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- Director, Men's Health & Vitality Program
- Associate Professor of Urology
- Associate Professor of Medicine
Centers & Institutes
- Integrative Men's Health Program
- James Buchanan Brady Urological Institute
- Men's Health & Vitality Program
Benign Prostate Enlargement, Erectile Dysfunction, Low Testosterone, Male Sexual Dysfunction, Men's Health, Penile Curvature, Penile Deformities, Peyronie's Disease, Premature Ejaculation, Urology
Dr. Kevin Billups is an associate professor of urology and medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He serves as the Director of the Integrative Men's Health Program at the James Buchanan Brady Urological Institute.
Dr. Billups' area of clinical expertise involves the use of erectile dysfunction and testosterone deficiency as gender-specific markers for early detection and the prevention of chronic medical conditions, such as diabetes, heart disease and hypertension. Dr. Billups also has expertise in penile prosthetic surgery for men who do not respond to medical management.
He is actively involved in creating a multidisciplinary Men's Health Program that addresses both traditional medical therapies and the social determinants of health to promote prevention and early stage management of the chronic medical diseases which are known to be major contributors to premature death and suffering among men.
Dr. Billups obtained his medical degree at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and his undergraduate education from Harvard University. He completed his residency in urology at the Brady Urological Institute at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Billups went on to receive fellowship training in sexual medicine, male infertility and vascular biology at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, where he was honored as an American Foundation for Urologic Disease and Robert Woods Johnson Foundation scholar.
Dr. Billups is the vice chair of the R. Frank Jones Urological Society, a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for the Foundation for Men's Health and vice chair of the urology section of the National Medical Association.
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American Urological Society (AUA)
North Central Section of the AUA
R. Frank Jones Urological Society (AUA society for African American Urologists)
National Medical Association (NMA)
Sexual Medicine Society of North America International Society for Men's Health (ISMH)
Foundation for Men's Health (FMH)
International Society for Sexual Medicine (ISSM)
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- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (Baltimore MD ) (1984)
- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine / Urology (Baltimore MD ) (1989)
- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine / Surgery (Baltimore MD ) (1986)
- University of Virginia Health System / Urology (Charlottesville VA ) (1993)
- Urology, American Board of Urology (2010)
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Research Summary
Dr. Billups' area of clinical and research expertise involves the use of erectile dysfunction and testosterone deficiency as gender specific markers for early detection and prevention of chronic medical conditions, such as diabetes, heart disease and hypertension. He also has expertise in penile prosthetic surgery for those men who do not respond to medical management.
Selected Publications View all on PubMed
- Nehra A, Jackson G, Miner M, Billups KL, Burnett AL, Buvat J, Carson CC, Cunningham GR, Goldstein I, Guay AT, Hackett G, Kloner RA, Kostis J, Montorsi P, Ramsey M, Rosen RC, Sadovsky R, Seftel AD, Vlachopoulos C, Wu FC. "Diagnosis and treatment of erectile dysfunction for reduction of cardiovascular risk." J Urol. 2013 Jun;189(6):2031-8. doi: 10.1016/j.juro.2012.12.107.
- Nehra A, Jackson G, Miner M, Billups KL, Burnett AL, Buvat J, Carson CC, Cunningham GR, Ganz P, Goldstein I, Guay AT, Hackett G, Kloner RA, Kostis J, Montorsi P, Ramsey M, Rosen R, Sadovsky R, Seftel AD, Shabsigh R, Vlachopoulos C, Wu FC. "The Princeton III Consensus recommendations for the management of erectile dysfunction and cardiovascular disease." Mayo Clin Proc. 2012 Aug;87(8):766-78. doi: 10.1016/j.mayocp.2012.06.015.
- Miner M, Billups KL. "Erectile dysfunction and dyslipidemia: relevance and role of phosphodiesterase type-5 inhibitors and statins." J Sex Med. 2008 May;5(5):1066-78. doi: 10.1111/j.1743-6109.2008.00783.x.
- Bank AJ, Kelly AS, Kaiser DR, Crawford WW, Waxman B, Schow DA, Billups KL. "The effects of quinapril and atorvastatin on the responsiveness to sildenafil in men with erectile dysfunction." Vasc Med. 2006 Nov;11(4):251-7.
- Billups KL, Bank AJ, Padma-Nathan H, Katz S, Williams R. "Erectile dysfunction is a marker for cardiovascular disease: results of the minority health institute expert advisory panel." J Sex Med. 2005 Jan;2(1):40-50; discussion 50-2.
Academic Affiliations & Courses +
Activities & Honors +
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Minority Medical Faculty Development Program Scholarship, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 1990-1994
American Foundation for Urologic Disease Scholar, American Urological Association, 1990-1992
Research Merit Award: Infertility Section/Chief Resident''s Meeting, Society of University Urology Residents, 1990
Research Merit Award, American Society of Andrology, 1989
Honors Male Reproduction/Urology Prize Paper Award, The American Fertility Society, 1989
Professional Activities
Vice chair, R. Frank Jones Urological Society, July 2012-July 2014
Urology section vice chair, National Medical Association, July 2012-July 2014
Program director, Urology section Annual Men's Health Symposium, National Medical Association, 2002-present
Scientific Advisory Board, Foundation for Men's Health
Secretary, R. Frank Jones Urological Society, July 2010-July 2012
Urology section secretary, National Medical Association, July 2010-July 2012
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The Penis Is a Barometer of Your Overall Vascular Health
Discover why "Getting an erection is really all about blood flow," according to Dr. Kevin Billups of the Johns Hopkins Men's Health & Vitality Program. In simple language, Dr. Billups explains how an erection works and what happens when you can't maintain one.
What Happens to a Man's Prostate After Age 40?
"We all know, as men get over age 40, our prostate grows," shares Dr. Kevin Billups of the Johns Hopkins Men's Health & Vitality Program. Learn from Dr. Billups about the urinary tract symptoms many men experience as the prostate grows larger with aging.
Your Big Belly May Cause Low Testosterone
Dr. Kevin Billups of the Johns Hopkins Men's Health & Vitality Program explains why a big belly may be a sign of low testosterone and how he likes to put patients at ease with the "Dicky Do Test." "I try to do a few things just to try to lighten up the mood and also show them that I'm a normal guy," he says.
Erectile Dysfunction & Mental Health
"Erectile Dysfunction and mental health are very closely related," says Dr. Kevin Billups of the Johns Hopkins Men's Health & Vitality Program. He explains how stress, anxiety, and mental health issues can all have an impact on Erectile Dysfunction and how he takes a team approach to treating it.
Erectile Dysfunction & Sleep Disorders
"Sleep disorders like sleep apnea and insomnia can be linked to erection problems, low testosterone and cardiovascular risk," says Dr. Kevin Billups of the Johns Hopkins Men's Health & Vitality Program. He explains the link between sleep disorders and Erectile Dysfunction and other important related health risks.
Erectile Dysfunction & Age
"Is there a time in life when men should give up on having sex? And the answer to that is no," declares Dr. Kevin Billups of the Johns Hopkins Men's Health & Vitality Program. Learn from Dr. Billups why he encourages men to get treated for Erectile Dysfunction, no matter what their age, and his point of view on sex and aging.
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LocationsThe Johns Hopkins Hospital600 N. Wolfe StreetSheikh Zayed TowerBaltimore, MD 21287Phone: 410-955-6100Appointment Phone: 443-287-4378Location MapJohns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center4940 Eastern AvenueBaltimore, MD 21224Phone: 410-955-6100Appointment Phone: 443-287-4378Location Map
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Single-threaded new architecture @ 1.8Ghz vs single-threaded old one @ 1.9Ghz and old one wins!? I wouldn't read too much into these results.
I just found this out and have not seen it come up yet in discussion, C-ray measures floating point performance which is bulldozers weak point as it only has one FP unit per module. Integer performance then should be about double which would put it on par with sandy bridge.
Its pretty interesting what AMD has done. Just forget about the number of cores!, they created the bulldozer module which contains 2 integer cores and 1 FP core. A CPU will contain various bulldozer modules.
This redesign is aimed to increase performance on generic programs, which uses lot of integer operations (games included). Programs which makes use of a lot of FP operations (math, video encoders...) would probably not get performance boost.
Indeed, it should be interesting to see more tests of this AMD CPU redesign.
One still can improve the c-ray performance if one uses opencc as a compiler (http://www.openbenchmarking.org/resu...D1SA-CRAYCOM20). The standard makefile deliverd by PTS isnt aware of the CC env-variable, so i patched the install.sh in ~/.phoronix-test-suite/test-profiles/pts/c-ray-1.0.0/ .
Code:#!/bin/sh tar -zxvf c-ray-1.1.tar.gz patch -p0 << 'EOF' --- ./c-ray-1.1/Makefile.orig 2008-04-09 23:57:57.000000000 +0200 +++ ./c-ray-1.1/Makefile 2011-03-23 00:49:20.413694037 +0100 @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ obj = c-ray-mt.o bin = c-ray-mt -CC = gcc -CFLAGS = -O3 -ffast-math +CC ?= gcc +CFLAGS ?= -O3 -ffast-math $(bin): $(obj) $(CC) -o $@ $(obj) -lm -lpthread EOF cd c-ray-1.1/ make -j $NUM_CPU_JOBS echo $? > ~/install-exit-status cd .. echo "#!/bin/sh cd c-ray-1.1/ RT_THREADS=\$((\$NUM_CPU_CORES * 16)) ./c-ray-mt -t \$RT_THREADS -s 1600x1200 -r 8 -i sphfract -o output.ppm > \$LOG_FILE 2>&1 echo \$? > ~/test-exit-status" > c-ray chmod +x c-ray
So does anybody have an idea where bulldozer will be in relation with sandybridge? Performance per core(half module) per watt per clock?


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If you have Diablo III.exe, Wow(-64).exe and Starcraft II.exe on your system, do this for fun:
strings *.exe | grep -i linux.
Guess how many hits you'll get from D3? Yes, zero. So D3 is highly unlikly.
SC2 does have a hit, so it does seem possible, but still unlikly. (I forgot on the top of my head what this string was)
Wow however, actually has the following:
as one of the strings. So even the 2013 builds still have this functionality and it is quite likely a Wow client internally still exists and is used to this day.
So if we are talking about minimal effort to port, then Wow stands a good chance.
And the 'why haven't they released this years ago' ... is kinda asking the obvious. They didn't want to. While to us it seems obvious, they could release an unsupported client, it will still require possible extra support questions and thus cost blizzard's support staff extra time and thus money they don't want to spend.
"Just say no" to Kung fu pandas.
Sorry but when Blizzard put that up on the website I thought it was a joke. When I found out it was not a joke I unsubscribed. I don't care if the CEO eats bamboo and shites paper and the staff are all - and have always been - pandas, that crap doesn't belong in the genre as a playable character so they lost my money.
Coming to linux won't make a difference to me.
Always on DRM (Diablo 3) that doesn't fly with me either, not getting my money.
Torchlight 2, that'll get my money though.
Pandaria is beautiful and short of a few mistakes in PvP which are being rectified way faster than previously this I the best expansion so far by a lot shot. Cataclysm was fucking shit, especially compared to this.
Sorry you missed out because you think blizzard copied Kung Fu Panda, even though Pandaren were in Warcraft lore since 1998 and was added to wc3 as a joke. They almost got added to tBC too.
I'd personally love to see WoW on Linux. I'd play the living daylights out of that thing.
Speaking of Warcraft 3 and its pandas, I would actually rather see that game ported than WoW. WoW costs too damn much, both in expansions, subscription, and time commitments to do (and continue to have access to) any of the fun end game stuff. I dropped that game like a bad habit a few years ago, haven't touched anything after Lich King. If they want to get me back to WoW they would have to move to a business model like the Guild Wars games where all I have to do is buy the game and they provide the server access as a free service to game owners.
Holy crap that was exactly what I did not want to hear again for the thousandth time^
One ....more......time...
I don't care if the CEO himself is a panda, get it out of the game, it does not belong in the genre.
I don't care if god himself is a panda and we are all pandas inside and the cartoon movie called kung fu pandas was never made it is still a retarded character and the very very very last choice that should have ever been made and most stupidest and most childish like character you could ever choose.
If there was no kung fu panda movie someone would have thought of it (as a doll, cartoon, tv show, something) anyways because the animal is a kiddy cutie icon that does not belong in the genre as a playable character warrior period.
It does not belong!
Next expansion - hello kitty class
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NO!!!! Stop it now!
Runic Games are rather like Team Meat in that they think Linux is only worth supporting to get into the Humble Indie Bundle. Which is somewhat unfortunate, but means we will likely see a port of TL2 in a later Bundle, just like we did with Shank 2 (whose devs seem to have a similar mindset).


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Norrback Avenue School's library, with its ceiling of twinkling stars, is one of the most beautiful in Worcester, but is open only 16 hours a week and is staffed by volunteers. (T&G Staff/PAUL KAPTEYN)
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This story has been amended. The number of hours Norrback Avenue School's library is open was incorrect in an earlier version.
At 1:40 p.m. Nov. 30, 16 members of Kerri Lewis' kindergarten class walked and wiggled their way onto the rug in front of librarian Nancy Kellner at Marguerite E. Peaslee Elementary School in Northboro. The library was crowded with books, and the children sat down and looked toward Ms. Kellner, who was in a rocking chair beside an easel that held a giant pad of paper and two books. One, she told the class, takes place in a town, the other in a city.
She asked the students to list differences between towns and cities.
They have "towers" and buses, said other students.
"Towers are big," said Bruno Cruz, and many other students added their ideas.
Ms. Kellner started reading the first book, "Paperboy" by Dav Pilkey, and stopped frequently for discussion; there was always someone with their hand up.
After a second story, it was borrowing time. Kids fanned out and choose a book to take home for the week, provided they remembered to bring last week's book back. Alex Shaw was excited as usual and chose something from the Star Wars collection.
"Is that a dog book?" one of his friends asked, pointing to a picture in it.
"No, it's Chewbacca!" Alex said. The best part of library, he said, is "I get to borrow whatever books we want."
Elizabeth H. Nasser, a parent volunteer in the library, said her daughter, Sophie Kopstein gets the same thrill. "We have thousands of books at home, and it doesn't matter. You have to get that new book."
Not every elementary school student experiences that.
In Worcester, six out of 34 elementary schools, plus an alternative school that serves elementary students, do not have functioning libraries at all. One open library isn't staffed. Of the rest, 13 are run exclusively by volunteers, one by a combination of volunteers and work-study students, nine are run at least in part by other school staff, and three have part-time professional librarians, two of whom are assisted by teachers.
Even in the suburbs, weekly library sessions with a librarian are not a given. Wachusett Regional School District cut its elementary school librarians this fiscal year for lack of money. At Floral Street School in Shrewsbury, students in Grades 1-3 go to media classes in the library weekly, but fourth graders go only every two weeks to check out books.
"There is no state standard for school libraries," said Katherine E. Lowe, executive director of the Lunenburg-based Massachusetts School Library Association. Her organization is hoping to change that on the state level and is working with state Rep. Sean P. Garballey, D-Arlington, who for the second time has filed a bill to create a commission to study the state of school libraries.
"Many times in local school districts, librarian positions are the first ones cut, so in many cases, you may have one town that actually has full-time librarians. In another town, you don't," Mr. Garballey said. "We should figure out what's going on in our school library programs across the state… I personally believe that they are very, very important when it comes to the future of education."
In districts like Worcester where fewer than half of third-graders read proficiently and where 72 percent of students are from low-income families, the need for some extra help with vocabulary and reading is particularly acute. Children from low-income families start preschool with vocabularies that are already millions of words smaller than those of children from working-class and professional families, according to child development experts Betty Hart's and Todd R. Risley's 1995 book, "Meaningful Differences in the Everyday Experiences of Young Children." And that gap does not begin to consider the almost one-third of Worcester students who are not proficient in English.
Worcester students who do not have a library in their school cannot necessarily walk to a branch of the Worcester Public Library. The public library, which used to have seven branches in addition to its main location, now has two: the Frances Perkins Branch in Greendale and the Great Brook Valley Branch. Even the city's three Carnegie libraries, those historic gifts from a man who believed there was no honor in dying rich, have barely survived. One, the Perkins branch, is still a library. A second, the Quinsigamond branch, became the cafeteria of Quinsigamond School, which has a large library elsewhere in the building but no librarian. The third, the South Worcester branch, was split into two apartments.
Another former branch was at Tatnuck Magnet School. The branch and the school library closed, but the school library reopened through the efforts of parent volunteers last month.
The public library does have some other, less-traditional branches. Libby, the public library's "mobile branch," has helped reach schools and neighborhoods, and the library considers its website an "e-branch," said Head Librarian Wei Jeng-Chu.
Libby's stops include Elm Park Community School, which hopes to open its own library this month, and the neighborhood near Columbus Park Preparatory School. Columbus Park Principal Jessica M. Boss said her students have benefited from Libby's visits, but if money were no object, she would love to have a library at her school. It once had one but lost it to space and budget constraints. "We have plenty of books and adequate access to all different types of literacy materials. However, we don't have a card catalog and sign out," Ms. Boss said.
There's also the matter of a librarian. "You need someone that can come and work it," she said.
Ms. Kellner, the librarian at Peaslee in Northboro, is familiar with the lack of librarians. She used to be a banker, but when her own children started school in the early and mid 1990s, there were no librarians in Northboro elementary schools. She volunteered, and then she went to the University of Rhode Island for a master's degree in library science. Northboro hired her in 1998 as it started adding librarians back. At first, Ms. Kellner covered two schools and did not see kindergartners. She has been full time at Peaslee since 2001.
The difference between a non-librarian reading stories in a library and what she does is that she has a curriculum, she said. She has a teaching degree, as Massachusetts school librarians must, and teaches research skills in classrooms in addition to collaborating with teachers in other ways. She also keeps the library current.
"When I inherited this library, the books were out of date, and the books were not on topic at all," she said.
Many school libraries have survived through the sheer will of volunteers, like Rachel T. Bromage, the octogenarian bibliophile whose dedication has earned her her own parking spot at Quinsigamond School. She and three other volunteers keep the library open four days a week. "There's nobody else to do it," she said.
"A lot of these children do not have access to a public library… This (school library) is fantastic, because it gives them an opportunity to explore our books and read, which is such an important part of anything."
While legislation might draw attention to differences in school libraries, the most likely source of improvement for Worcester's elementary school libraries is the community, not the state or traditional school funding. School Superintendent Melinda J. Boone included $2.3 million for full-time librarians in each of district's 33 elementary schools on a recent list designed to illustrate what it would take to make Worcester the schools of choice. But that list added up to $27 million, and Ms. Boone said her priorities for any new money right now are more staff to teach English language learners and students with disabilities.
That leaves the door open for others to take action, and some already have. Union Hill School opened its library with help from student members of a Destination Imagination team at Worcester Academy and contributions from businesses and foundations. Patty Eppinger of Grafton, whose daughter was on that team and whose husband, Fred, is president and chief executive of The Hanover Insurance Group, is using some of the momentum from that project to help Burncoat Street Preparatory School get its library off the ground. She, like School Committee member John F. Monfredo, who organizes an annual summer reading drive, regularly collects and distributes donated books.
"I went to Catholic school for 12 years, so we were always resource-constrained, and we had a tiny little library, but we went there every week," Mrs. Eppinger said.
She is on the board of the Worcester Education Collaborative, which tries to involve the community in improving public schools. The collaborative is the city's lead contact for the Grade-Level Reading Communities Network, a national organization focusing on third grade reading proficiency. A 2010 Annie E. Casey Foundation report found that 74 percent of students who are not proficient readers by the end of third grade will struggle in school and fail to earn a diploma, according to the collaborative. To that end, the network is focusing on school readiness, summer learning loss and chronic absenteeism. The collaborative has "added a fourth component, which is getting books in the hands of children," Ms. Carey said.
The business community seems to have an appetite for it. "It seems to be something that really resonates with them, because it's clear, it's tangible," said Jennifer Davis Carey, the collaborative's executive director.
In theory, people, businesses or institutions could contribute anything. They could give a book (Kelly J. Harris, the librarian at Chandler Elementary Community School and Burncoat Street Prep, has a wish list on Amazon), endow a librarian position (one librarian costs close to $70,000 a year on average, including benefits) or pay for a modular classroom for a school that does not have space for a library. (The cost of installing and leasing a small, basic modular unit for a year starts at approximately $45,000, according to Glenn A. Cort, executive vice president at Triumph Modular in Littleton, which makes a range of temporary and permanent buildings for lease and sale.)
But if the next Andrew Carnegie does not materialize, people concerned about elementary school libraries will have to take a different tack. One idea floated in the city includes the possibility of a small pilot project involving a few schools, private money for new materials, and public money for library staff.
When City Manager Michael V. O'Brien was asked about this prospect, he said it might make sense in a city like Worcester that is richer in community partners than public dollars.
"We know how important reading readiness is, particularly at the third grade level… It is a citywide goal," he said. "So let's get our libraries back in our elementary schools… through unprecedented partnerships. Our Public Library team has the expertise, willingness and technology, the schools have tremendous faculty and the space, and our community partners have funding and resources…
"It will have the equivalent value of the millions of dollars sought for our schools but done in a manner that recognizes there is more than one way to get to solutions when we all share in the lift."
Anyone wanting to see more public money spent on elementary school libraries will have to work toward that in the next few months. Ms. Boone will submit her budget proposal to the School Committee on May 3, and the committee and the City Council, which sets the bottom line for the school department, normally vote on the budget before the end of June.
In the meantime, some students will make several more visits to their school library, and some will be lucky enough to have books at home from other sources. But Worcester's two elementary school librarians, Ms. Harris and Michael J. Garvey (son of the former superintendent), know that not every child is that lucky. At the three schools where the librarians work, between 88 and 99 percent of students are from low-income families.
"The kids are just overjoyed to have a library at their school," Ms. Harris said. "They really don't have any books at home, and a lot of them don't even have transportation to the library, so the book that they take from our school library is often the only book they have in the house."
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About ECM
John Cage
As it is
Alexei Lubimov
piano, prepared piano
Natalia Pschenitschnikova
The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs
The Unavailable Memory of
A Flower
Music for Marcel Duchamp
Experiences No. 2
A Room
Three Songs
I. Twenty years after
II. Is it as it was
III. At East and ingredients
Two Pieces for Piano
Five Songs
1. little four paws
2. little Christmas tree
3. in Just-
4. hist whist
5. Tumbling hair
Prelude for Meditation
She is Asleep
Nowth upon nacht
Dream var.
Recorded December 2011
ECM New Series 2268
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A fresh approach to one of contemporary compositions most iconoclastic and inventive figures, issued on the occasion of John Cages 100th birthday. Early Cage is the subject here, strikingly original songs and piano pieces from the 1930s and 1940s. Songs in which Cage sets words by writers whose vision was as independent as his own James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, E. E. Cummings. As Paul Griffiths writes, The music exists in singing that has a raw, living edge, and it exists in piano tone that can be utterly simple and utterly remarkable. There is also a third presence that of the producer, bringing forward the extraordinary resonances that come from Lubimovs piano, with preparation or without. Lubimov championed Cages work in Russia and later had a close working relationship with the composer. He grasps both the playfulness of the music and its message of freedom. Recorded December 2011 in Zürich.


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Happy Birthday, Former Rolling Stone Mick Taylor!!!
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Happy Birthday to former Rolling Stones guitarist Mick Taylor, who turns 64 today (January 17th)!!! In June of 1969, Taylor replaced the band's co-founder Brian Jones shortly before his death, and less than a month later, on July 3rd, 1969, he made his live debut with the Stones at a free live concert at London's Hyde Park. Taylor, who had previously played with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, toured extensively with the band until late 1973, and played on the Stones albums Let It Bleed, Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out, Sticky Fingers, Exile On Main Street, Goat's Head Soup, and It's Only Rock And Roll.
The Stones delighted fans late last year by inviting Mick Taylor to join them at all of their official 50th anniversary shows in London and the U.S. to play a show-stealing rendition of 1969's "Midnight Rambler."
Taylor, who's currently working on his autobiography, recalled that back in the day, like any working band, the Stones were extremely tight -- both on and off the road: "That whole period was incredibly intense and creative for all of us because it was a new beginning for the band -- and they had signed a new contract with Atlantic Records and we had to, in theory, at least, we had to come up with at least six albums in six years. If we weren't hanging out together or recording, we were touring. I just remember most of the time we were either in the studio, or we were socializing together, or we were on the road."
Former Stones bassist Bill Wyman admits that he's still in awe of Mick Taylor's considerable talent: "Musically, he was a better musician than any of us in the band. Definitely. He was young, he was -- God! Some of the things he did were, I don't know -- amazing. He was incredibly boring on the stage. He'd just stand there and look at his guitar, and do these amazing licks and riffs and solos. God, the audience (would only) see the top of his head all the time. I always thought, y'know, (laughs) he could've been -- but then (laughs) I'm not a good one to talk am I? I don't leap about much. In 30 years with the Stones I probably made three steps on the (laughs) stage." stage)
Taylor was responsible for some of the Stones' most famous solos during their early '70s heyday, and was highlighted on Sticky Fingers' seven-plus-minute, Latin-infused workout "Can't You Hear Me Knocking." He has gone on record over the years claiming that he actually co-wrote many Stones songs for which he's never been credited or compensated, including "Moonlight Mile," "Sway," "Winter," "Till The Next Time We Say Goodbye," and "Time Waits For No One," among others.
After leaving the Stones in December 1974 and eventually being replaced by Ron Wood, Taylor briefly teamed up with Jack Bruce, with less than successful results.
Although Taylor continues to tour and record, he's found his greatest success as a sideman, performing on Bob Dylan's Infidels and Empire Burlesque albums, as well as touring with Dylan in 1984
On December 15th, 1981, at the band's Tattoo You tour, Taylor appeared on stage at Kansas City's Kemper Arena and performed nearly the entire show with the band.
The band's Tattoo You album featured "Tops" and "Waiting On A Friend," two Goat's Head Soup outtakes recorded in 1972 in Jamaica, which featured Taylor on guitar.
Taylor remains on good terms with the Rolling Stones, and has frequently sat in with Keith Richards, Ron Wood, and Bill Wyman over the years.
Mick Taylor was on hand in 1989 when the Stones were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 2010 he teamed up with Jagger and Richards to add overdubs to the unreleased material on the Exile On Main Street reissue.
Photo Courtesy of MickTaylor.com
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What harms open source is the lack of manpower and the fragmented nature of it. (ie they just forked ffmpeg).
I would also like to say that I understand that it affects the US citizens and that we should keep the entire world in mind, but likewise nobody cares for chinese laws. Not to forget: China has more people than the US.
Let us remind ourselves that we should not always accept any law just because it's the law. If you could get punished for not handing jews to the Nazi's then does that mean that you should? Why is the free software movement limited by the law to compete against a giant software company that is or was, by law, anticompetative? Something is realy wrong here!
What harms open source is the lack of manpower and the fragmented nature of it. (ie they just forked ffmpeg).
Thanks to everyone for the encouragement. I will now give you some more information about my project.
At first, it's a project. I really hope to have something interresting done during the summer, but I cannot say for sure that I will succeed to make a complete Open GL 4.1 + OpenCL + OpenGL ES 2 state tracker in three months . As said on this forum and on the Mesa mailing list, it's a really big adventure and my GSoC project is to begin it and then to go as far as possible.
Many people are also concerned about the software patents. Most of OpenGL is free of patents (the features covered by OpenGL 2.1 and big parts of OpenGL 3+). The most annoying patent for the moment is the one covering floating-point textures. Fortunately, it doesn't cover software implementations, so the state tracker and llvmpipe can use it. I don't think that the fact I work in Belgium changes the situation regarding the patents. Mesa is used in the entire world, including the USA. One way to go could be to use the --enable-patented switch when building Mesa. One inconvenient of this is that we have to rebuild Mesa to enable patented features, but a distribution based out of the USA could provide two Mesa packages, one for the US people, and another for people living outside the USA.
I also want to say that I don't do this work for money. I follow Mesa for two years and I want to do that for nearly one year. The Google Summer of Code is only a big plus that decided me to try the adventure, but I will also work on this state tracker even if I'm not selected by Google, and I will begin when I have time and when other Mesa developers are ok if Google allows that (I mean that I will not wait until the summer and then stop just after the Summer of Code program).
Thanks to everyone,
Denis Steckelmacher.
you've probably read corbin's and marek's answer in the mailing list and i think they are right.
Do something small,fast and usefull (ie parts of the GL todo list). No need to aim really high.
Let's also remind ourselves that getting sued out of existence isn't in any way fighting a law. Protesting against a law in mass is effective. Being downtrodden outside of the wider public eye accomplishes nothing. And the common man doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground when it comes to patents or other "IP" laws. He's not going to get behind protesting on your behalf if you get sued for patent infringement. You'll get a small handful of uber-nerd geeks sending a handful of emails and that'd be the extent of the support you're going to get.Let us remind ourselves that we should not always accept any law just because it's the law.
Saying shit like 'Oh Software patents are a USA only problem' is ignorance of the Nth degree. It's just a stupid wrong thing to say.
What makes it worse is a lot of these people are from Europe, who you would think would actually now more about their own laws then USA ones... unfortunately most of them seem that they do not.
While we eventually would like the OpenGL 3/4 and OpenCL state trackers to all work wonderfully, I'd suggest picking either the OpenGL 3 or OpenCL state tracker to begin with and see how far you get.
I would personally be overjoyed if the clover project was finished by someone, and in the future if I am cursed with an overabundance of free time, I might take a stab at it myself. I wouldn't be disappointed if someone else beat me to it, however.
I agree. I will in some days try to begin a "proof-of-concept" (but I hope it will be useful for the final state tracker, if any). I want to experiment with the context creation and the GLSL-compiler. It will already take me a fair amount of time to do that, but I will be able to see if it is possible.
Yeah, I'd recommend starting sooner rather than later. Even proof of concepts and prototypes can be immensely useful when determining what paths you want to go down.
I would like to paraphrase an unknown source from my thesis-writing experience:
The best thesis projects are those that are 90% completed before the proposal is approved


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Resilience—the ability to successfully adapt and endure against the odds—is a quality we see every year in the vast network of waters and lands that make up the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Each year, the balance between health and degradation continues to be tenuous as the interconnected parts of the ecosystem shift and change in connection with one another. Their variation shows just how dynamic and complex of a system the Bay watershed is.
The Chesapeake Bay Program's scientific indicators, presented in our latest edition of Bay Barometer, provide a snapshot of how individual parts of this complex system respond to both ongoing challenges and our efforts to protect and repair our natural world. This consistent scientific exploration, in the face of the ever-changing natural factors, provides a basis for clear paths forward in restoration, conservation and protection. With it, Bay Program partners can better understand where and how our work supports the recovery of our lands and waters, adjusting according to need along the way.
How well the region's landscapes and waters endure and continue to provide life-giving services to our communities is up to us. More than thirty years of Bay Program science has shown that the way we interact with our environment can significantly affect nature's ability to adapt and recover. Where we poorly build and over-develop our towns, our local natural environments suffer; where we nurture and restore our rivers and landscapes, our communities thrive. Our actions also contribute to the impacts of climate change: rising sea levels, warming streams and more extreme weather events. Healthy waters, forests, farmlands, parks and open spaces in our communities depend on the decisions and choices we make each day.
With wisdom, caring and determination, each of us can be active participants in strengthening the resilience of our environment and continue to enjoy nature's beauty, bounty and company.
Note: The opinions expressed above are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect U.S. EPA policy endorsement or action.
Our latest look at Chesapeake Bay health reveals an ecosystem in recovery. While the watershed continues to struggle against development, pollution and other challenges, a handful of the environmental indicators presented in Bay Barometer—including American shad, striped bass and underwater grass abundance—have shown signs of resilience.
Released today, Bay Barometer: Health and Restoration in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed offers a science-based snapshot of conditions in the nation's largest estuary. The data in Bay Barometer reflect the Bay's health over the course of many years and, in some cases, decades. By tracking changes in this data over time, scientists can better understand ecological patterns and the long-term effects of our restoration work.
According to experts with the Chesapeake Bay Program, the Bay remains impaired. Scientists have seen no significant changes in the last decade of water quality monitoring data and a sizeable drop in the abundance of blue crabs. But communities have continued to reduce the nutrient and sediment pollution that has long plagued the Bay, and some living resources have improved in the face of challenges. Underwater grass acreage has risen 24 percent, American shad have continued to return to their Potomac River spawning grounds and the relative abundance of young striped bass in both Maryland and Virginia waters has recovered from the low numbers seen in 2012.
"The Chesapeake Bay watershed is a vast and complex ecosystem that faces continued challenges," said Bay Program Director Nick DiPasquale in a media release. "Yet in the face of these… challenges, we are witnessing signs of a system in recovery. And people have the ability to positively affect and help in the recovery process. In fact, we must do so."
Continuing to investigate the environmental indicators summarized in Bay Barometer will move us toward the ground-breaking goals of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement, which guides our work to restore, conserve and protect the Bay. In Bay Barometer, we offer our data in their clearest form so you can join our experts in assessing the health of our ecosystem and the progress we are making toward restoring it. Each of the almost 18 million people who live within this watershed can help bring it back to health. To learn more, Take Action.
Bay Backpack, a website for environmental educators in the Chesapeake Bay region, was recently relaunched with a new design, making it even easier for teachers to find resources that bring the Bay and its surrounding lands into their classrooms.
Teachers and educators can use the site's updated design to find more than 750 lesson plans, books, curriculum guides and other teaching resources that are grouped into themed collections–including Bay animals and habitats, people and culture, Earth system science, land use and water quality. An interactive map of nearly 350 field studies allows teachers to search by location, grade level and subject matter to find hands-on learning opportunities outside the classroom. Bay Backpack also continues to provide a catalog of professional development and funding opportunities that support environmental education efforts, and the new responsive design means users can easily access resources on both desktop and mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets.
In the recent Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement, representatives from each of the six watershed states and Washington, D.C., committed to providing every student in the region with at least one meaningful watershed educational experience, or MWEE, in elementary, middle and high school. Meaningful watershed educational experiences are investigative projects that allow students the opportunity to interact directly with their environment and learn about how the Bay, its rivers and streams and its surrounding lands function as a system. Resources provided through Bay Backpack help teachers from across the Bay area engage students in these educational experiences.
"Bay Backpack is a great tool to help meet the commitments of the new Watershed Agreement," said Shannon Sprague, Chair of the Chesapeake Bay Program Education Workgroup. "It directly supports our efforts to get every student outdoors and learning about their environment."
To learn more about what the Bay Program is doing to provide each student in the region with the skills to protect and restore local waters and lands, explore the Environmental Literacy goal of the Watershed Agreement.
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The amount of nutrient and sediment pollution that flowed from nine major rivers into the Chesapeake Bay remained below the 25-year average in 2013. While scientists expect this to have a positive impact on the long-term health of the nation's largest estuary, much of the Bay's tidal waters remain impaired: between 2011 and 2013, just 29 percent of the water quality standards necessary to support underwater plants and animals were achieved.
Excess nutrients and sediment are among the leading causes of the Bay's poor health. Nitrogen and phosphorus can fuel the growth of harmful algae blooms that lead to low-oxygen "dead zones" that suffocate marine life. Sediment can block sunlight from reaching underwater grasses and suffocate shellfish. Lowering the amount of nutrients and sediment moving from our streets, lawns and farm fields into the water is a critical step in the restoration of the Bay, and scientists have attributed the below-average pollution loads of 2013 to below-average river flow and the pollution-reducing practices our partners have put in place on the land.
Because pollution in our rivers has a direct impact on water quality in the Bay, the Chesapeake Bay Program tracks both environmental indicators to gain a wider picture of watershed health.
Pollution loads and trends
Our partners at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) monitor nutrient and suspended sediment loads delivered from the large watersheds located upstream of nine river monitoring stations to the Chesapeake Bay. Together, these stations—which are located on the Appomattox, Choptank, James, Mattaponi, Pamunkey, Patuxent, Potomac, Rappahannock and Susquehanna rivers—reflect loads delivered to the Bay from 78 percent of its watershed. Data show that nutrient and sediment loads measured in water year 2013 were below the long-term average.
Water quality standards achievement
The Chesapeake Bay Program measures progress toward the achievement of water quality standards in the Bay and its tidal tributaries using three environmental factors: dissolved oxygen, water clarity or underwater grass abundance, and chlorophyll a. Data are assessed in three-year periods. After more than a decade of steady improvement between 1989 and 2002, the attainment of water quality standards has seen mixed results. Changes seen in the past 10 years have not been statistically significant, and it is likely that the slow recovery of underwater grasses in the Upper Bay has stalled some water quality improvements.
Underwater grasses offer important habitat to underwater species and have a direct impact on water quality: healthy bay grass beds add oxygen to the water, absorb nutrient pollution, reduce wave energy and help suspended and potentially light-blocking particles like sediment settle to the bottom. Between 2009 and 2012, unfavorable growing conditions caused bay grasses to decline across the region. In 2011, for instance, heavy rains and the resulting runoff clouded the water during the spring growing season. That fall, Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee muddied the water again. Because water quality is reported in three-year assessment periods—and the most recent assessment period spanned 2011, 2012 and 2013—it is likely this drop in bay grass abundance influenced water quality results. But bay grasses have shown resilience: a dense bed on the Susquehanna Flats persisted through the storms of 2011, and showed how resilient such grass beds can be to disturbances in water quality. If bay grasses continue the recovery that took place in 2013, there could be positive effects across the wider Bay ecosystem.
Learn more about trends in nitrogen, phosphorus and sediment in rivers or about water quality standards achievement.