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The Obama administration acknowledged Thursday it has been over-reporting the number of people signed up under the president's signature health care law.
New York City plans to remove outdated payphones with 10,000 internet pylons for free public Wi-Fi.
A handful of website pages can give an idea of how much information Google has collected on your online activities and even where you've physically been.
Prices wars, a feature of last year's holiday shopping season, are sure to continue this year, but another type of battle is already starting to take shape.
The Obama administration says starting this weekend, consumers can get an early peek at 2015 premiums and plans under the president's health law.
Amazon is testing deliveries via taxis in California, as the Internet retailer explores alternative modes to speed up delivery and cut costs.
Amazon introduces a new benefit for its Prime membership package: Prime Photos, a service that provides free unlimited photo storage in the Amazon Cloud.
Apple CEO Tim Cook says Apple Pay is already a big success -- and it could get even bigger if a deal with China's Alibaba works out.
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UPS may charge major customers more for a surge in late, unplanned packages or turn down the business if it threatens disruptions during the holiday season.
Amazon.com, the world's largest online retailer, reported a wider third-quarter loss than analysts expected and gave a disappointing holiday forecast.
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is trying to convince restless shareholders that the long-struggling Internet company is heading in the right direction.
Target for the first time is offering free holiday shipping on all items, as the discounter attempts to compete better with the likes of Amazon.com.
Apple warns users of its iCloud online storage service of a concerted effort to steal passwords and other data from people who use the service in China.
CBS is launching a stand-alone digital streaming service for $5.99 a month that will offer subscribers access to its current and older shows.
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WASHINGTON The Obama administration is considering filing the first criminal charges against radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki in case the CIA fails to kill him and he's is captured alive in Yemen.
The decision continues the White House's strategy of fighting terrorism both in court and on the battlefield.
Al-Awlaki, a U.S. and Yemeni citizen born in New Mexico, has inspired a wave of attempted attacks against the U.S. and has become al-Qaida's leading English-speaking voice for recruiting and motivating terrorists. Counterterrorism officials said al-Awlaki, since mid-2009, has become a key operational figure who selects targets and gives orders.
Shortly after the failed Christmas Day bombing of a Detroit-bound U.S. airliner, which officials believe al-Awlaki had a hand in planning, the White House took the unprecedented step of authorizing the CIA to kill or capture him. A decision on criminal charges is expected in the next several weeks, officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the deliberations.
The Nigerian man charged with the attempted bombing, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, suggested in Detroit federal court Monday that he wanted to plead guilty to some charges, raising the possibility that his cooperation could form the foundation for charges against al-Awlaki.
The Obama administration has rewritten the nation's counterterrorism strategy, treating terrorism as both a wartime issue to be handled by the military and CIA, and a legal issue to be settled in court.
That has alternately angered both liberals and conservatives. Congressional Republicans have cast the administration as soft on terrorism for using criminal courts rather than military tribunals to prosecute suspected attackers. Civil liberties groups, meanwhile, have called lethal action against al-Awlaki unconstitutional.
Al-Awlaki is living in a mountainous region of Yemen, sheltered by his family and religious leaders who say he has no ties to terrorism. Yemeni officials have said they will not turn him over to the U.S. because, as a Yemeni citizen, he must be prosecuted there.
Yemen has been an unreliable U.S. partner when it comes to holding terrorists in prison, however, and charging al-Awlaki in the U.S. would make it easier for the Obama administration to demand he be turned over.
Such charges, however, would come with political and intelligence-gathering risks. Counterterrorism officials regard al-Awlaki as a terrorist operative, not just a preacher, but they have revealed few specifics. Charging al-Awlaki with having direct involvement in terrorism could require the U.S. to reveal evidence gleaned from foreign wiretaps or confidential informants.
The best case scenario for the government would be for Abdulmutallab to plead guilty. He has already told the FBI that al-Awlaki was involved in the airliner bomb plan, and a plea deal would allow Abdulmutallab to become a witness against him. But Abdulmutallab, who fired his lawyers Monday and was given approval to represent himself, has yet to strike a deal and would probably seek a reduced prison sentence in exchange for his help.
Another option, given al-Awlaki's increasingly violent sermons and his collaboration with al-Qaida's propaganda efforts, would be charging him with supporting terrorism. But that charge carries only a 15-year prison sentence, leaving the administration open to questions about how the president can authorize the CIA to essentially impose the death penalty for such a crime.

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The push notification flow begins when a device registers with either the Microsoft Push Notification Service or the Apple Push Notification Service. The service provides the device with a token. The token is shared with the application server or in this case Lync Server 2010 Front End Server. Whenever the application wants to send notifications, it shares the token with the push service provider. The push service provider contacts the Microsoft or Apple Push Notification Service and the service contacts the device.
Note: Android and Symbian mobile devices run applications in the background. Therefore, push notification services are not required on Android and Symbian mobile devices.
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3. The device shares the token received from the Microsoft Push Notification Services or Apple Push Notification Services with Microsoft Lync Server 2010, Front End.
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5. The Lync Server Push service provider (Push.Lync.com) resolves the contact and sends the request to either the Microsoft Push Notification Service or the Apple Push Notification Service.
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text: Creative Director by day and internationally recognized DJ and Producer by night (or vice versa), there has always been one constant in Salah's life: CREATIVITY. A multi-cultured passionate creative who, for the last 22 years, has excelled in the field of music and design, working with and alongside a number of high profile international and regional creative agencies, clients, brands, artists, venues, and labels.Salah Sadeq - Artist Profile 2014 A multi-cultured passionate creative who, for the last 22 years, has excelled in the field of music and design, working with and alongside a number of high profile international and regional creative agencies, clients, brands, artists, venues, and labels. His hunger and professionalism has translated across to his musical career as well, something which is apparent to anyone who has seen him at work. An experience of any of Salah's magical sets is one that remains with you for days, weeks and months. It's from within his passionate soul that this talented and well-exposed DJ reaches out, with a style of music that spans deep - house - groovy - electronica - techno - acid - disco - dub - abstract beats and pieces that GET UNDER YOUR SKIN; a truly experienced versatile diverse style that never fails to infect the listener with a dirty groove. Born and raised in Bahrain he developed his skills from the very young age of 14, spinning at the infamous "Tameem" night club, varied underground gigs, which led to him becoming the weekend resident dj at "Likwid" Bahrain (starting 1999) which developed to running his own nights and brands on the island and in the region. Gradually building a repertoire that crosses continents. Close to home, he has played alongside a number of big artists in Dubai (U.A.E.), including Laurent Garnier, Josh Wink, Ripperton, Robag Wruhme, Satoshi Tomiie, Mathew Jonson, Desyn Masiello, D'julz, Daniel Stefanik, Clive Henry, Francesca Lombardo, Seamus Haji, Jef K, DJ T, Solomun, Ame, Luke Solomon, Matthew Burton, Peace Division and Lexicon Avenue (Shindig parties) to name a few. His adventures also take him to Canada, France, Germany, Lebanon, Georgia and Holland. In Holland he has performed in regular events including Amsterdam Dance Event, FreeFestival - The Orginals 2012, the Queen's Day Street and Playground parties (2004 + 2005), TWSTD, Supper Club, Studio 80, Sugar Factory, Club 11 and Club More in Amsterdam. In addition at special one offs in Paris (Silver Network Anniversary @ Showcase), The Woods Brussels and recently a regular in the Beirut underground scene. In the regional scene, Salah has been found teaming up with world-class DJs at various venues in Bahrain, Beirut, Dubai and Abu Dhabi and is the brains and talent behind the successful Techfui residency, that ran for over four years inviting DJs, both local and international, including the likes of Peace Division, Ame, Mazi, Richard Parker and more. The brand lives on with his sets, collaborations and the label and artist roster launching this year. Now based in Dubai, Salah is a regular at leading venues and nights. Salah is only starting to spread his musical vibe and creations in the region with still more in the works, both in the DJ booth and the studio with the release of his first EP aptly titled "Techfui" on Gold Drama Recordings featuring Jef K, Salar Ansari, Hoolz and Mi.Key in 2014. This newborn focus on releasing his own music in 2013 kicked started by the winning remix for Yousef - Italo Sleeze (Salah + Hoolz Mix) - Circus Recordings released on July 22nd 2013. Definitely inspired 2014 also brings the release of his second EP "Paris with a K" on One28 Recordings with remixes from Jef K and Ronin & Nesta. Behind and involved such entities / brands as '&co.", "Techfui", "The Crate" and 'Stereotype" he obviously has no plans to slow down any time soon. Renowned across continents as a serious performer, Salah has a unique ability to keep a room full of people grooving for hours. Once you've heard one of his sets, you'll definitely want to come back for more. RA Profile: http://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/salah Sound Cloud: soundcloud.com/salah Mixcloud: www.mixcloud.com/salah/ Tumblr: ssadeq.tumblr.com TECHFUI: www.techfui.nl &co.: www.andco.co Releases: Italo Sleeze - Yousef - Circus Recordings http://www.beatport.com/release/italo-sleeze/1124406 Techfui EP - Salah Sadeq - Gold Drama Recordings http://www.beatport.com/release/techfui/1242878 Paris with a K - Salah Sadeq - One28 Recordings http://www.beatport.com/release/paris-with-a-k/1277266Selected discography SalahItalo Sleeze - Yousef - Salah + Hoolz Remix - Circus Recordings Techfui EP - Salah Sadeq - Gold Drama Recordings Paris with a K - Salah Sadeq - One28 Recordings


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About 30 members and supporters of the Nationalist Party, a white supremacist group headed by Mississippi lawyer Richard Barrett, marched on Martin Luther King Jr. Day in Jena, La., the site of a march by more than 20,000 anti-racist protesters last Sept. 20. Chanting slogans like, "If it ain't white, it ain't right," the protesters held their "Jena Justice Day to Empower the Majority" to deride King and to protest the so-called "Jena 6," black teenagers subjected to harsh prosecutions for an attack on a white schoolmate.
Prior to the march, the Nationalists had threatened to come armed but backed off when the city agreed not to try to force the group to post a $10,000 security bond. Nonetheless, several did come bearing weapons and displaying nooses. The group met opposition from the black supremacist New Black Panther Party, one of whose members was arrested for battery of a police officer and resisting arrest, and an array of anti-racists, including many college students.
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In 2010, in a tape-recorded call with an investigator posing as an AIM auditor, Erickson pretended for the first four minutes of the conversation to be a surrogate who had made an application. She then admitted her real identity.
Prosecutors also said Erickson and Neiman on many occasions provided surrogates with fertility drugs illegally brought into the United States from the Ukraine, where medical expenses are much cheaper.
Andrew Vorzimer, a Los Angeles lawyer who has practiced surrogacy law for 18 years, said this federal case shows that the state's laws covering surrogacy arrangements have to be changed.
Vorzimer also was a key player in unraveling the scheme after two surrogates who became suspicious of Erickson contacted him, and he went to the FBI.
"There needs to be a major overhaul in how these arrangements are handled," he said. "We need to have a better statutory framework in place to avoid these kinds of issues and scandals."
He said Erickson was able to deceive the court repeatedly because there is no requirement that the parties actually produce a signed contract between the surrogate and the intended parents. Lawyers only need to file papers saying such agreements exist.
In the wake of the Erickson scandal, Vorzimer said, the San Diego Superior Court now requires an official contract to be presented at court hearings where intended parents are granted orders allowing them to place their names on birth certificates.
Judge Lorna Alksne, presiding judge of San Diego County's family court, confirmed the court's procedures changed following the Erickson revelations. She said there is now a standard protocol in place for all such court proceedings dealing with pre-birth paternity and maternity orders for intended parents and surrogates.


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Trade between The New Empire and The Galactic senate
Deal : ships and shipyards - Money
On August 20th 2011, Sith insquisitor Darth_Ten10dix PM'ed Emperor_Johnyboy1 about a deal that would greatly benefit both sides. Emperor_Johnyboy1 then talked to his most trusted advisors and they agreed that a trade would benefit both teams. The new Empire and the Galactic senate then opened trade and now became nuetral with each other instead of being enemies. As shown above, the trade is quite simple. We give them access to our massive shipyards in exchange for needed money to help grow TNE. Hopefully the exchange will last for a long time.
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April 7th, 2014 #31
Hmmm well I'm going to try more meditation. Spring has come back to the mountains now so I'll do some yoga if I can outdoors...
It's interesting that some of you have said you don't feel the same angst... My wife thinks it's just my mental make up - must be true!
I love painting and drawing so I'll just concentrate on the enjoyment I feel.
Oh and if you want to watch me paint live I recently got introduced to this thing called picarto TV... It's nice to do art and share it - if you have any questions it's great to talk too! I'm painting pretty much 12 hours a day so you'll most likely find me - unless I'm eating
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April 7th, 2014 #33
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Whether talent exists or not, I can't exactly say for sure.
But I know one thing, my brush will never be as heavy as young up and comers like Sean Sevestre's, Brandon Liao's, Ross Tran's, Sam Carr's, Miles Johnston's, Forrest Imel's, or Andrew Sonea's.
I'm going to keep this sweet and simple.
Hold people to the merits of their craft, not their age.
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April 7th, 2014 #35
Honestly, if I made everything into a competition with people who do it better, I would never get to do anything.
I don't see why I have to deny myself anything because someone who does it better exists. If I'm doing it, I'm doing it because I like it. If I'm any good at it I've liked it for a long time and I'm not about to stop because of other people. I don't believe that "other people" is a particularly good reason to start or quit anything.
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There's already been some really good advice on this thread, but I just want to state my own point of view on it.
Basically what you're talking about is regret over the past - the idea that you should have started sooner. A lot of people like to browbeat themselves over past decisions, or wasting their time when they were younger or whatever, but in reality that's pointless. You can't change the past - what's done is done. Every day you start fresh, building on who you are that day, you just have to accept that as ground zero and go forward from there.
Past and future don't exist - the past is only memories and the future will be whatever we make of it plus random unforeseeable stuff happening. There is only now. And it's useless to waste now with torturing yourself over something you can't change - far better to use your present moment in some positive way.
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April 7th, 2014 #38
What's that old phrase, "hindsight is 20/20"? You can pick out and see all the mistakes you have made in the past and see what you 'should have' done differently then, but only after you've been through it all. You also waste time thinking and dwelling like that; at worst, you'll be consumed by it and it will prevent you from ever trying to reach your goals.
If you are stuck in this mindset it can be difficult to shake it, often because you may think you have to fix it all in one hit, rather than clawing it back one small bit at a time.
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April 8th, 2014 #39
"Comparison is the death of joy" - Mark Twain.
I also take this with a pinch of "ignorance is bliss" and no one wants to be ignorant; so, look at the work and learn from it. I lose a lot of sleep over this question when I know what I should be doing is just working and working.
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Mmmm, I always try to use comparison in a healthy way. Like I don't think its a good idea at all to stick your head in the sand and just work until you think that you are good enough.
If you use strong work as a sort of goal or think "what can I do to get that good" or something like that then I think that comparison is important.
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April 11th, 2014 #42
I think I can relate to your perspective.
My coping mechanism is this: I want to draw, and this desire keeps me working and keeps me not caring what other people can or cannot do in relation to me.
What I want to do is create. My "right" to create is not dependent on the quality of the piece, having good composition, color work, et cetera. What makes me entitled to create is my desire to do so, and my investment of time and work.
This doesn't mean I don't aspire to improve and to output quality - but actually these are not high priorities. What is important is to draw, and to invest work into my drawings.
I am certain there are people who enjoy my work as it is and as it can be in the future. When I want people to be with me i the process of creation (actually I do) I seek out those people.
how is that, as an ode to mediocrity?
The heights by great men reached and kept,
Were not attained by sudden flight,
For they, while they companions slept,
Were toiling upwards in the night"
(Henry Wadsworth)
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April 11th, 2014 #43
I was about to write, "I don't get psyched I get inspired", but then saw Candra already wrote it.
For me it's a personal process, diligence begets progress.
April 11th, 2014 #44
Thanks guys - I am trying to approach it in a different way. I guess the difference is age and as Darkstrider said, the sense of regret - but I also agree with his analysis - thanks! That it's important to concentrate on the present and to forget the past or think of the future.
Anyhow I am persevering...
Oh and if you want to watch me paint live I recently got introduced to this thing called picarto TV... It's nice to do art and share it - if you have any questions it's great to talk too! I'm painting pretty much 12 hours a day so you'll most likely find me - unless I'm eating
April 11th, 2014 #45
I have similar thoughts like you Lovingit. I used to draw alot when I was a kid and when i hit about 14 years old I knew that i wanted to work in games or film, I didnt realize at the time that I could make a living of doing concept art or illustration etc.
I just thought that I had to go to college and then University to get a degree and then a job afterwards.
Problem is i was naive and young! I went to college and studied Art and Design for two years, cant really say i learnt much i was just coasting along, not realizing how much work needs to be put in to actually get really good at art!
Finally went to University and enrolled in a Computer Games Design course, got pulled in by all their marketing telling me to do this course because it will keep my options open if I learn all aspects of Games design, instead of specializing. (Concept art, Modelling, Animating, Level design etc.)
I coasted along again and ended up dropping out of Uni, I didnt know what to do with myself, I had to get job to survive, so i ended up joining the army. For the next five years i hardly did any drawing, I was thinking of making a career out of the army and staying in till the end of my 22 year contract.
Right this post is going on forever haha To cut a long story short, one day while i was in Afghanistan i decided that i would leave the army after my Tour of duty and pursue my dream.
And now here i am at 26 years old trying to get good at art again! Wishing i didnt waste all that time all them years ago not knowing what to do with myself.
Thats why sometimes im the same like you and i see people younger than me, better than me, and i get worried that i wont make it.
Cant let it get to our heads though, huh?
April 11th, 2014 #46
Basically this: Self-criticism can help you improve (Note the CAN), but self-doubt gets you nowhere. You talk about "making it" like it's a specific point that will be reached. It's not. Are you good enough to get a job as an illustrator/artist right now? Probably. Will it be a great job and will you produce stellar results? Maybe, maybe not. But the job is out there, and you can "make it" right now. Will this leave you satisfied? Hopefully not.
Improve as much as you can, find jobs, take jobs. That's pretty much it IMO.
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April 11th, 2014 #47
To be honest you shouldn't compare yourself too much to others.
I always was one of the best, if not the best in my class, not only in art, but in sciences too. Despite being completely lazy I could always get away with it and would use anything to stroke my ego and think I was better than everyone else. I did my college in art and would still think I was better than anyone else. Then I went into engineering (polytechnics) and got whacked in the face with not only shitty results, but finding out how much better some people are. I mean, some of these guys found what I found really difficult not only very easy, but some of them were bored and looking for more of a challenge.
That's when I learned my lesson, that it's not about being better than others, it's about doing your own thing and whatever makes you happy. No matter how good you are you will always find much better than you.
April 11th, 2014 #48
These posts are great to read! I just came out of a period where I stopped watching other artists completely! Then when I did I found out I really missed it and have learned a lot from both (the isolation and the comeback).
"You talk about "making it" like it's a specific point that will be reached. It's not."
Whyatt Trash the it in making it you mention is called "das ding". We do need it in our lives I guess. It has a different meaning for everyone!
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April 11th, 2014 #49
I think that was a poor choice of words in my first post. When I say im worried I wont make it, I guess I mean I would like to get to a good enough standard to put food on my table. But first and foremost it's about enjoying art and learning from it, because at the end of the day it's a hobby and then maybe a career.
What Stephou says is true, there's always going to be some one better than you, just dont worry about it and make sure you enjoy what you are doing!
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April 11th, 2014 #50
@LovingIt : I don't have any advice, just want to say that I am right where you are dude. Excepting of course that I am not as good a painter as you
I am 38, an industrial designer / sketchaholic that so badly wants to get into film or games in a vis dev role that it nearly consumes me at times. I have worked professionally as a designer in one form or another for close to 14 years.
I have come close to getting vis dev games roles a couple of times but for one reason or another it didn't happen.
I am the proud father of two 5 year olds and a 10 mth old, and subsequently a stay at home Dad, so you can imagine how much time I have for my art.
I have so little time at my disposal, (couple of hours a week) and so far to go artistically, to where I want to be.
In years past, my wife has had to come and pull me away from the PC before, because all I was doing was looking at everyone else's work; coming across superstar artists half my age and getting substantially depressed/ pysched out.
More recently I have rediscovered joy in my art again, thanks to online courses like Chris Oatley's Magic Box and LevelUp! and I am just trying to remember it is a journey, and not to put so much crushing pressure on myself, whilst still trying to always build on my skills.
I am with your wife on this one, sometimes biochemical makeup sets a mental obstacle course for us, that can be challenging to get through.
With respect, those people blessed enough to have never experienced crippling self-confidence issues,depression, anxiety, etc just won't understand because it needs to be experienced to fathom its' depths.
I have found that (and my highly supportive wife has astutely pointed out also) I spent far too much time looking at others work instead of doing my own.
TLDR: you aren't alone
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April 12th, 2014 #51
Hey illostrader, thanks for that kind post. I think your posts were checked by the admin bods before you get a chance to post (nothing to do with me)...
Anyhow. I think the problem is (and this is possibly why I haven't gotten a job or even an interview yet) - is that when you get older you are less inclined to take the bullshit. As a company, if I had the choice of a 21 year old fresh faced happy kid vs a 36 year old been there done, I know who I'd be more inclined to pick. It's not that I would be against taking instruction, orders, working hard etc...
Maybe that's just bullshit - after all I haven't even gotten to interview yet!
Anyhow - we'll see. Thanks for the post - not everyone gets it - but I think it IS important not to get psyched out and try and stay positive and keep swimming. I've been working on my portfolio pretty much 12 hours a day now for the last 6 months - if nothing happens by the end of this month I'm going to put it on the back burner and try some of my own entrepreneurial ideas again.
Oh and if you want to watch me paint live I recently got introduced to this thing called picarto TV... It's nice to do art and share it - if you have any questions it's great to talk too! I'm painting pretty much 12 hours a day so you'll most likely find me - unless I'm eating
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I do get a weird cocktail of feelings when I see somebody's very good work of art. Among all the positive feelings I also feel being threatened a bit and I save the work on my disk and I keep returning to it for days until I manage to find something that I wouldn't do If I was the author. Then my relationship with the work enters into more peaceful waters. But - I do not feel like that by anyone who's better than me, I only feel that when somebody's better than what I want to be. I don't think this is completely negative behavior, I perceive it as a fuel for an engine that crawls deeper and analyses things and helps me understand the subtle characteristics of what might define my own work.
April 13th, 2014 #53
Just be sure the rapture of creativity forever exceeds your need for personal gain, be it material or egocentric.
I like to think focus should be entirely on the increased progress of my skill set.
When I see something that impresses me, I use that energy for inspiration, and promptly set about rising to the challenge.
I don't always succeed, but what it does do, is make me push myself and more importantly, my boundaries.
Don't worry about what others are doing. They are not you.
The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow ~ William Blake
April 13th, 2014 #54
Well, my advice about focusing on your own work kinda relies on you having at least searched for work. It seems you already recognize that at least part of what you're saying is BonkerS, and that's good. You just need to cut through it and apply yourself, not to the art but to landing a job or two. A common difference between people who have jobs and people who don't is the ones who do say "I can do this"/"I need this" and the ones who don't say "I can't"/"someone else can do better". You seem stuck in the second camp, feeding yourself BS reasons as to why you're stuck there. And you can do so much better than that.
What I think you've started to realize is that this has very little to do with anyone else and very much to do with you. Even if there were absolutely no other artists around, you'd probably still be battling these issues. But this is good news; because while you have very little influence over what other people do, you CAN change what YOU do and how YOU think.
And I reiterate:
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April 13th, 2014 #55
"The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow" ~ William Blake
I do not agree with this quote of William Blake here. What if there are no other eagles around of which he knows of?
What if the eagle doesn't know how to fly? He would be better off learning from the crow than from the rabbit right?
April 15th, 2014 #56
I'm affected by that kind of "god-tier" art in a completely counterproductive way (paralysis, depression, hopelessness, defeat) and just because I recognize the uselessness of these emotions, it doesn't stop them from happening. I follow FZD on Facebook, for example, and instead of inspiration, I get a reminder of where I wish I was, and how I'm not even close.
I think the only thing that I can do is to, essentially, ignore it, and to find other metrics by which to measure myself. I'm just not the type to find inspiration in good art. I appreciate it, I admire it, but any compulsion I have to put pen to tablet evaporates when I see something far beyond my skill level. Maybe it's my primal, over-competitive nature; the anger of being "defeated," some narcissistic sense of entitlement to being the best, who knows.
What I found from my own soul searching is that I do better to simply shut out the noise of the outside world, and measure my progress against nothing else but myself. If you want to be better, evaluate your personal skill level, find a weak spot, address it, and improve upon it to your satisfaction. Getting caught up on other people's skill level will destroy you if you're the type of person that is bothered or fatigued by it, so don't subject yourself to it. Use every last bit of effort to get caught back up in YOUR skill level, because it's the only one you have any control over.
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April 16th, 2014 #57
The Internet exposes you to a lot of competitors. There's a flip side to that though, because it also exposes you to a lot of possible mentors.
April 23rd, 2014 #58
When I was first going to college I totally got psyched out by all the great artists out there. I think this is what happens if you feel you need to do art for money, because as soon as money is involved then you have to care about the competition. If you just draw for drawings sake, then competition is irrelevant. So if drawing is your job, or you want it to be, I guess you just have to buckle down and accept the competition is brutal and iron your will.
If its just your hobby, then there's no reason to feel competitive. This is how I look at it now.
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You've kinda made my point for me. THERE IS NO CANON AS FAR AS RANGE AND DISTANCE ARE CONCERNED. Didn't I mention that? The game designers HAD to make some stuff up.
They made an aesthetic choice. Perfect? No. Maybe not. But at least they TRIED.
Fine. So if you want to interact with a space object you have to be right on top of it. Who's to say Geordi or data was doing an "interact with object" and not offering a "popup dialog" on a "reach marker"?
Look, I love the idea of two ships blasting away at each other from so far away they barely see one another as anything more than pinpoints of light. I'm a huge classic Traveller fan. But compare the distances above to the shots in Wrath of Khan where the two ships were practically smashing into each other. The devs had to make some choices and they chose, not surprisingly, to go with the more graphically exciting approach of having the ships at relatively close quarters. I don't see how that makes it somehow a betrayal to the spirit of the franchise.
The shows made a TON of references over 6 km. I gave you many and you still ignore it. Fine. I'm a doctor not a miracle worker. I can't make the blind see.


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This magnificently designed sterling silver letter opener is from the estate of a well traveled and wealthy woman. It is Egyptian and obviously quite old. The decorative elements on this piece are a chameleon on top attached to flourishes that may be letters. It is engraved with a lotus flower, an Egyptian princess, the eye of Horus, and other symbols going down to the tip. It was cut from a heavy sheet of silver and fabricated by hand. The designs on top were cut out and the designs were incised or engraved into the metal. In my photographs, it looks like it has a lot of patina, but it really doesn't. I had to darken the pictures to be able to see the decorative figures and symbols. It has a little patina, but a lot is worn off. The opener is 7" long x 7/8" at the widest point at the top. It is a beautiful vintage piece with no damage only showing slight wear on the back on the hallmark. The front is not worn at all. It would make a very unique and thoughtful gift for someone else or yourself!


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Translations are a bridge between different worlds but how will the ripple become a flood unless mindsets change?
There are two currents to the historical legacy of Commonwealth literature. One that flowed out of Britain from Shakespeare to P.G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie, which everyone knows about. The other flowed back from the continents of Asia, Africa and Australia to Britain and sometimes coursed between them.
The island nation was fortunate to have access to the experienced and fantasised reality, turbulent history and vibrant geographic variety of three vast continents, but barely because of the paucity of translations from the rich, diverse language literatures, into English. For most part we had to make do with what was written in English, which barely skimmed the surface. Let's say, a ripple rather than a flow.
True, in due course, the ripple managed to transform and enrich English, with the varied, vivid, metaphors of numinous languages and cultures. But taking India with its numinous languages as an example, the sad fact is that apart from Rabindranath Tagore, who became known, thanks to the Nobel Prize for Geetanjali and Bibhuti Bhushan Bandhyopadhyay known via Satyajit Ray for Pather Paanchali, other non-English works, which rejected the colonial mindset and engendered commonality, the principle underlying the Commonwealth, never became part of the common legacy.
Rebutting the colonial mindset
A few writers like R.K. Narayan, Mulk Raj Anand and Raja Rao wrote in English and demonstrated that one could appropriate the coloniser's language and use it to rebut the colonised mindset. By satirising the ruler and the ruled equally, R.K. Narayan bridged the gap between the two. The pomposity of the former and the comic servility of the latter were both subjected to non-malicious ridicule as he showed them equally immersed in trivialities. It prepared the climate for the rejection of the coloniser's value system by the common man as he realised it was no better than his own. There is no better prescription for subversion than ridicule untouched by malice. Both the coloniser and the colonised have to be free of the colonial mindset to forge a common legacy.
But there were other works in many languages, which offered more effective antitheses to the colonial mind set by recording our cultural ethos, giving a realistic picture of the social fabric and psyche with no hedging or subterfuge, without glossing over its deficiencies or weaknesses. That is crucial. Only a free society can dare to have weaknesses and condemn them impartially. Premchand, Nirala, Mahadevi Verma and Fanishwar Nath Renu in Hindi; Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyaya and Bibhuti Bhushan Bandhyopadhyay, in Bengali; Subramaniya Bharati and Puthumai Piththan in Tamil; Faqir Mohan in Oriya, Kuvempu (KV Puttappa), K Shivarama Karanth and D.R Bendre in Kannada; M.T Vasudevan Nair and M.M Basheer in Malayalam; V S Khandekar, Vibhavari Shirurkar and Anandibai Shirke in Marathi and many more did this.
In Hindi, the process started soon after the 1857 uprising, when Bhartendu Harishchandra wrote Bharat Durdasha and Andher Nagri Chaupat Raja (1878-1880). They gave an allegorical account of a region under a corrupt and uncaring ruler. Chaupat Raja has become a part of the idiom of not only Hindi but most Indian languages. It defines all suspect regimes, foreign or indigenous, even today. This is the historical legacy against which we have to place contemporary writing and see to what extent the Commonwealth aware is of it.
Regional language writers write such powerful stories in their languages that they make original writing in English with Indian locales seem quite lukewarm. When the story is located in foreign lands the English language writer often has a better grip. I can say about my language, Hindi, that if you have not read Jagdamba Prasad Dixit's Murdaghar or Itivrat or Manohar Shyam Joshi's Kapishji or Kuru kuru Swaha, you can not even begin to understand the goings-on in this country. Fortunately two of Joshi's novellas, Ta-ta Professor and The Perplexity of Hariya Hercules are available in English translation now. The intricate and ribald rendering of a profound philosophical concept, 'I am the other' in The Perplexity of Hariya Hercules makes it tower above any novel written in English in the last 50 years. Though it was translated a decade ago, ironically, it found a publisher only last year, after the demise of the author.
Good efforts
Many Hindi writers like Krishna Baldev Vaid, Rahi Masoom Raza, Krishna Sobti, and younger writers like Geetanjali Shree are now available in good translations. Writers from other languages like Malayalam, Kannada and Bengali such as N.S Madhvan, Sara Joseph, U.R Ananthamurthy, Sunil Gangopadhyaya and others can boast of even better translations, thanks to editors like Mini Krishnan of OUP.
It is through translations that we can hope for a world where the unknown streets of Indian cities like Bhopal, Meerut, Bangalore, Nagpur and Kochi are as familiar to the English-speaking West, as the streets of Tokyo and Kyoto in Japan became through English translations of Haruki Murakami's novels. But how can I even dream of that world, when our own market-oriented magazines refuse to give space to reviews of translations, irrespective of the quality of the fiction. They would much rather publish rehashed reviews of English translations of European books.
The Commonwealth Writer's Prize rules that "the entry must be originally written in English. We regret that, for logistical reasons, works translated from other languages are not currently eligible". We are forced to conclude that for logistical reasons the common legacy is in waiting. And has been in waiting ever since we ceased to be a colony and chose to become part of the Commonwealth.
(A presentation made at the Commonwealth Writers Meet in Delhi in October 2010 on the subject; Historical Legacy and Contemporary writing in the Common Wealth at the Sahitya Akademi.)


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1 Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, University of Virginia, PO Box 801337, Charlottesville, VA 29908-1337, USA
2 Office of Hospital Epidemiology/Infection Prevention and Control, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, USA
3 Department of Radiology and Medical Imaging, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA
BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2013, 13:14 doi:10.1186/1471-2466-13-14Published: 21 March 2013
F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) is increasingly used to investigate for malignancy in the evaluation of pulmonary nodules, yet both active tuberculosis (TB) and malignancy have high uptake of FDG. Definitive diagnosis of TB can be further hindered in patients without growth of the organism from sputum.
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We describe a series of four representative cases of TB in varying disease state originally imaged by FDG-PET during evaluation for malignancy. Decisions regarding treatment for active TB in the presence of negative cultures and the evolving understanding of the spectrum of the TB disease state are discussed.
FDG-PET may possess a role in the diagnosis of active TB infection in settings where conventional microbiological methods are unavaiable and holds particular promise for monitoring response to therapy in cases of unsettled treatment duration such as multidrug-resistant TB or in extrapulmonary TB.


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Pomegranate Extract in Treating Patients With Rising Prostate-Specific Antigen Levels After Surgery or Radiation Therapy for Localized Prostate Cancer
Basic Trial Information
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|NCI, Other
Trial Description
RATIONALE: Pomegranate extract may keep prostate cancer from growing in patients with rising prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels after surgery or radiation therapy for localized prostate cancer.
PURPOSE: This randomized trial is studying how well pomegranate extract works in treating patients with rising PSA levels after surgery or radiation therapy for localized prostate cancer.
Further Study Information
- Evaluate the effects of pomegranate extract in patients with and rising prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels after surgery or radiotherapy for localized prostate cancer.
- Determine the effect of a daily oral dose of pomegranate extract on the absolute value of PSA and on the change in PSA doubling time in these patients.
- Assess toxicities associated with daily oral dosing of pomegranate extract in these patients.
- Determine the effect of pomegranate extract on positive PSA doubling-time outcome, defined as greater than 150% baseline or a negative post-treatment PSA doubling time (i.e., declining PSA).
OUTLINE: This is a multicenter, double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized study. Patients are stratified according to participating center. Patients are randomized to 1 of 2 treatment arms.
- Arm I: Patients receive oral pomegranate extract daily.
- Arm II: Patients receive oral placebo daily. Treatment in both arms continues for up to 1 year in the absence of disease progression.
PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 180 patients will be accrued for this study.
Eligibility Criteria
- Histologically confirmed adenocarcinoma of the prostate
- Must have completed prior surgery, cryotherapy, or radiotherapy for the primary tumor
- Documented rising prostate-specific antigen (PSA)
- Absolute level of PSA > 0.2 ng/mL after surgery
- Absolute level of PSA > 1.0 ng/mL after radiation or cryotherapy
- Absolute level of PSA ≥ 0.4 ng/mL after multiple treatment modalities (e.g., surgery with radiotherapy or radiotherapy with cryotherapy)
- PSA must be ≥ 100% above best nadir achieved
- PSA doubling time > 3 months or ≤ 24 months
- Patients must have ≥ 3 rising PSA time points above the minimum nadir achieved over ≥ 6 months
- The interval between PSA time points must be > 2 weeks
- PSA ≤ 7.0 ng/mL
- Patients who underwent radical prostatectomy and never achieved undetectable serum PSA after surgery are not eligible
- Gleason score ≤ 7
- No histologically positive lymph nodes
- No evidence of metastatic disease by physical examination, CT scan, or bone scan
- Life expectancy ≥ 6 months
- ECOG performance status 0 or 1
- No significant concomitant medical or psychiatric conditions that would limit study compliance
- No known allergies to pomegranate extract
- No known diabetes with hemoglobin A_1c level > 7.0% in the past 3 months
- Diabetic patients entering study who have not had hemoglobin A_1c level measured in the past 3 months must have levels measured at study initiation
- No clinically abnormal laboratory values > 2 times the upper limit of normal
- See Disease Characteristics
- More than 4 weeks since prior and no concurrent experimental drugs, high-dose steroids, or other cancer treatment
- No hormonal therapy, with the exception of neoadjuvant androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT), prior to or concurrent with primary therapy
- Patients who received prior neoadjuvant ADT must have serum testosterone ≥ 150 ng/dL
- No prior or concurrent hormonal therapy for rising PSA after primary therapy for prostate cancer
- No finasteride or dutasteride at any time point after primary therapy and during study therapy
- No other concurrent commercial pomegranate products
- No other concurrent systemic or local therapy for prostate cancer
- Concurrent dietary/herbal supplements (e.g., saw palmetto or selenium) allowed provided dose has been stable for ≥ 2 months prior to study entry and there are no plans to change or stop the supplements during study therapy
Trial Contact Information
Trial Lead Organizations/Sponsors
Roll International Corporation
- National Cancer Institute
Link to the current ClinicalTrials.gov record.
NLM Identifier NCT00336934
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this data on October 17, 2013
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Borderlands 2
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I'm really not good at shooters, and I'm finding SP to be a sweet spot of difficulty for me, so either you're terrible or need to switch up your playstyle. I'm gonna assume you just need to switch it up.
This is my issue. I was playing as Axton, but i am not used to the turret as i never played Roland. I switched to the uber popular with 12 year olds ZERO( long time Bricker)and it fits me a little better.
Thinking of going Sal to see if it is a little closer to home.
This game can get tough (and I usually play single-player, but hopefully not once I can afford Gold), but it's not impossible. There's way harder games, I promise you. Dark Souls makes this game look easy, and it's nothing compared to practically any NES or SNES game. Earthworm Jim is too hard. Borderlands 2 is fine.
only 12 but fighting is really slow. I have to either wait or die
Rockin' my socks off
lol...this is a real topic?
From the east to the west with plague bearing steps i march my sharp arrows of instant death, i shoot into every beating heart i will not spare you.
Honestly if you're really having trouble, give Axton a shot. I feel like he's the best fit early on for newcomers, especially if you're going to play solo. His turret wrecks. Period. The other characters are pretty badass themselves, but are a bit difficult to solo with right out of the box,
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I'm saving Zer0 for a later run, but right now I'm finding Maya to be cake. I suspect in the end she'll be the game's Lilith. Hard to say, since I've only dipped into Cataclysm (which my final build is based on), but when crowd control and healing start doing damage too...
"A large, fast moving fire is the only thing that would make anything on MTV watchable."-- Reel_Big_Mike
necro00 posted...l
not even fun, just frustrating and cheap
pay attention to your level, you should fight only enemies that
are one level less then you, then you will feel
"op" (over powered). if you still have problems in single player,
then start grinding, to earn more xp and raise your level.
You can't die.
Oh, you can die. But in the words of the Hyperion announcer "The only thing worse than respawning is not respawning."
In Borderlands 2, if you die, you respawn. You lose a miniscule percentage of your money, hardly enough to bad an eye at.
Keep fighting. If you die, so what--you don't lose guns. And as you progress and earn gear and levels and get the hang of things, you will probably die less and less.
^ well said. Ive died more than id like to admit. But just like Borderlands 1, you will get better weapons, you will become more used to the areas and enemies and you will begin to mow through things. 1 had some rough parts at the beginning, but you felt like a boss on the second playthrough.
JPhoenix985 posted...
necro00 posted...not even fun, just frustrating and cheap
i see you never played Mario Kart other then the one on the Wii


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The week since May 26, the day a BJP Prime Minister was sworn in on the strength of the party's own majority in the Lok Sabha, has been replete with unexpected messages for those at home, in the neighbourhood and further away.
The mega event of Narendra Modi being sworn in as PM was expected to keep everyone riveted on the moment to the exclusion of all else. However, the presence of the heads of SAARC governments on the occasion turned the spotlight away from the swearing-in itself. Modi might well have anticipated this, including the excessive focus on Pakistani PM Nawaz Sharif and India-Pakistan relations.
His admirers and ideologues, including in the media, are certainly put off at this stress on foreign affairs when the emphasis ought to have been on the domestic, namely, the "coronation" of Modi and the signals implicit in his Cabinet making. What has been more galling to many is that, instead of the SAARC leaders serving as props in the "Delhi Durbar" to pump up the awe and significance of India's 'Modi moment' for the entire region, Pakistan 'stole' the limelight.
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PM Modi appears to be altogether different from candidate Modi. It cannot be ruled out that Modi intended the effect that the SAARC leaders, especially Sharif and Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa had on the public, political parties and media in India. And, there may well have been reasons for this.
Candidate Modi was perceived as a Hindutva hardliner, who is anti-Muslim and anti-Islamic and, therefore, prone to be confrontational in dealing with Pakistan. His remarks against Pakistan and its national defence provoked Sharif's Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan to condemn Modi as a "threat to regional peace and stability". This was less than a month before Modi's swearing in. Observers felt that such statements precluded cordial exchanges between a Modi government in India and Pakistan. Now PM Modi, who is trying to appear in a mould different from that of candidate Modi, perhaps, wanted to impress from day one that he is not actuated by any hostility towards Muslims, Islam, Pakistan or other Islamic countries.
Nawaz Sharif coming to Delhi against the better judgment of Pakistan's ISI and army and holding talks with Modi the day after his swearing-in was expected to prove wrong all those who were betting on a rise in cross-border tension. Two, the presence of leaders from the four Islamic neighbours — Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Maldives — would, for now, blunt the criticism of Modi being anti-Muslim and anti-Islamic. Three, Modi made it clear to leaders of Tamil parties from the AIADMK and DMK to allies such as the MDMK and PMK that he would not be a prisoner of their prejudices against President Rajapaksa. Neither Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa's boycott of the swearing in ceremony nor the protests in Delhi of MDMK's Vaiko swayed Modi from engaging with Rajapaksa. At the same time, Modi spoke up for the rights of Sri Lankan Tamils and the need for Colombo to press ahead with devolution of powers to the Northeastern Province. Four, just when President Obama gloried in, at Westpoint Academy, the power of American militarism, Modi was pointedly cool towards the US, and demonstrably warm to the Chinese who deftly made the right moves.
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By Kim KincaidAt my family's Christmas gift exchange, the Surf Ohio T-shirt my brother-in-law brought was the item we were all ready to trade our children to attain. With few exceptions, all 16 of us traded our gifts for the shirt that read Surf Ohio on one side, and Ottawa River Masters Surfing Classic, Lima, Ohio, on the other.Because of that Lima connection, my husband was the last gift grabber and ultimate winner.I complained loudly enough that for my birthday, my brother-in-law sent me my own Surf Ohio swag. And with it, he told me the guy responsible for the shirt was from our shared alma mater, Ohio University in Athens.I had to call him. From somewhere in the depths of my memory, I remembered Surf Ohio when I roamed the streets of Athens. And sure enough, Ron Kaplan, Surf Ohio founder, said my memory was not faulty. He had gotten his start selling the shirts at OU in the late '70s.Back when it meant something. Back in the day. My day."Actually, I first sold them in Columbus. I grew up there on the Olentangy River. My brothers used to have a lot of Beach Boys albums, and as a young teen I would listen to those, and I was obsessed with the beach scene and sunsets. When the Beach Boys played in Columbus, I came up with the idea of the Olentangy Surfing Classic and put it on T-shirts that I thought the band would enjoy me selling in the parking lot. Thankfully, I didn't get busted for that," Kaplan said.Fast forward a few years to Ohio University, and he was still designing shirts for sale. In 1976, he printed "Disco Sucks" on the shirts. The following year, "Disco Still Sucks."Can't argue with that.In '78, he used his Surf Ohio concept with the local waterway nearest Athens, the Hocking River. To promote the shirts, signs were hung around town promoting the Hocking River surfing classic. Such was the stampede of college kids to register for the classic that the school newspaper had to print a story saying the surfing classic was a hoax to sell T-shirts. Adding insult to injury, the $4.49 price to enter the competition was actually just the price of the shirt."At the time, I was printing them in an empty dorm room," Kaplan said. He couldn't keep up with the demand and soon abandoned the plan to head home for Christmas vacation.Priorities.After graduation, he reinvented the idea and sold the concept to actors on Family Ties, which was supposedly set in Ohio. Those crazy kids wore some of the shirts during that program's heyday.But time moves on, and so did Kaplan.He took a job with a non-profit, got married and had twin sons. But as his sons got older, they suggested he kick-start the Surf Ohio concept again."I agreed that it was time to get my entreprenuerial DNA stirred up again, so Surf Ohio started again," Kaplan said.He has gotten orders for the shirts from as far away as Hawaii. "One guy told me his first Surf Ohio shirt was threadbare, but he still wore and still got lots of comments on it whenever he brought it out," Kaplan said.The shirts have turned up in unusual places, including on the backs of the Ohio band, The Black Keys, who wore them in concert."The 20-somethings think they're the coolest thing," he said, chuckling at the resurgent popularity. He has also spoken with folks from the television shows "Glee" and "Hot in Cleveland," both set in Ohio, to see if there was interest there."This isn't my full-time job. It's my hobby, but it's fun to see where it goes," Kaplan said.I told him the shirts went to our Christmas, and they were the hit of the party. He didn't seem surprised.