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Through Newb Eyes – Living in a wormhole
Wormholes are one of the strangest system types in New Eden. They are dangerous, unpredictable and random. They can also be the safest systems you ever pass through. Some of the best PvP in EVE can be found here, where Wormhole mass restrictions limit attackers and a lack of local means anything can appear (or disappear). A week of nothing happening can change with one lucky directional scan hit that spies you a Tengu.
There's a vast difference between pillaging/roaming wormhole space and actually living there as well. Having lived in a Wormhole for close to 2 months now, I feel it's time for a brief TNE article on living out of a POS and my d-scan being my best friend.
Wormholes are grouped by class, with Class 1 having the easiest sites and Class 6 having the hardest. The class of a Wormhole also affects the mass restrictions leading to it – I believe Class 1 wormholes can't even allow Battleships.
My corp/alliance lives in a Class 5 Wormhole with a Class 4 static. This means that at any one time, there will be a wormhole leading from our space to a Class 4 wormhole. Class 4s are good for running Anomalies (most can be done with 3 Tengus) and often connect to other wormholes, which is good for hunting. However, C4 wormholes are probably one of the worst for PvP since they never have a wormhole leading out to normal space (known as "K-Space") which means there's normally not a lot of through traffic.
That's enough background stuff. What's it like actually living here?
Firstly, it is important to remember we are not a big WH alliance like K162. We're pretty average, I'd say, but we don't go on massive null-sec killing roams.
Secondly, my alliance is primarily US based, whereas I'm EU. This means I'm usually the first around after Downtime and do a lot of the initial scanning.
To start, living out of a POS is an odd experience. We rely on each other for ammo and mods if someone runs low until we can do a market run, and we don't have all our ships to hand. I have to open 2 separate windows to board a ship and then another two to fit. I have to go through the hassle of dragging bookmarks from my folder to my cargo before I can put them into a Bookmark can (note: corp bookmarks don't help alliance members)
A typical day involves me checking notes to see if our current static should have died out, then launching probes at one of my many safes, and scanning down todays wormhole "constellation". My day could easily end here. Many scan trips have revealed something constellations with not a single tower, leading out to a dead area of nullsec. However, just because the WH constellation is dead at 2pm does not mean it will be so at 5pm. Many times a new wormhole has appeared, spitting out a scout for us to shoot or follow home.
Upon finding a new wormhole, the first thing to do is hit the directional scan and look for ships and towers. Second is to bookmark the return wormhole. Only then to I break my initial decloak and recloak off the wormhole.
If there are ships on scan, my first task is to establish whether they're at a POS and whether they're piloted. If there is indeed a POS and forcefield on scan (the forcefield indicates the POS is online) I use d-scan to pinpoint the moon it's at, warp to it and bookmark an observation point. These bookmarks are the only ones I save from each day.
More often than not, ships on scan are empty at a tower or piloted at a tower unmoving. It's when there's a ship on scan *not* at a tower or other probes are seen on scan that we actually perk up and start prepping the PvP ships. Probes on scan usually results in us plonking a scout on our new inbound wormhole to see what is being used to scout (shiny T3 scouts are fun to explode) and anything else results in further scouting to establish what we field and if we even have the numbers to field a force. There's usually only 3 or 4 of us max in my timezone, so we have to judge our moves well.
The removal of the "Jump" API in Wormholes has changed my scouting quite a bit as well. Whilst before I could check to see if someone had jumped into or out of a Wormhole (and therefore judge a wormhole's lifespan or the systems' activity) now there is that little extra "unknown" factor to scouting. Whilst a pain, this makes perfect sense.
Once we're done scouting, if the Constellation appears empty we usually take the time to run some sites in the Class 4 static wormhole, or even run Capital escalations in our home. Both make decent ISK and allow me to buy new ships to scout or PvP. If there's no sites to run, we try to collapse the wormhole to spawn a new one. This is usually achieved relatively easily, so long as we're on the ball. Once a new wormhole is spawned, it's back to square one, as it were.
And then we start again.


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The rumors of GOG.com's demise were greatly exaggerated – by the company itself! It turns out that this week's announcement of the site shutting down was a bit of a publicity stunt designed to announce the launch of a revamped GOG.com that includes new community and catalogue features, faster game downloads, and the ability to handle more site traffic and users.
GOG.com's founders gave media an overview of the site's new features via a live web broadcast. They will include:
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- Ability to handle more traffic and users
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- 150 games certified compatible with Windows 7
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- Download calculator bar that displays how much time the game is going to take to download
- Catalog that displays games by genre and lets people browse by Bestersellers, New releases, and Recommended games
- Community Page that includes favorite topics, the ability to tag game-specific forums to participate in, and view hot forum topics
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GOG.com also announced another surprise: it will be carrying the classic dungeon crawler Baldur's Gate: The Original Saga for $9.99 (including goodies like artwork, game manual). The new site and Baldur's Gate will be launching on 1pm GMT time on Sept. 23.

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Send Money Pacific Blog
Ten Ways to Keep Your Money Safe When Using Your Mobile Device
At SendMoneyPacific we love that it's possible to send money via your mobile phone or mobile device such as a tablet, if you have access to the internet. It's opened up a world of opportunities for ways to send money quickly, easily, and at a reasonable cost.
Win-win right?
However, when using your device, it is really important to keep your information safe so no one else can get their hands on your money.
Here are 10 tips to help keep your mobile device safe, especially if you are using it to send money or access your banking details:
- Never use public networks (such as in cafes) to access your bank account or to send money – make sure you are on a secure internet connection
- Type the name of the website you are accessing into your browser – never click from a link – and make sure it has the "padlock" symbol. Or look for "https" in the URL bar so you know it is a safe link
- Be careful where you download apps from – make sure they are only downloaded from an official app store
- Keep your software up to date – always download the latest version for all mobile devices – and only download the latest versions when you are for instance at home so you know the network is secure
- Make sure you update your anti-virus software, too
- Make sure you have your security settings enabled – if you aren't using GPS, WIFI or Bluetooth for instance, make sure that they are turned off
- If you do log on to a public network, make sure you check that is in indeed a "real" network – ask the café staff what the name is of their network – avoid connecting to the first one that shows up – did you know that it's not so hard to set up a fake public network that can be used to intercept your data?
- Disconnect any "file sharing" options
- Choose passwords that are hard to guess and change them often
- Always log out of email accounts and bank accounts, even at home, so that when you head out, nothing is open and could be accessed by other people.
Yes, the speed of technology is usually faster than our ability to keep up with it – but at least if we know some of the things we can do to protect our money, we're a step ahead than if we do not do anything! If you aren't sure if you are protecting your mobile devices, ask for help from a family member or friend who is good with technology.
Look after your money, you worked hard for it.


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A cylindrical chemosorptive denuder in series with a glass fibre filter has been evaluated for sampling toluene diisocyanate (TDI) aerosols. The sampler is designed for measuring personal exposure to diisocyanates. Several denuder coatings and derivatising reagents were investigated. Dimethylpolysiloxane (SE-30) and 5% phenyl dimethylpolysiloxane (SE-54) with either dibutylamine (DBA) or dipentylamine (DPeA) as derivatising reagents yielded the lowest vapour breakthrough (the amount (%) of the vapour that passes through the denuder), close to values predicted by theory. Immobilisation of the SE-30 denuder coating by in-situ cross-linking yielded comparable results. With an SE-30/DBA-coated denuder operating within an airflow range of 100–500 mL min−1, the phase separation was shown to be consistent with theoretical predictions derived by use of the Gormley–Kennedy equation. This provides a means of calculating the vapour breakthrough and correcting experimentally obtained values with regard to vapour–particulate phase distribution, suggesting that the denuder can provide accurate phase-distribution measurements. The SE-30/DBA denuder can be used over a concentration range spanning nearly six orders of magnitude. Its capacity is sufficient to perform 15-min exposure measurements of a TDI aerosol with air concentrations as high as 1,700 μg m−3, 40 times higher than the Swedish occupational exposure limit (OEL). At the other end of the range, the estimated limit of detection (LOD) was less than 2 ng m−3 for both the vapour and the aerosol phases when LC–ESI–MS–MS was used for chemical analysis.
There are many occupational environments in which isocyanates or PUR-products are used, produced or processed. During these operations there is always a risk of isocyanate exposure, which may lead to severe health problems. Isocyanates principally affect the respiratory system and they are the main cause of occupational asthma. The prevalence of asthma among exposed workers is generally 5-10%, according to most studies, but figures as high as 30% have been reported.
The most commonly used isocyanates may occur in both vapour and particulate forms. Their physical state may affect both their deposition in the airways and their impact on health. Nevertheless, the occupational exposure limit for isocyanates applies to the total amount of isocyanates present, regardless of their physical state. Setting different exposure limits for vapour and particles would require the air sampling step to be capable of separating and independently measuring the phases. This is not straightforward, since every sampling method may be affected by a number of possible sampling artefacts. To minimize such biases, a profound knowledge of the sampling system and its behaviour is required.
In this thesis a chemosorptive cylindrical denuder and filter, connected to a sampling pump, has been developed for personal exposure measurements of isocyanates. The model compounds for the investigation and evaluation were some of the most commonly used diisocyanates in industry: toluene diisocyanate (TDI), hexamethylene diisocyanate (HDI), isophorone diisocyanate (IPDI) and methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI).
Using a combination of dimethylpolysiloxane (SE-30) and dibutylamine (DBA) as a chemosorptive coating on both the inner wall of the denuder tube and the filter, the derivatisation was shown to be fast enough for efficient collection of the isocyanates. The repeatability of the air measurements was high, with variabilities generally between 5-10% in the measured concentration range. 15-min samplings were performed of both vapour and aerosols of nm-size, from below the OEL (5ppbv) up to 235 ppbv, without exceeding the coating capacity or causing breakthrough due to chromatographic movement. At the applied airflow rates, between 50 and 500 ml/min, the breakthrough, i.e. the percentage of the TDI vapour that passes through the denuder tube ending up on the filter, was shown to be consistent with amounts predicted by the Gormley-Kennedy equation. For isocyanate aerosols, extensive gas-stripping was shown to occur inside the denuder tube at the lower end of the investigated flow range. This phenomenon was minimized when a flow rate between 300 and 500 ml/min was applied (Papers III-IV).
The great advantage of a denuder sampler compared to wet methods, such as the commonly used impinger method, is its suitability for personal exposure measurements. Due to its small size and absence of solvent it is more convenient to carry during a work shift. Furthermore, the results in Paper II indicate that 8-hour denuder measurements can be performed without detectable breakthrough of the vapour phase. The derivatives formed during the sampling of isocyanates were shown to be stable in the samplers for several days after the measurements were finished, provided both the denuder tubes and filters were stored in the freezer and in solvent containing excess reagent. Furthermore, filters and tubes could be prepared at least 4 d prior to sampling, without loss of performance. This is highly relevant to the applicability of the method for field measurements.
Both LC-ESI-MS (Paper II-IV) and LC-APCI-MS (Paper I) were used to determine the analytes in the air samples. The former method exhibited the lowest detection limit for the isocyanate-DBA derivatives. Using selected reaction monitoring (SRM) the obtained method detection limit for the investigated compounds was below 10 ng/m3.


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SECOND WIND DREAMS: Local program connects residents with resources necessary to fulfill fondest wishes
PRINCETON — Some simply want a new dress or a set of dentures. Others, a visit with long-lost loved ones. For one, it was one last motorcycle ride. For another, to be sheriff for a day. For Anna Wysong, her Second Wind Dream was to see the ocean sunset for the first time.
"They just want to do this one more thing before they die," says Roger Topping, administrator at Princeton Health Care Center, where residents' dreams are coming true, thanks to a program called Second Wind Dreams.
"There's not been a dream yet that we haven't been able to tackle and fulfill," he said.
PHCC works in conjunction with the organization, along with local volunteers and Center staff, to allow residents to meet their dreams.
Second Wind Dreams is an organization with a mission is to fulfill dreams of patients in eldercare and hospice care. The organization began in 1997 and is named for a novel of the same title by geriatric specialist P.K. Beville, who wrote of the colorful experiences of nursing home workers and residents.
PHCC is a lifetime member of Second Wind Dreams and, to date, has fulfilled 13 dreams for their residents, plus many in-house dreams such as makeovers.
"Some dreams are small and don't cost a lot of money," said Assistant Activities Director Tina Tickle. "One resident said, 'If I could just smile again,' so we worked with a local dentist to fund a pair of dentures for her."
"You'd think we had given her a pot of gold. That's how pleased she was," Topping recalled.
Other dreams require more work and money. The first dream PHCC fulfilled in 2010 was for resident Anna Dishner, who had once enjoyed motorcycle trips with her husband. Her desire was to experience one last motorcycle ride. Hillbilly Cycle donated a cycle with a sidecar for the day. A group of 15 other riders joined in for a big send-off with balloons, roses, and a nephew from Kentucky.
Another resident longed to ride a four-wheeler once more through Big Creek Hollow. The staff located a side-by-side, and the mission included hours of riding the hollows and hills of McDowell County. The ride concluded with a family picnic and with Calvin, suffering from dementia, "burning it up on his harmonica," said Topping.
The Center has a prized, locked cabinet for pictures of each big dream that has been fulfilled. Calvin's picture shows a big grin and a thumbs-up.
Also pictured is Bobby, another resident with dementia.
Bobby always dreamed of being a police officer. His dream came true when he was able to be sheriff for the day, thanks Sheriff Don Meadows and his law enforcement team.
He received an official sheriff's T-shirt, long-sleeved shirt, hat, and badge.
He got to spend time in the sheriff's office and speak on the two-way radio. Bobby still wears his sheriff's hat throughout the center, threatening to arrest anyone who gets out of line.
Elsie, a resident who had retired after 26 years of teaching, asked to visit once more the school where she taught, Graham High School.
In the specially called teacher's meeting, Elsie was pleased to discover several former students were now teachers there, thanks to her inspiration. The staff enjoyed eating cake and visiting with Elsie.
"It was simple, simple, simple," says Topping, "but what it did for her and those teachers!"
Resident Eleanor had not seen her son in 30 years. Her dream was to see him again, but he lived in Delaware and did not have the financial means to visit. PHCC and Second Wind Dreams paid for a bus ticket, meals, a hotel room, and transportation around town so that she could see her son. The visit happened around Christmastime, and when Santa paid a visit, she tearfully told him, "This is the best gift I ever had!"
Anna Wysong, a quadriplegic, longed to visit the beach and see the sunrise and sunset from the ocean.
"People told me I should go visit the mountains, not the beach. But I can see beautiful mountains and all kinds of beautiful country within hours of where I am. I wanted to see the beach. In the movies, you always see people walking on the beach, shoes in hand, the waves slapping at their feet. I wanted to get my feet wet!" Anna said.
"My brothers would always go to the beach, and they'd come back and talk about how much fun they'd had," said Anna. But her condition made the trip too difficult.
While at a conference, Tickle first heard about Second Wind Dreams and thought of Anna's desire to go to the beach.
"She was the inspiration to be able to make a difference in somebody's life," said Tickle. "These are things we take for granted."
In 2010, with the help of PHCC staff and Second Wind Dreams, Anna finally got her wish.
"It was a six-hour trip there, and it was raining," Anna recalled. "I hadn't slept much the night before because I was excited. My chair reclines, so, in the van on the way there, I was dozing. They took my picture and put a speech bubble on it that says 'Dreaming of the beach.'"
Her first day at Virginia Beach was dreary, she recalled.
"We were supposed to take a boat out on the ocean to see the dolphins, but there were storms, and the water was too choppy. We opened up the door to the room. They got me a room where I had a view of the water, and I thought I could hear bagpipes. I thought that was crazy! But there was somebody down by the water playing bagpipes."
Anna says when she first saw the water she couldn't believe her eyes, "Holy Cow! You see pictures, and you see it in the movies, but it's totally different to actually see the waves, clouds, and sunset than what you imagine."
While at the beach, Anna and her family and friends visited the aquarium, where she remembered seeing otters and seals. She visited a dock to watch the cranes. She saw fighter jets flying overhead from the nearby naval base. And she had an old-time photo taken, dressed as a flapper.
"My mom was a poor sport and wouldn't be in the picture!" she complained.
Anna has a memory book filled with pictures from her dream visit. Her picture also appears in the special display case, showing her in the special chair with big tires that was used to wheel her into the water.
Anna says her beach trip was definitely one of the highlights of her life. When asked what her next dream might be, she replied, "to get my kids and grandbabies together with me."
The staff is working on fulfilling the next batch of dreams as soon as the weather warms up. One dream they're preparing for is a female resident who dreams of a fishing trip in a boat. A group of ladies hopes to fulfill a group dream together, though they haven't come up with the plan yet.
"I've heard them mention a cruise," said Tickle.
Topping said the staff always pitches in to help make each dream come true, from volunteering for the activity to raising money to fund the wishes. When they built an addition onto the center, the old kitchen cabinets were recycled to make wooden snowmen crafts to sell. The staff also sells nachos and hot dogs to raise money for dreams. Often, dream recipients who pass away leave behind money for the dream fund to continue.
The hard work the staff contributes pays off in "warm, fuzzy feelings," said Topping.
"The feeling you get seeing the smiles on [the residents'] faces, it makes it worthwhile, every bit of it," said Topping.
"It helps the staff on the dementia unit too. Altzheimer's is as cruel as it gets to people."
Tickle says the dreams help the staff with their goal of enriching the residents' lives as much as possible, "We spend a lot of time redirecting and trying to pull out of them what they can remember and just work with that the best we can."
For more information on the Second Wind Dreams organization, visit www.secondwind.org.
For information on Princeton Health Care Center, or to donate to the dreams they fulfill, contact Roger Topping, administrator, or Debbie Burnett, activities director, at 304-431-4226.


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Well, Pam and Tony can add another activity to the great rally
Several of us stayed over for a day or two after the rally. Yesterday most of us were leaving. I had the bus started and noticed that Bob Gilbert seemed to be having a problem. I went over and he could not get the brakes to release. Bob, Jack Bernritter, Dave Kellas and I worked as a team to diagnose the problem. We concluded that one of the DD3 cans has blown a diaphragm. We knew that there was no hope of getting parts locally.
Bob had recently purchased 3030 spring cans in hopes of doing the conversion before the trip. He had them with him.
I made some calls to Sonnie and Clifford and confirmed that we had a handle on the problem and that we could do the conversion with the parts on the bus (did not have to purchase any special valves). Thanks for the help guys!!!
Bolting the cans in place was not all that big of a deal. Getting the parking brakes system to work was a real challenge. Bob's bus has a relay valve for the service brakes and a relay valve for the parking brakes (no interconnection like the QR1 on later buses). That probably made the job easier.
I used a manifold I use to charge extinguishers to trouble shoot the system as we began to connect parts. Between Bob and I, we had all the fittings we needed (he had to modify some compression ferrules that he found at a repair shop, but that was the only parts we had to find).
We were able to trace the parking brake relay valve signal line to the front service area in the compartment by the driver. We then played with the parking brake valve lines until we found one that supplied system air when the valve was in the released position. We had to plug a couple of ports where we removed the lines, but after all was said and done, we made it work.
Bob will have some work to do when he gets home, but the system is functional. We kept in contact with him and met up several times today. After about 300 miles, the system was working well.
Only took four people a whole day to do the job . If we had to do it again, we could probably do it with two people in a bit over a half day.


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Ski Terrain & Snow Conditions in Gulmarg
Ski Terrain & Snow Conditions in Gulmarg
Since the opening of phase 2 of the Mt. Apharwat gondola in the winter 2005/2006 the popularity of Gulmarg as backcountry and adventure ski destination has continuously risen. The number of visitors and participants in our programs has also increased during this time and every winter we welcome now several dozens of enthusiastic skiers and snowboarders from all over the world in the Himalaya and introduce them to the terrain and the incredible views on the mountains like on the 8'126m high Nanga Parbat on the picture below.
With the increased popularity of this winter sports resort it is important to give visitors an opportunity to inform themselves fully about what is expecting them in Gulmarg. Read more


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Skype ingerated with Windows Phone 8? Looks like it according to leaked images! Just before the Windows Phone Summit in San Fransisco images of the the anticipated Skype-integration are found all over the internet. But in less than I week we will know for sure, as rumours are that new features will be presented.


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"'I Did Two Jobs - Reporter and Soldier'" - Russell Sharp - BBC News (UK)
"'I Did Two Jobs - Reporter and Soldier'" - Russell Sharp - BBC News (UK)
When the BBC Asked Me to Go Undercover in the British Army to Investigate Bullying, I Had to Think Long and Hard
by: Russell Sharp | publication date: September 18, 2008 | Publication: BBC News |
". . .I never forgot why I was there; I had to be the best recruit I could be while at the same time investigating whether the Army had kept its promise to stamp out bullying. In my platoon I saw two corporals lose their temper and break the rules, punching recruits or grabbing them by the neck and throwing them to the ground. . ."
BBC reporter, Russell Sharp, explains his thoughts about going undercover into the British Army.
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NSW Nationals on coal drive
The NSW Nationals want to use money from asset sales to build a new coal-fired power station.
Federal Resources Minister Matt Canavan says he supports the proposal by NSW Deputy Premier John Barilaro to use an allocation of about $850 million earmarked for the regions from the $2.6 billion sale of the Land and Property Information service.
The bulk of the money has been committed to a $2.3 billion stadium plan.
Mr Barilaro and Upper Hunter Nationals MP Michael Johnsen say a joint venture with the private sector would be able to cover the enormous cost of a new coal-fired station located in Mr Johnsen's marginal seat, to replace the Liddell power station, which will shut down in 2022.
NSW's Liberals-Nationals agreement requires one-third of the money raised from asset sales to go to the bush.
Senator Canavan said the proposal is a "no-brainer".
"It's clear they [NSW] face a serious threat as to the stability [of their] supply," he said.
"They face a threat of having insufficient electricity supplies by 2022 with the closure of Liddell. I have often said it's got to be realised by baseload dispatchable power.
"Gas looks a non-starter in NSW given the [state] government's on a go-slow on gas developments and the only other option appears coal and we hope the NSW government makes decisions to keep its electricity supplies [strong] so prices can be kept under control."
Federal Energy and Environment Minister Josh Frydenberg has no objection either.
"As a truly technology-neutral policy, the Turnbull government's National Energy Guarantee will deliver a more affordable and reliable energy system without subsidies, taxes or trading schemes," Mr Frydenberg said.
"Unlike the Labor Party, the Coalition realises that coal will continue to play an important part of the energy mix as it supplies reliable baseload generation."
Premier Gladys Berejiklian has allowed ministers to hold a full cabinet discussion on energy needs, at which the Nationals' power station proposal will be laid out.
Opposition Leader Luke Foley labelled the plan a "thought bubble".
"This comes from the mob who sold off all the state's power stations," Mr Foley said.
Mr Foley continues poking holes in the idea in an article for RenewEconomy.


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Monday, November 17, 2008
Char Kway Teow Malaysian Style
Since I haven't cooked fried kway teow (fried flat noodle) for awhile, while shopping at the Asian grocery store recently, I picked up the necessary ingredients and cooked it at night. The Asian restaurants here serve this noodle in a different way, they called it beef or chicken hor fun (炒牛河 or 鸡炒河). It is cooked differently from our Malaysian kway teow.
This is my hubby and daddy favorite dish. I don't normally eat this dish while I was in Malaysia. But once I came here, all these hawker style noodles, like char kway teow, hae mee, curry mee, mee rebus, mee goreng, or lam mee became something special. I guess the saying is true, you don't know how to appreciate when there is in abundance, but you will see the value when it is scarce.
25 comments:
Hmm..yummy!! Love Char Kway Teow. I know what you mean. I never really liked Msian food when I was in Msia. Now only learn to appreciate it. Hehe...
- November 15, 2008 11:38 AM
- Zoe said...
Wow...your 炒牛河 looks so yummy. I am so hungry just looking at it :-)Can I have a plate?
- November 15, 2008 3:20 PM
- Tastes of Home said...
I love Char Kway Teow hehe, even while in Malaysia, miss it even more now! thanks for the recipe :)
- November 15, 2008 4:39 PM
- tigerfish said...
How true is your last quote.
Your CKT looks darn good! I prefer the "wetter" version
- November 15, 2008 9:20 PM
may i know which Asian Store u go?
- November 16, 2008 2:03 AM
- Ling's Passion said...
Wah...your char kway teow looks like one from the hawker store.
- November 16, 2008 6:58 AM
- jadepearl said...
Hi there! I always like the Msian Char Kway Teow esp Penang Char Kway Teow. The Spore version is much sweeter. Am back! :)
- November 16, 2008 7:51 AM
- daphne said...
I like it slightly wet just like what u did with your version! Extra chili please! =)
- November 16, 2008 8:18 AM
- @ GiGi House of Beauty said...
apparently i favor the 干炒牛肉何粉served in Chinese or Vietnamese restaurant in the US! when i crave for char kway teow taste, i usualy fry the chee cheong fun (get from chinese store) with the same char kway teow style bck in Malaysia. It is yummy too.
- November 16, 2008 8:35 AM
- Little Corner of Mine said...
Thanks blur mommy. Me too, never really like hawker food before until I came here. :P
Sure zoe, help yourself! :D
taste of home, I've learned to like and miss this kind of noodle here too. :)
Thanks tigerfish. Guess since you are now in S'pore, you would prefer restaurant food more huh? :P
Hi sock peng, I shop at the biggest Asian store in the Springs that your boss has share on. We know the owner's parents and daughters, used to shop at their warehouse before they open the store. :)
Thanks Ling. :)
Wow, welcome back JP!! I need to visit your home and say Hi. :)
Thanks Daphne.
Gigi, really? I like the 干炒牛河 too, but I think the 干炒牛河 here uses lard and MSG. Ok, I think the Malaysian one also uses the same thing, LOL, thus the home cook one is healthier and better. Funny thing is, I couldn't find "chee cheong fun" here, they used to sell it in the store but no longer, very weird. I can only order it in a Chinese restaurant.
- November 16, 2008 10:08 AM
- Little Corner of Mine said...
Ugh JP, cannot visit your home lah! It's only open to invited readers. So how?
- November 16, 2008 10:21 AM
hope hv a chance meet u when u come to warehouse :P
so , i know which koay teow u buy
- November 16, 2008 11:01 AM
- Indonesia Eats said...
Agreed with the last quote!
The food made me hungry, anyway :D
- November 16, 2008 11:51 AM
- ICook4Fun said...
I really like your CKT. Look so black and shiny just the way I like it. You are so right. We never appreciates all these food until we are so far away from home. When I go back I am going to stuff my face with it :)
- November 16, 2008 4:29 PM
- noobcook said...
wah, CKT u also can cook! hehe ...now I am craving for CKT with extra 'hum' ;p
- November 16, 2008 5:59 PM
- Beachlover said...
wow!! your look like the one sell in Msian restaurant here!! aiyooo....now make me more hungry just looking at my favourite food!!.add chili padi and cockles for me please...
- November 16, 2008 10:26 PM
- jadepearl said...
Posted in KAA blog. I think you are a member too, rite? Need your e-mail address coz blogger needs that lah. Could I have your e-mail address pls? Thanks!
- November 16, 2008 10:33 PM
- Unknown said...
i love love love it! i fell in love with it since i was in singapore...and now it is a must have every time i visit malaysia. i just can never duplicate it at home though...it's not the same T_T
- November 17, 2008 12:26 AM
- SIG said...
Wow that looks fantastic, like the real stuff. Great job!
- November 17, 2008 7:19 AM
- Food For Tots said...
Your CKT looks so appetizing! So many ingredients too! Remind me of my Penang CKT. Slurp!
- November 17, 2008 10:39 AM
- Big Boys Oven said...
Aiyoh! so SEDUP lar!
- November 17, 2008 8:57 PM
- Hungry Gal said...
Oh gosh- this is one of my favourite dishes. You're right though - I never appreciated at the time but now I crave it all the time.
- November 18, 2008 7:38 AM
Can I have the recipe ?
I tried this afternoon, its not shining and tasty as yours.
May I know why ? I add alot of black sauce but its still the same.Any tips ?
Linda (Singapore)
- January 10, 2009 6:54 AM
- Little Corner of Mine said...
Sorry Linda, I want to keep this recipe. But you can get a similar recipe at My Kitchen Snippet. As for tips, did you put enough oil? Frying must be fast too so that the kway teow won't break apart.
- January 10, 2009 10:37 AM
- XUE said...
wow! This looks incredible & my mouth is watering from browsing through yr blog with all these pics!
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Thanks to the internet, artists are now able to get their music out to people far easier than before. This means that artists from beyond the usual scene centres, London, LA, Berlin and New York, can establish diverse fanbases. Handbook, Jake Brown from York, and Beat Culture, Sunik Kim of Hong Kong, are two examples of this. Handbook makes sunny instrumental hip-hop tracks reminiscent of LA, whilst Beat Culture's euphoric electronica sounds as if it originates in London, via the Balearic Islands. We got them together to interview each other about their influences, the helpfulness of music-sharing sites, like Soundcloud, and the future.
Beat Culture: How and when did you get started?
Handbook: I got started about two years ago. I bought an MPC1000 off a friend in York, and felt empowered I could make music, on my own, by myself. What a feeling.
HB: What's the music scene like in your town and how does it influence you?
BC: To be honest it's kind of shitty where I live (Hong Kong), the electronic music scene is really weak and focused on house/electro stuff as well as DJing rather than producing. I hear about LA and the UK's electronic music scenes and sometimes get a little jealous…haha.
BC: Are there any particular artists that influenced you?
HB: When I first started, dudes like Dilla, Flying Lotus and Free The Robots definitely got me interested. However, Soundcloud opened up this whole new world of musicians, who in turn became my influences. Elaquent, Ta-Ku, Dibiase and guys like that really got me thinking. Brainfeeder and Mello Music Group inspire me in huge ways too.
HB: What's the key element to your music?
BC: I think it's the "dense" nature of it, a lot of my songs kind of build up to this final minute or so where there's way too much going on. I don't know why I tend to do that but that's sort of become my signature at this point, sort of like a "Wall of Sound" type thing.
BC: What's your basic musical process like when you produce a track and how long do you typically spend on a track?
HB: It varies in all honesty. What's most consistent is starting with either the sample or the melody first. I get it all arranged and then build the drums around it. Mix it. Share it. It's all part of the process. I tend to spend 3 hours most. If I don't feel the track in that time period it gets left. Quality control and what not.
BC: If you had to pick a movie to represent your music what would it be and why?
HB: The Walt Disney adaptation of "Jungle Book" is probably closest. All the details in the artwork, such as the settings in the jungle and this real dense quality reminds me of my music at times. It's a pretty old film too, so I guess I would want my music to be timeless and still fun years from now. I also felt the film had a lot of soul, which my music has, because I put it there.
HB: Who or what inspires you?
BC: Well Burial and Gold Panda got me into making music to begin with, around last February. But once I started I started hearing all these people: Neon Indian, Baths, Hudson Mohawke, Flylo, Shlohmo, Balam Acab, James Blake, Star Slinger, Jamie xx…the list goes on. In terms of what, I'm not really sure, sometimes it's a little chord progression I hear in some random song on the radio, or a little sample that gets stuck in my head.
BC: Any plans to play around with different genres?
HB: I usually do. I would guess I'm renowned for my hip-hop/beatstrumental type of thing, but I do dabble with "future beats" "experimental" "dubstep" "dance/house" "funk". People don't necessarily hear all that, but I do passionately work away on those other personal projects.
BC: What's your dream collaboration?
HB: Just to work with real sick rappers! MF Doom or someone of that ilk would be immense. Blu or Hassan Mackey maybe.
HB: Do you feel there is more to come in the Beat scene, or is it running out of steam? Who, in your opinion is pushing boundaries right now?
BC: I honestly don't really consider myself to be a part of the beat scene, my stuff isn't really in that Dilla type genre. However I do listen to a ton of that stuff…and there are an insane amount of people who are doing amazing things with it…Star Slinger, Fly-lo and Shlohmo come to mind immediately, but there are a bunch of other recent discoveries for me, like Lapalux and heRobust. All next level.
BC: How do you feel about sampling and specifically the legal complications behind it?
HB: As you can probably tell, I love sampling. Only if it's done in the right way. You have to avoid the original melody if possible, and use the chops as paint on your palette. Make a new picture. As for the legal complications. Well it's complicated haha. I don't feel right about people making money from other peoples work and if possible clearance should be achieved if possible.
BC: How did you become such a presence online/develop such a large following on Soundcloud?
HB: I think it all happened because I was so diligent in following other producers, networking with blogs and really creating this entity of "Handbook" (whatever that is). That's my only explanation.
HB: How important is the internet with regards to your music?
BC: None of this would have happened without the internet, more specifically Soundcloud, Facebook, Bandcamp, Hypem, and blogs in general. I remember uploading random tracks to Soundcloud last March, scrounging for plays and any kind of exposure. But once a core group of people start picking up on something, the word just keeps spreading. Back then I actually used to think of what the "ideal" time to upload something was in order to get the most exposure, now I don't even think twice about that kind of thing, and it's not like I'm doing anything differently. It's just amazing how fast the word spreads through all the social networking sites. So I'd the say the internet is the reason my music exists.
BC: Do you feel pressure when releasing stuff, like there's some kind of expectation of quality?
HB: Yeah I do now. Since "Celebriteeth" I felt that there was this group of people/fans/blogs that were expecting bigger, or better…Or were they expecting difference/evolution? I feel that way every time I release something, so I rely on my instincts as to whether the album I plan to put out will be well received, which is why I have close to 10 unreleased albums sitting around.
HB: What's in store for Beat Culture this year?
BC: A European tour during the summer is currently in the works, and as of now I've never played a show so we'll see how that goes…other than that not I'm too sure, since I just released an album I'm not thinking of any bigger releases in the near future, probably just some singles here and there and some remixes. But you never know.
BC: Anything big coming up this year?
LOADS. Shows across the UK, as and when I can book them/make it to them. Sheffield, York, London this first quarter. I have a release coming up this Spring on Cascade Records, A couple of other cheeky EP's and radio interviews all coming up before May. 2012 has started off big, and it's going to get bigger.
You can get a track from each of these guys from the new LYFSTYL compilation here.
Also get a hold of Beat Culture's album Tokyo Dreamer and Handbook's Nomadic.
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European tigers ending up on Asian market
FOUR PAWS research and police raids uncover ruthless tiger trade in Europe
Police raids in the Czech Republic as well as research by FOUR PAWS show that the tiger trade is not just an issue in Asia. The lucrative commercial trade of such an endangered species and its parts is happening in Europe as well.
FOUR PAWS has discovered that tiger traders operating in Europe are willing and able to sell and facilitate the transfer of tigers to Asian countries, where demand for their parts for traditional medicine is causing mass cruelty and a decline of the species.
Based on the suspicion of tigers being killed in a zoo and the possession of tiger products by the Vietnamese community, Czech Authorities made a strike against wildlife traffickers and conducted a series of raids that included one facility owned by a well-known circus leader.
Our research conducted in June included a meeting with this person, where he proudly showed his tiger breeding facility near Prague and discussed the sale of tigers to Asia. The trader offered to sell the tigers to Asian buyers and to help facilitate the documents and transfer.
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The tiger: A highly endangered species
In the 20th century the world has already lost over 90 percent of its tigers, with current estimates indicating that there are only 3,900 tigers left in the wild. The relentless demand for tigers – traded for their parts but also to be displayed commercially – significantly contributes to this decline of the species. Legal trade facilitates illegal trade and causes a real threat to wild tiger populations.
Shockingly, tigers born in captivity in Europe can still be traded for commercial purposes like circuses or for private keeping and for photo opportunities. In some European countries you can even rent a tiger for a private party!
Read more about this on our campaign site.
- 4,000 € to 22,000 € ($4,560 to $25,079) - the cost of a tiger in the EU
- 1,412 - how many live, captive-bred tigers were exported from the EU between 1999 and 2016
- 8,278 - number of illegal tiger products (like tiger soup cubes, teeth, claws) seized over same time period
- 1,700 € ($1,938) - the price for a kilo of tiger bones
- 3,900 – the number of tigers currently in the wild. The number of captive tigers in the world is unknown.
More information and alarming developments about the critical state of tigers can be found in our latest press release.
On July 16th, Czech authorities discovered a dead tiger as well as tiger skin, claws, bouillon cubes and broth – also called tiger wine – made from tiger bones on a property near Prague.
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This weekend's crop of Heatseekers kicks off with Daylieboi's "The Cocky Song," a Houston-style chopped and screwed production, by way of A$AP Rocky's more modern update on that sound. With a synth line straight out of "Peso," the track has Daylieboi rapping in a pitched-down tone the entire time, which believe it or not, never really gets old at all.
Daylieboii describes his music as:
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The driver of the silver Chevy SUV that went off Frazier Mountain Park Road Wednesday, over the hill shown here and down the other side, is carried on a stretcher to the ambulance.
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The silver Chevy SUV came to rest in vegetation on the creek side of the hill. It did not appear to have rolled over. The driver was extracted from the car and put on a stretcher. [Gary Meyer photo]
FRAZIER PARK, CA (Thursday, March 20, 2014 at 12:45 p.m.)—CHP reports that the 50-year-old Frazier Park resident had possibly suffered a seizure, impairing her ability to drive the 2004 Chevy Blazer. She suffered minor injuries (neck pain) in the accident.
FRAZIER PARK, CA (Wednesday, March 19, 2014 at 5:30 p.m.)—Reports that a vehicle left Frazier Mountain Park Road west of the park in a solo accident began just before 5 p.m. Wednesday, March 19. A gray Chevy SUV was apparently traveling westbound when the vehicle crossed over the eastbound lane, went up a 15 foot embankment, over the crest, then southward down the other side toward Cuddy Creek. The car came to rest in heavy vegetation.
The female driver, who was traveling alone, was removed from the vehicle by Kern County firefighters, placed on a stretcher and carried to an AMR ambulance waiting at the roadside, about 120 feet away. The driver was taken for medical treatment. We will report more as details become available.
This is part of the March 14, 2014 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.
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The latest construction costs for the Golden 1 Center have reached $556.6 million. As reported by The SacBee, the price has risen by $21.7 million in just a month and $79 million increase since breaking ground in October 2014. The original cost was to be $447 million, so the total increase in price to around $109 million. The Kings Chairman Vivek Ranadive and the rest of the team's owners are paying for additional costs, the city's subsidy capped at $255 million.
It's been said that the increases aren't cost overruns, but represent the costs of design changes like the team's practice facility downtown, instead of leaving it at the site of the old arena in Natomas, added $30 million. Additional costs also represent dollars spent renovating the former Downtown Plaza, now known as Downtown Commons.
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Anthony McLean, MBChB, BSc(Hons), MD, FRACP, FCICM, FCSANZ
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Echocardiography is often an essential component in the management of a critically ill patient and setting up a service of acceptable quality requires attention to efficiency, sustainability and operator competency.
The value of echocardiography at the bedside of a critically ill patient is well established (Cholley et al. 2006). Initially provided as an offshoot of regular radiology or cardiology ultrasound services, echocardiography in the care of the critically ill patient has increasingly been performed by critical care physicians themselves (Kaplan and Mayo, 2009). In addition to the obvious diagnostic advantages, real time echocardiography allows a greater focus on haemodynamic evaluation, thereby providing essential patient information in a more timely fashion. However, this enhancement to patient care comes with responsibilities, often unappreciated when contemplating setting up or expanding an already existent rudimentary service. Good planning will save frustration and costs compared with allowing development to occur in an ad hoc fashion.
Components to be considered include machine selection, recording and reporting studies, archiving, interdepartmental connectivity and training. Machine availability, a major challenge in the past, is less so now with less expensive, yet more sophisticated machines, within the budget of many Intensive Care Units (ICUs). It is acknowledged that machine acquisition may still be a problem in developing countries, especially where external influences dictate who may or may not have ready access to machines on site. Often overlooked when setting up an in-house service are machine care, maintenance costs, producing quality images in wellstructured examinations, recording images, archiving images and delivering reports that can be accessed in other sections of a major hospital.
Training remains a major challenge, not only in the availability of adequate educational resources, where the emphasis on practical hands-on training predominates at least for beginners, but also in assessing appropriate levels of competency. Useful guidelines and manuals dedicated to the critical care physician are becoming available (De Backer et al. 2011; McLean and Huang, 2012).
Intensive Care Medicine and Echocardiography
Echo has many advantages in the ICU with rapid application at the bedside, using either transthoracic (TTE) or transoesophageal (TOE) echocardiography for the purposes of cardiac diagnosis, haemodynamic evaluation, haemodynamic monitoring, and assistance in therapeutic procedures. Often the diagnostic information cannot be readily obtained by alternative invasive techniques, including fixed and dynamic valvular dysfunction, left ventricular diastolic dysfunction, the presence of segmental wall abnormalities in reduced left ventricular contractile dysfunction, and pericardial tamponade. Many of the underlying components contributing to circulatory status are readily assessed when haemodynamic evaluation/monitoring is the primary focus of a study (see Figure 1).
It is beyond the brief of this article to describe in detail the considerable information an experienced operator can obtain from a single or multiple studies; the benefits of critical care echo are well described elsewhere (Repesse et al. 2013; De Backer et al. 2011).
Machine Selection, Acquisition and Maintenance
A variety of ultrasound machines with cardiac capability are available, and selection should be approached in a deliberate and pragmatic manner. Often selection decisions are influenced by exposure to the same brand in another setting such as central line insertion in the operating theatre, persuasiveness of the sales representative, bias of other departments owning an echo machine, and automatically updating that particular brand. Technological advancements have created a wide range of available machines with varying capabilities over a cost range from 10,000 to 200,000 Euros. The medium range of ultrasound machines today, the size of a laptop computer, is markedly more sophisticated than a large high-end machine available 20 years ago, yet today costing one third of the larger one purchased at that time.
Selection criteria should be objective, with considerations of proposed additional noncardiac ultrasound uses of machine, software content, mobility, maintenance costs, upgrade ability, transoesophageal echocardiography (TOE) capability, and, underlying all these criteria, the cost or rather value for money. Only limited assistance is available in the literature, with comparison of machines in specific considerations or for targeted software applications (Royal College of Radiologists 2005; Wynd et al. 2009). One reason for this void is that machines are in continual evolution and an evaluation is outdated at the time of publication. Generic considerations to assist a rational approach are given in Table 1. For those engaged in newer advanced software applications like strain-rate and speckle tracking, an appreciation of intersystem agreements is important (Nelson et al. 2012; Fine et al. 2012).
Image Acquisition and Archiving
Acquiring a proper set of sequential images, with cardiac cycle timing provided by concurrent ECG monitoring should be standard practice. The practice of waving a transducer hurriedly across the chest belongs to the amateurish past. For both transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) and TOE a predetermined standard set of views should be attempted, even though it is anticipated not all will provide suitable images. Images from each view should be recorded.
Evolution from utilising echocardiography as a quick diagnostic tool to a haemodynamic assessment/monitoring one necessitates image storage for later review, post-processing, or comparison with subsequent studies. Since any machine has limited internal storage, an external archiving system is an important component to consider when developing an in-house critical care echo service. Access to a system external to the ICU, such as a hospital clinical information system, radiology or cardiology system, is preferable to setting up a stand-alone system. It is less costly and also allows access to images elsewhere in the hospital. However, this is not always possible and a stand-alone system is necessary. There are two possible approaches – that of a proprietary system, using the same supplier as the machine provider, or a 'home grown' variety. The latter is less expensive and is not so difficult where local IT assistance is available, but may not have the same post-processing ability as a proprietary system. If multiple different machines are in use then a vendor neutral platform becomes an important consideration (Strowig 2013) (see Figure 2). Reporting of studies is essential. It improves the diagnostic and analytical skills of the operator, delivers necessary information to the medical team caring for the patient, and provides a succinct record. Archiving reports is also important, and some systems store both images and reports.
Dedicated enthusiasts have brought echocardiography from the periphery of critical care practice to what can appropriately be regarded as an essential tool in patient care. Introducing the practice into the ICU has by necessity developed in an ad hoc manner, dependent upon local resources, physician commitment, management support and, frequently, external political influences. Training has generally been via the apprenticeship model, resulting in a gradual increase of critical care physicians competent in the provision of around the clock bedside echo assisted patient management. Over the past two decades, training programmes to cope with the increasing demand have developed, the most notable example being established in France. To fill the training gap within the ICU setting, programmes initially came from a general ultrasound background or were cardiology based with a critical care flavour. The recognition that many aspects of echo application in the ICU setting differ substantially from those of radiology or cardiology, namely the need to rapidly assess multiple haemodynamic parameters, has led to a focus on developing specific CCE training programmes (Mayo et al. 2009). This need is further accentuated by Intensive Care training programmes around the world, making competency in basic echocardiography a mandatory component in the overall training programme.
Once the necessity of training critical care physicians in echocardiography was established, the question then arose as to what were acceptable levels of competency. Gaining experience is a continuum from the moment a doctor first places a transducer on the patient's chest, to measuring strain-rate in the right ventricular free wall. The next important step was international cooperation in determining the components required for competency in basic critical ultrasound, with a major emphasis on echocardiography. Representatives from Intensive Care bodies in Europe, Asia- Pacific, North America and South America met in Vienna in 2009, and a consensus paper was subsequently published in 2011 (Expert Round Table on Ultrasound in the ICU, 2011). This recommended that all trainee intensivists should be capable of performing a basic critical care echocardiographic study. A smaller proportion of physicians will seek to develop competency in advanced practice, with the emphasis moving from diagnosis alone, to diagnosis and haemodynamic assessment using both TTE and TOE. It is recognised that simulation techniques may enhance training, especially in TOE (Shakil et al. 2012). Recommendations on what constitutes advanced practice are now available in the literature (Narasimhan et al. 2014a; Narasimhan et al. 2014b). Some countries such as France and Australia already have training and credentialing programmes for critical care physician in advanced practice. Although individual institutions or countries can set standards, there is considerable benefit in developing international criteria. To achieve this single objective, a gathering of expert representatives from multiple national Intensive Care bodies met to debate and identify what constitutes advanced competency in Critical Care Echocardiography. This consensus document will be published in Intensive Care Medicine early in 2014 (Vieillard-Baron 2014). Such documents do not necessarily prescribe what a particular institution or national IC training body should do, but rather provide guidelines. This may have more value in those ICUs where the Director is not au fait with echocardiography.


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While this year's ASCO didn't provide any new amazing drug or therapy promising a cure for melanoma...but rather offered data from the maturation of existing studies and additional supporting data for current accepted therapies...there was one combo that just may offer a possible change/better treatment option in the future. Epacadostat, an IDO inhibitor, studied in combination with Pembrolizumab (anti-PD-1, also known as Keytruda) since the ECHO-204 trial started in 2015, has now morphed into the ECHO 301 study for melanoma patients. I've been impressed by the data coming out on the combo for awhile, posting this in March of 2016: Immunology webinar update by Dr. Weber
While the webinar covered many topics, there was this on the combo:
Epacadostat (an IDO inhibitor) + Pembrolizumab:Preliminary Results
61 patients were enrolled by September 2, 2015 Safety data on 46 patients (19 melanoma, 7 RCC, 7 NSCLC, 5 transitional cell carcinoma, 4 endometrial adenocarcinoma). Most common all-grade treatment-related AEs were rash (22%), fatigue (17%), nausea (11%), and pruritus (11%). Grade 3/4 treatment-related AEs occurred in 13% of patients (rash, 7%). One patient discontinued for a treatment-related AE. IDO inhibitor did not seem to increase side effects. Melanoma patients only (n - 18) - 56% ORR. Melanoma treatment naive patients (n - 16) - 63% ORR. Weber found these results very promising and comparable to the ipi/nivo combo in regard to response rates but with much milder side effects!!!
In December of last year, there was this: The Future for Melanoma Treatment = Combo's! Dr. Weber breaks it down -
Now...we have this: Weber's report: Pembro plus Epacadostat as frontline melanoma treatment
In the link above, Shannon Connelly's June 29, 2017 OncLive report, notes the following:
'If mature data from the ongoing phase III trial of pembrolizumab (Keytruda) combined with epacadostat are positive, the combination could become the preferred frontline treatment regimen for patients with melanoma, says Jeffrey Weber, MD, PhD.
The ongoing KEYNOTE-252/ECHO-301 study is exploring the efficacy, safety, and tolerability of the PD-1 inhibitor pembrolizumab with the first-in-class IDO1 inhibitor epacadostat in patients with stage III/IV unresectable or metastatic melanoma (NCT02752074).
Findings of the multi-arm, open-label phase I/II ECHO-204 trial of pembrolizumab/epacadostat in patients with advanced solid tumors presented at the 2017 ASCO Annual Meeting showed the combination demonstrated an objective response rate (ORR) of 63% and a complete response (CR) rate of 5% for patients with treatment-naïve melanoma. Based on the projected 2-year survival data, the combination could represent a new, less toxic frontline standard of care for patients with melanoma, said Weber, a medical oncologist and deputy director of the Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone Medical Center.
"The 1- and 2-year survivals are projected to be as good as ipilimumab (Yervoy)/nivolumab (Opdivo), which means a 64% 2-year survival rate," Weber said. "Let's say it's around a 62% 2-year survival rate. Given the very favorable toxicity profile, a lot of doctors will want to use pembrolizumab/epacadostat in the frontline setting."'
So...as has been proven out in other studies...it may be that naive patients do the best...and they are the only folks in this trial. But, even so - an ORR of 63% and CR of 5% is just as good as the ipi/nivo combo while epacadostat has far fewer side effects than those produced by ipi. If these numbers hold...The Wizard Weber may be on to something here!! Thanks, ratties!! Happy 4th! -c


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Microsoft releases beta version of Desktop App Converter, a tool which convert desktop apps to Windows UWP app.
If you're a fan of Windows 10 & Windows Store apps like me, you might have thought about a method to convert desktop apps to store apps that has a unified live tile & display with ease in Start menu. Converting Store apps to desktop apps is not possible now, but with MS Desktop App Converter, you can convert desktop apps to Windows store apps.
Desktop App Converter is from Project Centennial & can convert .NET based apps to UWP apps. And these can be uploaded on the Windows store(only if you're its developer). It converts existing .msi & .exe files to .appx format. You can then sideload apps by using developer mode in Windows 10. It is currently not available in Windows 10 Home editions & also only for Windows Insider preview 14316 & above.
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All UWP apps are allowed to use only the pre-declared permissions from the system, unlike the Desktop apps which when given administrative privilege can modify any system file without the knowledge of the user. By converting Desktop apps to UWP apps, you can restrict the permissions of an app.
The MSDN website says:
"As a UWP app, your app is able to do the things it could do as a classic desktop app. It interacts with a virtualized view of the registry and file system that's indistinguishable from the actual registry and file system."
The UWP apps when uninstalled, leaves no corrupt registry entries or residual files that has to be removed manually.
You can add UWP features to your app's package, like an XAML user-interface, live tile updates, UWP background tasks, app services, and many more. All of the functionality available to any other UWP app is available to your app. But only .NET framework 4.6.1+ based software are supported by this conversion.
How to convert them:
1: Download the file Desktop App converter & BaseImage-XXXXX.wim from the link below the post. Here XXXXX denotes Build number of Windows 10 you use.
2: Extract DesktopAppConverter.zip & place BaseImage file in that directory.
3:Now open a Windows Powershell window(With Administrative Privileges & change PowerShell execution policy by running the following command. Agree to the change by typing
y after that.
Set-ExecutionPolicy bypass
4: Run the command below, replacing
C:\Users\NAME\Downloads\DesktopAppConvertor with the path to the directory on your computer:
cd -Path C:\Users\NAME\Downloads\DesktopAppConvertor
5: Execute DesktopAppConverter using this command:
.\DesktopAppConverter.ps1 -Setup -BaseImage .\BaseImage-XXXXX.wim
Note that you should replace XXXXX by the Windows version you are using.
6: The system may ask for a restart. Restart the computer & then run these commands again.
7: Now you are ready to convert a software to UWP. Select any simple program for the first time. Note that the software should not run as administrator.
8:Next run this command to convert it:
.\DesktopAppConverter.ps1 -ExpandedBaseImage C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Images\BaseImage-14316
–Installer C:\Installer\SampleApp.exe -InstallerArguments "/S" -Destination C:\Output\SampleApp
-PackageName "SampleApp" -Publisher "CN=<publisher_name>" -Version 0.0.0.1 -MakeAppx -Verbose
Replace C:\Installer\SampleApp.exe with name of installer file , C:\Output\SampleApp with place where you want to save it & "SampleApp" with
a name which you'll give to the new app, <publisher_name> with name of Developer & Input the Version number.
9: If everythiing went well, check the output folder to find a SampleApp.appx file.
10: Sideload the .appx file. Go to Settings–>Update & Security–>For Developers & select Sideload Apps. Select Yes in the Confirmation Dialogue box.
11: Now navigate to App output directory & run following command in Windows Powershell as Administrator:
C:\Add-AppxPackage .\SampleApp.appx
12: Done! Now check Windows 10 Start Menu to find that your app has been installed as a UWP app. Enjoy!
YOU CAN DOWNLOAD DesktopAppConveter & BaseImage from this link: (remember to select both of them in the download page.)
[sociallocker] Download from Here [/sociallocker]
Enjoy using the app as a Windows Store app!


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Thank you Aine (the creator of this tag) for tagging me!
Croissant: Name a popular book or series that everyone (including you) loves.
The Harry Potter series of course! No surprise there. I am aware and have met people that actually find the series of overrated and will refuse to read it. However, I've known more people who loves the series as much as I do and Harry Potter is such a classic….
Macaron: Name a book that was hard to get through but worth it at the end.
I am going to go with Shatter Me trilogy by Tahereh Mafi. This had a lot to do with the first book because I was unimpressed since there was so much hype. I didn't like Shatter Me as much and it took me a while to warm up to Juliette, the main character. Nonetheless, as I continued the reading the rest of the books in the trilogy, I ended up loving it.
Vol-au-vent: Name a book that you thought would be amazing but fell flat.
Matched by Ally Condie. When I first read the premise of the first book I was so intrigued. The plot sounded so promising; however, as I read the book it ended up being a snoozefest. The pacing was so slow–too slow for my liking, the characters were "bland", and it was so hard to sympathize or click with the main character. I thought that Ms. Condie had such a promising storyline, but the execution just really fell flat. I am not sure if I want to continue the series.
Pain au chocolat: Name a book that you thought would be one thing but turned out to be something else.
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
This book just didn't go the way I expected it to. Maybe I am the only one, but this book had no plot and I had no idea in what direction Mr. Hemingway was going with the story. This is what I got out of this story– A group of WWI vets living in Paris and they spend their time drinking, and drinking, and then drinking some more. They are all in love with the same woman, who is not in love with them, so they all drink, drink, and then drink some more to forget their problems. They travel around Spain, watch some bull fighting and drink, drink, and drink some more. Honestly I was so excited to read this book, but it only ended up being a disappointment because I just didn't understand the point of it all.
Profiterole: Name a book or series that doesn't get enough attention.
The Raven Cycle series by Maggie Stiefvater
This is a four part series with the finale coming in September. Compared to other popular series out there, I believe The Raven Cycle doesn't get as much recognition. I will admit that this series is probably more character driven so for those who are looking for a more action packed book then this one may not be for you. I think that Ms. Stiefvater has crafted some of the most interesting and multi-dimensional characters, making it an enjoyable read. The story is rather slow-paced but if you have the patience and read through it, you'll definitely want more. On another note I really can't wait fo The Raven King, the last book in the series! Ahhh too much excitement!!!
Croquembouche: Name a book or series that's extremely complex.
A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin
Okay I actually haven't read the books (only watched the series), so technically my answer may not count. But you have to admit, George R.R. Martin has created a series with intricate plot lines and a number of sub-plots. When I was watching, it took me a while to figure out what in the world was going on and how everyone is connected to each other–heck it was even difficult to keep up with all the characters' names!
Napoleon: Name a movie or TV show based off a book that you liked better than the book itself.
Gossip Girl by Cecily von Ziegesar
I personally didn't like the series. All the characters were unlikeable in the books and the story didn't do much for me. The TV series was much better–and my favorite couple in the show Chuck and Blair didn't even date in the books. The TV show didn't really follow the books, but I know for sure that if I had the choice to marathon the books or the show, I would choose the latter.
Empanada: Name a book that was bittersweet.
One of my favorite classic children literature. It was bittersweet for me because of the ending. The ending is really up for interpretation–whether he died or not after getting bitten by the snake. I choose to be optimistic and that he lived.
Kolompeh: Name a book or series that takes place somewhere other than your home country:
Ruby Red trilogy by Kerstin Gier
The series' setting takes place in London, England. The series involves time travelling though it's really more about the romance–entertaining nonetheless, minus the main character being a lovesick teenager.
Pate a Choux: Name one food from a book or series that you would like to try.
Okay I'm going to cheat on this one, but I would love to try all the foods from The Harry Potter series. I don't even really have a sweet tooth but I would want to try Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans, Cauldron Cakes, Chocoballs, and Honeydukes' various chocolates.


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Property Type: Condominium
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Tenure: Freehold
Expected Completion: 2015
# of Units: 74
Suites @ Bukit Timah is a Freehold condominium located at 70 Jalan Jurong Kechil, Singapore 598587 in District 21. It comprises of 74 units. Suites @ Bukit Timah is close to Bukit Batok MRT Station. It is due to be completed in 2015. Schools close to Suites @ Bukit Timah include, Canadian International School-Elementary and Pei Hwa Presbyterian Primary School.
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Luckily the boyfriend had a two-week business trip to Kuala Lumpur, so I had the perfect excuse to visit. However, I had to be home for a very unfortunate family emergency, so I ended up staying for less than a day. I was also in no state for sightseeing; I was tired, frazzled, and I've been traveling for what seemed like years - after the four hour plane ride I hopped onto a bus which, though comfy, took a solid five hours.
Thankfully the boyfriend knew exactly how to cheer me up. I'm not at all difficult to please, but there are a few things that are guaranteed to make me smile. One of them is aquariums.
Aquaria is located in the basement of the Kuala Lumpur Convention Center (KLCC). It's not the biggest aquarium out there (nor the most creatively-named), but it's pretty decent. They had a couple of sharks and really huge groupers (nothing unique, but wonderful to look at), and they had a tank with fish from the Amazon, which is always a favorite.
|I really want a pet arapaima
|The weirdly adorable tiny turtle (look closely to see how small it is compared to my phone)
After that I was ready to call it a day. I did pay a courtesy call to the Petronas Towers, but to be honest I enjoyed watching the Megastructures episode more than seeing the actual building. Besides, why waste time taking pictures of something so heavily photographed by everyone else when you can go shopping instead? Which incidentally, is another thing that is guaranteed to cheer me up.
Malaysian shoe brand Vincci (aka VNC in Manila) was having a sale and I managed to snag a pair of beribboned flats for less than 40MYR.
I really wanted to buy two or three more pairs, because they were quite cheap, but I didn't find anything else I liked. It's a shame because a few years back this brand kept churning out tons of lust-worthy shoes. Anyway, I don't really mind because lookie what I found in Zara!
They're not exactly cheap, but how often do you come across really comfy five-inch platforms? I actually rushed to the store in the middle of dinner just so I could purchase them before I go back to SG (the price made me hesitate a bit).
It's not the most action-packed day, but considering the turn of events right before this trip, it was exactly what I needed. :)


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Elvis Costello Review - Boston FleetBoston Pavilion 6/14/2003
Ok, so it was raining and we had planned to go to the Fleet Boston Pavilion to enjoy a nice summer's eve in an open concert venue with Boston Harbor just nearby. The rain dampened my spirits.
While in the line for beer and wine, my wife grabbed an empty beer cup to pour her wine into. The wine glass, read plastic cup, is a joke.
The 'Beer guy' got mad because they count cups to make sure he isn't giving away the store. He gave her a coffee cup for her wine.
After finding our seats, way in the back, Elvis Costello came out and everyone stood up. OK, I can understand. But then the second song started and everyone in front of me kept standing. Other people were seated. Why do I have to sit behind the standers?
They sat down after a while.
Next a little 10 year old girl sitting behind us was trying to scream her appreciation all the way to the front so Elvis could hear her. Well, let me tell you, he didn't, but I did. Thank god she fell asleep after the first half hour.
Does Elvis Costello know how funny it is for him to be singing I Don't Want To Go To Chelsea? with Chelsea, Mass just around the corner?
He played some great tunes off his first album including RADIO, RADIO.
Other highlights for me were, Oliver's Army, Less Than Zero and What's So Funny About Peace, Love, and Understanding.
The coolest thing that happened was when my wife asked me what the keyboard player, Steve Nieve, was doing. It seemed that he was making sounds without touching hte keyboard. He was just waving his hands around in a strange way and sounds we being made.
He was playing a Theramin!


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Sunscreen's a bleach for aquatic life
Plopping down on the beach slathered from head to toe with sunscreen may help with the carcinoma, but the inevitable cooling dip in the ocean won't be good for the coral.
The creams that sunbathers use to ward off cancer-causing ultraviolet rays cause bleaching in coral reefs and seem to accumulate in fish and other aquatic life, according to recent studies.
The discovery creates a catch-22 for pale-skinned, sun-worshiping environmentalists who love to snorkel. But it is a particular problem for the environment because sunscreen is used almost everywhere on Earth, and it invariably ends up in the water.
"Almost 80 percent of our water in the U.S. shows trace amounts of chemicals from personal care products, which could be sunscreens, lotions, colognes or medications," said Sejal Choksi, the program director for Baykeeper, an environmental watchdog group.
Sun care products, including lotions and lip balms, bring in an estimated $1 billion a year in the United States alone, and a lot of it is used in tropical vacation spots. As much as 6,000 tons of sunscreen ends up in the coral reefs where people swim and snorkel every year, according to estimates by environmental groups and the World Trade Organization.
A recent study authorized by the European Commission found that the chemical compounds that filter ultraviolet radiation in cream-based sunscreens caused bleaching in coral reefs.
The study, published in the U.S. journal Environmental Health Perspectives, showed that even small amounts of the chemicals made the algae on coral susceptible to viral infection. The killing, or bleaching, of the algae - which have a symbiotic relationship with the coral - is a death knell for the whole structure.
"Once the coral bleaches, it can't really survive," said Christian Daughton, chief of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's environmental chemistry branch at the National Exposure Research Laboratory in Las Vegas.
Some 60 percent of the world's reef systems are now being threatened by a combination of global warming, industrial pollution and excess UV radiation, which is why the sunscreen threat is being taken seriously by scientists.
"As with anything that happens in the environment, there is a confluence that joins together in weakening an ecosystem. It's rarely just one thing," Daughton said. "Sunscreen agents are one class of many different chemicals that aquatic life are exposed to."
But coral isn't the only area of concern. A team of Swiss agriculture department chemists recently discovered traces of commonly used ultraviolet filters found in sunscreens in the fish in mountain lakes and rivers.
All the tissue samples were taken from fish downstream from wastewater treatment plants, indicating that the chemicals may have been washed off in bathtubs and sinks and discharged from the treatment plants into the rivers.
Choksi said the same problem exists in San Francisco Bay, where numerous chemicals, including certain ingredients found in sunscreen, have been detected.
"Anything on your body that can be washed off and go down the drain can end up in the water," Choksi said. "The wastewater treatment plants, the places that we think are cleaning our water, aren't taking personal care products out of the water."
It is not yet known what effect the compounds in sunscreen have on fish or the food chain, but Daughton said they do bio-accumulate, meaning the chemicals are absorbed into the tissue of fish and accumulate over time.
Humans also absorb some of the chemicals, which Daughton said exist in high concentrations in the various sunscreen products available in stores, but no health effects have yet been proved.
Does this mean we should stop spreading lotion and just stay out of the sun, as many dermatologists now recommend?
A disintegrating ozone layer means skin cancer can occur even when a sunbather wears sunscreen. Then again, said Daughton, the human body needs some sun for the vitamin D it provides.
"It's a tough one with any personal care product because it's hard to tell someone that the life-saving drug they are taking is harmful to fish," Choksi said.
Instead of avoiding the excellent rays and gnarly surf, she said, people should demand to know more about the chemicals in sunscreen and other products so they can make informed decisions.
"The more we know about these chemicals, the more consumers can ask for less harmful products," Choksi said. "We can have wastewater treatments plants that are more advanced and take out these products if we decide that's what we want."