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Great news! looking forward to hearing about these hacks to get the new games working.
One small thing : I don't get the diff between "cracked" and "resigned" (I thought when a game was resigned for lower firmware with activation check removed it was basically "cracked" )? the result is the same for me anyway : As in I can now play it.
Maybe the word "cracked" only applies to disk games and there is another word I don't know for when the security on a PSN game is broken?
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Hopefully new games will be hacked or cracked soon..
Batman Next will be nice..
Yes, whatever the word is for it I dont think people will care if they are "cracked" or "hacked" as long as they work ok on CFW!
Really looking forward to batman too...
Cant wait! Have any German speaking members found any info on this yet?
is it something to do with debug eboots like mentioned earlier in the thread?
No doesn't have to do with debug eboots. It's already translated and i will post in the next few minutes. A lot of thinks we worked in the past and today would be released are just nice but in special case useless. I explain a bit private to you DeVil303. I'm sure you will, the same like me start up with hyper lightning speed to the mars. We worked 100 of hours on things that can be done with... damn nearly talked to much official
Below is an update from our Team AC1D ongoing thread on how current PS3 games work on lower Custom Firmware.
Finally, after a long period of a scene that got riddled by money hungry dongle suppliers we uncover this big scam and show you how things actually work.
First of all, none of the code the dongles use comes from the creators. All files used come directly from higher PS3 firmwares. This works by using plugins / SPRX's who are basically just drivers, from a higher PS3 firmware.
To get games to work, you need to use the files from higher firmwares, that games require. Those plugins we are talking about, also have the decrypt information stored in them that the games use to work.
Some of the newer SPRX's are compatible with older firmwares and can be used on older firmwares quiet easily. All you need to do is place them in the right folder and that's it.
Of course this procedure doesn't work with all the games quite so easy, some of the 3.6+ games load right away, others need some fixing. This fixing is done by patching the SPRX's to work with the lower firmware. Porting the drivers, so they can work with lower firmwares should be the easiest task.
Basically all this DRM does is nothing. The stick holds some drivers, like i explained earlier in this post, and lets the system use them. The HyperVisior LV1 Patches are nothing more then redirections to the USB stick / DRM fake.
The USB stick holds some dev_flash files, the system then uses. Its basically the same thing we did in the early stages of the Custom Firmware to load modified files quick and easy.
So after knowing all this, this explains why the dongles use DRM on their USB stick, simply to not let us see that they are really just scamming us with the cheapest materials they could find and some (by now old) dev_flash files stored in it. It's nothing more, and I'm sure that TeaM AC1D will empower more things and work on more in the future then the dongles have in last months.
We love Open Source and that's why we share this information with you. This needs to be stopped and we should all join hands to finally put an end to all of this. Use this information and do what you have to do.
Our respect goes out to Kakaroto, grafchokolo, Hermes, Deank, JaiCraB, Jjolano, Stoker25, Redsquirrel87, GeoHot, Condorstrike, Team Hades and everybody else we forgot to mention here.
Don't let yourself get fooled by these dongles guys and happy hacking to everyone!
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Detroit � The playoff beard was ready long ago. And Henrik Zetterberg felt the itch, no doubt. His team was getting desperate.
So back came the captain. And here came the Red Wings, buoyed by the return of Zetterberg from a two-month injury absence as they tried to get even with the Boston Bruins.
The crowd roared, the players perked up, and the scoreboard even registered a goal or two for the home team.
But all things aren�t equal, not even in the Stanley Cup Playoffs, where the decisive moments often look like a fluke. Most comebacks don�t end in triumph, either, which is why Zetterberg wasn�t just back on the ice Thursday night for Game 4. He was back in the dressing room, too, speaking for his team after a devastating loss.
First day back on the job, and there he was, putting a brave face on a death-knell series deficit after an overtime goal that everyone saw coming, long before it ricocheted in off a stick and a leg.
Everyone who understands the law of diminishing returns, that is.
�It�s steep,� Zetterberg said, when asked to survey the mountain his team now faces. �But we know it�s tough to close out a series. We�ve been in that spot before. You�ve just got to go and win a game and bring it back here.�
That�s what a team captain is supposed to say in this moment. And this is what a captain does, what Zetterberg did Thursday night, lacing up his skates and jumping into the fray, ready or not.
And for a time, he looked like the former, though surely not his old self.
A welcome sight
Gone, at least, was the grimace the fans saw the last time Zetterberg was on the ice in front of a sellout crowd at Joe Louis Arena, hobbling to the stage the night Nicklas Lidstrom�s jersey was retired in early March.
In its place was a grin that was a welcome sight, as Zetterberg hugged a couple of beaming new fathers, Pavel Datsyuk and Niklas Kronwall, early in the second period as the Wings celebrated their first two-goal lead of the postseason.
That they�d later relinquish it was no minor detail. And while the primary goal � knotting up the series � remained elusive, it was Zetterberg who started the play on that second goal, fending off a check behind the net to get things rolling.
�I felt good in the first, and halfway through the second,� said Zetterberg, who�d missed the last 27 games after undergoing back surgery in February. �And then I started to have really short shifts.�
And the Wings started to have problems, as the Bruins regained their composure. They were dominant in the faceoff circle all night, and they controlled the rest of the rink in the third period and overtime.
�But that�s the way it is,� Zetterberg continued, speaking about his own stamina, though he might as well have been talking about his team�s as well. �I had this first game, and hopefully it�ll just get better and better.�
Chances are, we�ll never know just how much better he could get in this postseason.
Two goals matched Detroit�s total in the series coming in, but it wouldn�t be enough on this night. Zetterberg�s return probably won�t be, either, given the vanishing acts we�ve seen by some of his teammates against a bigger, better foe in Boston.
But this was something, all right. And it mattered.
More than ice time
Zetterberg had hinted at the possibility of this unexpected return after his first �real practice� with the team Wednesday. But even then, he�d suggested he was days away from his playoff debut, not hours.
�This is just part of the process,� he shrugged, though he acknowledged later, �One of these days you just have to make a decision.�
At that point, he hadn�t yet been medically cleared. And even after Thursday�s morning skate, with Zetterberg on the top line with Datsyuk and Justin Abdelkader, Babcock said there remained some doubt.
�But because we�re even talking about it, I put him in the lineup, put him on the power play,� the coach explained. �The doctors decide, not me. So I�m hopeful.�
Asked what he expected to get from Zetterberg, Babcock admitted he wasn�t entirely sure, though he probably wasn�t expecting nearly 20 minutes of ice time, including 16:15 in regulation, short shifts or not.
�For us, let�s face it: We counted on our kids to get us in (to the playoffs),� said Babcock, who also benched rookie Tomas Jurco in favor of Todd Bertuzzi for Game 4. �We really counted on �em, we needed them to score. But we need some other guys to help them out right now when they�re trying to find their way.�
And who better to show them than Zetterberg, who was such a dominant presence in last year�s surprising postseason run. Babcock said he expected his captain �to provide great leadership, both in the room and on the ice. If we get nothing else, that�s good enough.�
He got a little something else, obviously, and more than just the roar from an appreciative crowd when Zetterberg jumped over the boards for his first shift. Or when he hit Datsyuk in stride on a nice stretch play early in the first period. (Where were those the first three games?) Or when he forced Tuukka Rask to make a juggling glove save on a wrister �Zetterberg�s lone shot on goal Thursday � from the high slot.
�I thought that line had good jump early,� Babcock said.
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If Batman rode a recumbent trike, it would probably look something like "Silk"
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Michigan forward Mitch McGary helped take the Wolverines to the national championship game with 10 points, 12 rebounds and six assists in a 61-56 win over Syracuse. / Robert Deutsch, USA TODAY Sports
John Foss is 51 years old and isn't much of a college basketball fan and, aside from the fact his mother is a Michigan grad and he grew up near Detroit he doesn't have much of a connection with the Michigan basketball team that is playing for a national championship tonight in Atlanta.
Oh, except this - he and the breakout star of the NCAA tournament, Michigan freshman center Mitch McGary, are expert unicyclists.
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"Doesn't surprise me one bit," says Foss, who lives in Carmichael, Calif., just outside of Sacramento, and is the former president of the Unicycling Society of America. "Unicycling is something that would help anyone become more agile and graceful, whether it's a big guy or any guy."
McGary has said he got his first unicycle when he was 12 and fell on his face a few times and busted up his knees and elbows but eventually got quite good at staying aloft on the one-wheeled contraption â?? good enough to jump curbs and even fill in on a friend's paper route.
This tells Foss, who fixes phones and computers for a living, several things about McGary, who after playing most of the season as a role player has averaged 17.5 points and 11.5 rebounds in four NCAA tournament games and has been wowing observers with his passing, his footwork, his midrange shooting and his overall agility.
"90% of people who try unicycling don't stick with it," Foss says. "And they go through the rest of their life thinking it's impossible. But it's something you can learn how to do.
"Basically, you're moving around on top of a wheel and you're manipulating the wheel to keep you balanced. If you're zigzagging, you're very aware of your center of mass and so you have to aim your mass to stay balanced on top of the wheel. As a result, you become skilled at changing direction quickly and remaining balanced."
Foss says that being McGary's size might make it harder to learn to unicycle just because there is a greater mass on top of the wheel and it might be harder to change direction.
But he says there is one thing you can say about all unicyclists.
"They're not afraid to do stuff that is hard," he says.
Foss says he was a somewhat nerdy kid and learning to unicycle improved his self-esteem.
"I liked the idea of 'Wow, I can do this! It makes me feel confident. I can do other things.'"
Like, lead a team to an NCAA basketball championship as a freshman?
Foss says if McGary ever gets tired of playing basketball on his feet, there is a small but passionate group of unicyclists who take their machines onto a basketball court.
He says unicycle basketball has been dominated by the French, though there was a team from Berkeley, Calif., that won a bronze medal in a recent international tournament.
Given McGary's size and basketball skills and unicycle skills, he'd be pretty good, right?
"He might be really, really, really good," says Foss.
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This event is only for the brave at heart...or anyone that likes to hike, likes the winter or just wants a different adventure...it is the annual Winter Hike held at Hocking Hills State Park in Logan, Ohio. Held in the dead of winter, you never know what the weather will bring, but thousands of hikers look forward to the experience each year.
It is a six-mile trek from Old Man's Cave to Ash Cave and the scenery is truly a part of the draw. The hike features a continuous starts from 9 to 11 a.m. Hot bean soup is served midway at Cedar Falls for a donation and a shuttle bus is there to return hikers from Ash Cave to their car.
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Hocking Hills is among the state's most popular winter destinations. There are a variety of short and easy hikes to longer adventures like the annual winter hike. There is something suitable for everyone to get a view of the gorgeous rock formations.
"So many people make New Year's resolutions that include getting in shape or enjoying live more, there's nothing better than a Hocking Hills hiking getaway to help them achieve those goals," said Hocking Hills Tourism Association Executive Director Karen Raymore.
Winter is truly a magical time in the Hills and with a little preparation, visitors will enjoy a dazzling winter wonderland marked by soaring cliffs and gorges and waterfalls that freeze into beautiful crystal formations,"
The Hocking Hills Tourism Association has compiled the following tips for winter hikers.
Stop by the Hocking Hills Regional Welcome Center for trail maps and travel suggestions. You can also borrow a Flip Video Camera.
Stay on the trail. Naturalists report that accidents only occur when hikers leave the trail.
If your feet are cold your whole body will be cold. Wear waterproof hiking boots designed for cold weather and good traction. Keep metal cleats in your backpack and attach to your boots if your boots if you encounter ice on the trail.
Wear multiple pairs of socks, as many as you can comfortably fit in your boots. You can always take some off it you get too warm. Carry extra dry socks in a waterproof bag in your backpack.
Use trekking poles or cross country ski poles for extra stability.
Stay hydrated. Pack water in your backpack. Energy bars are a good idea.
Cover your hands and face. A ski mask covers your entire face or can be rolled up to just cover your head and ears. Wear insulated gloves and carry an extra pair.
Layer clothes. While hiking you may become warm. This allows you to remove items as needed. If possible, carry extra dry thermal underwear in your pack.
Know the weather forecast and trails. Carry a compass, map and cell phone with you. Your cell phone may not work in all areas, but it's a good idea to have one. A hand-held GPS unit is also a great idea.
Don't hike alone. It's always more fun with friends. If you must hike alone, be sure to tell someone where you are hiking and what time you expect to finish.
Don't forget your camera. Winter in the hills provides dramatic scenery. You will want to share your photos with your friends and family on Facebook or Twitter. Show them how you braved the elements. But, in the case of the Hocking Hills Winter Hike...don't tell them about the bean soup and the shuttle!
The park is located 40 miles southeast of Columbus. It offers once in a lifetime experiences, that make every day feel like Saturday. There are many free activities for family members. There is plenty of affordable lodging facilities from camping, cabins to hotels and inns.
There is much more than hiking. With a total of 50 ziplines offered it is known as the zipline capital of the Midwest. There is canoeing, horseback riding, golf, spas, unique shops and more to explore.
The Winter Hike is traditionally held in January and in 2012 the date is Jan. 21. For more information on the park or dates of events visit
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SAN DIEGO ( TheStreet) -- As Jazz Poulin talks about plans to expand by 50 destinations in the coming year and revenues of $100 million, it's hard to believe Luxury Retreats is a company started by a 17-year-old.
Yes, a 17-year-old. Working out of his bedroom. At his dad's house.
And when young Joe Poulin needed a little help running his luxury vacation rental business, he turned to the person in the next bedroom -- his older brother Jazz, who was 19 at the time.
Success came quickly. Within less than a year, the Poulin brothers were moving the business out of their bedrooms and into an office.
That was in 2000. Today Luxury Retreats, based in Montreal, Canada, represents 2,000 villas in 50 countries and employs 150 people worldwide. And these are no ordinary vacation rentals. Luxury Retreats' typical rental property costs between $2,000 and $30,000 a night, and some are as much as $165,000. (For that per-night price Luxury Retreats will put you on a private island in Grenada, in a property that includes 25 bedrooms.)
"It's a long way," recalls Jazz Poulin during a recent discussion about the company's beginnings. "Joe deserves full credit. He did start it by himself."
Luxury Retreats grew from its original four properties -- primarily in what Poulin refers to as sun destinations in the Caribbean -- when happy clients started asking for more options around the world to choose from.
The slate of 2013 expansion plans in what is now the largest villa rental company in the industry includes further moves into new territory, geographically and in terms of concept.
"We've been adding more aggressively in Europe. And for the first time we are adding urban destinations, like New York City, San Francisco and Los Angeles," Poulin says. In another change, the urban properties cater to clients doing short trips throughout the year, often for just a weekend.
"The affluent traveler, we know, travels very often. And we know they go to New York or San Francisco or other cities. So this is an opportunity for us to be constantly involved in our guest's travel planning year-round, rather than Luxury Retreats being their go-to business just once a year," he says.
The company's inclusion of destinations such as Morocco and Italy cannot be overlooked, though, as Luxury Retreats takes on Northern African properties that Poulin says are akin to palaces.
"These are almost like living with the Saudi royal family. They are giant homes," Poulin says.
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Bladder cancer is the sixth most common cancer in the United States after lung cancer, prostate cancer, breast cancer, colon cancer, and lymphoma. It is the third most common cancer in men but only the eleventh most common cancer in women. Of the roughly 70,000 new cases annually, about 53,000 are in men and about 18,000 are in women. Of the roughly 15,000 annual deaths, over 10,000 are in men and fewer than 5,000 are in women. The reasons for this disparity between the sexes are not well understood.
Estimated new cases and deaths from bladder cancer in the United States in 2015:[1]
- New cases: 74,000.
- Deaths: 16,000.
The urinary tract consists of the kidneys, the ureters, the bladder, and the urethra. The urinary tract is lined with transitional cell urothelium from the renal pelvis to the proximal urethra. Transitional cell carcinoma (also referred to as urothelial carcinoma) can develop anywhere along this pathway.
Under normal conditions, the bladder, the lower part of the kidneys (the renal pelvises), the ureters, and the proximal urethra are lined with a specialized mucous membrane referred to as transitional epithelium (also called urothelium). Most cancers that form in the bladder, the renal pelvises, the ureters, and the proximal urethra are transitional cell carcinomas (also called urothelial carcinomas) that derive from transitional epithelium. (Refer to the PDQ summaries on Renal Cell Cancer Treatment and Transitional Cell Cancer of the Renal Pelvis and Ureter Treatment for more information.)
Transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder can be low-grade or high-grade:
- Low-grade bladder cancer often recurs in the bladder after treatment but rarely invades the muscular wall of the bladder or spreads to other parts of the body. Patients rarely die from low-grade bladder cancer.
- High-grade bladder cancer commonly recurs in the bladder and also has a strong tendency to invade the muscular wall of the bladder and spread to other parts of the body. High-grade bladder cancer is treated more aggressively than low-grade bladder cancer and is much more likely to result in death. Almost all deaths from bladder cancer are due to high-grade disease.
Bladder cancer is also divided into muscle-invasive and nonmuscle-invasive disease, based on invasion of the muscularis propria (also referred to as the detrusor muscle), which is the thick muscle deep in the bladder wall.
- Muscle-invasive disease is much more likely to spread to other parts of the body and is generally treated by either removing the bladder or treating the bladder with radiation and chemotherapy. As noted above, high-grade cancers are much more likely to be muscle-invasive than low-grade cancers. Thus, muscle-invasive cancers are generally treated more aggressively than nonmuscle-invasive cancers.
- Nonmuscle-invasive disease can often be treated by removing the tumor(s) via a transurethral approach, and sometimes chemotherapy or other treatments are introduced into the bladder with a catheter to help fight the cancer.
Under conditions of chronic inflammation, such as infection of the bladder with the Schistosoma haematobium parasite, squamous metaplasia may occur in the bladder; the incidence of squamous cell carcinomas of the bladder is higher under conditions of chronic inflammation than is otherwise seen. In addition to transitional cell carcinomas and squamous cell carcinomas, adenocarcinomas, small cell carcinomas, and sarcomas can form in the bladder. In the United States, transitional cell carcinomas represent the vast majority (over 90%) of bladder cancers. However, a significant number of transitional cell carcinomas have areas of squamous or other differentiation.
Carcinogenesis and Risk Factors
There is strong evidence linking exposure to carcinogens to bladder cancer. The most common risk factor for bladder cancer in the United States is cigarette smoking. It is estimated that up to half of all bladder cancers are caused by cigarette smoking and that smoking increases a person's risk of bladder cancer two to four times above baseline risk.[2,3] Smokers with less functional polymorphisms of N-acetyltransferase-2 (known as slow acetylators) have a higher risk of bladder cancer than other smokers, presumably because of their reduced ability to detoxify carcinogens.
Certain occupational exposures have also been linked to bladder cancer, and higher rates of bladder cancer have been reported in textile dye and rubber tire industries; among painters; leather workers; shoemakers; and aluminum-, iron-, and steelworkers. Specific chemicals linked to bladder carcinogenesis include beta-naphthylamine, 4-aminobiphenyl, and benzidine. Although these chemicals are now generally banned in Western countries, many other chemicals still in use are also suspected of causing bladder cancer.[3]
Exposure to the chemotherapy drug cyclophosphamide has also been associated with an increased risk of bladder cancer.
Chronic urinary tract infections and infection with the parasite S. haematobium have also been associated with an increased risk of bladder cancer, often squamous cell carcinomas. Chronic inflammation is thought to play a key role in carcinogenesis in these settings.
Clinical Features
Bladder cancer typically presents with gross or microscopic hematuria. Less commonly, patients may complain of urinary frequency, nocturia, and dysuria, symptoms that are more common in patients with carcinoma in situ. Patients with upper urinary tract urothelial carcinomas may present with pain due to obstruction by the tumor.
It is important to note that urothelial carcinomas are often multifocal—the entire urothelium needs to be evaluated if a tumor is found. In patients with bladder cancer, upper urinary tract imaging is essential for staging and surveillance. This can be accomplished with ureteroscopy, retrograde pyelograms during cystoscopy, intravenous pyelograms, or computed tomography (CT) urograms. Similarly, patients with an upper urinary tract transitional cell carcinoma have a high risk of developing bladder cancer; these patients need periodic cystoscopy and surveillance of the contralateral upper urinary tract.
When bladder cancer is suspected, the most useful diagnostic test is cystoscopy. Radiological studies such as CT scans or ultrasound do not have sufficient sensitivity to be useful for detecting bladder cancers. Cystoscopy can be performed in a urology clinic.
If cancer is seen on cystoscopy, the patient is typically scheduled for bimanual examination under anesthesia and a repeat cystoscopy in an operating room so that transurethral resection of the tumor(s) and/or biopsies can be performed. If a high-grade cancer (including carcinoma in situ) or invasive cancer is seen, the patient is staged with a CT scan of the abdomen and pelvis (or CT urogram) and either a chest x-ray or chest CT scan. Patients with a nonhepatic elevation of alkaline phosphatase or symptoms suggestive of bone metastases undergo a bone scan.
Prognostic Factors
The major prognostic factors in carcinoma of the bladder are the following:
- Depth of invasion into the bladder wall.
- Pathologic grade of the tumor.
- Presence versus absence of carcinoma in situ.
Among nonmuscle-invasive cancers, the following factors are also prognostic:[4]
- Number of tumors.
- Tumor size (e.g., >3 cm or <3 cm).
- Invasion of the lamina propria (Ta vs. T1).
- Whether the tumor is the primary tumor or a recurrence.
Most superficial tumors are well differentiated. Patients in whom superficial tumors are less differentiated, large, multiple, or associated with carcinoma in situ (Tis) in other areas of the bladder mucosa are at greatest risk of recurrence and the development of invasive cancer. These patients may be considered to have the entire urothelial surface at risk of cancer development.
Patients who die from bladder cancer almost always have disease that has metastasized from the bladder to other organs. Low-grade bladder cancers rarely grow into the muscular wall of the bladder and rarely metastasize, so patients with low-grade (grade I) bladder cancers very rarely die from their cancer. Nonetheless, they may experience multiple relapses that need to be resected.
Almost all deaths from bladder cancer are among patients with high-grade disease, which has a much greater potential to invade deeply into the bladder's muscular wall and spread to other organs.
Approximately 70% to 80% of patients with newly diagnosed bladder cancer will present with superficial bladder tumors (i.e., stage Ta, Tis, or T1). The prognosis of these patients depends largely on the grade of the tumor. Patients with high-grade tumors have a significant risk of dying of their cancer even if it is not muscle-invasive.[5] Among patients with high-grade tumors, those who present with superficial, nonmuscle-invasive bladder cancer can usually be cured, and those with muscle-invasive disease can sometimes be cured.[6-8] Studies have demonstrated that some patients with distant metastases have achieved long-term complete response after being treated with combination chemotherapy regimens, although most such patients have metastases limited to their lymph nodes and have a near-normal performance status.[9,10]
There are clinical trials suitable for patients with all stages of bladder cancer; whenever possible, clinical trials designed to improve upon standard therapy should be considered.
General information about clinical trials is also available from the NCI Web site.
Bladder cancer tends to recur, even when it is noninvasive at the time of diagnosis; therefore standard practice is to perform surveillance of the urinary tract after a diagnosis of bladder cancer. However, no trials have been conducted to assess whether surveillance affects rates of progression, survival, or quality of life; nor have clinical trials defined an optimal surveillance schedule. Urothelial carcinomas are thought to reflect a so-called field defect whereby the cancer emerges due to genetic mutations that are widely present in the patient's bladder or entire urothelium. Thus, people who have had a bladder tumor resected often subsequently have recurrent tumors in the bladder, often in different locations from the site of the initial tumor. Similarly, but less commonly, they may have tumors appear in the upper urinary tract (i.e., in the renal pelvises or ureters).
An alternative explanation for these patterns of recurrence is that cancer cells that are disrupted when a tumor is resected may reimplant elsewhere in the urothelium. Support for this second theory is that tumors are more likely to recur downstream than upstream from the initial cancer. Upper urinary tract cancers are more likely to recur in the bladder than bladder cancers are to recur in the upper urinary tract.[11-14]
Related Summaries
Other PDQ summaries containing information related to bladder cancer include the following:
- American Cancer Society: Cancer Facts and Figures 2015. Atlanta, Ga: American Cancer Society, 2015. Available online. Last accessed April 1, 2015.
- Brennan P, Bogillot O, Greiser E, et al.: The contribution of cigarette smoking to bladder cancer in women (pooled European data). Cancer Causes Control 12 (5): 411-7, 2001. [PUBMED Abstract]
- Kirkali Z, Chan T, Manoharan M, et al.: Bladder cancer: epidemiology, staging and grading, and diagnosis. Urology 66 (6 Suppl 1): 4-34, 2005. [PUBMED Abstract]
- Sylvester RJ, van der Meijden AP, Oosterlinck W, et al.: Predicting recurrence and progression in individual patients with stage Ta T1 bladder cancer using EORTC risk tables: a combined analysis of 2596 patients from seven EORTC trials. Eur Urol 49 (3): 466-5; discussion 475-7, 2006. [PUBMED Abstract]
- Herr HW: Tumor progression and survival of patients with high grade, noninvasive papillary (TaG3) bladder tumors: 15-year outcome. J Urol 163 (1): 60-1; discussion 61-2, 2000. [PUBMED Abstract]
- Stein JP, Lieskovsky G, Cote R, et al.: Radical cystectomy in the treatment of invasive bladder cancer: long-term results in 1,054 patients. J Clin Oncol 19 (3): 666-75, 2001. [PUBMED Abstract]
- Madersbacher S, Hochreiter W, Burkhard F, et al.: Radical cystectomy for bladder cancer today--a homogeneous series without neoadjuvant therapy. J Clin Oncol 21 (4): 690-6, 2003. [PUBMED Abstract]
- Manoharan M, Ayyathurai R, Soloway MS: Radical cystectomy for urothelial carcinoma of the bladder: an analysis of perioperative and survival outcome. BJU Int 104 (9): 1227-32, 2009. [PUBMED Abstract]
- Loehrer PJ Sr, Einhorn LH, Elson PJ, et al.: A randomized comparison of cisplatin alone or in combination with methotrexate, vinblastine, and doxorubicin in patients with metastatic urothelial carcinoma: a cooperative group study. J Clin Oncol 10 (7): 1066-73, 1992. [PUBMED Abstract]
- von der Maase H, Sengelov L, Roberts JT, et al.: Long-term survival results of a randomized trial comparing gemcitabine plus cisplatin, with methotrexate, vinblastine, doxorubicin, plus cisplatin in patients with bladder cancer. J Clin Oncol 23 (21): 4602-8, 2005. [PUBMED Abstract]
- Millán-Rodríguez F, Chéchile-Toniolo G, Salvador-Bayarri J, et al.: Primary superficial bladder cancer risk groups according to progression, mortality and recurrence. J Urol 164 (3 Pt 1): 680-4, 2000. [PUBMED Abstract]
- Nieder AM, Brausi M, Lamm D, et al.: Management of stage T1 tumors of the bladder: International Consensus Panel. Urology 66 (6 Suppl 1): 108-25, 2005. [PUBMED Abstract]
- Babjuk M, Oosterlinck W, Sylvester R, et al.: EAU guidelines on non-muscle-invasive urothelial carcinoma of the bladder. Eur Urol 54 (2): 303-14, 2008. [PUBMED Abstract]
- Babjuk M, Oosterlinck W, Sylvester R, et al.: EAU guidelines on non-muscle-invasive urothelial carcinoma of the bladder, the 2011 update. Eur Urol 59 (6): 997-1008, 2011. [PUBMED Abstract]


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I only hope they don't push the Python sh#t, the core apps like software updater and software center are written in a scripted language. Canonical, get serious please and hire devs who're not afraid of pointers.
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I only hope they don't push the Python sh#t, the core apps like software updater and software center are written in a scripted language. Canonical, get serious please and hire devs who're not afraid of pointers.
Yes it is, but being a scripted language it sucks for anything except scripts, not full featured sophisticated stuff.
A script spends extra time & CPU cycles on launching & initializing an interpreter, feeding it the stuff and executing under-optimized compiled code, part of the code will be interpreted anyway (Java doesn't compile anything either) - and all this extra effort happens any time you launch a scripted app. For small scripts it almost doesn't matter, but for big apps like the software center it's obvious - of course not anyone notices it, some people are so stupid they won't notice an elephant in a room.
To a great extent same is true about Java, except that Java uses a lot more memory.
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Uh huh. That extra second you spend launching the app obviously matters so much.
Sry for the caps. But srsly, Vala is the only sane choice in my opinion.
Its easy to use(as easy as Java, C#), yet it does not run in a runtime environment, it is converted to C+GObject Code and then compiled and is therefore supported on all platforms with GObject libs.
Hopefully there will be a good IDE pushed, Geany would be great!
You worry about Python? How about worrying about not being able to run Ubuntu software on non-Ubuntu distros instead? If Ubuntu introduces an SDK, this will in effect mean that it's not a Linux distribution anymore. It will be more like a new operating system, and software targeting it will not run on "normal" Linux distributions, including Debian.
This is _exactly_ what I wanted to point out, too. We do already have the big problem that some Ubuntu Software packages don't work in other distros (due to, let's call them, "Ubuntu-Hacks").
If Canonical really decided to go this way, I would have nothing left for their Operating System. On the other hand, it is enlightening to hear that Arch (even though I don't like it very much) is constantly growing on a free software-basis without too immediate corporate interests fulfilled, which provides a great alternative to Ubuntu.
It must be LSB compatible alike google has done with google earth. Anything else is antediluvian and should be trashed immediately.


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Originally I didn't know what to think of the game, when not much was said about it and then learning it was given to Platinum Games I thought great another failure. I was wrong, the gameplay reminds me of an old school game that gave you the tools but said I'm gonna come kick your ass which I'm a fan of cause everything is skill based, no room for crybabies that keep dying and take it out on their innocent controller.
It felt like a breathe of fresh air honestly, the reputation of Metal Gear has always been about solid gameplay and I think Rising takes it up a notch.
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11-13-2012 #1
I was impressed by the Metal Gear Rising demo
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11-13-2012 #2
Moved to Metal Gear subforum.
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There's a Metal Gear Rising demo on PSN/Live? Or did you play this somewhere else?
11-13-2012 #4
There is a Rising demo in the Zone of the Enders HD Collection. I really want to play it.
Honestly, while I was a tiny bit worried when there was little to no talk about it. I was confident that Platinum Games would deliver an awesome game (I loved Bayonetta) especially with the guidance of Kojima Productions. I haven't played the demo yet but I already plan on picking up MGR.
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LOL I love it how most people now get very excited for the game and talk of it in high tones, when the same people were $#@!ing about this game like it was the seed of Satan himself... LOL it's AL-WAYS the same! And I could think of a similar fate for DMC (the reboot of Devil May Cry). Many many DMC fans (I am a DMC fan too btw) wrote comments on youtube that were absolutely disgusting, they sweared and insulted the developers, especially Tameem Antoniades (the game director I believe), but now their voices get more silent every day, and every day the number grows of them saying "Yeah Ok, I hate his hair and that the old games don' get continued, but I'll give it a try. It looks very cool to be fair."
I'm not saying that anyone of you guys is such an ignorant person, I just wanted to tell you.
And yeah, I'm very excited for MGR Revengeance. I guess I'll buy the MGS HD Collection (AFAIK it includes MGS2, MGS3, MGS Peace Walker and the very very old titles MG and MG2 I think), but MGS1 isn't included in this collection. So I'd have to buy it fo 10 bucks on PSN... dude that's a little too much for a PSone game in my opinion. But whatever... And of course - MGS4.
What do you guys say? Is it worth playing MGS1? I mean MGS2 and 3 look acceptable, but MGS1 looks very very old. But this guy on youtube called "Jeremy Jahns" (he reviews movies, but sometimes reviews games or talks about games) reviewed all four MGS games and gave them the score "AWESOMETACULAR!!!" - each one of them. This got me thinking... what if... MGS1 is a blast and I'm missing out on one of the greatest franchises ever created?
If somebody could give me his/her opinion I'd appreciate it.
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11-20-2012 #7
Well i wasnt at all impressed....the game seems ok but the gfx..are too generic.It got a hit from been a multiplatform title.
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I loved every second of it...and this is coming from a dude who absolutely detested what he saw when Platinum Games revealed their take on the concept. The gameplay is fluid and interactive the Zandatsu element is fleshed out. Now all I need is a good story and I'll gladly be happy with this game.
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it was a good demo and a great game overall..
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A stunning typographical visualization sheds new light on the game's original meaning.
It's amazing, except you missed the word "Defend" in "a world we must defend". I would totally order it if you could correct that mistake (I'm sure it's difficult to do though).
Also the middle word being "Pokemon" would have had a greater effect, but yeah this is awesome, definitely favouriting. C:
Thanks for the comment. I took the time and fixed the missing word, and changed the middle word to 'Pokemon.'
I'm glad you like it!
Wow I'm impressed! :D I'm deciding between grey and black now, haha. :D Thanks a lot.
Recently ordered this as a poster, and I am in love with it :) Amazing and so creative. It brings back so many wonderful memories! Thank you so much!