with her camera as she tried to get closer for a picture.
In video footage obtained by x17online.com, the employee is featured shouting, "Get the f— out. You touch me with that and I will eat you alive! You understand? I will eat you! Eat you!"
Schreiber, 45, then rushed in to separate the pair, saying, "No, no, no. Stop, stop, stop. That's enough. That's enough."
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USC Robotics Lab CVS How-Toby brian gerkey
What is this?
This document describes how several of us in the lab use the Concurrent Versions System (CVS) to manage and backup our code and LaTeX (among other things). This is not a general CVS How-To. An excellent source of CVS documentation (besides the CVS manual) is here.
Specifically, I'll tell you here how to use the lab servers (tobor/sagan) to store your code and how to access it from your desktop Unix-like machine. Access from Windows should also be possible, but I have no experience with it
What is CVS?
CVS, as the name implies is a version control system. Using it, you can record the history of your source files. Instead of just floating about somewhere in your filesystem, your important files reside in a CVS repository and you check them in and out. It takes a little getting used to, but it's definitely worth it.
Why use CVS?
I give the following reasons to use CVS (with your repository on the lab server):
How to setup CVS?Again, I'm assuming you want your repository on tobor/sagan and that you'll access it from a UNIX-like client (probably Linux).
How to add files to CVS?The easiest way to do this is to cd into that directory and do the following:
$ cvs import [path] [vendor] [release]Replace [path] with where you want the files (relative to your repository), and, as far as I know, you can set [vendor] and [release] to whatever you want. For example, let's say you've got a directory (on your client side) called /home/gerkey/code/foo that contains some source code you want to add to your repository. You can cd there and do:
$ cvs import code/foo bpg initialAt this point, an editor will be started (obeying your EDITOR environment variable) and you'll be given a chance to enter a log message describing the files (to avoid starting the editor, you can give the log message on the command line with '-m [msg]'. Check the man page for details). Everything in your local directory has now been added to your repository. You should now check out a fresh copy, but you probably want to create a module first (see below). In any case, you should eventually delete the original directory from which you imported the files and work only in the checked out version; CVS can't do anything for you if you modify files outside of a checked out version.
How to create a module?CVS can manage individual files and directories, but it can also group them as modules. To create one, you need to check out the special directory CVSROOT from your repository, change it, and check it back in (CVS keeps its own meta-data in CVS; cool, huh?). Something like the following will work:
$ cd /tmp $ cvs co CVSROOT $ cd CVSROOTNow add a line to the file modules of the form:
foo code/fooAnd check it back in:
$ cvs commit -m "added the foo module" modulesYou can now delete your copy of CVSROOT:
$ cd /tmp $ rm -rf CVSROOTNow, whenever you want to refer to the file that you added to code/foo, you can use the symbolic module name foo, and not worry about the exact path.
Some useful CVS commandsCheck the cvs man page for details, but here are some useful commands to get you started.
What should go in CVS?Personally, I put the following things in CVS:
A note on binary files: CVS is really only meant to manage ASCII source files. It can handle binary files, but CVS is probably not the best place for them, especially if they are very large. Keep in mind that your repository is taking up your quota space on tobor/sagan.


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Recent recommendations from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) advising elimination of routine prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening for prostate cancer in healthy men are likely to encounter serious pushback from primary care physicians, according to results of a survey by Johns Hopkins investigators.
In a survey of 125 primary care doctors, the researchers found that while doctors agreed with older recommendations to curtail routine screening in men over age 75 and among those not expected to live 10 or more years, a large number said they faced significant barriers to stopping PSA testing in men who had been receiving it regularly. The most frequently cited reason by 74.4 percent of physicians was, "My patients expect me to continue getting yearly PSA tests," followed by 66 percent of them who said, "It takes more time to explain why I'm not screening than to just continue screening." More than half of those surveyed in the new study believed that, "By not ordering a PSA, it puts me at risk for malpractice."
The survey was conducted in November 2011, right after draft recommendations were made to end routine screening of all men, but before last week, when the draft recommendations were officially approved.
"It can be very difficult for doctors to break down the belief that all cancer screening tests are invariably good for all people all the time," says Craig E. Pollack, M.D., M.H.S., an assistant professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and leader of the study published online in the journal Cancer. "Everyone agrees that PSA screening isn't as good as we want it to be. If we had a test that was a slam dunk, it would be different. But now we know that for many men, the benefits may be small and the harms significant."
Each year, more than 33,000 American men die of prostate cancer, and 20 million get the PSA test to detect the disease early.
According to the USPSTF, evidence suggests the potential harms caused by PSA screening of healthy men as a means of identifying prostate cancer outweigh its potential to save lives and that routine annual screening should be eliminated in the healthy. Elevated PSA readings are not necessarily evidence of prostate cancer, and can lead to unnecessary prostate biopsy. In addition, even when biopsies reveal signs of prostate cancer cells, evidence shows that a large proportion will never cause harm, even if left untreated. The disease in older men often progresses slowly so that those who have it frequently die of other causes.
Treatments for prostate cancer can include the removal of the prostate, radiation or other therapies, each of which has the potential to cause serious problems like erectile dysfunction, complete impotence, urinary incontinence or bowel damage. And men who choose to "watch and wait" after elevated PSA readings must live with the anxiety of knowing they have an untreated cancer that could start to progress.
In the new study, Pollack and his colleagues found that while most physicians said they took age and life expectancy into account when deciding to order PSA screening, many also said they had a hard time estimating life expectancy in their patients and could use a better tool. H. Ballentine Carter, M.D., a professor of urology at Johns Hopkins and the senior investigator on the study, is planning to investigate the potential of individualized prostate cancer screening recommendations. Specifically, he and colleagues plan to create a decision-making tool that incorporates age, life expectancy, family history and prior PSA results in order to help doctors and their patients make better choices for prostate cancer screening.
In another report derived from results of Pollack's and Carter's survey, published in April in the Archives of Internal Medicine, the researchers say nearly half of the providers agreed with the new USPSTF recommendations to eliminate routine screening for healthy men. Still, less than two percent said they would no longer order routine PSA screening in response to the draft recommendations; 21.9 percent said they would be much less likely to do so; 38.6 percent said they would be somewhat less likely to do so; and 37.7 percent said they would not change their screening practices.
"Men often expect PSA screening to be part of their annual physical," Pollack says. "To change their minds, we need to address their perceptions about screening, allow time for screening discussions and reduce concerns regarding malpractice litigation."
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Recent recommendations from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) advising elimination of routine prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening for prostate cancer in healthy men are likely to encounter serious pushback from primary care physicians, according to results of a survey by Johns Hopkins investigators.


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Southern Summer SuccotashHope everybody had a wonderful holiday weekend with friends and family, and an extra day off today to recover. All the carbs and meat of late have me in the mood for some veggies and what a great time to introduce some summer succotash!
To be honest, I love a simple succotash mixture of baby butter beans and corn, maybe with a bit of onion and garlic, always some butter, and sometimes just a splash of cream. You can make succotash using fresh, frozen or even canned vegetables, so it's pretty much a year round dish you can serve anytime.
But it's summer, and in the summertime, succotash just calls out for those fresh, abundant summer vegetables - fresh corn on the cob, certainly fresh garden butter beans if ya got 'em, though truthfully, I tend to always keep frozen baby lima beans around, and they are delicious.
Add in some sweet Vidalia onion, garden fresh tomatoes and sweet bell peppers - red, yellow, orange or green, or even a combination of a few. You could even add in some summer squash or zucchini, eggplant, or whatever is fresh at the farmers market or in your own backyard garden.
Include some of your favorite garden fresh herbs too, whether it be simply parsley, or chives, dill, basil, thyme or tarragon - they all add their own unique flavor profile.
The fresh tastes of summer in a beloved succotash, so good, so fresh - I swear, this is one of those dishes where I could literally eat the entire pot, all on my own!
Check out more of my southern favorites on Pinterest!
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Here's how to make my summer succotash.
Recipe: Southern Summer Succotash©From the Kitchen of Deep South Dish
Prep time: 10 min |Cook time: 20 min | Yield: About 4 to 6 servings
- 3 medium ears corn
- 1/2 pound fresh or frozen baby butter (lima) beans
- 3 slices bacon, cooked and chopped, reserve drippings
- 1/2 cup chopped andouille or smoked ham or turkey, optional
- 1 cup sliced fresh or frozen okra, thawed
- 1 cup chopped Vidalia or other sweet onion
- 1/2 cup chopped sweet bell pepper (green, red, yellow, orange or combination)
- 1/2 tablespoon minced garlic
- 1/2 tablespoon brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt, or to taste
- 1/4 teaspoon freshly cracked black pepper, or to taste
- 1/4 teaspoon Creole or Cajun seasoning, or to taste, optional
- 1 cup halved grape tomatoes
- 2 teaspoons fresh, chopped parsley
- 1 tablespoon unsalted butter, or 1/8 cup heavy cream
Cook corn using your favorite method, or place whole, unhusked corn in microwave and cook on high for 12 minutes (1000 watt); use oven mitt to remove and set aside to cool. Meanwhile, add butter beans to a small saucepan and cover with water. Bring to a boil, boil for 3 minutes, reduce to simmer and cook for 15 minutes, or until mostly tender. Drain, setting aside 1/2 cup of the cooking water. Rinse beans and set aside. Use a sharp serrated knife to carefully cut off the root end of the corn, remove husks and silks and cut corn off of the cob. Use dull edge of the knife to scrape down the milk; set aside.
Cook the bacon in a large skillet, remove bacon and set aside to chop, but leave drippings in the skillet. Add sausage or ham to drippings, if using, and cook over medium high until browned. Remove with a slotted spoon and transfer to the beans. Add the okra to the drippings and cook for about 3 minutes or until lightly browned. Add onion and bell pepper and cook another 4 minutes until softened; add the garlic and cook another minute.
Add the corn, sugar, butter beans, meat and seasonings to the skillet. Add some of the reserved cooking water, a little at a time, only if mixture is too dry. Reduce heat to medium low, cook and stir until everything is heated through, add tomatoes, bacon and parsley. Stir in butter or cream until warmed through; taste and adjust seasonings as needed. Serve immediately.
Cook's Notes: I like to precook the corn on the cob using the no-husk, microwave method, however, you may also grill or boil the corn, or remove from cob and skillet cook it before adding to the other ingredients. May also use stewed or diced canned tomatoes - I like adding Rotel. If using refrigerated bacon drippings, you'll need about 1-1/2 tablespoons. For basic succotash, use only cooked baby lima beans and corn, add butter, salt and pepper.
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Walnut Hill Elementary third-grader Sara Haun's artwork was chosen for two billboards representing Roane Clean Community Systems. "A Beautiful Roane is a Real Pick-Me-Up!" declared the billboards in Harriman and Rockwood. Haun won the privilege of having her artwork so prominently displayed in a poster contest conducted by the anti-litter group.
10 Years Ago
The last of Roane County Health Department's rabies vaccination clinics are planned for this weekend.
"You are urged to have your dogs and cats vaccinated each year to comply with the Tennessee Rabies Law," said Preston Woody, environmental health specialist at the Roane County Health Department.
Vaccinations are $12 each.
The clinics, from 1 to 2:30 p.m. April 27, will be at:
• Animal Medical Center at Ladd Landing, Kingston
Kingston Rotary Club President Ralph Best, left, presents Chris Ayers, assistant director of Tennessee Technology Center at Harriman, with the club's Vocational Service Award.
The award is annually presented to individuals who express the ideals of Rotary and who use vocational knowledge, skills and talents to serve the Roane County community and its people.
Blueberries are wonderful fresh either with or without cream, and irresistible in muffins right out of the oven and pie
These soft, dark blue, round berries are not only delicious; they also have tremendous medicinal values.
Scientists in the Laboratory of Neuroscience at the Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University have discovered that blueberries have both antioxidant and anti-inflammatory compounds that help neurons in the brain function more effectively.
Historian Dan Pierce will discuss his upcoming book "Corn from a Jar: Moonshining in the Great Smoky Mountains" on Wednesday, April 24, at Roane State Community College's Oak Ridge campus at 701 Briarcliff Ave.
Pierce's lecture will be from 3:30-5 p.m. in the City Room. Presented by Roane State's Arts and Lectures Committee, the event is free and open to the public.
Celery is mentioned a number of times in the Talmud, the 39 books of Biblical commentary dating from the first century, as a remedy for infections and tumors and a cure for gout.
We think of celery as an ingredient in soups, salads and snacks. We are amazed to find that it is mentioned repeatedly in the Bible as a remedy for some serious health problems. It has held an important place in medical uses since about 500 B.C., when it was part of the pharmacopeia of ancient Egypt.
The Master Gardeners of Roane County are trained volunteers who help University of Tennessee Extension of Roane County educate and serve the community.
Tennessee Master Gardeners receive 40 hours of horticultural training through UT Extension and return 40 hours of volunteer community service to become certified.
They maintain certification with 25 service hours and eight hours of continuing education annually.
Kingston Public Library will host a special event later this month with biographer John B. Hunt.
Hunt, author of "Restless Fires: Young John Muir's Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf in 1867-68" will be at the library beginning at 6 p.m. April 25.
He spend a number of days at the Kingston Public Library and the Roane County Historical Society's Archives while conducting research for his book.
Five generations of the Harl Morgan family include, from left, Morgan of Gobey (near Sunbright); Gary Morgan; Gary M. Morgan, originally from Oneida; Eli Morgan and his dad, Zachary Morgan, of Corbin, Ky.
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Future IEC 60079-32-1 TS Ed. 1.0: Explosive atmospheres – Part 32-1: Electrostatic hazards, Guidance.
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This part of IEC 60079 gives guidance about the equipment, product and process properties necessary to avoid ignition and electrostatic shock hazards arising from static electricity as well as the operational requirements needed to ensure safe use of the equipment, product or process. It can be used in a risk assessment of electrostatic hazards or for the preparation of product family or dedicated product standards for electrical or non-electrical machines or equipment.
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Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe jet-powered go kart - yes, that's right, jet-powered go kart - even has a second seat for someone to be goose to your maverick. Is its price however, cleared for takeoff?
Have you ever seen that old Simpsons episode where their dog needs expensive surgery? They visit a veterinarian just as he's in the middle of unsuccessfully attempting to defibrillate a hamster. Upon giving up he declares, this is the part of the job I hate the most - and then lobs the deceased rodent into a nearby trash can.
Based on its 77% Crack Pipe loss you could substitute yesterday's 1973 VW K70 for the hamster, and every rational thinking individual on the planet for the vet. It's always sad to see the rare ones go, but the consensus was that oddball VW was already too far gone to be resurrected.
As we all know, if you want to be resurrected, y'all going to have to meet your maker first, and what better way to make that appointment than in a jet-powered go kart? Now, those of you who have plied the back pages of such venerated periodicals as Popular Science and Popular Mechanics will no doubt be familiar with ads offering plans for such beasts. Those however are for pulse jets, a dirt simple propulsion device favored by the Nazis in WWII for their V1 Buzz Bombs which were so named for the popping sound created by the engine's combustion drum beat.
This kart is instead moved by a jet turbine, which has been fashioned out of a turbocharger said to have been pulled from a 14-litre truck. I don't know about that, but it's still a honkin' big snail. This is a home brew jet, and unsurprisingly you will find that this is not all that uncommon a hobby. In fact, there's even a Facebook group dedicated to it. Of course there's probably a Facebook group dedicated to eating boogers so I wouldn't ascribe much validation to its proponents based on that alone.
If you want to know more about how these things work, there's a good build thread (not for this one) over on Instructables. If you just want to hear how this one sounds, you can stick much closer to home and watch the video below.
Yeah, I'm getting the impression that this sale is being forced by his neighbors, and honestly this oddball toy will have VERY limited uses as it's neither road worthy nor appropriate for suburban sidewalks. If however you have a super-long driveway on your remote country hideaway, then what cooler way to head down to the mailbox would there be?
The seller/builder says that he has six months and over five grand invested into the kart, and since shooting the video he says he has added a 5-hp engine to provide oil to the turbo's bearing. He'll also throw in another pair of pumps to sweeten the deal. Maybe he'll even go so far as to give you that sweet digital multimeter that's presently wired to the wheel!
At the moment he's willing to let it all go for $1,800, a mere fraction of what he's spent, and probably the cheapest way for you to tout at parties that you 'own a private jet.' What would it be like to drive this thrust-powered go kart? Probably slow and terrifying, with a potential chance of horrific burns and shrapnel wounds from a catastrophic engine failure tossed in for good measure.
Still, I like those odds, as well as the possibility of sucking a bird into the turbine. If you also feel so inclined, what's your vote on this krazy kart's price? Is $1,300 a fair deal to become a jet pilot? Or, is that price a flameout?
You decide!
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DURHAM - A marquee match up between third ranked Duke Blue Devils and the fourth ranked Xavier Musketeers took place in Cameron Indoor Stadium in a game which oddly had no television coverage. With a partial band and lack of cheerleaders due to the Christmas break, the team had to at times reach for emotion and that made the Blue Devils homecourt edge less intimidating.
But in the end, there was plenty of emotion as Duke made a fuirous late 6-0 comeback run down the stretch to defeat their game opponent 46-45. Duke is now 12-o on the season while Xavier falls to 10-1.
Duke senior Jasmine Thomas blocked a shot at the buzzer to secure the win and Cameron which went nuts as did Xavier Coach Kevin McGuff who had to be restrained by another coach as security moved in. The refs then went to the scorers table to check the monitor and afterwards they called it a game and Duke escaped with an exciting win.
"That is truly one of the best plays I have ever seen in 19 years of coaching. As we got back and we all went, apparently for the ball – I'll have to look at it on film to really know – it's a good lesson to staying matched up in transition. Of course, they got it deflected out, which of course was a tremendous benefit to them, and all of a sudden you see this lightning bolt out of nowhere block a great shot," said Duke Coach Joanne McCallie
The Blue Devils had no answer for Amber Harris who ended the game with 22 points, 15 rebounds and 6 blocked shots but they made up for it with 21 steals filling the passing lanes all night.
During the post game press conference, Coach McCallie admitted it was an ugly game and that her team which went for almost 7 minutes in the second half without a point struggled to find good shots. But she then made this statement, "If you find a way to win ugly, you can win them all."
After a back and forth first half where there were five lead changes, the Musketeers defense kicked in and Duke which started hot went cold from the field. As the second half started Duke scored just two points in the first five minutes before they fought their way back into the game after going down by eight points.
Duke tied the game back up on a Krystal Thomas lay in at 40 apiece with 9:00 to go, but Xavier star Amber Harris answered putting the Musketeers back up and the two teams then grinded it out defensively where neither team could find the basket. But then Harris scored inside and was fouled and Xavier clinged to a 43-40 lead. Another Harris jumper made it 45-40 with just 2:42 to go but that's when the Blue Devils woke up and found their groove just in the nick of time.
Jasmine Thomas cut the lead to three after a lay in and Duke then forced a turnover where Allison Vernerey made a key steal and then Duke found Krystal Thomas under the basket and she was fouled, making one of two and tying the game at 45 all with 31 seconds left on the clock. Karima Christmas then tipped the ball out and Jasmine Thomas came up the ball on the baseline and was fouled with 2 seconds left and hit 1 of 2 free throws giving Duke a single digit lead.
That's when an amazing sequence took place. Xavier set up a great play and the ball went to a wide open Special Jennings and Jasmine ran full speed from about the scorers tabel recovering to block the shot which set off an emotional outburst from the Xavier as we mentioned. After the dust cleared, Duke walked away with an ugly but substantial victory.
Coach P, Jasmine Thomas audio below - Just press play.
Sidebar - The point total was the lowest for Duke since they lost to Purdue 62-45 in 1999 yet they still won. Duke outscored Xavier 22-9 off turnovers and the lead changed 6 times although it seemed like more. Duke shot just 26.8% from the field a season low and held Xavier to 1 for 12 from the three point stripe. Duke won it's 14th straight game in Cameron and 14th straight over Atlantic 10 teams. Jasmine Thomas 2 steals moved her to 6th place on the all time list. Coach P is now 46-4 in Cameron since she arrived. Duke will next play Temple at home on December 30th.


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Singer-actress Jennifer Lopez's split from husband Marc Anthony took its toll on the set of new action movie "Parker" – she was so depressed there were mornings she couldn't function or raise a smile.
The couple separated in July 2011 after seven years of marriage, and Lopez admits she didn't have time to mourn the break-up because she was preparing to face off with Jason Statham in the new crime thriller, which started shooting a month later.
In the film, the "On the Floor" hit maker plays a real estate agent ironically recovering from a divorce, and while Lopez had no trouble relating to her character, she found it tough to put on a happy face for the cast and crew.
She tells People magazine, "I felt like my whole world had fallen apart too. It was very hard to get up and go to the set every day because I was so sad about what had happened with my marriage… The biggest disappointment was that I wasn't going to be able to put together the perfect family unit. That fairy tale for them."
But her co-star Statham insists she hid her heartache well and fit right in on set.
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Prostate Cancer Gene Mapped To X Chromosome
Prostate Cancer Gene Mapped To X Chromosome
September 1998
BETHESDA, Md.- A major international collaborative research study has found on the X chromosome the site of a gene for susceptibility to prostate cancer. This is the first time that a gene for a common type of cancer has been mapped to the X chromosome, one of the two chromosomes that determine sex in mammals. It is the second prostate cancer gene this group of scientists has uncovered. Their report appears in the October issue of Nature Genetics.
"This is a major step toward a better understanding of the factors responsible for prostate cancer, and would not have been possible without the intense effort and collaboration of a large number of scientists and patients in the United States, Finland and Sweden" said Dr. Patrick C. Walsh, Urologist-in Chief at Johns Hopkins, who is an author on the paper.
The project's co-director Dr. Jeffrey Trent, of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), agrees. "There are 200,000 to 300,000 new prostate cancer cases diagnosed each year, and 40,000 deaths annually. This finding is significant in that it accounts for perhaps 15 to 20 percent of 20,000 to 30,000 hereditary prostate cases, and with prostate cancer accounting for more than a third of all cancers that affect men, this is an important public health problem," said Trent.
The newly discovered gene is the second prostate cancer gene to be located by the international team, which is led by scientists at NHGRI and Johns Hopkins in collaboration with researchers at the University of Tampere in Finland, the University of Maryland, Umeå University in Sweden, and the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. For this current study, more than 1,500 affected men from over 360 families prone to prostate cancer were studied.
The first gene these researchers located, known as HPC1 (for human prostate cancer 1) is on chromosome 1, one of 22 pairs of non-sex human chromosomes. The X-chromosome gene will be called HPCX. Now that the scientists have mapped its location, they are studying several genes in that region to identify the precise location of the gene.
"There's none that jumps out at us and screams that it's the gene we're looking for," said Dr. William Isaacs of Johns Hopkins, the project's co-director. "One of the X chromosome genes that people have been studying is the androgen receptor, which once seemed like a very good candidate gene because variations in the androgen receptor can increase prostate cancer risk. But it's far away, essentially unlinked to the region we're looking at."
The study confirms researchers' long-held suspicion that the X chromosome might be important in prostate cancer. Since the 1960s, they have known that a man's risk of prostate cancer is higher if his brother has prostate cancer than if his father had the disease. That inheritance pattern is characteristic of genetic traits known to be on the X chromosome and passed from mothers to sons, such as muscular dystrophy and hemophilia. So one plausible explanation of the data has been that a gene for susceptibility to prostate cancer probably lies on the X chromosome. The specific mapping of the HPCX confirms that suspicion.
"Mapping HPCX brings us one step closer to understanding the origins of prostate cancer, at least in some families," said Dr. Francis Collins, NHGRI director, one of the paper's authors. "Now we need to identify the precise gene and the misspelling which correlates with risk of cancer. That will lead to better abilities to predict which men are at highest risk, and allow them to be carefully watched for early signs of prostate cancer. Such predictive information can be very useful, since early diagnosis can be life-saving in this disease. In the longer term, understanding the molecular causes of prostate cancer is expected to usher in a new generation of more effective therapies."
"The finding points out once again the importance of facilitating multinational collaborative efforts to address a complex disease like cancer, particularly prostate cancer, which is among the hardest cancers to analyze from the standpoint of a geneticist," Trent said. The fact that prostate cancer is so common, he explained, increases the difficulty of distinguishing cancers due to an inherited mutant gene from those due to other causes. Another challenge for genetics, he noted, is that prostate cancer, even hereditary prostate cancer, is rarely diagnosed before the age of 60 and frequently much later - by which time a patient's parents and grandparents have died and cannot be studied.
Researchers at Johns Hopkins are asking individuals from families in which three or more close relatives have had prostate cancer and who wish to participate in a research study on the genetics of that disease to contact the study team at (410) 614-5434, or write to Dr. Patrick C. Walsh, Hereditary Prostate Cancer Study, Dept. W., Brady Urological Institute, Johns Hopkins University Hospital, Baltimore, MD 21287.
Howard University in Washington, D.C., with funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has organized a national study network to find genes involved in hereditary prostate cancer (HPC) in African Americans. Howard University and NIH collaborate on this study with seven medical centers across the United States. To learn more, visit the study Web site or phone toll free at 1-888-218-6157.
For more information about prostate cancer:
The Cancer Information Service: at 1-800-4-CANCER
Additional information is also available through the NHGRI Web site: www.genome.gov
NHGRI oversees the NIH's role in the Human Genome Project, an international research effort to develop tools for gene discovery.
Jeff Witherly
Phone: (301) 402-8564
Galen Perry
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