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WASHINGTON D.C. Feb. 19, 2014 -- Life can be messy at all scales, requiring different organizational strategies -- from cleaning the house, to removing damaged or expired cells from the body to avoid cancer progression.
In a messy house, people use computers to manage paper and photo clutter; companies use computer systems to track their inventory. Now a team of researchers at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., is taking a similar approach to cell-molecular inventory control for cancer. They have created computer models, using their programming framework (PySB), which enable them to explore the complex biochemical processes that drive cancer growth.
"Our hypothesis is that understanding how the cell uses their protein inventory will lead to understanding why cells dysregulate and become carcinogenic. We expect model outputs will lead to novel, targeted cancer therapies -- possibly by 2019," explained researcher Carlos F. Lopez, who will present the work at the 58th annual Biophysical Society Meeting in San Francisco, Feb.15-19.
Lopez is interested in understanding how cells in multicellular organisms engage programmed cell death -- so-called "cell suicide" -- for cellular removal. It is a natural part of many cells' life cycle.
When cancer cells avoid programmed cell death, uncontrolled growth fuels tumor progression. The Vanderbilt team expects their computer models to identify what goes wrong in these cases, at a speed and scale never before possible. Lopez noted: "We are bridging the nanoscale molecular-level biochemical interactions with the macroscale cancer tumor outcomes, which is a huge range in scales. Most people don't realize this, but molecular chemical reactions at the nanometer and nanosecond level affect things that happen at the timescale level of years -- nine orders of magnitude in space and time! For comparison, a nanosecond is to a second like a second is to one century."
Rather than listing the cellular biochemical reactions by hand, PySB enables the researchers to "write" the biochemical cellular processes as computer programs. "With this approach we can create, simulate, and explore multiple complex mathematical systems that represent biology with ease," Dr. Lopez said.
The models aim to understand how healthy cells normally self-destruct when removal is needed, and why cancer cells avoid the removal signals. If the approach is validated over the next few years, it could lead to the use of predictive mathematical models, representing biochemical signaling processes, to forecast how a cell, group of cells, or a tumor, would respond to single or multiple drug combinations. Targeted, individualized and optimized cancer treatments could then be tailored to each patient.
The presentation "PySB: A Modeling Framework to Explore Biochemical Signaling Processes and Cell-decisions" by Carlos F. Lopez and Shawn P. Garbett will be at 1:15 p.m. on Wednesday, February 19, 2014 in Room 304 in San Francisco's Moscone Convention Center.
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The Musselman Triathlon found success in its transition to new owners Score This!!! in 2015. Little changed during the handoff, but we expressed an openness to experimenting with new ideas, and suggestions poured in.
Together with the event's organizing committee we'll introduce a relay option for 2016: triathletes will have the option of participating in the swim, bike, OR run, as part of a team. An AquaBike option has been added to the mini-Mussel sprint distance race, as well. Our hope is to open the event to more people at a local level, including area swimmers, cyclists, and runners who have expressed an interest in taking part in the Musselman without necessarily having to pick up a different sport.
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Los Angeles/2013 Meetings
**December 18, 2013, Holiday Networking Party at Daily Grill - Downtown LA
Network with your OWASP peers as we celebrate the holidays and the end of a great year for our Los Angeles Chapter. **Free food and drinks.
**November 6, 2013, Symantec Offices, Culver City
Whiz, Bang, ZAP! An introduction to OWASP's Zed Attack Proxy
The OWASP Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) is "an easy to use integrated penetration testing tool for finding vulnerabilities in web applications." The technology is comparable to IBM AppScan and HP WebInspect - but free, open source and maintained by OWASP volunteers. The project has seen a tremendous amount of development lately. Learn about the tool, what it can do for you, and optionally bring your laptop to follow along as we use it to test some (purposefully insecure) web applications.
Speaker: Ben Walther
Ben Walther is a security engineer, with a background consulting and teaching for Symantec, Cigital, and within higher education. He is the co-author of the Web Security Testing Cookbook and an active contributor to OWASP projects.
**October 2013 OWASP Monthly Meeting - re-scheduled to November meeting.
September 18, 2013, OWASP-ISSA Joint Meeting, The Olympic Collection Banquet & Conference Center, West Los Angeles, CA
Demonstration of Common Web Vulnerabilities using WebGoat.NET
Developers cannot defend against unknown threats. Understanding vulnerabilities and security controls is an absolute necessity – not only for developers, but for Architects, QA and anyone else involved in the creation of software. This talk starts by making a strong argument for developer education, and how it fits into any organization's SDLC. From there, we discuss other OWASP resources and projects dedicated to developer education, and an in-depth discussion of OWASP WebGoat.NET – an ASP.NET specific re-design of OWASP which meets the needs and addresses the challenges of modern application security training programs.
Speaker: Jerry Hoff, Whitehat Security, VP, Static Code Analysis Division; Managing Partner / Co-Founder
Jerry Hoff is Whitehat Security, VP, Static Code Analysis Division; Managing Partner / Co-Founder, INFRARED SECURITY; Former Developer Security Consulting & FTE Across The Board; Over 10,000 Hours Delivering Technical Training; MS In Computer Science, Washington University
August 28, 2013, Symantec Offices, Culver City
Layer 7 DDos Attacks
In this talk we will examine different DoS attack techniques used against cloud services. Many attacks discussed in the presentation target the application layer of the service, are highly efficient and asymmetric. In some cases, a single HTTP request of less than 50 bytes is sufficient to knock out a server until reboot. In addition to describing the attacks, we will also investigate the application design issues that lead to vulnerability, and demonstrate coding fixes as well as cloud based defenses that can be used to mitigate the problem.
Speaker: Cassio Goldschmidt is a former president of the OWASP Los Angeles Chapter
July 24 2013, Symantec Offices, Culver City
Security of Mobile Ad Hoc and Wireless Sensor Networks
Speaker: Edward Bonver
Edward Bonver, CISSP, CSSLP Senior Principal Software Engineer Product Security Team, Office of the CTO Symantec Corporation
June 26 2013, Symantec Offices, Culver City
I know where you live, I know what you like, I know your email password, and I know your MEID. Why? Because you told me, and you will tell me again in 5 minutes. You are the loudest guy in the room, and your mobile in your pocket is betraying you. I will be talking about the inherit vulnerabilities in mobile devices and how an attacker can exploit them easily. I will show you live demos of exploits and show you how to protect yourself.... if you can.
Speaker: Nicholas Lennox
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May 29 2013, Symantec Offices, Culver City
Cloud Computing – Security and Interoperability Perspectives
Many organizations are evaluating and migrating toward cloud computing solutions. In 2013, some the key challenges pertain to security and interoperability. Open cloud standards can help manage risks, while fostering efficient solution delivery.
Steven Woodward shares updates from numerous international cloud standards related organizations. In Canada, he leads several of the cloud computing initiatives in both the private and public sectors. This includes being one of the founding board members of the Cloud Security Alliance Canadian Chapter.
Steven describes key cloud ecosystems models; highlighting where security considerations fit, along with different perspectives on interoperability. Several real-life scenarios will be used, highlighting cloud concepts, security, interoperability and the impacts these can have on commitments (functionality, costs, time-to-value and quality). Service Agreements and Service Level Agreements will also be addressed to identify where you may find security and interoperability considerations specified in the contracts.
The presentation is designed to be interactive and will include some group activities to generate discussions and identify practical solutions.
Attendees of the presentation will leave with a better understanding of cloud security and interoperability considerations, plus be aware of reference material and models that help address those challenges.
Speaker: Steven Woodward
Steven Woodward is CEO and founder of Cloud Perspectives and is the Canadian Cloud Council Director of Cloud Governance. He was recently announced as the Chief Cloud Officer for "the Politburo", a new innovative cloud provider based in Canada. He is a leading contributor to the National Institute of Standards for Technology (NIST), TM Forum, Object Management Group Cloud Standards Customer Council and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Joint Collaboration Activity cloud computing working groups.
Steven represents the Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance at the Shared Services Canada Architecture Advisory Committee and is helping define the Canadian Federal Government Cloud Computing Strategy. In addition to cloud standards and best practices guides, he authored the "Cloud Measurement" chapter in the 2012 CRC Press published book, "The IFPUG Guide to IT and Software Measurement." In 2010 he was elected to the International Function Point Users Group (IFPUG) board of directors, where he is responsible for conferences and formed a, IFPUG metrics cloud computing community.
A frequent international instructor, presenter and leader, he continues fostering cloud collaboration in the industry and academia. From Los Angeles, he is travelling to Maui as keynote at the IEEE System of Systems Engineering conference.
April 24 2013, Symantec Offices, Culver City
Tales from the Crypt(o): Lessons About Secrecy from Julius Caesar to Moxie Merlinspike
Speaker#1: Tin Zaw
Tin Zaw is the former president of OWASP Los Angeles Chapter.
Speaker#2: Albert Tu
Honeypots along side IT security operations
Honeypots commonly take a strategic backseat to IT security operations. This has not stopped community based security professionals and enthusiasts to harness the advantages of the honeypot to form world wide networks capturing and sourcing malicious behavior. Communities that have become vendors found opportunity in higher quality IP lists as well providing deep expertise to provide solutions to anti-fraud behavior. The combination is always worth consideration if you are a customer.
Speaker#2: Albert Tu
Albert Tu is an information security professional at Farmers Insurance Exchange. His background is in vulnerability and risk management with a good amount of programming. He has a passion for solving problems of all sorts.
March 20 2013, Joint meeting with ISSA, Monterey Park
Securing Mobile Apps for the Enterprise
Securing Mobile Apps – that's the big discussion today. The last couple of years enterprises have been attempting to meet this requirement by deploying client-intensive MDMs (Mobile Device Managers). This has left the apps being utilized by partners, suppliers and customers – completely unprotected. How do we meet the challenge of applying security authentication standards to these un-managed devices. This is what will be discussed/demo'd.
Speaker: Garret Grajek
Garret Grajek is a CISSP-certified security engineer with more than 20 years of experience in the information security and authentication space. As Chief Technical Officer and Chief Operating Officer for SecureAuth Corporation, Garret is responsible for the strategic direction of the company's Identity Enforcement product offerings.
February 20 2013, Symantec Offices, Culver City
Secure Password Storage Practices
(or Why "Hashing + Salting != Secure Passwords")
Many web applications require passwords that are hard for users to remember, cumbersome to type, yet easy for hackers to crack. With affordable, lightning-fast hardware aiding hackers, we have recently seen a number of large organizations in the news for user-password security failures. Join us as we discuss common attacks on password lists/tables as well as some password storage practices that can make any cracking attempts not worth the attackers' time.
Speaker: iMan Louis
iMan is a Senior Consultant with Cigital Inc., where he conducts security code reviews, ethical hacking, and web application security assessments for some of the largest global corporations. He has also developed courseware for Cigital's Defensive Programming course series and delivered instructor-led training for many years. He brings 12 years of experience in software development and application security. iMan has recently moved from San Francisco to the Greater L.A. area and is looking forward to being an active member of our L.A. OWASP chapter.
January 23 2013, Symantec Offices, Culver City
Top Ten Web Defenses
We cannot "firewall" or "patch" our way to secure websites. In the past, security professionals thought firewalls, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), patching, and privacy policies were enough. Today, however, these methods are outdated and ineffective, as attacks on prominent, well-protected websites are occurring every day. Website developers must learn to code in a secure fashion to have any chance of providing organizations with proper defenses in the current threat-scape. The session will provide specific tips and guidelines to make website code both low risk and less vulnerable.
Speaker: Jim Manico
Jim is the VP of Security Architecture for WhiteHat Security. Jim is also the host of the OWASP Podcast Series, is the committee chair of the OWASP Connections Committee, is the project manager of the OWASP Cheatsheet series, and is a significant contributor to several additional OWASP projects. Jim provides secure coding and developer awareness training for WhiteHat Security using his 8+ years of experience delivering developer-training courses for SANS, Aspect Security and others. He brings 16 years of database-driven Web software development and analysis experience to WhiteHat and OWASP as well. Jim works on the beautiful island of Kauai, Hawaii where he lives with his wife Tracey.


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Thursday, October 18, 2012
What do composer anniversaries achieve?
It is very difficult to find any facts on what composer anniversaries actually achieve, which is very convenient for those in the commercial-intermediary complex who are jumping on the anniversary bandwagon in increasing numbers. But there is one independent empirical measure of 'profile raising' and 'awareness increasing' that has been puzzlingly overlooked - or perhaps not so puzzlingly in view of what it tells us. Google Trends measures 'interest over time' by tracking Google search terms, and maps trends rather than absolute numbers. It is a fallible measure, but is still a lot less fallible than the opinions of self-interested music industry 'experts'. Below are the Google Trends for three recent anniversary composers, Gustav Mahler and Franz Liszt in 2011 and John Cage in 2012 to date. All show large short term spikes corresponding to the actual anniversary date; but none show any significant longer term upward trend. In fact Mahler, who in 2011 had the benefit of a second year of massive anniversary exposure (over-exposure?), shows a downward trend in 'interest over time', while all three composers approach the year end with interest in them diminishing. Which rather confirms the comment on Facebook by an Australian reader that "My reaction, at the end of the [anniversary] year, is to decide I don't want to hear his/ her work again for quite a while".
A similar trend is also evident for lesser known composers, who it would be thought would be more responsive to increased exposure. Below is the graph for interest in Percy Grainger in 2011 - the fiftieth anniversary of his death when his music was featured at the BBC Proms and elsewhere.
In a 2010 post which explored Google Trends I asked "Could it be that classical music does not respond to mass marketing techniques?" Well, the graphs above suggest that classical music does not respond to the composer anniversary farrago. But there is evidence that classical music does respond to other pressures. Below is the much more positive interest trend for an established composer who did not have an anniversary in 2012. There are lessons that can be learnt from what triggered this self-evident tipping-point, but they will have to wait for another post. Meanwhile would any reader like to make an informed guess via the comments who the trending composer is?
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- Dave MacD said...
Great post. I am getting a little weary of all these anniversaries. To me, it just seems like a lazy way to brand a festival or subscription series or whatnot. Wouldn't it be better to make more thoughtful connections about what the music actually sounds like?!
Additionally, I would like to guess your mystery composer graph. I think it's Thomas Tallis, who is surging in search results thanks to E.L. James for mentioning his work in her smutty romance novel (the one about a certain number of hues) and subsequently including him in the novel-branded album.
- 1:56 pm
- Pliable said...
I did like the retweet of this post by SoundNotion which was headed Hooray for numbers that end in zero! - http://twitter.com/SoundNotion/status/258912462777229312
And thanks for the informed guess Dave McD. There will be no further comment from me as to who the composer is, or isn't, until the fat lady sings in another post.
- 2:02 pm
- Unknown said...
Conlon Nancarrow?
- 4:33 pm
- mahlerman said...
Well, Percy had a very disappointing Christmas, the very time when you might expect interest to hold-up. Dave McD may be on the right track, as interest starts to increase at around the time the book rolled off the presses. I would go for Martinu or Nielsen, but you use the word 'established' - I'm not sure they are.
I'll go with Sibelius - great music for a damp summer.
- 5:27 pm
- Philip Amos said...
This is one of those questions that makes it hard not to sound like 'Professor' Cyril Joad: "It all depends upon what you mean by...", but I think the continuing climb in October may be key. Paul Mealor was voted into Classic FM's Hall of Fame as the nation's favourite living composer sometime earlier in the year, and was then in September handed the 'Classical Brit Awards' (no wonder I grind my teeth) for Composer of the Year and for Best Single of the Year. When I once saw Billy Joel, Sarah Brightman and Kathleen Jenkins on the list of best-selling 'classical'recordings, it occurred to me that the Big Boys, faced with the results of their incompetence in the field of classical recording, were trying to redefine 'classical' to encompass the middle-brow, the low-brow, and the incompetent. These awards are, of course, both directly and indirectly controlled by them, and very effective means of achieving their ends.
- 11:49 am
- rchrd said...
1912 was quite an interesting year: John Cage, Conlon Nancarrow, Alan Turing, Peggy Glanville Hicks. The list goes on.
By the way, speaking about 100th anniversaries:
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West Africans get creative with Ebola awareness
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) -- A young man on camera names the person who's challenged him to dump the contents of a bucket over his head. But in a twist on the ice bucket challenge, this man is soon drenched in frothy, soapy water -- part of a campaign to raise awareness about Ebola prevention in West Africa.
Ivory Coast's "Lather Against Ebola" campaign, catchy songs and comedy are being used by West Africans to educate people on how to avoid getting the deadly disease, which has infected more than 2,600 people and killed more than 1,400 in four countries across the region, according to the World Health Organization.
From Nigeria to Sierra Leone, songs and sketches have supplemented traditional media and government campaigns to educate the public about Ebola, which is spread through contact with the bodily fluids of infected people and can be partly contained by simple measures like regular hand-washing.
The "Lather Against Ebola" campaign was inspired by the ice bucket challenge that has generated tens of millions of dollars for the ALS Association, which raises money for Lou Gehrig's disease research.
Ivorian blogger Edith Brou knew the ice bucket campaign was getting lots of attention and wanted to make it more relevant in her home country. Despite bordering Guinea and Liberia, two countries that have been hit hard by the Ebola outbreak, Ivory Coast has yet to record a single case, and Brou wants to keep it that way.
"Our greatest threat right now is Ebola," she said.
Those who accept the "Lather Against Ebola" challenge -- searchable on Twitter using its French name, #MousserContreEbola -- are expected douse themselves with soapy water and hand out three bottles of hand sanitizer. Those who reject the soaking are expected to distribute nine. Since it launched on Aug. 18, dozens of participants have posted soap-soaking clips to social media.
"Ivorians take the drama out of everything through humor," said Brou. "But in spite of the funny aspect of it, the message is forwarded on and listened to."
Liberian rappers Shadow and D-12 recorded several Ebola-related tunes. Their hit song, "Ebola in Town," was intended to counter early skepticism of the threat posed by the disease, which has infected more than 1,000 people in Liberia and killed at least 624. The disease has also his Guinea, Sierra Leone and Nigeria.
"No touching! No eating something!" the rappers warn listeners, playing up the disease's dangers. What the song lacks in specificity it more than makes up in catchiness.
Earlier this month, Liberian soccer star and former presidential candidate George Weah added his own song, "Ebola is Real," to the line-up. In Sierra Leone, rapper Special C's song "Ebola Does Not Discriminate" and music video portray the dangers of hiding sick patients, a practice Sierra Leone's parliament outlawed last week because of its potential to spread the disease.
And in Ivory Coast, the video for Israel Yoroba's new reggae-inspired song "Stop Ebola" enlists children, market women and a coconut seller to get out the simple message, while the singer dances in the streets of downtown Abidjan.
In Guinea, the government recently decided to back a group of comedians and artists to stage traveling shows.
Local filmmaker Aziz Balde said this is the best way to educate ordinary Guineans: "In a country where two-thirds of the population is illiterate, we the artists are the mouths of the people."
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Simon Cowell as a Guest Judge on MY DWTS?? New Interview with New EP Rob Wade
Not on my DWTS, please. He's one of those guys who thinks he knows everything about everything but really doesn't know all that much about anything. But hey, if you're hot, you'll be a hit whether you can sing…I mean dance, or not. But really – how funny would it be if Simon got to be Guest judge and Maks didn't? From The TV Page:
Usually when they bring a new boss into a show it is so they can shake it up…
Yeah, but this time it is not. The show did really great last season. Quite early on in the season, Conrad who was the EP decided to leave. He had done 18 seasons. He decided he wanted a new challenge. So in this case the show is doing great and we have to be really respectful of the format.
So how are you going to put your stamp on the show?
Look, viewers love the show. I would be a fool to go in there and say, "I want to put my stamp on this. I am going to go in there and shake things up." But there are a couple of significant changes that I am in the process of making that I think people will notice.
How many judges do you think will be on the panel?
For the moment, we are looking at three. There is a possibility for a fourth. We are talking about that possibility. But we have to see. I think you have just got to get the right mix of people. I think Bruno (Tonioli) , Len (Goodman) and Carrie Ann (Inaba) are brilliant. Certainly wouldn't lose any of them…


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I am facing this error while building an EXE in Visual Studio 2015 (VS2015) IDE by including the DLL ("MyDLL.DLL") reference. Both DLL creation and EXE building are done in VS2015 IDE using our FTN95 plugins. The EXE file ("SaiDllMain.EXE") is generated successfully but it shows the following error:
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On the other hand, if I build the EXE file, using normal command line options (compiler+linker) commands. The following linker command is used.
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If you have created a "solution" with two projects, one for the executable and one for the DLL, then I am not sure that you need a separate reference to the DLLs. You can make the executable dependent on the DLL and Visual Studio should sort out the reference.
Otherwise you may be able to fix the problem by copying the DLL to the output folder for the executable. This could be done as a "post build" action in the project settings.
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Dear Paul
Yes. I have used it in a single solution with two projects. One for DLL and another one for EXE. So, as you said, VS automatically sorted the DLL and compiled. Thank you very much for your suggestions.
But I am not able to get what I intended to develop. Please excuse for the detailed illustration of the problem here. I am not sure whether the same subject was discussed in our forum earlier.
What I am trying to build is nothing but the Reusable DLL Libraries with some Values to be supplied to the DLL library function and the results should be stored in the common area, where the Main Program can get it for further use.
Problem - 1:
The Problem here is that I am not able to pass a value through our global MODULE into DLL.
I am showing the DLL code, Main EXE code and the output while running as given below.
To demonstrate I have used the following Codes.
The DLL Library routine code MyDll.f95:
! --------------------------------------------------
! Silverfrost FTN95 for Microsoft Visual Studio
! Free Format FTN95 Source File
! --------------------------------------------------
module xyz
integer :: ii
end module xyz
program calldll
use xyz
integer:: val=1
print*, 'Dll Program calldll Started..'
print*,'common value ii received at calldll=',ii
print*, 'initialise val=',val
print*,'Val assigned in calldll prog.. =',val
call printsub(val)
print*, "control returned back to main"
print*, 'Ending dll program calldll'
end program calldll
subroutine printsub(rval)
use xyz
integer,optional:: rval
print*, 'Gotinside to subroutine'
print*,'Received value =',rval
print*,'module ii =',ii
print*, 'Printing the result=',rval
print*, 'returning back to program calldll'
end subroutine
The Main Executable Program Code SaiMainDll.f95:
module xyz
integer :: ii
end module xyz
program SaiMainDll
use xyz
!!include MyDll
implicit none
!!integer iy
print*, 'This is Main Program...'
print*, 'Calling the Dll subroutine library'
print*, 'Assigning value here in MasterProgram as 12'
print*, 'The idea is ii value will be received in DLL'
call calldll()
!call printsub(ii)
print*, 'Control received back to Main...'
print*, 'Printing at Main'
end program SaiMainDll
While executing the Main EXE file SaiMainDll.exe, following are the output obtained:
This is Main Program...
Calling the Dll subroutine library
Assigning value here in MasterProgram as 12
The idea is ii value will be received in DLL
Dll Program calldll Started..
common value ii received at calldll= 0
initialise val= 1
Val assigned in calldll prog.. = 0
Gotinside to subroutine
Received value = 0
module ii = 0
Printing the result= 0
returning back to program calldll
control returned back to main
Ending dll program calldll
The results are not correct. Ideally the value for ii = 12 should be passed into the DLL (MyDll.f95) calldll() and it will inturn pass into the subroutine printsub(rval) which should display result as 12x5=60.
Where is the problem here? Why I am not able to get the value ii=12 into the MyDll.f95 in DLL library
Problem: 2
My intention of using MODULE in MyDll.f95 is to get the access to the COMMON storage data from the main Program. At the same time, I have to use that MOD file in Module path of SaiMainDll.f95, so that i can pass the value to ii as 12. As per our FTN95 standards, the MODULE should be used at one place. So, If I remove the MODULE definition in SaiMainDll.f95, I get the following Access Violation Error as given below:
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Continuing here, as part of the message was not posted.
This error comes when executing the program.
Error: Access Violation
The instruction at address 0040113d attempted to write to location 00401c10 in file SaiMainDll.f95 at line 20
The line 20 is ii=12.
Why this problem happens here. ?
My idea is to develop reusable libraries in FTN95 as stated above. Is there any simple alternative way of doing this available? Please advise.
Thanks for your time.
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I will aim to take a look at this in a few days time if no one else is able to help you.
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Thank you very much Paul, for the quick reply. I await your suggestions too.
I await response from Forum too
Thanks in advance.
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The EXE and the DLL contain separate copies of the module. Changing the variable in one copy does not affect the variable of the same name in the other copy. To see that this is the case, add the following diagnostic statement to the source codes, build as before and run.
print *,'Location of ii in PROG/DLL ',loc(ii)
You will see that there are two separate instances of the variable II, one in the EXE and the other in the DLL. They have separate addresses.
If you want to implement data sharing, you will need help from the linker to make that happen -- the data segment has to be marked SHAREABLE. Of course, when you use this feature in other than a toy program, you will need to give careful consideration to preserving data integrity and will need to follow proper data sharing and updating protocols.
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Thanks much mecej4.
Ideally, i want to use the single data set which is SHAREABLE here with one Module definition only. but how to do this?. I am not finding any key word "SHAREABLE" in our FTN95 manual. If you illustrate with a small sample code, it will help me to correct my understanding.
will need to follow proper data sharing and updating protocols.
If you elaborate about the updating protocols, it will help.
On the other hand, as I said, my interest is to develop a Reusable DLL libraries, where this data abstraction is enabled. For e.g. the function published out of the DLL, must use the same dataset from its main program, where it is called from. So that data duplication/memory duplication can be avoided, during the processing inside the DLL functions. How this can be done. Do you have any illustrative examples with you?. If not, please explain, where I will try to code.
Thanks in advance,
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There appear to be problems with sharing data with a .dll.
Perhaps you should consider a .lib static library, that is available with 32-bit slink. It does not have all the benefits of using .dll , but does have an easier data sharing capability.
When using 64-bit, you can load all the .obj files using tree names.
This can be achieved by using a (long) list of link commands in a file, then:
slink64 @load_commands.txt
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Thanks John,
I prefer using .DLL rather than lib, while agreeing with you that .lib has certain limitations in data sharing. .DLL reference libs give a lot of comfort of accessing the published methods out of the DLL, as when you type a dot, then all the published functions will be listed out in IDE, and very easy for using and coding as well.
I agree with you the compilation steps using slink64. But I believe, the 64-bit also, same data sharing issues still exist in .DLL using our MODULE options. Is there any way out to solve this issue.
As mecej4 pointed out, the variable ii takes two different address in Main and as well in DLL code and the Main is not able to pass on the value to DLL routine. Somewhat this data should be made SHAREABLE. Thats where it lies. Any thoughts and ideas?
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In the next release of SLINK64 you will have the option to create static libraries.
FTN95 does not have the ability to mark data as "external". Also the linkers SLINK and SLINK64 can be used to link subprograms and not (to my knowledge) data. In other words, there is no direct way to share data.
Normally data is passed via subprogram arguments. If there is a large amount of data then it could be packed into an array so that only the base address needs to be passed.
Otherwise you could use an ALLOCATE statement with the parameter SHARENAME=. This is currently available for x86 and is now in the process of being ported to x64.
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Thank you,
I have received 3 alternatives from you, John and mecej4. Many thanks to all of you.
They are:
1. Use static libraries .lib
2. Pass address of the data from LOC intrinsic function and use it at the target receiving function at DLL.
3. Make data shareable using ALLOCATE with SHARENAME=..
This also reveals that we have more to go in x64. Advance thanks to the improvements on its way.
Let me try these existing options.
Thanking you once again.
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PLAYBOY: Before you made Rush you had no interest in racing, did you?
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PLAYBOY: Yet cars are the soul of the film.
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Arlington County, Va., wants more female firefighters. The fire department there has even set up a camp to inspire potential recruits. Donning helmets and matching camp shirts, teenage girls line up to watch a demonstration: A model room with furniture is ablaze.
Camper Tara Crosey says she came to camp in part because she "wanted to show that girls are as strong as boys and girls can do what boys can do."
The glass ceiling in this department was broken by Judy Brewer in 1974, when she became the nation's first female career firefighter. She paved the way, but the road to a career as a firefighter is still obscured for many women.
That's what Arlington County firefighter Clare Burley is hoping to change with this camp, which started last year. She and her colleagues wanted to give girls an introduction to this potential career path.
"Little boys always hear about it — they get little fire trucks as toys — and girls never really get that kind of introduction," she tells Rachel Martin, host of Weekend Edition Sunday. "So we wanted to get them thinking about it, come play with us, you know, see what we do, see how many female firefighters are here."
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When Judy Brewer decided to become a firefighter in the '70s, there weren't other women to look to. But she was helping her then-husband study for his fire science degree, and one particular federal report pushed her toward the job. (Warning: Images in the publication may be disturbing for some viewers.)
"I had read a publication called America Burning, and was really struck by the pictures of the absence of children, say, in a crib," she tells Weekend Edition. "They would also have pictures of children that were hiding in a closet or under a bed or next to a bureau because they didn't know what to do and they couldn't get out."
So she thought, "I'd really like to be able to do something to at least save somebody."
Support for Brewer's decision came from her family, particularly her four sisters. But not everyone was in favor of the career move.
"When I applied at my local fire station to volunteer in Fairfax County, I was told essentially to go back to my kitchen, it was no place for a woman," she says.
Fellow churchgoers asked how she could "lower" herself to do that kind of job. Brewer's fellow firefighters weren't accepting, either.
"When I first was hired, people were worried about different things," she says. "The one that they used as a reason was that they were afraid that I would compromise them in a fire by not being able to help them if they got into trouble."
She had no doubts about her own abilities, though, and just maintained her physical shape — and stood her ground — until they decided to let it go. Brewer says it took nearly two years for her to feel accepted as part of the team.
Over the years, Brewer did save "many, many, many people." But, she says, "The ones that stick with me are the ones that I couldn't save."
There weren't always support services for firefighters, and some incidents affected her more than she realized at the time. Ultimately, however, she says she had to put the losses behind her.
"And you just keep saying, OK, I'm doing a lot of good. And you just keep moving forward," she says.
Brewer served the Arlington County Fire Department from 1974 to 1999. When she retired, she was the first female battalion chief in the country.
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Fast-forward to the current team of Arlington County firefighters, and you'll find not one but 22 women. That's out of more than 300 firefighters.
Firefighter Burley says that's pretty good, compared to the rest of the country. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that in 2012, women made up 3.4 percent of the nation's firefighters.
"But it's still a pretty small proportion. And it seems like the newest recruit classes are actually getting fewer women, not more," she says. "So we feel like we need to do something more, get out in the community, and talk to girls a little bit more about choosing the fire service as a career."
Firefighting has long been dominated by men. Just ask Judy Brewer.
JUDY BREWER: When I applied at my local fire station to volunteer in Fairfax County, I was told essentially to go back to my kitchen; it was no place for a woman.
MARTIN: Judy Brewer didn't set out to break any glass ceilings. She just wanted to be a firefighter - and she made that happen in 1974. She joined the Arlington County Fire Department in Virginia and became the first female career firefighter in the country. We'll hear more from her later, but first we're going to take you to an unusual summer camp and a small part of Judy Brewer's legacy.
MARTIN: This past weekend, a group of teenage girls gathered at the Fire Academy in Arlington, where Judy Brewer's picture hangs on the wall. It's Arlington County's first all-girls firefighting camp, and one of close to a dozen such camps like this for girls around the country. Sheryl Yamanaka is one of the camp mentors here. The girls ask her what it's like being a woman in this job and actually fighting fires.
UNIDENTIFIED GIRL #1: Was it scary going into your first fire?
SHERYL YAMANAKA: Honestly, it's more of an adrenaline rush, so.
MARTIN: Nine girls attended the fire camp this summer. They range from age 13 to 18. We caught up with a few of them during a lunch break. Why did you want to come to this camp?
TARA CROSEY: Well, basically, my mom found out from the radio. She told me about it and I thought it was really cool, 'cause it's like kind of firemen and police kind of work together. So, I like the detective stuff like that. And I just wanted to show, like, that girls are, like, as strong as boys and girls can do what boys can do.
SHANNON KELLY: I actually wanted to be an EMT. So, I thought maybe if I start somewhere this is where I would start.
KAYLA ERLICH: I liked, some guys got calls when we were at the fire station to, like, they had to go on call and we got to watch them leave and get ready and everything. So, it was really cool.
MARTIN: That was Tara Crosey, Shannon Kelly, and Kayla Erlich. This kind of camp didn't exist for the women who work as firefighters today. Claire Burley has been with the Arlington County Fire Department for six years and she helped organize this camp. She says it's usually little boys who say they want to grow up to be firefighters.
CLAIRE BURLEY: They get little fire trucks as toys and girls never really get that kind of introduction. So, we wanted to get them thinking about it. Come play with us, you know, see what we do, see how many female firefighters are here and just kind of get an introduction to the fire service as a whole, maybe they'll start thinking about it as a career choice 'cause we need more women.
MARTIN: How many women are in the Arlington Fire Department right now?
BURLEY: We have 22 right now, out of over 300. So, it's not a bad proportion - nationally, we're a little ahead of most fire departments but it's still pretty small proportion. And it seems like newest recruit classes are actually getting fewer women, not more. So, the trend is coming away, so we feel like we need to do something more - get out in the community, talk to girls a little more about choosing the fire service as a career.
MARTIN: So, what's the curriculum? Do they learn anything technical?
BURLEY: They are going to learn a bit of everything. So, we're basically going to put them through typical days in the life of firefighter.
MARTIN: That means exercising, cooking their own meals, a little history lesson on fire fighting and then the big event: watching a real fire - seeing how it grows and changes and learning the best ways to put it out.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #1: (unintelligible).
MARTIN: Later that day, as promised, the campers watched as the firefighters set a small wooden structure ablaze out behind the academy.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #2: Air is going in. The flames are being sucked in. On the top half you see you see (unintelligible) it out.
MARTIN: One by one, the girls each picked up the huge fire hose and learned what it felt like to try to control the massive flow of water. It's 50 pounds of pressure, so one of the firemen stands behind to steady them.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #3: So, just open up, crank it open a little bit. All right, now open it up all the way. There you go.
MARTIN: Normally, these hoses pump out at almost three times that force.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #3: Do you feel that pressure going back and forth on there?
UNIDENTIFIED GIRL #2: Yeah.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #3: My job is to keep you from having to feel all that pressure so you can actually move that nozzle around and aim it where you want to. If we didn't do that, then you'd have to do all that yourself.
MARTIN: Firefighting is intense, physical work. The girls at fire camp spend time carrying hoses, doing pushups and pull-ups and dragging 160-pound dummies around. It's part of the job that Judy Brewer remembers vividly. Brewer served with the Arlington County Fire Department from 1974 until 1999. When she retired, she was the first woman battalion chief in the country. Brewer said it was actually her husband who inspired to pursue firefighting.
BREWER: I had been helping my husband at the time prepare for his fire science degree. And I had read a publication called "America Burning" and was really struck by the pictures of the absence of children, say, in a crib. You would have a white spot where a baby had been removed after it had died from smoke inhalation. They would also have pictures of children that were hiding in a closet or under a bed or next to a bureau, because they didn't know what to do when they couldn't get out. And I just thought, boy, I'd really like to be able to do something to at least save somebody.
MARTIN: I wonder how your female friends responded to your career choice.
BREWER: Well, my friends were my sisters. I come from five girls and two boys in my family. So, they were extremely proud and, you know, they were my cheering section. I was organist at a church there in the Mount Vernon area. And a lot of the people from the church said how can you lower yourself to do this kind of a job? So, there were mixed feelings from people. My parents were proud of me and there were a lot of people that knew me that were very supportive.
MARTIN: Did you fellow firefighters question your presence on their team, or were they accepting?
BREWER: No, they were not accepting. When I first was hired, people were worried about different things. The one that they used the most as a reason was that they were afraid that I would compromise them in a fire by not being able to help them if they got into trouble.
MARTIN: And how did you prove them wrong?
BREWER: I continued to maintain physical shape and just figured that they would have to wait and see. I didn't have any concerns about me not being able to rescue somebody. So, my attitude was just keep plugging at it until people see that you can do the job.
MARTIN: How long did that take before you felt that you were part of the team?
BREWER: It took nearly two years...
MARTIN: Wow.
BREWER: ...and then a cloud just lifted off my head.
MARTIN: You had a long career. I imagine you have a lot of stories. I wonder if there is a particular event that stands out to you.
BREWER: I think that the worst call that I ever had was the first major fire that I had as a battalion chief. And when I got on the scene of a house that was in full bloom - as we say - fire out of every window, a ladder had been burned in half that was put up to one of the windows. There was an 11- or 12-year-old boy who was trapped in that house. And the parents had come up to me and were pulling on my running coat to save this boy. And we had to get a water supply going and had to figure out how it was going to be safest for the firefighters to get in there. We moved as quickly as we could but we lost that boy, and that was the most significant call of my career.
MARTIN: It affected her and she had a hard time getting that particular fire out of her head. This was before fire departments started giving firefighters counseling about how to deal with the emotional stress of their job. That happened in the wake of a fatal airplane crash in 1982. Air Florida flight 90 crashed into a bridge in Washington, D.C. Judy Brewer's unit arrived on the scene.
BREWER: There were only, I think, five people who survived that, and I was the first on the scene on an ambulance. And it was dead silent, snow all over the place, and it was just very eerie. It had an impact on me that I didn't realize. And I broke down during an EMS meeting thinking about all the people that we could not save that were in the river.
MARTIN: Do you have a story of saving someone?
BREWER: I saved many, many, many people, especially as a paramedic. But the ones that stick with me are the ones that I couldn't save.
MARTIN: Even so, you have to hold onto something because you can't be distracted by those losses.
BREWER: No, you put them behind you, and you just keep saying, OK, I'm doing a lot of good. And you just keep moving forward.
MARTIN: That was firefighter Judy Brewer. She's retired now, and spoke to us from Memphis, Tennessee. You can see pictures from the girls' fire camp on our website, npr.org.
MARTIN: And you're listening to WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Open the doors to great comfort when staying in one of our Tropical Suites, each with a light décor with use of wooden accents and soothing hues of green throughout 58 square metres of living space.
The tropical gardens form the backdrop for your furnished balcony, while inside there is abundant space to relax, including a king bedroom and a separate living room.
These private suites are a short walk away from either the pool, and will accommodate couples, families, or 3 adults or 2 adults and 1 child.
Wi-Fi is provided with our compliments, and each Tropical Suite has a bathroom with shower.
In addition to free Wi-Fi, in-room amenities include individually controlled air-conditioning, ceiling fan, flat screen TV with international channels, tea and coffee making facilities, in-room safe, telephone and a hairdryer.
|Tropical Family Suite (59 Sqm.)
With their airy ambiance, garden views from the balcony and total living areas of 59 square metres,
the Tropical Family Suites are private retreats designed with your family's comfort in mind.
Set a short walk away from either the swimming pool or the beach, the Tropical Family Suites feature an airy bedroom with two double beds sleeping up to 2 adults and 2 children in cozy calmness, a separate living room and a bathroom with shower.
In-room features include free Wi-Fi, individually controlled air-conditioning, ceiling fan, flat screen TV with international channels, tea and coffee making facilities, in-room safe, telephone and a hairdryer.
|Honeymoon Suite (91 Sqm.)
With their tropical, lush surroundings and expansive terrace with outdoor Jacuzzi, our Honeymoon Suites invite you to laze the day away.
Designed for the comfort of couples, or families of up to 3 adults or 2 adults and 1 child, and enjoying a river-side setting,
these suites offer generous living areas of 91 square meters.
The Honeymoon Suites feature a king bedroom, bathroom with shower, and spacious living room to relax and make use of free Wi-Fi.
Other features include individually controlled air-conditioning, ceiling fan, flat screen TV with international channels, tea and coffee making facilities, in-room safe, telephone and a hairdryer.
|Beachfront Villa (87 Sqm.)
Take in exquisite views of the beach and relax on your private terrace with Jacuzzi.
Generous space is provided with 87 square meters of total living area including an ample terrace for lounging,
a spacious living room with ocean views, a bedroom with the option of a king-sized bed or two double beds, and a bathroom with shower.
Perfect for couples seeking an idyllic hideaway, the Beachfront Villas also accommodate families, groups, or 3 adults or 2 adults and 2 children.
In addition to free Wi-Fi, in-room amenities include individually controlled air-conditioning, ceiling fan, flat screen TV with international channels, tea and coffee making facilities, in-room safe, telephone and a hairdryer.
Type of Cuisine: Mediator-Asian and Thai
Seating Capacity: 84
Azure is a stylish and contemporary beach side all day restaurant serving a comprehensive breakfast buffet, delicious daytime snacks and meals, and a Mediator-Asian dinner menu featuring Italian Fresco, succulent seafood, and Thai cuisine.
Remark : Breakfast served during 6:30 - 10:30 hrs. / A' La Carte service served during 11:00 - 22:30 hrs.
Opening Hours: 06:30 - 23:00 hrs. / - hrs.
|Beachside Sales
Type of Cuisine: Private Dining Venue
Another unique experience is offered at our beach side salas providing private dining venues and custom tailored cuisine.
Opening Hours: 11:00 - 23:00 hrs.
Breezes Beach Bar
Type of Cuisine: Cocktails, Drinks, and Light Snacks
A comprehensive range of delicious cocktails and drinks are served poolside together with a wide selection of snacks and meals. Our beach side bar is a real barefoot experience serving refreshing drinks, cool cocktails and thirst quenching sundowners. All available whilst you wiggle toes in the sand and listen to lapping warm waters.
Opening Hours: 11:00 - 23:00 hrs. / hrs.
In Room Dining
Type of Cuisine: A La Carte
Service Hours: 06:30 - 22:20 hrs.
Krissana Hall provides a unique and natural environment to create a powerful bonding and
uniting experience for all kinds of seminars or conferences for up to q100 people.
Sala Shanti is a unique open air meeting sala for up to 40 persons suitable for yoga and
meditation groups as well as for cocktail receptions and team gatherings.
Both are located in the shade of our own forest.
Relaxation and recreation have not been overlooked in the planning
of this resort. Lazy beach front days enjoying a wide expanse of sugar
fine sand, a large infinity pool and a variety of water sport activities
are just part of the attraction.
Additional facilities and services:
|Swimming Pool
|Beach Chair
|Centara Chaan Talay Resort & Villas Trat is located on its own long sandy beach in the far south-eastern corner of Thailand, a short journey to the Cambodian border.
Trat Airport (providing daily air service from Bangkok) is just 75 minutes away drive from the resort. By comfortable road journey with good motorways and road systems, Bangkok is reached in around 5 hours.
The charming provincial town of Trat is located approximately 45 minutes from the resort, and the Koh Chang piers can be reached in 1 hour.
The resort sits majestically and exclusively within a sweeping bay. Gentle lapping water and sugar powder sand are complemented by lush tropical Casuarina trees which provide excellent sun shade.


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| 8.6°C Belfast
Wigan have announced the signing of former Wolves midfielder David Jones.
The 26-year-old, who left Molineux when his contract expired at the end of last season, has signed for the Latics after a successful trial period.
He told the club's official website: "I'm delighted to have sorted out my future. Roberto Martinez is a great manager to work for and I've loved every minute of training so far. I already feel settled here."
He added: "I'd like to thank everyone at Wolves for their support when I was there and to say goodbye to a great set of fans there. But I'm a Wigan player now and I'm really looking forward to the new season and proving to the gaffer he has made a good choice."
Martinez clearly believes that is the case, telling the website: "Technically he is very gifted, shows good personality on the pitch and already has solid experience of the Barclays Premier League behind him, with the best years of his career still ahead.
"Dave has connected well with the group during pre-season, he has shown a great attitude towards work and will certainly bring something different to the squad.
"We've been impressed with the levels of his work in training and everyone's excited to be welcoming him to our club."
Jones made 66 Wolves appearances in three seasons, helping them into the top flight and playing a part in their survival there.
He had previously played for Derby, signing permanently after playing for the Rams in one of a number of his loan spells away from first club Manchester United.


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Morning. Insanely beautiful day here. At 8am it was already 19C. That's 66F.
Had plans to go out to eat at a patio but my friend bailed on me. Might still go out to eat alone - I'd rather be outside and don't want to get stuck sitting with people in the kitchen I'd rather not...1 Reply
oh, is that what that is? gifs aren't big on quality, I know that.
now the fact just makes it even more funnier.
so today i got my most recent bill for my cable, internet and landline service and for the 3rd month ina row the provider ( verizon ) increased the bill, by doctoring the fees, they refuse to honor the bundle deal i agreed to, i pay the bill in full way ahead of when it's due, and they basically said " piss off "
so when i call in they again refuse to do anything, i tell them that they need to realize newton's 2nd law ( for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction ) and i proceed to file complaints with the better business bureau as well as the federal communications commission ( governemnt oversight of service providers ) and this morning at 4 am i attempt to log onto the net.....
apparently they must have been monitoring what sites i was going to and saw i went to the aforementioned, and reset my anti - virus password and i am unable to access the internet, so what to do ? send a follow up letter ( via fax ) to the 2 agencies i mentioned earlier, and here in the states that's illegal on many counts, so i'll be off line until sometime monday when their american staff is open again, i just remember " don't get mad, get even "
update, apparently the system restore to an earlier point put the virus protection back in working order, amazing for almost 200.00 a month i fix their snafu's........ unbelievible ( but typical )
wow. someone in accounting must have screwed up. guess he didn't read the proper TPS report.
BTW, the zeroth law of thermodynamics is an interesting one.1 Reply
IIRC (I could be wrong and this was for a different zeroth law), they call it the zeroth law, because they wanted to put it in the first order of priority. but, they couldn't call it the first law because it was not discovered first, and it's been longtime accepted, and in a habit of labelling the way it was, the first law IS the first law. so, they called it the zeroth law, without reordering the other laws, which would have caused more confusion than it already is.
sometimes I hate physics.
i guess i need to be high to understand that concept


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See a straight-forward interview dissolve into a fit of the giggles when a classy French interviewer tells Kristen and Maya that he believes there are "never enough farts" in movies. The ladies crack each other up (and make gas-passing sound effects) as they brainstorm their next movie idea, The Homeless Fart.
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An atomic bomb is ready to be dropped in General. Residents urged to stay.
Just got 2 hours of sleep last night as well. Up to about 8 hours of sleep for the past 3 nights combined. 👍
thats just how it be sometimes
I'd rather not sleep too long because it bores me so much
First of two weeks of Tri finals (next week is even worse lol), ECs (doing a tone of them), lots of written work/ presentations/ research papers, etc., etc., etc.I'd rather not not sleep because it makes it almost impossible to think, and it makes me feel extremely exhausted and like I'm about to fall asleep all day :/
Lol I want sleep, but not too much bc I want to sleep even more. Good luck on finals, you seem smart lol
Its been over a year since my editor application was accepted .-.http://www.sploder.com/games/members/cian009/review/2854/a-game-by-startrekzooka/minds-desire/
As an update, I'm currently really busy with Trimester finals, research papers, and presentations this week so I'll get back to anyone who sends in an application on Saturday with the results. That being said, once this Trimester is over (on Friday), everything should pick up its pace though and run as usual.
Probably a stupid question, but I don't want to run the risk of getting temporarily banned from this recruitment. When can I next apply? I was rejected on the 22nd of January. Does that mean I wait 30 days from then or until February the 22nd?
It's just that I want to apply as soon as possible because by the time I'm allowed to reapply I feel I will have enough credibility to my name that I'll be a worthy editor.
I think im going to wait another month, tbh. I'm kinda immature lol
I've got a feature to my name (possibly 2 by the time I can make my application), years of knowledge of main site games and 2 reviews (I'll write a good few more before my editor application though, because they are fun to write).
Ive got 3 features, 3 years of ms, and 2 reviews
Another month could do it for you. Going off Meta's advice, I'd recommend writing more reviews. I should really do that too, but I'd happily write one every 2 days so I'll have a good amount of them for my application.
I'm writing long reviews, though
Just wait until 2020 to be safe. Yeah, February 22nd is correct.
As far as features go, I would say to focus a lot more on quality than quantity. Think about it this way: If you are able to make a higher quality game than the current games you have out there, then that would demonstrate you understand more about the creators and how to make games than you previously have demonstrated through your other features. Meanwhile, even if you could produce five featured games at the same level as your current ones in that same time, that would not provide me much additional information to work with and would, therefore, have a very minimal impact on your application. That being said, above all else, the biggest area for you to work on would be showing your abilities to review and analyze games if you really are set on becoming Editor. As of now, you have very limited proof of your abilities in this area. Hopefully that all makes sense; I'm currently running off like two-three hours of sleep the past two nights so yeah.
When is my review being voted on?
My shooter RPG will set a good example of improvement (I hope) and my ppg, since Ive never made a ppg or rpg ever
I didn't know that you finished the review since you never sent me a pm with the link to the game. That being said, now that Crazy's voting just finished up, your voting will start right now though. Good luck!I wouldn't say trying new creators inherently leads to improvement; I would say that spending longer on the games you make would probably help you most in that area.
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NEW YORK - The number of pregnant women diagnosed with cancer has increased over the past couple of decades, a new study from Australia suggests.
In 2007, the most recent year studied, researchers found 192 out of every 100,000 pregnant and postpartum women received a cancer diagnosis - up from 112 per 100,000 women in 1994.
Researchers couldn't determine what was behind that increase in risk, but said it could be due in part to the older average age of expectant moms combined with better cancer detection.
Another explanation could be "the increased interaction with health services during pregnancy," said Christine Roberts, an obstetrics researcher at the University of Sydney who worked on the study.
Roberts said some doctors in her department had seen a few cases of expectant moms with cancer and wanted to know whether this was indicative of any increase in risk.
To try to answer that question, her group collected information from three large databases on births, cancer cases and hospital admissions in New South Wales, Australia. That included data on roughly 780,000 women who gave birth more than 1.3 million times between 1994 and 2008.
During the same period, there were about 1,800 new cancers diagnosed in moms-to-be and those who'd given birth within the last year.
As diagnoses became more common over the years, pregnant women also got older, on average, the researchers noted in the obstetrics and gynecology journal BJOG.
For example, in 1994, 13 per cent of pregnant women were over age 35, compared to almost 24 per cent in 2007.
The risk of cancer is known to increase with age - and 35-plus women in the study were over three times more likely to get cancer compared to those under 30 in 2007.
But age only accounted for a fraction of the increased cancer risk over time, the researchers found.
Dr. Lloyd Smith, who treats gynecologic cancers at the University of California, Davis, agreed that improved detection likely accounts for some portion of the increase in cases.
He pointed out that melanoma was the most common cancer diagnosed, affecting 45 out of every 100,000 pregnant or postpartum women.
Australia claims the highest rate of melanoma diagnoses in the world.
Given increasing awareness of the problem of melanoma in Australia, "they probably also have ramped up their surveillance of melanoma, so they're going to detect more," Smith, who wasn't involved in the new study, told Reuters Health.
Roberts said that despite the increase in cancer risk, it is still considered a rare event among pregnant or postpartum women.
Women in the study with cancer were more likely to plan an early birth, but "importantly there was no evidence of harm to the babies of women with cancer - they were not at increased risk of reduced growth or death," Roberts wrote in an email to Reuters Health.
She said more research on cancer treatments for pregnant women is needed.
Smith said that in his experience, treating pregnant patients has been extremely difficult.
"When you have a pregnant woman who has cancer, the infant's at risk, the woman's at risk, the family is in extreme distress and they're seeking the best advice, which is often confused because no one knows quite what to do," Smith said.
One recent study found that chemotherapy does not appear to harm the foetus, while planning an early delivery to avoid chemo exposure to the baby is actually more risky.


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Well this weekend was another great one that included another great run. We ran 13 miles along the beach path according to my Nike+, which could be wrong give or take. It was a great run and super foggy, which made the last three miles seem like forever, because we couldn't see the Jack-in-the-Box we parked at until we were practically there!
It seems crazy that my 1/2 Marathon is a little over two weeks away. Time does fly, doesn't it. I remember signing up and beginning training and thinking, man, this is never going to come! Now that it's actually almost here, I'm like oh man, what did I get myself into?
Anyways, this weekend was a great 5k Walk for the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure Orange County and it took place at Fashion Island in Newport Beach. I was the Team Captain of Team Flamingo and as you can see in the pictures below, Team Flamingo doesn't mess around!
Me, trying to round up the team? :)
This last picture is actually my running partner, Nicole!
We just leisurely walked the 5k, and it was excellent weather, overcast and never even got too hot at all. Walking around Fashion Island is always great too, and the expo was fun to wander through, especially munching on the Pat and Oscar bread sticks. Overall it was a great success and a lot of fun and I am really glad everyone came out and joined Team Flamingo. We'll be out there next year again I'm sure. :)
This week I am really going to focus on getting all my runs in, as I have something to do every night of this week, which include an Angels playoff game (GO ANGELS! LIGHT UP THE HALO!) and a Ducks game, which I'm super excited about as well. Next Monday is my birthday and I'm going out to Palm Springs for the night this weekend, so that long run should be a really nice change of scenery. Then next weekend is my race! If anyone has advice or tips let me know.
Look forward to some great goodies on Thursday as well. :)