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In the early 1990s, Belarus gained its independence after the collapse of the USSR and began the process of economic and social transition. Families and children, though, continue to bear the costs of the lengthy realignment. The country also has experienced tremendous environmental, health, social, political, economic and human consequences because of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. The number of children with disabilities has tripled since 1990, and the number of orphaned children has doubled since 1995. The financial crisis of 2011 led to a huge decrease in income for Belarusian families, resulting in increased depression and alcoholism consumption across the population.
More and more children are at risk from family breakdown, divorce, parental substance abuse and violence, and there are growing numbers of abused and neglected children and social orphans (children who have been legally withdrawn from their parents with deprivation of parental rights).
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One of ChildFund Belarus' programs, Supporting Orphans and Vulnerable Children, helps return orphaned children who live in institutions to a sense of normalcy by providing opportunities for them to experience visits of varying length with "guest" or foster families. Both the families and children benefit by learning about each other, and these connections often lead to permanent foster care. By 2009, orphan institutionalization had dropped to 6 percent in communities ChildFund serves, compared to the national average of 25 percent.
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WASHINGTON "Are you falling asleep after dinner?"
"Do you have a decrease in libido?"
"Have you noticed a recent deterioration in your ability to play sports?"
"It could be Low-T."
Welcome to the latest big marketing push by U.S. drug companies. In this case, it's a web page for Abbott Laboratories' Androgel, a billion-dollar selling testosterone gel used by millions of American men struggling with the symptoms of growing older that are associated with low testosterone, such as poor sex drive, weight gain and fatigue.
Androgel is one of a growing number of prescription gels, patches and injections aimed at boosting the male hormone that begins to decline after about age 40. Drugmakers and some doctors claim testosterone therapy can reverse some of the signs of aging - even though the safety and effectiveness of such treatments is unclear.
"The problem is that we don't have any evidence that prescribing testosterone to older men with relatively low testosterone levels does any good," says Dr. Sergei Romashkan, who oversees clinical trials for the National Institute on Aging, a part of the National Institutes of Health conglomerate of research centers.
Low testosterone is the latest example of a once-natural part of getting old that has become a target for medical treatment. Bladder problems, brittle bones and hot flashes have followed a similar path: from inconvenient facts of life, to ailments that can be treated with drugs. The rise of such therapies is being fueled by both demographics and industry marketing.
Baby boomers are living longer and looking for ways to deal with the infirmities of old age: Life expectancy in the U.S. today is 78 years, up from 69 years a half-century ago. And companies have stepped up their marketing to the older crowd: Spending on print and television ads promoting testosterone by firms like Abbott and Eli Lilly has risen more than 170 percent in the last three years to more than $14 million in 2011, according to advertising tracker Kantar Media.
Doctors say that's led to an increase in men seeking treatment for low testosterone. Prescriptions for the hormone have increased nearly 90 percent over the last five years, according to IMS Health. Last year, global sales reached $1.9 billion.
"People are living longer and want to be more active," says Dr. Spyros Mezitis, a hormone specialist at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York. "They no longer consider that because they're older they shouldn't have sexual intercourse."
Former marathon runner Damon Lease, 50, had been complaining of low energy and depression, for which his doctor prescribed a combination of four psychiatric drugs. But since he started taking twice-a-week testosterone injections in May, he says he's been able to stop taking two of the medications and hopes to eliminate them completely. He says he has more energy, improved mood and concentration.
"I spent 27 years running long distances, I like biking, I like hiking, and I guess every guy wants to have an active sex life ... I want to keep doing those things as long as I can," says Lease, who works as a software company executive. "I feel 20 years younger."

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SIX BILLION DOLLARS' WORTH OF SURPLUS. Six billion. Being rich beats being poor any day, but for states, as for individuals, three things are still true: The money is never enough, it doesn't solve all your problems, and all the relatives want a piece of it. So the 76th Legislature, which begins meeting this month, will find plenty to fight over.
The budget will overshadow all the other issues this session, including such hardy biennials as school vouchers, parental notification of abortions, tort reform (to limit Y2K lawsuits), a turf fight between local and long distance telephone companies, and electric restructuring, which used to be called electric deregulation until some pollster found that the public liked the same idea better if it was called restructuring. The only thing that matters is money, money, money, and the claimants are everywhere: tax cutters, big spenders, universities, highway builders, and children's health advocates, to name a few. Just about everybody can make a good case. The state parks system is broke. Nursing homes are pleading for more state money, and so are mental health professionals who want the state to pay for expensive new drugs. Schoolteachers could use a pay raise, as always. Somehow Governor George W. Bush, Lieutenant Governor Rick Perry, and Speaker of the House Pete Laney must make the tough decisions at a time when Bush is thinking about running for president, Perry is trying to learn the ropes, and Laney is clinging to the narrowest of margins over Republicans that a Democratic Speaker has had in the two-party era.
We were trying to sort all this out when, wonder of wonders, we stumbled upon what appear to be confidential memos to the state's three top officials from their political consultants. For your eyes only.
To: George W. Bush
From: Graham O. Partie, Republican consultant
THE FIRST THING YOU HAVE TO DO IS MAKE UP YOUR MIND whether you're running for president. You'd like to get through the session without tipping your hand—the longer you wait, the less time the media and your Republican rivals will have to shower abuse on you. But you can't delay much longer, because you can't settle on a legislative program until you know where you're headed. This means that your priorities will reveal your intentions. If you come out with a program designed to satisfy national Republican litmus tests—tax cuts and school vouchers—everyone will know that your hat is in the ring. But if you're planning to stick around Texas for the next four years, you can spend some of the political capital you amassed in getting almost 70 percent of the vote last November to make Texas a better place. You can continue your battle for tax reform, look for more ways to strengthen public education, throw your weight behind the constitutional revision proposed by two leading legislators, Senator Bill Ratliff (Republican, Mount Pleasant) and Representative Rob Junell (Democrat, San Angelo), and help determine which causes are the most worthy to share in the $6 billion windfall.
Which will it be? Your closest political adviser, Austin consultant Karl Rove, let the cat out of the bag at an October forum when he was asked how your race against Democrat Garry Mauro was faring. "The governor's race is over," Rove said. "This is all about 2000 now." What Rove meant was that with victory certain, it was time to concentrate on the size of your margin and your percentage of the Hispanic vote, two elements that are vital to your national image as an inclusive politician who can attract Democratic voters.
As a presidential candidate, tax cuts must be at the top of your list. It is the most important credential for a GOP governor. You should have little trouble winning approval of giving businesses a franchise-tax exemption of the first $100,000 in sales and a franchise-tax credit for high-tech research and development. But your proposal for property-tax relief of up to $2 billion is going to be a tough sell. The Democratic Speaker of the House, Pete Laney, has been your ally in past sessions because he believed you were motivated by doing what is best for Texas. If he thinks your tax cut is motivated by presidential politics, he won't help you.
Another problem is that the surplus is not as big as it looks. The Texas constitution limits spending increases to the rate of growth of the state's economy, so although there will be an extra $6.3 billion available to spend in the next budget cycle, the rate-of-growth formula limits the budget increase to $5.3 billion. Much of the remaining billion will go into the state's rainy-day fund as a hedge against a future tax increase in case our economy nose-dives. Enrollment growth in public schools and the cost of maintaining the current level of state services to a growing population takes up another $3 billion. (The opening of new prisons, for example, will cost $250 million.) Now you're down to $2 billion, you still haven't gotten your property-tax cut, and you're competing against all those interest groups for the balance. And there is always the possibility—if rumor is to be believed—that the new state comptroller, Carole Rylander, might slash the estimate of available revenue, just to be on the prudent side. Poof! The surplus would be gone.
You also have some spending plans of your own. Your proposal to end the social promotion of students who can't pass the TAAS test carries a $200 million price tag for summer schools and other remedial programs, and your idea of refurbishing Texas courthouses isn't cheap either. The cost of your own proposals, including tax cuts, is more than the $2 billion that is thought to be available. It looks as if you are headed for a repeat of 1997, when you settled for a face-saving increase in the homestead exemption that was worth $1 billion instead of the property-tax overhaul you really wanted.
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Back in 2006, the ghosts aboard Mystic Seaport's whaling ship Charles W. Morgan got some big publicity of their own.
The Morgan ghosts, including one frequently seen by seaport staff and visitors, an old gentleman working with line and smoking a pipe, were featured on a segment of ABC's Good Morning America.
Apparently, the show reported, the Morgan ghost stories began spreading in 1997, during the making of Steven Spielberg's movie "Amistad," which was filmed, in part, aboard the Morgan.
Surely the ghosts will be in attendance when the rebuilt Morgan is relaunched with appropriate pomp and ceremony July 21.
But there are other voices, from ghosts or others, living or not, that would be interesting to hear at the July ceremony, another significant milestone for this much-traveled, much-restored 172-year-old ship, a registered national landmark.
It would be interesting to hear from Charles W. Morgan himself, the Quaker merchant from New Bedford, the first owner, for whom the ship was named. Morgan was a prominent whaling investor at a time when New Bedford, lubricated with whale oil, was about the richest place on earth.
Morgan died, though, with more debts than assets. The ship named after him, the last surviving wooden whale ship, is proving to be better in the legacy category.
But perhaps another more interesting person to hear from July 21 would be Hetty Green, the daughter of the second owner, Edward Mott Robinson of New Bedford.
Green was quite a character in her own right, becoming the money-savvy bookkeeper for her whaling-rich family at the age of 13. After inheriting $7.5 million in 1864, she went on to become one of the first women to have a significant impact on the New York financial world. She was known for her frugality in the Gilded Age, earning the nickname "The Witch of Wall Street."
It was her son, Colonel E.H.R. Green, who helped marshal the Morgan on its path toward preservation.
The Morgan was originally preserved in a sand dock on Green's estate near New Bedford in 1925. The Morgan, having long finished its whaling voyages, became the last surviving whaler the year before, after the whaling ship Wanderer left New Bedford at the start of a hurricane and was wrecked on the rocks off Cuttyhunk.
The Morgan, at Green's estate, became part of "The Whaler Charles W. Morgan Enshrined and Round Hill Repository of Maritime Antiquities," eventually attracting more than 2 million visitors.
The ship was acquired from some investors after Green died and was brought to Mystic in 1941, where it was once again embedded in sand and put on display.
Maybe another voice that would be good to hear July 21 would be that of Waldo C. M. Johnson, the director of Mystic Seaport who put into motion the first major rebuild of the Morgan in 1973, the one that made it float again.
"What we have here," Johnson told The New York Times in 1973, "is a whole new science: ship geriatrics."
It was under Johnson's direction that the seaport made the decision to make the Morgan a ship again, not just a display.
"The easiest thing to do would be to fill her hold with cement and make it just a stationary platform for the upper decks and rigging," he said then. "We thought hard about that possibility, believe me. ... We decided to save the life of the old girl to keep her alive and visible for future generations."
Another seaport director, Donald Robinson, said in 1983, after another substantial renovation, one lasting three years, that technology makes each new project on the Morgan better, even though some things, like the way shipwrights work the wood, never change.
"We will never be finished with the Morgan," Robinson said, prophetically, in 1983.
Indeed, this latest restoration, in preparation for the whaling ship's 38th voyage, planned as a tour of New England ports and whaling grounds next spring, included all kinds of new X-ray imaging to map out digitally the work that needed to be done.
Another person who it would be interesting to hear from July 21 would be Lawrence Lopes, who turned up in Mystic in 1973, when the Morgan was yanked from the sand and found to be remarkably watertight, before being moved to a dry dock for the rebuild.
Lopes immigrated aboard the Morgan to the United States from the British Colony of St. Helena in 1916, when his father was the ship's first mate.
He declined to go aboard again in 1973, after tugs moved the ship down the Mystic River to dry dock.
"I've seen plenty of her," he told a reporter.
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In this course, photographer and author Ben Long details the features, controls, and options in the Canon 5D Mark III digital SLR. The course begins with an overview of what a digital SLR is and takes a tour of the basic camera components. Ben then discusses the basic camera operation: changing lenses, navigating the menus, shooting in automatic mode, reviewing and managing photos on the LCD screen, and transferring photos to a computer.
Next, the course introduces more advanced exposure options: program mode, exposure compensation, ISO adjustments, and more. After Ben briefly defines each option, he shows how to adjust it using the camera controls.
Ben also discusses white balance options, advanced metering and autofocus controls, flash, live view, and video shooting. The course ends with a chapter on maintenance, including sensor- and camera-cleaning and care tips.
When you activate live view, your camera raises its mirror out of the way, so that light can get all the way through the lens, and back to the sensor that's back here. It's the sensor that creates the image that's shown on the LCD screen, so no live view image can be created when the mirror is down, and in the way of the sensor. Unfortunately, there's something else that happens when the mirror flips up. The autofocus sensors in your camera are located up here in the camera's pentaprism. Light from the lens gets bounced up here, and the autofocus sensors analyze it to calculate focus.
But when the mirror is flipped up, those sensors basically go blind, meaning your camera loses its normal autofocus capability. So when you're in live view, the camera has to use a different method to autofocus. By default, rather than relying on its autofocus sensors, the computer in your camera will analyze the image that the sensor is capturing, and focus accordingly. A practical upshot is that autofocus in live view is much slower than it is when you shoot normally. Your camera has some additional autofocus modes, though, that you can activate to help deal with this problem.
In the last movie, you saw how the Mark III's default autofocus works, and while it's good for a lot of situations, the camera does offer a couple of other live view autofocusing options. I'm going to go into the menu here, and on the very last page of the shooting category, I've got a bunch of live view Options. The second one is Auto Focus mode. It defaults to Live mode, which is what you've seen so far; that's where I get the one focus point in the middle of the screen that I can steer around with the multi-controller. If I pop this open, though, I have two other options. I have a really happy Live mode.
I think what this is actually referring to is face detection Live mode, so this will actually try to identify faces in your scene, and focus on those. And then I have Quick mode, which gets us back to using the camera's autofocus sensors, and it has a few different advantages over Live mode. I'm going to Set that right now, and go back into live view here. So things have changed here. I still have the box I had before, but now I have this other little box, which looks suspiciously to be the same size as one of the camera's standard focus points, and that's because it is.
This is actually my focus point now; this small box. The larger box is a metering box. So, a couple of things are cool here; I can meter independently of focus now, and I get faster, and more accurate focus. So this is actually a focusing point; one of the 61 that I have available. I can choose to focus right now on that focus point by half-pressing the shutter button, and the screen went black, and the camera beeped. So what happened was when I half-pressed the button, the mirror came back down.
That allowed light to get back up to my focus sensors. It quickly took a focus reading; once it had, it beeped to lock focus, and then it raised the mirror back up to give me live view. So when that mirror went down, my autofocus sensors could see, but my sensor no longer could, so my viewfinder went black. The camera makes a lot of noise and shakes during that also. The problem right now is I'm focusing on that part of the table, which I don't really want; I'd rather focus on this camera. I do that just like I would in normal shooting. I select a different focus point. So I'm going to press my focus point select button back here, and now I get this menu of all the different focus points I have, and I'm going to steer -- oops! Timed out there.
I'm going to steer over here with my multi-controller, and put it right there. If I wanted, I could also change focus point by using the quick control dial here. If I use the main dial, that will steer it around also. And this is showing me what focus mode I'm in. I can change that by pressing my multi-function button up here, and get all of the normal focus modes. In other words, I have the full autofocus system that I would normally have in normal shooting. So I'm going to accept that, and now when I autofocus you can see that it lit up green there.
It is autofocused on this point, which is great; that's where I want it. My metering box is still where it was. I can just drive that around with the quick controller, and if I put it on the camera, notice how my exposure brightened up so much, because now it's metering specifically off of the camera here. I think that's a little bright, so I'm going to ask it to underexpose, and try to pull it back down to a more reasonable exposure. If you're not sure of what a more reasonable exposure might be, then you'd probably want to bring up your histogram, because your histogram will update in real time as you dial in your exposure compensation.
If I didn't want to do exposure compensation, I could try to position my metering square somewhere else in the frame; an area that's not so black. So I have kind of split the difference here between the really bright where it was, and the really black over here, and I am getting a different exposure that way. So these are all ways that I can control exposure, in addition to just changing shutter speed and aperture. It's difficult to tell whether this is a faster way of focusing than using the normal Live mode. Live mode can take time to search around, but with this, I have got to wait through the process of it raising and lowering its mirror.
Most of the time, this probably will be a little bit faster. More importantly, it's going to be more accurate. There are going to be many times where you cannot get the live focusing mode to work. In fact, our original example was that way. Live focus could not focus on this point of the table, but in the regular quick focus mode, I can. So if you're having trouble focusing live view, you might want to change to this focus mode, because it's far more capable.
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I think you had to put also the new plugin 'npqtplugin7.dll' in '%programfiles%\QuickTime\\Plugins\npqtplugin7.dll', isn´t it?
As far as I know, the latest version of Quick Time Alternative Lite is 4.0.0. It used to come inside K-Lite a long time ago.
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In relation to your post #5, I've been doing something similar for quite some time; however, the QuickTime installer package does not contain the files found in Firefox/plugins, like npqtplugin.dll and QuickTimePlugin.class.
Is there any chance that it is one of the many .dll files in QuickTime that just need to be renamed?
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- Reds pitcher Raisel Iglesias will make his major league debut tomorrow, writes Jason Haddix for MLB.com. He'll be opposed by Cardinals hurler Carlos Martinez. The Reds committed to a seven-year, $27MM contract with Iglesias during the 2014 season.
- The Orioles selected the contract of knuckleballer Eddie Gamboa, writes Brittany Ghiroli of MLB.com. Wesley Wright was added to the disabled list in a corresponding move. Gamboa, 30, had yet to reach the majors although he figures to bounce back and forth this year. He'll serve as depth in case Kevin Gausman is needed in long relief in the next couple games.
- Pirates utility man Pedro Florimon has cleared waivers, tweets Bill Brink of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. He has been outrighted to Triple-A. Per Brink (also Twitter), since Florimon has been outrighted before, he can decline and become a free agent. Brink is told no decision has been made.
- The Rangers have announced that they've selected the contract of corner outfielder Carlos Peguero and recalled pitcher Jon Edwards. They've also moved Derek Holland (shoulder) to the 60-day disabled list and Ryan Rua (ankle) to the 15-day disabled list. Peguero is in the Rangers' lineup tonight. The 28-year-old Peguero has played briefly, and not particularly impressively, for the Mariners and Royals in parts of four big-league seasons, but he's demonstrated serious power in the minors (with 30 homers for Triple-A Omaha last year) and in Spring Training.
- The Giants have outrighted infielder Ehire Adrianza to Triple-A Sacramento, MLB.com's Chris Haft tweets. The team designated Adrianza for assignment last week. Adrianza, 25, hit .237/.279/.299 in 106 plate appearances while playing mostly shortstop and second base for the Giants last season.
- The Yankees have announced that they've promoted lefty Matt Tracy. To clear space for Tracy on the 25- and 40-man rosters, the Yankees optioned lefty Chasen Shreve to Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre and moved Ivan Nova to the 60-day disabled list. Tracy will need to be added to the Yankees' 40-man roster. Tracy's stay on the roster could turn out to be short, however — the Yankees can use some quick bullpen reinforcements after their 19-inning game against the Red Sox last night, and Tracy would presumably join the team for that purpose. The 26-year-old posted a 3.76 ERA with 5.3 K/9 and 3.3 BB/9 in 150 2/3 innings between Double-A and Triple-A last year.
- Two players remain in DFA limbo, via MLBTR's DFA Tracker: lefty Sam Freeman (Rangers) and outfielder Carlos Quentin (Braves).
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We'll keep track of the day's smaller arbitration deals in this post, with all projections mentioned referring to those of MLBTR contributor Matt Swartz. Here's the latest…
- Kristie Rieken of the Associated Press tweets that the Astros have avoided arbitration with Chris Carter, settling on a one-year, $4.175MM pact. Carter, 28, cut back on his strikeout rate to an extent in 2014 (it still checked in at 31.8 percent), but the real improvement came in terms of his power production. The slugger finished with 37 home runs, trailing only Nelson Cruz and tying him with Giancarlo Stanton for second in the Majors in long balls. His elite power served him well, as Swartz's projection model had him ticketed for $3.5MM.
- In addition to avoiding arb with Drew Stubbs (link) and Tyler Chatwood (who inked a two-year deal), the Rockies have also avoided arb with right-hander Jordan Lyles, tweets Jon Heyman of CBS Sports. Lyles will earn a salary of $2.475MM in 2015, per Heyman. A client of Palmetto Sports Group, Lyles enjoyed a nice season with the Rockies that was shortened, to an extent, by a fractured broken left hand (his non-throwing hand). Still, the 24-year-old worked 126 1/3 innings, posting a career-best 4.33 ERA with 6.4 K/9, 3.3 BB/9 and an excellent 51.7 percent ground-ball rate. Lyles' performance prior to the injury — 3.52 ERA, 3.76 xFIP — was markedly better than his post-injury performance, though the discrepancy between his post-injury ERA (5.31) and xFIP (4.23) indicates that there could be further improvement. He had been projected to receive $2.5MM.
- The Yankees have announced a deal to avoid arbitration with righty Ivan Nova. He will earn $3.3MM, per a tweet from the New York Post's Joel Sherman. That sum also matches Nova's salary from 2014, unsurprisingly, as he missed most of the season due to Tommy John surgery after struggling out of the gate. Nova, who just turned 28, had a highly productive 2013 campaign (3.10 ERA in 139 1/3 frames). Though he posted significant innings totals in prior years, he had never put together a season like that in terms of both results and peripherals (3.47 FIP). All said, it was an easy call for New York to roll the dice on Nova's rehabilitation.
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Ivan Nova To Undergo Tommy John Surgery
THURSDAY: Nova has chosen to have the TJ procedure, tweets Feinsand.
TUESDAY: The Yankees announced that Nova's second exam confirmed that he has a partially torn UCL, and that Ahmad has recommended surgery.
MONDAY: The Tommy John epidemic that is sweeping Major League Baseball looks to have another victim, as Yankees right-hander Ivan Nova learned after an MRI this weekend that he has a partial tear of the ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow, writes Mark Feinsand of the New York Daily News. Feinsand says that Nova will be re-examined today by team physician Chris Ahmad, but the very likely outcome is that Nova will be the 15th pitcher to undergo Tommy John surgery this season.
Nova was roughed up by the Rays in his start on Saturday, but he didn't feel any discomfort in his elbow until the final pitch he threw, writes Feinsand. Nova said he felt a pop on that pitch and was in denial as he was being removed from the game, not believing himself to be seriously injured and wanting to continue pitching to spare his bullpen.
With Nova likely on the shelf through next spring, the Yankees will test their internal depth. Vidal Nuno could be the favorite to take over in the team's rotation, though other options such as David Phelps and Adam Warren are present. New York could also look to the waiver wire and continue to get by with a patchwork solution until clubs begin making more reliable arms available on the trade market this summer.
Needless to say, the resurgence of Michael Pineda is now even more impactful for the Yankees. Were it not for Pineda's health, the club would be fielding a rotation of Masahiro Tanaka, Hiroki Kuroda, a declining CC Sabathia and a pair of the aforementioned internal options. Now, manager Joe Girardi tells Feinsand that he will meet with GM Brian Cashman, presumably on today's off-day, to determine which of Nuno, Phelps or Warren will step into Nova's spot.
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Yankees Designate Matt Daley For Assignment
The Yankees have designated right-hander Matt Daley, according to Mark Feinsand of the New York Daily News (on Twitter). In related moves, New York activated Mark Teixeira, recalled right-handers Preston Claiborne and Bryan Mitchell, placed right-hander Ivan Nova on the 15-day disabled list with a partial tear of the ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow, and sent infielder Scott Sizemore to Triple-A.
Daley, 31, pitched for the Bombers yesterday and allowed six runs (four earned) as a part of their 16-1 blowout loss to Tampa Bay. Daley has spent the bulk of his career at the Triple-A level, pitching to a 3.90 ERA with 11.1 K/9 and 3.1 BB/9 in 124 career appearances. For his big league career, Daley has a 4.72 ERA with 9.0 K/9 and 3.3 BB/9 across 100 outings.
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Players Avoiding Arbitration: Friday
We'll keep track of today's smaller deals to avoid arbitration in this post. Click here for background on the upcoming arbitration schedule and how MLBTR is covering it. You can also check in on our Arbitration Tracker and look at MLBTR contributor Matt Swartz's arbitration projections.
Today's noon CT deadline to exchange arb figures has passed, but negotiations to avoid an arbitration hearing can continue into February. The Braves are the only strict "file and trial" team that did not agree to terms with all of its arb-eligible players, meaning they could be headed for several hearings. The Nats and Indians have also shown a willingness to go to a trial and still have some players unsigned. On to today's contract agreements…
- After exchanging numbers, the Mets and pitcher Dillon Gee have agreed to settle at the midpoint of $3.625MM, tweets Adam Rubin of ESPNNewYork.com. Swartz projected Gee to earn $3.4MM.
- The Cubs have avoided arbitration with reliever Pedro Strop, president Theo Epstein told Mark Gonzales of the Chicago Tribune (Twitter link). He will earn $1.325MM next year, according to a tweet from Gordon Wittenmyer of the Chicago Sun-Times. It is not immediately apparent whether the deal was reached before the sides exchanged terms.
- The Angels have reached agreement on a $3.8MM deal with reliever Ernesto Frieri, reports Alden Gonzalez of MLB.com (on Twitter).
- Mike Minor has agreed to terms on a $3.85MM deal with the Braves to avoid arbitration, reports Mark Bowman of MLB.com (Twitter links). The deal came before figures were exchanged, Bowman notes.
- Chris Cotillo of MLB Daily Dish reports that the D-Backs and lefty Joe Thatcher have avoided arb with a one-year, $2.375MM deal (Twitter link).
- Nicholson-Smith tweets that the Angels and Fernando Salas reached an agreement to avoid arbitration. Salas is the first Halos player to avoid arb. Mike DiGiovanna of the L.A. Times tweets that Salas will earn $870K, which beats out his $700K projection.
- MLB.com's Jason Beck reports (via Twitter) that the Tigers and righty Al Alburquerque have reached agreement on a deal to avoid arb. The hard-throwing righty will earn $837.5K in 2014, tweets Beck.
- Sherman tweets that the Yankees and Ivan Nova avoided arbitration with a one-year, $3.3MM deal.
- The Pirates and Vin Mazzaro inked a one-year, $950K deal in lieu of an arbitration hearing, tweets Rob Biertempfel of the Pittsburgh Tribune.
- The Royals announced that they've avoided arbitration with infielder Emilio Bonifacio. Heyman tweets that Bonifacio will earn $3.5MM in 2014.
- Sherman reports that the Rays avoided arbitration with Jeremy Hellickson and Sean Rodriguez (Twitter link). Hellickson landed a $3.625MM payday with a $25K bonus if he hits 195 innings pitched. Rodriguez will get $1.475MM with a $25K bump for hitting 300 plate appearances.
- Roch Kubatko of MASNsports.com tweets that Brian Matusz avoided arb with the Orioles. Sherman adds that he'll earn $2.4MM in 2014.
- MLB.com's Brian McTaggart tweets that Jason Castro and the Astros have avoided arbitration. McTaggart adds in a second tweet that Jesus Guzman avoided arb as well. Heyman reports that Castro will be paid $2.45MM, while Sherman tweets that Guzman will make $1.3MM.
- The Indians tweeted that they've avoided arb with lefty Marc Rzepczynski, and MLB.com's Jordan Bastian tweets that he'll earn $1.375MM in 2014. Bastian adds that Scrabble will earn an additional $25K for appearing in 55 games and another $25K for 60 games.
- The Giants avoided arbitration with Yusmeiro Petit, according to MLBTR's Steve Adams (on Twitter). He'll earn $845K, according to Sportsnet's Ben Nicholson-Smith (via Twitter).
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New York Notes: Reynolds, Logan, Gardner, Mets
Earlier today the Mets introduced Curtis Granderson at a press conference. Here's the latest news out of the New York market with the Winter Meetings in full swing…
- Yankees GM Brian Cashman spoke to several reporters today, including MLB.com's Bryan Hoch, and noted that he's been in contact with the agents for Mark Reynolds and Boone Logan (Twitter link).
- Hoch also tweets that the Yanks are receiving many calls on Brett Gardner but aren't shopping him. Cashman said he didn't sign Jacoby Ellsbury to trade Gardner.
- The Star-Ledger's Andy McCullough tweets that in addition to Gardner, the Yanks have received calls on Ivan Nova, Gary Sanchez and J.R. Murphy (Twitter link).
- Cashman also said that Michael Pineda is healthy and will compete for a rotation spot in Spring Training (Mark Feinsand of the New York Daily News tweeting).
- Hoch adds that Cashman thinks it will be easier to sign a free agent pitcher than to work out a trade for rotation help.
- Newsday's David Lennon reports that the Mets will meet with the representatives for Freddy Garcia, Cesar Izturis and Johan Santana today (Twitter link). The team sees a good fit with that group of veterans.
- Granderson confirmed to reporters, including Newsday's Marc Carig, that the Mets were the lone team to offer four years (Twitter link).
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AL East Notes: Yankees, Nova, Vargas, Rays
Links out of the AL East..
- The Yankees are still listening to offers on Curtis Granderson, Phil Hughes, and Ivan Nova, according to Andrew Marchand of ESPNNewYork.com (via Twitter). Team executives have acknowledged that Granderson and Hughes have come up in trade talks but say that it would be tough to replace both in the short-term.
- Right-hander Claudio Vargas has agreed to a minor league deal with the Blue Jays, according to Metis Sports Management (via Twitter). Vargas retired in summer 2011 before inking a minor league deal with the Brewers this past spring.
- The Rays aren't going to be shaking things up right away but there could be some trades on the horizon, writes Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times. "At the very least we have more clarity. I wouldn't say anything is imminent. But we just have more clarity on how we might be able to complete this offseason looking out over the next six-to-eight weeks," said executive VP Andrew Friedman.
- It seems that almost everyone in Nashville this week was poised to spend big bucks except for the Yankees, writes Joel Sherman of the New York Post. Scott Boras and two other agents who have discussed clients with the Yankees in recent days said their perception was a clamp had been placed on spending with the team's payroll already at $168MM for 2013. Meanwhile, the Yanks still have major needs in right field, the left side of the infield, and at catcher.
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Yankees Notes: Pettitte, Hughes, Nova, Damon
The latest on the Yankees…
- Before Andy Pettitte signed with the Yankees, Lance Berkman tried to recruit the left-hander for the Cardinals, Derrick Goold of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch writes. Berkman said he was in regular contact with Pettitte and would have approached the front office if he had obtained the go-ahead from his friend and former teammate.
- Joel Sherman of the New York Post wonders if the Yankees will look to extend Phil Hughes or Ivan Nova to a Derek Holland-like extension in order to cap costs and avoid MLB's luxury tax.
- There was a split between upper management and the field staff over whether to sign Johnny Damon or Raul Ibanez, Tom Verducci of SI.com writes. Damon told the Yankees he would play for whatever they were offering Ibanez, but it wasn't enough.
- Agent Scott Boras says Damon has received nibbles, but no offers. "We have heard from teams who say 'We have interest in the guy but we want to see what our players are going to do,'" Boras said.
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Yankees Notes: Kuroda, Darvish, Sabathia, Nova
The Yankees will decline Damaso Marte's option, as expected. Here are some more notes on the club's pitching staff…
- C.C. Sabathia's investment in the Yankees is not "in the same universe" as Derek Jeter's, as Joel Sherman of the New York Post points out. The Yankees are hesitant to tie themselves up with long-term deals, but there should be common ground for the Yankees and their ace. Sherman proposes a number of deals that could work for both sides, including a five-year, $125MM contract with a vesting option for a sixth year.
- Though the Rangers would have interest if Sabathia hits the open market, Sherman explains that they aren't likely to be among his most aggressive suitors.
- The Yankees don't seem inclined to add three years to Sabathia's contract to keep him in New York, according to Jon Heyman of SI.com. Sabathia has four years and $92MM remaining on his current deal and he will likely opt out after the World Series. Sabathia's weight gives the Yankees some concern about another seven-year deal.
- The Yankees are beginning their scouting meetings today, according to Andrew Marchand of ESPNNewYork.com. Front office members will discuss possible acquisitions and provide GM Brian Cashman with the information he needs to create his offseason plan.
- Marchand notes that free agent starter Hiroki Kuroda is a possible fit for the Yankees. Though Kuroda appears to prefer the Dodgers if he continues playing in MLB, the Yankees have had interest in him before.
- Rafael Soriano will not opt out of the two years and $25MM remaining on his contract, though there's nothing official yet, according to Marchand.
- Joe Pawlikowski of River Ave. Blues explains that Yu Darvish makes sense for the Yankees because they can use their most abundant resource (money) to add a potential star who fits their offseason needs. Bidding on Darvish wouldn't require the Yankees to surrender a draft pick and wouldn't prevent them from bidding on free agent pitchers such as C.J. Wilson.
- Ivan Nova remains an SFX client, after switching to Legacy Sports for two days, according to ESPN.com's Jerry Crasnick (Twitter links). As MLBTR's Agency Database shows, Mariano Rivera, Francisco Cervelli and Eduardo Nunez are also SFX clients.
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Quick Hits: Sizemore, Carmona, Pujols, Wilson, Nova
Wednesday night linkage..
- The Indians plan to take their time in deciding whether to pick up the options on Grady Sizemore and Fausto Carmona, writes MLB.com's Jordan Bastian. Sizemore, who underwent surgery on his right knee earlier this month, has a club option worth $9MM with a $500K buyout while Carmona's option is worth $7MM for next season.
- The Cardinals are hopeful that the good feelings from this postseason might carry over into the Albert Pujols negotiations this winter, tweets Jon Heyman of Sports Illustrated.
- Even though the Marlins are expected to spend this offseason, Juan C. Rodriguez of the Sun Sentinel (via Twitter) doesn't like their chances of landing Pujols or C.J. Wilson.
- If Yankees pitcher and former Rule 5 pick Ivan Nova can build off of an inspiring rookie season, he'll be taking one of the rarest career paths in baseball history, writes Josh Goldman of Fangraphs.
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Re: Adventures in CUDA on Windows 7 x64
When I first started, I had many issues getting code to compile and getting CUDA setup. The runtimes are included in drivers from NVIDIA, but the CUDA SDK and toolkit needs to be downloaded.
You will need these files from the CUDA downloads page:
CUDA Toolkit (in 32-bit or 64-bit, if you use an express version you
use 32-bit)
CUDA Toolkit 4.0 Build Customization BUG Fix (follow instructions inside)
NVIDIA Parallel Nsight (recommended) from
(you need to register)
Please note if you decide to use an express version of Visual Studio, you need to use the 32-bit CUDA Toolkit and SDK. For 64-bit, make sure you use the Full option when installing Visual Studio 2008. Furthermore, install the Windows 7 SDK from the following:
, make sure you follow their guide (link below) as you need the following environmental variables described below.
Hit Start, then right-click on Computer and select properties. Then click Advanced System Settings and select the Advanced tab. Hit the Environmental Variables button. Under User Variables, click New. For installation, check this PDF from NVIDIA:
. However, use the following variables.
Set the value to
C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v4.0\bin
Set the value to
C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v4.0\include
Set the value to
C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v4.0\lib
I recommend using Nsight from NVIDIA (you need to register to download it). But note that it is only compatible with Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and 2010 (not Express versions). You should be able to open project files that are located in
C:\ProgramData\NVIDIA Corporation\NVIDIA GPU Computing SDK 4.0\C\src
. Please be sure you open the correct file for your respective version of Visual Studio (2008 or 2010).
You can test the samples they provide which are located in the
C:\ProgramData\NVIDIA Corporation\NVIDIA GPU Computing SDK 4.0\C\bin
Now I wasn't able to get Visual Studio Express versions to recognize the CUDA project type. However, with Visual Studio 2008, I do have a CUDA project option, which creates a basic project you can edit to your liking.
The sample project demonstrates how to add a kernel and it
compile and run a simple matrix addition example. I will be learning more about CUDA as I go, so I will post examples/explanations I come across as I learn them.
It's a lot easier to use the command prompt to compile .cu files. Compiling is quite simple really. The NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit installs the
compiler linker. It's compatible with Visual Studio 8.0 and 9.0 C compilers. If you have Visual Studio 2008 SP1, you can compile a file via the following:
Click Start, then go to Programs, expand the Visual Studio tools folder in the Visual Studio 2008 folder, then open the Visual Studio 2008 x64 Command Prompt (this sets all the necessary variables needed by the compiler cl.exe)
Navigate to your directory where your mysamplecudaprogram.cu file is located (obviously use your own file name, note that Tab auto complete makes life much easier when navigating)
Type the following and hit enter:
nvcc mycudaprogram.cu
(you can also specify output options and pass other parameters to the compiler, including any include directories containing any headers you may need)
Run the program (which by default is a.exe) by typing the following and pressing Enter:
This should output your program in the command prompt.
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text: Amores y Amigos, Cupcakes and Chulins, I have been so swamped I don't even have time to tell people what I'm up to except sometimes I remember to post it on Facebook. Like, why even have a personal website if I'm not going to use it to do things like, I don't know, TALK ABOUT MYSELF!!!!!!!!! Anyway, earlier this week I got it together to finally send out an email about upcoming events and I thought, I guess I could just plagiarize myself and post it on my website as well, which is 75% what I'm doing except I added in some things for "interest." And in case you are reading this and already got that email and feel like content should be unique to platform. ANYWAY, here's what's up:


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Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown in the fourth in a series of conversations on the issues at stake for America's cities in Campaign 08.
" The federal government talks a good game about homeland security. And yet cities, like Los Angeles, are constantly struggling to get the resources we need to provide that security. "
Stop corporate robots from taking over the Web. Freespeech.org explains how relentless marketing and data-mining puts your privacy in peril.
Predatory lending is the biggest economic crisis since 1929, especially for the black and brown people caught in its grip.
Democratic candidates need to make the war a campaign issue, and hammer away at the staggering economic and human costs of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
In this cut from Blue Man/Red State,a documentary on Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson, Juneau peace activists give Nation Editor Katrina vanden Heuvel a warm welcome and a helping hand.
Chris Christie isn't the moderate Republican he would like the public to think he is, but rather a union-busting bully with the corporate agenda in mind.
Repression after 9/11 is nothing compared to what's come before, and our tools to fight it are greater.
In his film, Dirty Wars, Jeremy Scahill unveils America's extrajudicial, covert, transcontinental battlefield.
The annual Ridenhour Prizes recognize acts of truth-telling that protect the public interest, promote social justice or illuminate a more just vision of society.
With the killing of Awlaki, the president of the United States became judge, jury and executioner for American citizens.
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Newberry: Garrett may be growing as coach
What if Jason Garrett learns how to be a good head coach?
It's possible, right?
We know some coaches can win Coach of the Year honors, only to be fired a year or two later.
But was Tom Landry a great coach in his first few seasons? I wasn't there, but probably not. He was a great man with great principles who had a 9-28-3 record in his first three years with the expansion Cowboys.
Now Garrett's Cowboys aren't by any stretch an expansion team, even if it seems like they pick guys up off the street one week and play them in the fourth quarter the next.
It's not fair to expect Garrett to turn into Tom Landry or Jimmy Johnson.
But was Johnson perfect on his decisions under two minutes during his 1-15 season? Or was he growing into the job?
Was Bill Walsh an offensive mastermind who sent in all the right plays when the 49ers went 8-24 during his first two years?
It's likely those Hall of Famers got better with time, at least until late in their careers.
Garrett may be getting better, too. I haven't been his biggest fan. I'm a clock-management critic, and there's been a lot to criticize there.
But he's 21-17. That's not terrible. He's not Dave Campo.
And while waiting for the Cowboys to implode in close games recently, Garrett's club has instead been pretty good in the clutch.
Every week they lose someone else to injury, and the next week the product has looked largely the same. It seems like that'd be evidence of some coaching.
If I were Jerry Jones, I might not be ready to give Garrett an long-term extension, even if the Cowboys win their next two to take the NFC East, but I also wouldn't be giving him his walking papers just yet.
There's a chance he's growing into the job. And if he's gotten through the growing pains that would allow him to do something like great coaches historically have done in their fourth, fifth or sixth seasons, then why would I want to start that process over once again?
Speaking of good coaching, I'm in awe of what Washington has done the past two weeks.
The game-tying, two-minute drive against Baltimore last week, using both Robert Griffin III and Kirk Cousins, was amazing in what the Redskins had to overcome to keep the game going. It's hard enough to pull that off with your star quarterback in there.
And then to beat Cleveland fairly handily with a first-time starter (and rookie) in Cousins was quite an accomplishment for Mike Shanahan and his staff.
Shanahan was written off when his team was 3-6. Garrett has been written off after just about every loss the past two years.
There's a good chance one of them is going to win the NFC East. That'd buy Garrett some much-needed credibility. Even if he loses the finale at Washington, I'm not ready to say Garrett ultimately will be a failure as a head coach.
Shanahan once owned plenty of cred thanks to a pair of Super Bowl rings in Denver. But most have forgotten that, since they came when Monday Night Football was on free TV and the NFL didn't even own its own network. You know, back when they gave a coach some time to prove himself.
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Finnish cellphone giant Nokia will soon launch a mini-laptop, marking the foray of the world's largest mobile phone maker into the personal computer segment.
The Windows-based 'Nokia Booklet 3G' would weigh 1.25 kilogrammes and have a battery life of upto 12 hours.
"... the new mini-laptop weighs 1.25 kilogrammes, measures slightly more than two centimetres thin," the company said in a statement.
According to Nokia, the mini-laptop also comes with an HDMI port for HD video out, a front facing camera for video calling, integrated bluetooth and an easily accessible SD card reader, among others.
"A growing number of people want the computing power of a PC with the full benefits of mobility.
"... Nokia has a long and rich heritage in mobility and with the outstanding battery life, premium design and all day, always on connectivity, we will create something quite compelling," Nokia's Executive Vice President (Devices) Kai Oistamo said.


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When it comes to the summer months, I'm all about being outside as much as possible (HELLLLLO, SUNSHINE!) But that means my skin can really take a beating with the heat, humidity, and the sun's rays. The most important thing in my summer skin regimine is protecting my face with a high SPF sunscreen (For real, womanistas, protect that gorgeous face of yours!)
But I've also found a few really, really awesome products that I use religiously during the summer months to keep my skin glowing & healthy. Here are a few of my faves – some are pricey (but worth.it. if you can swing it and still pay your monthly rent!) I equally love just as many bargain buys, though!
The Splurge
(just click on the photos above for details & where to buy!)
If you can only buy one of these skin splurges, let it be the Sisley Global Anti-Age Cream. It's truly the best face cream I've ever tried (and I've tried A LOT!) I have dry skin but I still break out (wah wah – I'm 31 and still get zits, ugh!) and this face cream is seriously the perfect balance of moisture and doesn't cause breakouts. I'm obsessed. You should also probably get the Neocutis exfoliating face wash (it rocks!) – it's a super gentle face wash that exfoliates with some skin-brightening glycolic acids, leaving your face positively glowing. (ok that's 2 things, but still…)
…and since I've turned 30 (and since then, ahem, 31) I've definitely had to up my skincare game with some extras, like eye cream and a vitamin C serum. Y'all, this La Mer eye cream *SIGH*. It's fabulous. And also expensive. But did I mention fabulous? Also, the entire skinceuticals line of skin care is AMAZE but my favorite product is the Phloretin CF antioxidant treatment. It protects your skin while enhancing cell turnover so that you skin's natural exfoliating process is working on it's A-game. It's fab. The Kate Somerville sunscreen is filled with lots of skin-savvy botanicals to not only protect your skin from ALL broad-spectrum rays, but also make it even better while it's at it (Kate Somerville is a facialist, after all!)
Lastly, it's important to apply each product in the right order (who knew?! The lovely ladies at Private Edition in Nashville filled me in on this little secret…) and it goes like this:
Cleanser + Serum + Moisturizer + Sunscreen
You want to start with the "lightest" product and proceed to the heavier ones so that everything can work it's magic into your skin.
The Save
All of these products are hard-working and effective – and WAY less scary for your wallet. I use the Clean & Clear Daily Pore cleanser when I really need a good exfoliation – after a day at the beach, slathering on lots of sunscreen – or after a super-sweaty workout. And the Aveeno Clear Complexion moisturizer is my go-to when I feel a breakout coming on (ugh! rude.)
And ok, this Mario Badescu Vitamin C serum is still a little pricey, but it's a great quality product that packs a strong punch for your skin (some of the drugstore brand vitamin C serums don't have enough vitamin C in them to really make a difference in your skin…so it's worth a little bit of a splurge on this product). And this Olay age-defying eye cream produces for REAL results in fine lines around your eyes (at a fraction of the cost!)
Lastly, Neutrogena Age Shield Face lotion is my everyday go-to. It's 110 SPF (which I realize is slightly overboard…but I want nary a ray to break though to my skin and cause any damage! Wrinkles need not apply to this face – for as long as possible, at least!) It also doesn't leave that "white sheen" that a lot of other high SPF facial sunscreens sometimes leave after you apply them.
Happy (almost) Summer, womanistas! And remember to take care of your skin this season (and if you took ANYTHING from this post – make it this: S-U-N-S-C-R-E-E-N. Just do it!)
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A cold-hearted conglomerate spawns serial killers and identity crises across two countries.
Partho Sen is an extremely talented engineer who is unhappy with corporate life and dreams of becoming a writer. His best friend, Varun Belgathanthy, another gifted engineer, suffers from an identity crisis as a village-bred Indian in the United States. Both work for an Indian software company called CIKS, and are part of an important project for their U.S.-based client, Mayflower Mercantile.
With the events occurring over 24 hours, the story revolves around a serial killer who targets immigrants in the middle of a snowstorm and an important project with a looming deadline. It moves at a brisk pace and successfully alternates between Milwaukee, Bangalore, and the serial killer's point of view. The city of Milwaukee plays an important part in setting the bleak tone and evoking a feeling of claustrophobia.
While the plot keeps the reader hooked, the author goes into too many details.
Characters like Rashmi Jain, Partho's girlfriend and constant companion; Laks Deshpande, the ruthless and secretly insecure boss; Kamaal Ur Rehman, a troubled Muslim engineer who lives in constant fear due to his religion; and Deepak Bugtana or "Bugs," a maverick pothead engineer working out of Bangalore, add an extra dimension to the narrative.
In contrast to these, the American characters — the detectives looking for the serial killer, a small-time reporter looking for the scoop of a lifetime, the senior bosses at Mayflower Mercantile, among others — seem to be caricatures from a Hollywood potboiler.
The book explores various themes — loneliness, racism, Indian regionalism, and even love. But the underlying theme is that of identity. Partho is caught between his dual personalities while Varun struggles to find a foothold in a foreign land. Even the relationship between Partho and Rashmi is based on the fact that neither understands who he/she really is.
Moreover, the writer, an ex-techie himself, certainly has a bone to pick with the IT industry. The cold heart of Milwaukee is shown to reside inside the Mayflower Mercantile complex, where deadlines are literally more important than the lives of employees, who are treated as easily replaceable objects. A blurb about the 'benevolent founder' and his PR manager is also clearly a slap in the face of industry leaders, whom we tend to treat as demigods. The serial killer too is a creation of the IT industry. The title itself is a sly taunt at the entire enterprise. While the book succeeds as a taut, intelligent thriller, it fails to be the piece of social commentary that the writer hoped it would be.
Despite its flaws, Behind The Silicon Mask is a good read. Had it been tighter, it would have been great.
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PH neurosurgeons host 15th Asean Congress of Neurological Surgery
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The Academy of Filipno Neurosurgeons (AFN, formerly the Philippine Society of Neurological Surgery) hosted the Asean Congress in 2000 (Dr. Ferdinand Florendo, president), with only 41 members. Thirteen years and 80 more neurosurgeons later, it is once again tasked with organizing this event. Held in Phuket, Thailand, in 2011, Dr. Gerardo Legaspi was elected president of the Asean Neurosurgery Society (NS).
Buoyed by renewed interest in cooperative endeavors in economy and medicine in this part of the world, this year's theme is "One Asean Neurosurgery." It is envisioned that, given the unique culture, available resources and racial differences of member-countries, this meeting will provide the impetus to open more doors for exchange of knowledge and expertise.
A concerted effort to standardize the training of residents in this region should make a "One Asean Practice" in neurosurgery more achievable.
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The meeting will be held on March 7-9 at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Cebu City. Invited speakers from the Asean countries as well as from the United States (professors Jacques Morcos, Patricio Reyes and Phillip Aldana), Canada (Prof. Andres Lozano), Germany (Prof. Stephen Schwab), India (Prof. Prem Ramani) and Taiwan (Prof. Yong Kawang Tu-WFNS president-elect) will deliver lectures covering the basics and advanced state of neurosurgery.
To be presented during the plenary session are various research works and talks on the current state of neurosurgery from the member-countries. Dr. Asis Encarnacion is the overall organizing committee chair.
The proceedings have been made possible by the generous support of the Philippine Gamma Knife Center, Aesculap-B. Braun, Medtronics, Brainlab, Stryker, Carl Zeiss, Unilab-Therapharma, Pfizer and B n M Events.
To complete the experience of a visit to the country, social events have also been organized. Highlighted will be the private island of Maribago Bluewaters, where the audience will be thrilled by the maneuvers of the internationally renowned San Diego Dance Troupe, all-night dancing and singing, and fireworks.
Regional society
The need to organize a society in this region was first discussed by Doctors Iskarno, Selva and Beny from Indonesia, Doctors Suwanwela and Hongsaprabas from Thailand and Dr. Renato Sibayan from the Philippines. It was formally organized in 1983 and the first meeting was in July 22-25, 1984, in Bandung, Indonesia. On a rotational basis, subsequent meetings were held in Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok, Manila (Dr. Faustino T. Domingo, president), Singapore, then back to Indonesia in Jakarta. Vietnam hosted the congress for the first time in 2006. Recently Cambodia and Myanmar have started to become active in the activities of the Asean NS and will soon be considered to host future meetings.
The AFN will later on turn over the organization of the 16th Asean Congress of Neurological Surgery to the next president of the Asean Neurosurgery Society, Dr. Seow Wan Tew from Singapore.
52nd year
The AFN celebrates its 52nd anniversary this year. To date it has 121 members, certified by the Philippine Board of Neurological Surgery, after having undergone 5-6 years of grueling residency.
There are now 8 training programs in the country. These are Armed Forces of the Philippines Medical Center (V. Luna Hospital), Jose Reyes Memorial Medical Center-St. Luke's Medical Center Consortium, Makati Medical Center, University of the East Ramon Magsaysay Medical Center, University of Santo Tomas Hospital, University of the Philippines-Philippine General Hospital, Vicente Sotto Medical Center (Cebu) and the most recently formed Southern Philippines Integrated Neurosurgical Training Program (Davao Regional Hospital).
Subspecialty training
After residency, some graduates opt to take subspecialty training outside the country for one to two more years. So we now have members who are acknowledged experts in cerebrovascular/endovascular, pediatric, spine, peripheral nerve, minimally invasive and tumor surgery. True to its mission of making quality neurosurgical care available to as many Filipinos possible, the AFN in coordination with these programs, has fanned out specialists to as far north as Baguio/Cordilleras and as deep south as General Santos City.
Due to the increasing number of members and expanse of coverage, it was necessary to organize regional sections to ensure that all members are personally attended to by the society. The heads of regional sections are Dr. Ferdinand Florendo (Pangasinan) Northern Luzon; Dr. Wyben Briones (Cebu City), Visayas; and Dr. James Soriano (Davao City), Mindanao. NCR is covered by Doctors Gerardo D. Legaspi, president; Ibet Marie Sih, vice president and Rhoby Orata, secretary-treasurer.
Regular scientific meetings are held with national and international speakers, culminating in the annual AFN meeting in December. This coincides with the annual convention of the Philippine College of Surgeons.
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COIMBATORE: The Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) Development Institute plans to facilitate establishment of entrepreneur clubs here.
One of the officials of the institute said that the new scheme under the MSME Ministry would bring together about 50 entrepreneurs, mostly from the same industrial sector, for each club.
They would form a registered organisation and would get initial financial assistance and guidance too.
Depending on the programmes that the clubs would take up for the benefit of members, programme-specific assistance would also be given.
Explaining the need for such clubs, the official said there were a number of new entrepreneurs who were not members in any trade or industrial body.
These clubs would serve as a forum for them to come together.
The MSME Development Institute here was also conducting studies on the textile mills and electroplating units here and the rice mills in Kangeyam for cluster programmes.
These programmes would be taken up in association with the respective industrial associations.
Several schemes for the micro, small and medium-scale units had been combined so that these could be implemented under cluster projects.
It had taken up a three-year cluster programme for the wetgrinder units here and the project concluded last year.
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A common facility centre, which was proposed under the programme with assistance from the Central and State Governments, would be established here soon. The building work was over and the machinery would be purchased soon, the official said.
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In tune with its anti-graft plank, Aam Aadmi Party vowed to bring an effective Jan Lokpal in its manifesto released today that also promised to bring down the minimum age to contest polls from 25 to 21 besides carrying out reforms in electoral and justice delivery system.
The AAP, which is making its maiden foray in Lok Sabha elections, proposed installing CCTV cameras in court rooms to ensure transparency in judicial system. AAP, which was formed in November 2012, is contesting about 430 seats out of the 543 parliamentary seats at stake.
The 26-page manifesto released by AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal detailed its position on a range of key issues like economy, foreign policy, internal security, electoral reforms, defence and Jammu and Kashmir.
Asserting that containing corruption was party's key focus, he said bring an effective Jan Lokpal Bill that can "bring people, right from the Prime Minister to a peon under its ambit" was one of the top priorities of AAP.
Giving details of manifesto, Kejriwal said decentralization of power, citizen's charter to ensure time-bound delivery of services and providing good governance will be some other priority areas for the party.
On party's proposal to bring down the minimum age to contest, he said "If an individual can marry at the age of 21 and assume household responsibility, then he can also take care of his constituency. This move can improve political representation of youth."
He also reiterated party's stand on introduction of "Right to recall" and "Right to Reject" and proposed brining political parties under the purview of RTI Act.
In the manifesto, the party said it was "industry friendly" as creation of wealth was essential for overall development of the country but noted that it was against "crony capitalism".
On Kashmir, the party said "it is an integral part of India and there would be zero tolerance towards cross border terrorism.
"In addition to short term use of security forces, AAP believes in a long term approach of decentralization and devolution of power, which would give people of Kashmir the ability to make decisions for their own development." Emphasising on judicial accountability, AAP also promised to double the number of judges in courts across the country in the next five years. It also proposed to set up fast track courts at "all levels of judiciary".
"We will install CCTV in police stations. There should be cameras in interrogation rooms as well. We have proposed to make separate investigative and law and order wings in police.
The internal accountability of police must be fixed," said Kejriwal, while promising various measures on police reforms.
The AAP leader advocated strong police and judicial reforms and more accountability of these law and order enforcing agencies.
"Not registering an FIR will be treated as an offence and CCTVs will be set up in police stations including interrogation rooms. The CCTV footage can be accessed through RTI. IPC and CrPC should be reviewed," he said.
On defence policy, Kejriwal said the party will not only focus on reducing foriegn dependence in defence equipment but also strive to bring transparency in their procurement.
He said in principle the party opposed nuclear energy.
Kejriwal said his party would use a long-term approach of decentralisation and devolution of power to resolve Kashmir and Naxalite issues.
The party also advocated review of laws like AFSPA and said sexual violence against women by armed forces personnel should not tolerated.
Known for his attack on media, the AAP leader said his party will explore ways to enforce accountability and regulation on media houses and will take steps to curb paid news.
"State monopoly on news broadcasting on media should end and there should be transparency and disclosure of ownership of media houses," he said.
AAP leader promised to set up Judicial Appointment Commissions, both at the state and the national level to make the selection process of judges for the lower and higher courts transparent.
On electoral reforms, it said internal functioning of political parties to be regulated to ensure that they follow transparency norms under RTI and get their accounts scrutinised by CAG approved auditors.
It also promised to introduce Right to Healthcare Bill to improve accountability of private health care providers.
Senior party leaders Manish Sisodia, Yogendra Yadav, Gopal Rai, Prashant Bhushan and manifesto committee head Atishi Marlena were also present at the manifesto launch.


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"Chessington, which while strictly speaking counting as greater London would be considered more a day trip venue by most of the capital's residents."
Utter nonsense. Chessington is a 35 minute train journey form Waterloo. I know. I live there. I commute to the other side of the capital most days. Many's the time I come back from work, change and then go straight back into London. Yes it is the outer edge of the London conurbation, but we're not talking San Angelean scales of urbanisation. Remember that the M25 is only about 127 miles point to point, and that skirts the whole thing. It's only a "day trip venue" if you're hinting at the so-called World of Adventures.
Chessington is actually a very appropriate location for London access, particularly if you take maintenance and supply into consideration. Granted the rail connection is only a half-hourly service (serving both the Chessington stations, and Tolworth which is actually closer to most of the industrial estate), but it is situated just off the A3 - a major arterial route straight out of London, and is within ear-shot of the M25 which is also only 5-10 minutes distant, 12 miles as the crow flies from the centre. Digital Realty have a co-lo site here for that very reason.


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June 18th, 2012 #1
Oceanic Sketchbook
About 4.5 months ago I acquired my first tablet. I quickly realized that I had very little grasp of the digital medium and all of its capabilities. So, in the time since, I've taken the opportunity to explore a little bit.
The following is a set of unfocused, visual-ramblings, in which I've attempted various... things, mostly just having fun mark-making.
EDIT: Check the end of the thread for more recent work.
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The following are select sketches (there are way too many to post at once) done over the past 4.5 months, roughly in order.
Everything is done from imagination.
EDIT:also removed some oversized images from this post
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Removed a bunch of oversize images from this post
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Nice brushwork man.
keep em coming!
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June 18th, 2012 #9
Interesting exploration.
I love the way you studies tablet keeping it loose but i think it's time to focus!
Focus on less fancy brushes and on lines, clean and sharp for start.
Nice abstract approach by the way.
My Sketchbook ---> http://conceptart.org/forums/showthr...42#post3225942
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June 19th, 2012 #10
Few more from the bunch...
Everything in here so far is fast and loose, gonna try to render some of them out soon.
June 19th, 2012 #11
One from today, and a few alchemy sketches that I hadn't posted earlier.
June 24th, 2012 #12
Some doodles that I mashed together
June 28th, 2012 #13
Something. Grizzled futuristic war vet?
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Going to start using this sketchbook for studies, sketches, development towards actual concepts as opposed to the fast and loose stuff I've been posting so far.
July 10th, 2012 #16
Creature head?
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Cool stuff, very doom and gloom. I like this sort of thing a lot.
However, although it translates well creatively, your use of style might also be holding you back, because you are avoiding drawing difficult but important things. In my opinion you should be focusing more on the drawing and tackling things that are challenging to you rather than painterly effects and alien distortions.
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July 15th, 2012 #20
Appreciate the comments. I'm going to break up my working process into distinct sections.
-Sketching/idea building
-Refinement/design/value block-in/basically making sure things are solid but not exactly pretty (AKA the hardest, most draining part)
I understand at this point that tight rendering and details are probably the least important thing for me to work on. I want my constant focus to be on addressing my weaknesses until they become strong points, and to never reach a state of total satisfaction. It's literally impossible to have too much knowledge in this field
July 26th, 2012 #21
Something I was working on for Chow and a few other things
August 3rd, 2012 #22
So here's:
-A life painting in photoshop (30/40 minutes) of a little water polo ball
-Something I'm working on for EOW
-Random sketch
-Yesterday's Daily Sketch Group sketch
-Another random sketch
I'm infinitely more comfortable drawing from life than from imagination, which means I have work to do
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August 4th, 2012 #23
Wow, great sketchbook! I love your use of style and colors.
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August 5th, 2012 #24
Fixed the composition up a little on the environment, plus a couple really quick doodles
Probably mentioned this before, but everything in this thread is from imagination unless otherwise stated.
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August 8th, 2012 #25
Experimenting, doodling
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August 9th, 2012 #26
hey, I applaud your efforts on picking your weaknesses and focusing on those. I think working on fundamentals first or at least dedicating a large chunk of time to them is a good idea. In terms of your figures, I actually preferred your looser sketches that you first posted up the top. They are anatomically more proportionate, are more interesting and dynamic in pose and the volume of the forms are more successful, despite their looseness. It's really easy to tighten up when rendering and I think somewhere along the line in your last few posts you have been missing some of these elements. Bring them back in! Perhaps take that older approach and then detail up from there. Keep it up!
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August 9th, 2012 #27
wow, i like your abstract approach in the upper drawings. they're neat! - let's see moar!
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August 15th, 2012 #28
What I'm working on for CHOW and some thumbs from last week's EOW.
The Soaking Jester
The lonely court jester. Badly wounded in a tragic court break-dancing incident, he was fitted with mechanized cyborg limbs. Unable to cope with his new exterior,
he turned to the drink, eventually going on a final binge Leaving Las Vegas style. He stands now in a grey, limbo realm. Badly jaundiced, deeply contemplative, stiff and lifeless
as if molded out of wax. Only but a trace of his former jovial persona in still visible.
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Hmm interesting stuff man, it's good to see you rendering things out more. Maybe do some more studies I'm sure they'd really pay off. Either way keep going.
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