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|Pimecrolimus versus placebo in genital aphthous ulcers of Behcet's disease: a randomized double-blind controlled trial.
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|PMID: 20704623 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE
|BACKGROUND: Genital aphthous ulcers of Behcet's disease (BD) are painful and usually resistant to local treatments. Pimecrolimus is an ascomycin macrolactam, used in inflammatory skin diseases.
OBJECTIVE: To discover if pimecrolimus can accelerate the healing of BD genital aphthous ulcers.
METHODS: Ninety patients with genital aphthous ulcers were enrolled. Only patients treated with colchicine alone were selected. All patients signed a written consent form. Patients were randomly assigned to pimecrolimus or placebo cream, applied twice daily for 1 week. The primary outcome was the healing period. Up to 7 days, it was considered as a positive result. Results were compared by chi-square test. The mean healing time was compared by analysis of variance. Analyses were done both by the 'intention-to-treat' and 'treatment-completed' methods.
RESULTS: Both groups were similar at the entry (gender, age, ulcer size, pain intensity and treatment delay). By intention-to-treat analysis, in the pimecrolimus group, 18 patients had positive and 27 negative results. In the control group, four had positive and 41 negative results. The difference was significant (chi(2) = 10.167, P = 0.001). By treatment-completed analysis, with pimecrolimus, 18 patients had positive and 22 negative results. With placebo, four had positive, and 41 negative results. The difference was significant (chi(2) = 12.574, P = 0.0004). Comparison of mean healing time in the pimecrolimus versus placebo group, demonstrated a significant acceleration both in intention-to-treat analysis (10.7 vs. 20.7 days, F = 17.466, P < 0.0001) and treatment-completed analysis (8.3 vs. 20.7 days, F = 29.289, P < 0.0001).
CONCLUSION: Pimecrolimus is safe and efficient in the treatment of BD genital ulcers, by accelerating the healing process.
|Cheyda Chams-Davatchi; Behrooz Barikbin; Farhad Shahram; Abdolhadi Nadji; Maryam Moghaddassi; Maryam Yousefi; Fereydoun Davatchi
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|Title: International journal of rheumatic diseases Volume: 13 ISSN: 1756-185X ISO Abbreviation: Int J Rheum Dis Publication Date: 2010 Aug
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|Created Date: 2010-08-13 Completed Date: 2010-12-07 Revised Date: -
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|Behçet's Disease Unit, Rheumatology Research Center, Kargar Avenue, Tehran 14114, Iran. firstname.lastname@example.com
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Administration, Cutaneous
Behcet Syndrome / complications*
Chi-Square Distribution
Dermatologic Agents / administration & dosage, therapeutic use*
Double-Blind Method
Genital Diseases, Female / drug therapy*, etiology, pathology
Genital Diseases, Male / drug therapy*, etiology, pathology
Middle Aged
Placebo Effect
Stomatitis, Aphthous / drug therapy*, etiology, pathology
Tacrolimus / administration & dosage, analogs & derivatives*, therapeutic use
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Treatment Outcome
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Young Adult
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Despite assurances by the undocumented usurper currently occupying the people's house, the insurance debacle that bears his name was never about healthcare at all. As some of us have told you and as most have no doubt learned on their own, Obamacare neither does what its name (Affordable Healthcare Act) implies or its proponents claim, nor does it improve the healthcare that its consumers receive.
Of course, only those trapped in a fog of conventional wisdom and blinded by "Hope and Change" ever believed that a health insurance law written by Big Insurance, Big Pharma and Big Medicine was written for the benefit of the consumers. Obamacare is essentially the same plan that the health-insurance-industry lobbying firm Health Insurance Association of America — now known as America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) — wrote as Hillarycare in 1992. It's a plan in which the insurance industry is set up to make out like a bandit, as it is guaranteed millions of new customers and a bottomless Federal Treasury to pay their bills. Yes, it benefits those same insurance companies leftists so stridently loathed for the "unfair" way they covered only those who paid their bills.
Common sense tells you that if the program was a beneficial one to the masses, the threat of civil penalty or asset forfeiture would not have been needed to get them to sign on. But despite a multibillion-dollar expenditure on a fancy (but nonfunctional) website and subsequent ad campaign, the whole process is foundering to the point that talk of bailouts for insurance companies is becoming commonplace.
I have written repeatedly that Obamacare is a deathcare trap that will limit medical choices and consign Americans to substandard care in a Kafkaesque system of malfeasance, neglect, death panels and forced care. It's a wealth redistribution scheme writ large. Some pundits have pondered that the system was designed to fail so that nanny government can ride in on a white horse and save the day with a switch to a single-payer (government-funded) health insurance system. For that we've been labeled kooks and tinfoil hat-wearing crackpots.
The Daily Beast is certainly no bastion of conservative thought. Founded by Tina Brown, it merged with the liberal news magazine Newsweek in November 2010. But Tuesday The Daily Beast's Lloyd Green may have summed up Obamacare as succinctly as anyone in what could be considered the mainstream media.
"Obamacare is looking more and more like it was designed to punish the middle class at the expense of the Democratic base–just like the old welfare days," he wrote.
Pointing out that Obamacare disincentivizes work and shifts wealth from the top 80 percent of America's income earners to the lowest 20 percent, Green writes that it is "a cash grab from most of the bottom half (emphasis in the original). President [Barack] Obama and his congressional allies have sacrificed the work ethic and growth on the altar of the Democrats' upstairs-downstairs coalition, with the emphasis on 'downstairs…' Obamacare is looking a lot less about Obama and his vaunted calls for 'justice,' and a lot more like Chicago or New Jersey-style vengeance–with a dollop of 'whatever' thrown in for kicks. As it is playing out, Obamacare appears increasingly as if it were designed to punish the Republican rank and file, while haphazardly rewarding the Democrats' core. And if someone gets hurt that shouldn't have been, so be it, like those someones who earn between $30,000 and $50,000."
Obama promised ad nauseum "If you like your healthcare plan you can keep your healthcare plan. If you like your doctor you can keep your doctor." That promise was as hollow as his birth narrative. He also promised no tax hikes of any kind on anyone making less than $250,000, but has since hit everyone (at least those still working) with a Social Security tax increase and a number of Obamacare tax increase.
Exit polls from the past two Presidential elections showed that those earning less than $50,000 or residing in the country's larger cities and the well-to-do on both coasts went overwhelming for Obama. Green writes:
Against this backdrop, the political calculus for punishing the nearly 60 percent of voters with incomes above $50,000 must have stared Obama's operatives in the face like a bull seeing red. But why tag those who make only between $30,000 and $50,000, and why throw a lead weight around the recovery?
But we do know why, and it's called redistribution and it's about demographics, much as the administration may half-heartedly deny it. Just ask William Daley, the former Obama White House Chief of Staff who helped make Obamacare the reality that it is. In Daley's own words: "Redistribution is a loaded word that conjures up all sorts of unfairness in people's minds. … It's a word that, in the political world, you just don't use." Sometimes the truth can be so inconvenient.
This brings us to demographics and the Democrat's upstairs-downstairs coalition. It relies heavily on political contributions from the rich on both coasts; prays for the votes of enough upscale suburbanites; and is electorally wedded to Americans in the lower socio-economic tiers who are disproportionately uninsured.
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Social media campaign for Old Spice has generated almost 40 million video views in just seven days, but what went on behind the scenes?
Last Monday, Old Spice agency Wieden+Kennedy embarked on an intensive social media campaign in which the brand's mascot, the "Old Spice Guy," endeavored to reply to as many questions from social media users as possible via the medium of YouTube video.
Three days and 183 video responses, later, the Wieden+Kennedy team had produced one of the most viral social media campaigns to date. The content has already amassed a total of 36 million views in just seven days since it launched and continues to generate buzz throughout the social networking sphere.
"We anticipated it would be popular, but didn't anticipate this," said Jason Bagley, creative director at Wieden+Kennedy. "If you'd have told us at the beginning we would attract 20 million views we'd have laughed. We still can't really get our heads around it," he told ClickZ last week. In fact, the videos have now amassed almost double that number of views, and with mainstream media outlets such as the New York Post and CNN running stories on the campaign over the weekend, that figure looks set to keep rising.
According to Eric Baldwin, Bagley's fellow creative director who worked alongside him on the project, the key to the campaign's success was ensuring the quality of the content while carefully selecting which users to respond to.
"We prioritized our responses mostly on the basis of what we could pull from them in terms of humor, but we also had [members of the team] pulling comments that were relevant to certain online communities, and we prioritized those to help it spread," said Baldwin.
For example, the team generated a get well video for Digg founder Kevin Rose, who was apparently ill at the time, and also replied to questions from a host of celebrities including Perez Hilton, Ellen Degeneres, and Alyssa Milano. "We didn't do much promotion at all, we wanted it to spread organically," Baldwin said.
So besides the fact the W+K team took great care over how and where they seeded the content, why did the videos themselves capture the imaginations of users so effectively? Bagley gave the Old Spice Guy himself, actor Isaiah Mustafa, much of the credit, alongside the team that created the concept for original TV ads from which the online campaign derived. "People just want to engage with such a great character - they're hungry for Isaiah!" he said.
Mustafa's delivery undoubtedly carried the pieces, but his performance was underpinned by some quality writing under intense time constraints from W+K's four-strong team of writers, comprising Bagley and Baldwin, and two other members of the creative team; Eric Kallman and Craig Allen.
"At any given time there would be three of us sitting at a table writing responses furiously while the other directed. We'd each write a response and then pass our laptops around to read, edit, and add jokes to each other's copy, then Isaiah would read through the clip about once and we'd film it," Bagley explained. Following the creative process, the raw video was then passed to a second team for editing and posting, with the whole process being carried out in as little as 5 minutes in some cases. Overall, a team of around 35 was present on set, working from 7am until 6pm over the three-day period, Bagley said.
In terms of campaign management, Bagley and Baldwin said they didn't work closely on that side of the campaign, but that the agency's team of digital strategists would conduct a "thorough post-mortem" following its completion. "What we do know," Bagley said, "is how many positive comments we've been getting through various channels." For a brand manager the thought of handing over complete creative control to a team of agency creatives could be a daunting one, but Baldwin described Old Spice parent Procter & Gamble as one of the best clients he's worked with. "They're really collaborative and they trust us implicitly. When we approached them with the idea they just wanted to jump in feet first," he said.
Having accumulated hours of video footage during the campaign, one wonders what might be next for the Old Spice Guy - perhaps a montage-based TV ad of his best online responses? W+K says it currently has no plans for the next installment of the campaign or its towel-clad front man. However, Baldwin did say the agency was "extremely excited" about the prospects, and that it was already thinking about what to do next.
Jack Marshall was a staff writer and stats editor for ClickZ News from 2007 until August 2011.
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Aside from cutting the 2011-2012 NBA regular season length down from 82 games to 66 games, the lockout had one major impact on this year's schedule: every Western Conference team is no longer able to play a home-and-home series with every Eastern Conference team, and vice versa. Instead, each team gets just 18 non-conference games instead of 30, playing just three non-conference opponents twice.
Is this a big deal? Imagine you're the lowly Cleveland Cavaliers, coming off one of the worst seasons any NBA team has every played. Would you rather play the Los Angeles Lakers, Oklahoma City Thunder and Dallas Mavericks twice each or would you prefer the Minnesota Timberwolves, Sacramento Kings and Houston Rockets? Obviously, your preference would be to stack up as many games as possible against poor teams.
There was no perfect solution for the NBA to balance this aspect of the schedule. Thanks to player movement, back-to-backs, back-to-back-to-backs, and the like, just about every team in the league feels like it's getting a raw deal this year. The distribution of non-conference opponents is sure to be a sore spot for some fanbases and a point of happiness for others.
So who are the first glance winners and losers? Let's take a look using a simple method.
Elite Winners: San Antonio Spurs and Chicago Bulls
There are two clear winners when it comes to this aspect of the schedule and it just so happens that the winners were the league's top-2 teams during the regular season last year. Let's pencil it out using a straightforward win differential based on last season's performance.
The Spurs won 61 games last year and their three repeated non-conference opponents are Cleveland, Orlando and Philadelphia. Those three teams averaged a combined 37 wins last season. 61-37 gives you a differential of +24, the highest of any team in the league.
Chicago, who won 62 games last year, got similarly good luck, facing New Orleans, Memphis and Sacramento, who averaged 39 wins last year, yielding a +23 differential. If the Hornets wind up trading Chris Paul prior to their games with the Bulls, Chicago's advantage here becomes even more pronounced.
Elite Losers: Boston Celtics and Oklahoma City Thunder
Boston, with 57 wins, and Oklahoma City, with 56 wins, both were among the NBA's elite last year. However, both drew exceedingly difficult home-and-home opponents, likely by virtue of their television-friendly teams.
Boston plays the defending champion Dallas Mavericks, the Los Angeles Lakers and the Thunder twice each. The Thunder is set to play the Celtics, the Miami Heat and the Orlando Magic twice each. If Tyson Chandler and/or Dwight Howard change teams prior to the start of the season that would probably be appreciated in Massachusetts and Oklahoma.
Both Boston and Oklahoma City, despite being well above .500 last year, have differentials of zero thanks to the tough scheduling.
Marginal Winners: Houston Rockets
The Rockets won just 43 games last year, missing out on the Western Conference playoffs. While they will struggle to climb up the Western Conference playoff table, they'll do it with the help of playing three of the East's weakest sisters: Charlotte, Toronto and Washington. It doesn't get much more cake than that. Houston winds up with a differential of +17 in these home-and-home match-ups, good for third best in the league.
Marginal Losers: New York Knicks
The Knicks are a premier team in the hearts and minds of just about everyone but they still won just 42 games last year. Given their acquisition of new star power and their big-city locale, the NBA has made sure they play plenty of marquee match-ups. Indeed, the Knicks are set to face home-and-homes with the Dallas Mavericks and Los Angeles Lakers, getting a bit of a reprieve with the Sacramento Kings. Still the presence of two 57-win teams from last year gives New York a differential of -4, tied with the Philadelphia 76ers for the worst mark of any 2011 playoff team.
Terrible Winners: Detroit Pistons
During the offseason, I graded Detroit's roster as the worst in the league and thankfully the schedulers had some mercy, scheduling the Pistons against Memphis, Minnesota and Sacramento, giving Detroit extra games against the two worst teams in the West. Despite winning just 30 games and heading to the lottery once again, the Pistons manage to have a +1 differential in this category, a pretty astounding feat.
Terrible Losers: Cleveland Cavaliers
It's no secret: the Cavaliers were garbage last year, setting an NBA record for consecutive losses and winning just 19 games overall. They didn't get lucky here, drawing home-and-homes with the league-best San Antonio Spurs and two middle-of-the-pack teams in the West: Phoenix and Utah. That's good enough for a league-worst -28 differential. By comparison, the 17-win Timberwolves drew Charlotte, Detroit and Indiana and had a -17 differential.
Remember, this is just one minor elements in the league's overall 2011-2012 adjusted schedule. Still, it's interesting to see the range involved. Here's a chart to help visualize what's happening. Click here for the full-size version.
Here's a complete list of the differentials in 2010-211 win totals between each NBA team and the average of its three repeat non-conference opponents on the 2011-2012 schedule. All numbers rounded.
San Antonio Spurs 24
Chicago Bulls 23
Houston Rockets 17
Portland Trail Blazers 14
Denver Nuggets 14
Utah Jazz 11
Memphis Grizzlies 8
Phoenix Suns 7
Dallas Mavericks 5
Los Angeles Lakers 5
Indiana Pacers 4
Atlanta Hawks 4
Golden State Warriors 2
Los Angeles Clippers 2
New Orleans Hornets 2
Miami Heat 2
Detroit Pistons 1
Boston Celtics 0
Oklahoma City Thunder 0
Charlotte Bobcats -1
Orlando Magic -3
New York Knicks -4
Philadelphia 76ers -4
Milwaukee Bucks -11
New Jersey Nets -12
Minnesota Timberwolves -17
Washington Wizards -18
Sacramento Kings -21
Toronto Raptors -24
Cleveland Cavaliers -28
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2011-2012 NBA schedule: strength analysis
Posted on: December 6, 2011 10:39 pm
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Since: Jan 30, 2008
Posted on: December 8, 2011 2:58 pm
2011-2012 NBA schedule: strength analysis
I think it's pretty safe to say that the Pistons will be "cake" this year.
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Posted on: December 7, 2011 2:59 pm
2011-2012 NBA schedule: strength analysis
TO THIS COMMENTI love it when a reportor thinks they are soooo smart and know everything, that they can call teams bad or "cake" before the season has even got started. Hell, they barley have practiced! Guess you forgot that the Spurs were only good in the first half of the season, then played pretty bad after that. But they are elite right? Not that the team is almost all in their 30s or anything. Last year makes no indication of how this year will be. Tons of players are out of shape, a year older, and some of the good teams from last year like Celtics, or Lakers are not going to be very impressive this year. Its the teams that you call "cake" that will surprise everyone this year and make it more competitive. The one thing you had right was Bulls and OKC. This will be our Finals for this season, mark my words.
Since: Nov 30, 2011
Posted on: December 7, 2011 2:57 pm
2011-2012 NBA schedule: strength analysis
Since: Mar 20, 2010
Posted on: December 7, 2011 11:24 am
2011-2012 NBA schedule: strength analysis
I love it when a reportor thinks they are soooo smart and know everything, that they can call teams bad or "cake" before the season has even got started. Hell, they barley have practiced! Guess you forgot that the Spurs were only good in the first half of the season, then played pretty bad after that. But they are elite right? Not that the team is almost all in their 30s or anything. Last year makes no indication of how this year will be. Tons of players are out of shape, a year older, and some of the good teams from last year like Celtics, or Lakers are not going to be very impressive this year. Its the teams that you call "cake" that will surprise everyone this year and make it more competitive. The one thing you had right was Bulls and OKC. This will be our Finals for this season, mark my words.
Since: Jan 17, 2007
Posted on: December 7, 2011 10:50 am
2011-2012 NBA schedule: strength analysis
How are the Heat not being considered one of the tougher schedules. They have Dallas and the Lakers twice.
The Bulls, once again will get the benefit of playing in the worst division in basketball together with the easiest non-conference schedule. They might be the regular season win total champs again only to get beaten down in the playoffs.
Since: Nov 15, 2008
Posted on: December 7, 2011 5:43 am
2011-2012 NBA schedule: strength analysis
These pre season predictionns of who has easy or hard schedules almost never come out the way they seem they should. Stupid useless topic.
Since: Jul 11, 2011
Posted on: December 6, 2011 11:51 pm
2011-2012 NBA schedule: strength analysis
gonna be a tough year as a fan of the raps or one of the 'weakest sisters' in the east with a -24 win differential but a great one as a follower of the bulls


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Originally posted by Joe Ess: Just open the file with a FileInputStream and write it to the socket's InputStream. On the client, do the reverse: socket's OutputStream -> FileInputStream.
Originally posted by Dan Lynch: [QB]
File inputFile = new File("C:/Project/Spatial/CoMPASS/ucd_big.gif");
FileInputStream infile = new FileInputStream(inputFile);
Like I said above, you don't write the input stream instance to the output stream. You READ from the input stream and WRITE to the output stream. You did it on the server side correctly (except for using a Writer, as noted below). I see you are using out.println() to write the data to the socket. Dont. It will introduce new lines into the data, which will cause havoc in a GIF. That means whatever you declared out to be is inappropriate for binary data. My example above wasn't the best. Readers and Writers are specialized streams for use with character-based data. You want to use Streams, which don't do character conversion on the data. The same example as above, done with Streams, from the Java Tutorial:
import java.io.*;
public class CopyBytes {
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
File inputFile = new File("farrago.txt");
File outputFile = new File("outagain.txt");
FileInputStream in = new FileInputStream(inputFile);
FileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(outputFile);
int c;
while ((c = in.read()) != -1)
You should take a gander at the Java IO Tutorial. Java IO is not easy to grasp at first, but once you do, you can use the same classes to do IO on sockets, files, databases, URL's. Pretty much everything.
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Three fallen Dothan Police officers were remembered in a ceremony Tuesday.
Dothan Mayor Pat Thomas read a proclamation for national police week and Alabama Attorney General Troy King helped place a wreath in honor of the fallen officers.
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Sergeant Shelby Owens was killed in a motorcycle accident and Sergeant Robert Jackson was gunned down in his driveway.
Jackson's killer is still on the loose.
"We continue to investigate his death everyday along with the FBI and also the attorney general's office," said Dothan Police Chief John Powell.
District Attorney Doug Valeska pledged 10 thousand dollars to buy a memorial marker on which to place our fallen officers' names.
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First of all, let me emphasize this. Did you see a beautiful staircase in the video? Please be informed that the staricase wasn't filmed in the hotel but in Sally's house. Believe it or not her house is so big until you can see the surveillance cameras every single corner and I was told that the house is build in a specially designed karaoke room in the basement. It is so huge until I can move my 8 feet camera crane from top floor to the ground floor without dismantling it.
I first met up with Sally was on Tuesday which is 4 days before her wedding day. The entire schedule was quite rush as Sally was all the way back home from KL. I really want to express my appreciation to the couple for once again being my actor and actress. This is something valuable that money can't buy. Both of them were so patient until I was a bit reluctant to call for NG. I remember that Sally was climbing up and down from the staircase for more than 4 times in order to fullfill my so call "expectation". Well, I want to say sorry for making you guys so tiring and Thankyou for your patience.
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All the information has been passed on to the officers dealing with each case.
Please continue to keep your calls coming in.
The information you are giving us helps reduce crime and arrest the people responsible for the criminal activities in the area.
Remember when phoning in you can always talk in confidence.
Now please take a look at this week's list of crimes and see if you can help.
Overnight Between Saturday, March 22 and Sunday, March 23 offenders forced the door of a garage belonging to a house in Excelsior Drive, Woodville. Once inside thieves stole two, white, blue and grey Cube racing cycles, a garden rotavator and a 240volt drill. Do you know where any of this property is now? If you can tell us more then call the crimestoppers team and quote reference: 11997/14
Between Friday, March 21 and Sunday, March 23 offenders forced the window of a garage belonging to a house in Washford Road, Hilton.
However, thieves did not manage to steal any property and made off empty handed. Do you have any information about this burglary?
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Overnight between Friday, March 21 and Saturday, March 22 offenders smashed the window of a silver Renault Clio car that was parked in the driveway of a house in Burton Road, Midway.
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Re: Time for a black or Latino Spider-Man
What I am saying and have said since my initial post is the Halle Berry character is original. And her Catwoman bears little to no resemblance to the Selina Kyle character. How many times do I have to repeat that?
The Halle film is a little unique in terms of using a familiar name, the name Catwoman isn't made up for the film, but the Patience Price character is, which pretty much renders naming it Catwoman moot, since a lot of people associate the character with Selina Kyle. She is a new character and her Catwoman a new heroine. The Patience Price character with some tweaks could've just as easily been turned into Vixen. I mean, now that the comic book version sort of looks like Halle and is a model, the Catwoman film might've worked better as a Vixen film.
So I think Catwoman, despite the familiar name, is part of a pattern of making superhero movies, with black main characters, outside of established black comic book characters. There was no Patience Price in comic books before Halle's Catwoman, and to my knowledge there was no PP after the film came out, except for the likely comic book adaptation.
As for the old show, was it ever portrayed that Batman called the Catwomen by their real names or actually went out to discover their identities? I don't think he ever did that.
Prince of Persia example was not about ethnicity, it was about cross marketing. And using wholly original characters might make it harder to cross market material, or build on stuff already created.
Sometimes I would like to see more blacks and other non-white characters actually headline comic book films and not just be sidekicks, comic relief, etc. If you think that's complaining,that's your right. But even you can't deny the dearth of non-white leads for superhero films, despite a decent number of non-white superheroes at both major comic book companies, during this comic book movie boom. If you think I'm 'complaining' for pointing that out, that's your right. But it doesn't change the fact, nor does it do nothing to address some concerns that I and others share about this issue. I would like to see movies in which kids who are not white males can see people who look like them saving the world sometimes too.
I hope the SHIELD film gets made but there are many fanboys, generally white I'm assuming, who are probably still griping about Sam Jackson being Fury. Just like there is some grumbling about Idris Elba in the Thor film. Though I'm got a good suspicion that Scarlett Johannsen will be playing just as major a role as Fury in a SHIELD film, but beggars can't be choosy. And Don Cheadle has already stated that War Machine will not be getting a solo deal or his own series. Regarding other black heroes: Luke Cage is in development hell, there appear to be no plans to resurrect Blade, and I've heard grumbles about Black Panther, but nothing definite. So how exactly is that change at Marvel? Don't know if Falcon will be in the Captain America movies, Fury will be in the first, and I'm assuming Falcon will probably be in the second. So, outside of Fury (a white character made black), there's one potentially definite film with a black lead since Blade Trinity. That's a lot of change.
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For West Monroe runner James Turner, cross country has been a family tradition.
Following in the strides of his brother Brent Turner, James took his runs to a new level over the summer and into the winter to set himself apart from the pack. The result was numerous championships and a spot on the 2013 Allstate Sugar Bowl Cross Country All-State Team.
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Video: Sickening Hypocrisy – the CIA's Dirty War in Iran
June 27th, 2009
Having won the presidential election by a landslide, Ahmadinejad and his backers within the Iranian regime should be basking in the glory of an overwhelming mandate from the Iranian people. Instead they face unrelenting pressure from within and without as they confront their deadliest crisis yet. The US and British media is presently falling over itself to broadcast images of an Iranian protestor shot dead in broad daylight, while repeatedly decrying "election fraud" in Iran.
Here's the BBC's coverage of the event. Note the well-placed image and caption (as appears in original article) of "grave spaces." The implication is left unsaid, but the suggestion is tantalising bait for readers by now emotionally charged from accounts of the martyred symbol of Iranian Freedom™: the Iranian regime is quietly burying evidence of its crimes in 'mass graves'…
Death video woman 'targeted by militia'
She was near the area, a few streets away, from where the main protests were taking place, near the Amir-Abad area. She was with her music teacher, sitting in a car and stuck in traffic.
She was feeling very tired and very hot. She got out of the car for just for a few minutes.
And that's when it all happened.
That's when she was shot dead. Eyewitnesses and video footage of the shooting clearly show that probably Basij paramilitaries in civilian clothing deliberately targeted her. Eyewitnesses said they clearly targeted her and she was shot in the chest.
The New York Daily further charged the emotional content:
Her name is Neda, which means "voice" in Farsi, and her death has become the central rallying cry of the Iranian rebellion.
The fresh-faced teenage girl killed by what appears to be a single sniper shot on the streets of Tehran Saturday is now a potent symbol for Iran's pro-democracy protesters.
Her shocking and quick death in the arms of her howling father was captured on closeup video, posted to Facebook and came to life on computer screens across the globe.
"RIP Neda, the world cries seeing your last breath," was one of a flood of messages on Twitter.
"They killed Neda, but not her voice," read another. "Neda is everyone's sister, everyone's daughter, everyone's voice for freedom," said a third.
Within hours of her death, posters of the girl's face, open-eyed and bloody, were being brandished by demonstrators in Los Angeles and New York City.
The graphic video was originally posted to Facebook by an Iranian expatriate in Holland who said it was sent to him by a friend in Tehran, a doctor who tried to save the girl.
He identified her as Neda Soltani, a 16-year-old philosophy student.
A Facebook group created to mourn her calls her "The Angel of Iran."
Hmmm, Facebook and Twitter certainly appear to be playing useful roles in this post-modern revolution:
The Neocon money-men behind Facebook
Inciting the mob: US confirms it asked Twitter to stay open to help Iran protesters
Not to be outdone, the Times of London described her death as "Iran's equivalent of the student who defied China's tanks in Tiananmen Square". That's quite a leap given that there were conflicting accounts about her age, who she was with at the time and what she was doing. Buried in The Times' similarly gushing eulogy to the martyred "symbol of rebellion" was a crucial caveat:
"The authenticity of the video, and the source of the bullet, cannot be verified independently but that hardly matters any more because millions of Iranians and hundreds of millions of others around the world firmly believe the story to be true."
What's a little embellishment when the momentum of history is on our side! We don't know who killed her, but let's just assume it was the evil Iranian regime!
Well, if the revolution-that-was-not-televised in Venezuela in 2002 taught us anything, it's that the source of the sniper's bullet is pivotal to understanding just who is responsible for instigating the violence and thus who is manipulating events for ulterior motives. The similarities between what is happening in Iran today and what happened in Venezuela in 2002 are striking.
The Textbook CIA Coup That Failed
Wherever in the woods of rural Virginia the CIA teaches it's masters course in coup plotting & execution, the template undoubtedly studied therein is the 1953 overthrow of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mosaddeq, the CIA's perfect black ops coup. Mossadeq was the last democratically elected Iranian head of state. "Mosaddeq was a nationalist and passionately opposed foreign intervention in Iran. He was also the architect of the nationalization of the Iranian oil industry, which had been under British control." Sound familiar? Yes, substitute "Chavez" and "Venezuela" for Mosaddeq and Iran; substitute "American" for British and you have the same fact pattern of President Hugo Chavez in Venezuela circa 2002.
The CIA made an alliance with the Venezuelan elite who controlled the majority of the television stations in the country and top generals of the Venezuelan military. The CIA initiated a progranda campaign through the controlled television stations followed by street demonstrations. Then the CIA used snipers to create chaos in the streets. Chaos was used as the pretext for the military to demand the ouster of Chavez. The military went so far as to arrest Chavez but he never resigned. The whole plan unraveled after 48 hours when Chavez supporters flooded the streets of Caracas and junior officers within the military (especially the palace guard) defected back to Chavez. Once the countercoup forces gained control of the main television station, the game was up. The people overwhelmingly demanded the return of Chavez.
In spite of the apparently limitless predations demonstrated by agents of deception like the CIA, their limited creative abilities reveal unmistakable signature patterns. Reinsert "Ahmadinejad" for "Chavez" and "Iran" for "Venezuela" and the same CIA-scripted scenario repeats, like an outdated computer program that its users are loath to upgrade for fear of venturing into the unknown.
Footage has surfaced showing the 16 (or 26) year old Neda Soltan with her father or music teacher – whichever account you prefer to believe – standing around just moments before she was shot dead by a single sniper's bullet.
For this to emerge in such a timely manner from a country that has supposedly clamped down heavily on people's access to information is curious. Curiouser still that a camera happened to be trained in the direction of this particular person, despite people roaming about in all directions. And note the man in the white cap who briefly appears and is speaking into a cell phone with a hand covering his mouth. Was Ms Soltani selected beforehand for assassination? Or was she randomly gunned down by the repressive Iranian authorities as the media would have us believe?
The event received blanket coverage in the US, prompting Obama to break his "no comment" policy regarding the street protests, having kept his distance until this point:
Obama harshly condemns Iran crackdown on protesters
The Democratic president, facing heavy criticism from Republicans that he was being too timid in backing street protests over Iran's contested election, said the United States was "appalled and outraged" by the violence.
"I strongly condemn these unjust actions, and I join with the American people in mourning each and every innocent life that is lost," Obama said.
He called the video of an Iranian women killed in the streets, which has become a staple of news coverage of the protests, "heartbreaking" and said it made clear the violence against the protesters was "fundamentally unjust."
"In 2009, no iron fist is strong enough to shut off the world from bearing witness to the peaceful pursuit of justice," he said.
Asked why it took him so long to express his outrage, Obama said the U.S. approach had been consistent and he did not want to hurt the protesters by aligning them with the United States.
"Ultimately, the most important thing for the Iranian government to consider is legitimacy in the eyes of its own people," he said.
But Obama declined to spell out any potential consequences for Tehran of the crackdown, and said there was still "a path available" to Iran in which it could operate within the international community.
And this while another US military drone attack in Pakistan murders twice the numbers killed in the "violent protests" and yet more evidence of Israeli cruelty surfaces. Should we hold our breath for White House condemnation of these crimes?
What is particularly galling about this is the fact that there are mountains of evidence to suggest that Bush stole both of his elections and there is cast iron proof that the US invasion of Iraq has led to the deaths of over 1 million Iraqis. Yet hardly a word has been written on either of these points by the same media that is condemning Iran.
Consider these facts from the stolen US election of 2000:
- The vote turned on a state whose governor is brother of the candidate.
- The Junta opposed a recount of the votes in the disputed state.
- This state's attorney general, with strong ties to the junta, suppressed votes using a list generated by a company from the candidate's home state.
- This list fraudulently contained thousands of names of citizens who were in fact eligible to vote.
- The junta, members of a party known for its states' rights agenda, went to the federal supreme court in order to overturn the state court's decision to have a recount.
- This self-declared winner actually lost the popular vote.
- The self-declared winner is the son of a former leader of the country and this former leader was the head of none other than the CIA.
The depths of hypocrisy plumbed by a regime that accuses its target victim of crimes for which it is endlessly guilty are breathtaking. James Petras writes that:
What is astonishing about the West's universal condemnation of the electoral outcome as fraudulent is that not a single shred of evidence in either written or observational form has been presented either before or a week after the vote count. During the entire electoral campaign, no credible (or even dubious) charge of voter tampering was raised. As long as the Western media believed their own propaganda of an immanent victory for their candidate, the electoral process was described as highly competitive, with heated public debates and unprecedented levels of public activity and unhindered by public proselytizing. The belief in a free and open election was so strong that the Western leaders and mass media believed that their favored candidate would win.
The Western media relied on its reporters covering the mass demonstrations of opposition supporters, ignoring and downplaying the huge turnout for Ahmadinejad. Worse still, the Western media ignored the class composition of the competing demonstrations – the fact that the incumbent candidate was drawing his support from the far more numerous poor working class, peasant, artisan and public employee sectors while the bulk of the opposition demonstrators was drawn from the upper and middle class students, business and professional class.
I knew it! The truth behind the Tehran tweets
As obvious as it was in our own 2000 election, Al Gore would not touch the topic of voter fraud. No major US politician goes near the subject. They know full well that such an accusation would shake the entire foundation of our democracy and threaten the political structures that are in place.
Which is, of course, exactly what this is all about. The perpetrators were all too aware that repeated accusations of election fraud would threaten the very foundation of Iranian political institutions, instilling doubt and mistrust amongst the Iranian people.
If the violent protestors are not Mousavi supporters, then who are they?
The US and its partner in crime Israel have made no secret of their desire for regime change in Iran. GIven the incessant sabre-rattling against Iran and demonisation of its regime over the past few years, it is incredible to observe the widespread support this sham revolution has received in western media as it uncritically regurgitates the blatant lies spun by the CIA and its feeder think-tanks. And this in spite of all that has emerged since 9/11, not least the successive failures of previous colour-coded revolutions in eastern Europe and the diabolical farce of "spreading freedom and democracy to Iraq."
The history of covert American and British involvement in Iranian affairs is a long and sordid one. This time around is no different. Former Pakistani General Beig said that there is "undisputed intelligence proving the US interference in Iran:"
"The documents prove that the CIA spent $400 million inside Iran to prop up a colorful-hollow revolution following the election," he added.
CIA has Distributed $400 Million Inside Iran to Evoke a Revolution
The CIA's reach is global and total, extending through covert psychological and logistical warfare, destabilising or supporting sovereign nations in accordance with its needs – the needs of a ruthless and psychopathic elite unfettered by qualms of conscience. The stereotypes impressed on us through 'popular culture' about what the nature and activities of highly secretive intelligence groups like the CIA entails couldn't be further from the truth. It is essential for our psychological welfare that we become aware of the range and depth of versatility and sophistication employed against us in their war on reality. In "The Secret Team", an extensive account of the structure and modus operandi of the CIA and the American security state, former high-level CIA insider L. Fletcher Prouty reveals the Men Behind the Curtain, exposing the mechanisms and machinations of the "deep state" regime that controls American national interests – which are, of course, its interests:
The global U.S. military system is without question the most massive, the most powerful, and the most capable communications system in existence. However, the best and most efficacious system in the world belongs to the CIA. In making this statement, allowance should be made for the capability of the National Security Agency, but that is more or less a part of the military system and need not be explored here. The CIA is able to cover the entire world, not like a blanket, but like a rapier. There is no place it cannot reach out to get to an agent or to a busy station chief on its own secure facilities. In doing this, the Agency makes use of all kinds of communications; some are considered rather old and crude but effective, and others are highly sophisticated.
The crude methods include equipping and training terrorist groups while the highly sophisticated target a country's channels of information. We can see this range in methodologies of subversion displayed in the events leading up to and during the Iranian election campaign:
Bush Sanctions Black-ops Against Iran
The CIA is giving arms-length support, supplying money and weapons, to an Iranian militant group, Jundullah, which has conducted raids into Iran from bases in Pakistan.
Iran uncovers plots in presidential election
Iran's Intelligence Ministry has uncovered "terrorist plots" targeting the country's security and stability during the presidential election.
"The ministry has dismantled the groups involved in such activities and has arrested almost all group-members in two stages," IRNA quoted Intelligence Minister Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei on Wednesday.
He said that the plots included bomb attacks on several sites in Iran, adding that those behind such activities were linked with "the Zionist and non-Zionist regimes outside the county."
Pakistani-based US branch of Terrorism Inc. "Jundullah" claim responsibility for Iran blast
The Jundullah terror group has claimed responsibility for a terrorist attack that killed at least 25 people in southeastern of Iran.
The bloody attack injured 125 others. A second explosive was also defused at the mosque within minutes of the explosion.
Iranian officials condemned the attack, calling it in line with attempts to divide Iranians, specifically just before the June 12 presidential election.
Tehran's Interim Friday Prayers Leader, Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami, put the finger of blame on the US and Israel, calling the attack "a scheme to drive a wedge between the Shia population and the Sunni minority in Iran."
The Pakistan-based terrorist organization denies having any link to Washington but ABC news reported in 2007, citing US and Pakistani intelligence sources, that the terrorist group "has been secretly encouraged and advised by American officials" to destabilize the government in Iran.
Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh revealed another report in July 2008 that US congressional leaders had secretly agreed to former president George W. Bush's USD 400 million funding request, which gives the US a free hand in arming and funding terrorist groups such as Jundullah militants.
A writer on pakalert.wordpress.com says that he was intrigued by the sudden appearance of tens of thousands of Twitter allegations that Ahmadinejad stole the Iranian election. He investigated, he says, and he reports that each of the new highly active accounts were created on Saturday, June 13th. "IranElection" is their most popular keyword. He narrowed the spammers to the most persistent: @StopAhmadi, @IranRiggedElect, and @Change_For_Iran. He researched further and found that On June 14 the Jerusalem Post already had an article on the new twitter. He concludes that the new Twitter sites are propaganda operations.
With the momentum of irresistible pressure building against Iran, has Ahmadinejad lost the war? Remember how Hugo Chavez recovered from successive attempted coups to fight another day. It's noteworthy that the media-led waves of demonstrations in Iran coincided with Ahmadinejad's participation in the Shaghai Cooperation Organisation, from which he emerged with dignity intact and supported by powerful neighbours:
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad calls for the creation of a new world order in dealing with the many challenges arising in the international political arena.
"What we need now is a dramatic change in world political thought," said President Ahmadinejad in a Tuesday address to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Moscow.
"Western-style capitalism is falling apart, marking the end of the age of Imperialism," he added.
Ahmadinejad said the new world order should be less US-centric. "Washington's many political and economic woes show that its judgment can no longer be trusted," he explained.
Little wonder then that they hate him – by presenting an alternative to American hegemony he is a threat that must be neutralised one way or another.
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SCO and IBM revive Unix patent dispute
02/17, 4:50pm
IBM, SCO scheduled to go back to courts over Unix
The long-running but stalled legal battle between Unix vendor SCO and IBM has been reactivated in Utah courts, Groklaw revealed. The proceedings were interrupted when SCO entered bankruptcy court. SCO sued IBM, among others, for using Unix code and integrating it into Linux, though it doesn't own Unix copyrights, as ruled in a different case between Novell and SCO.


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Grosdidier put lesson before vanity
Margaret Grosdidier is an exceptional woman.
Last week, the story of the Eudora woman's fight against skin cancer was told in The Eudora News. It was not a story we found. Mrs. Grosdidier came to us, wanting to tell of her battle with actinic keratosis and to increase awareness of the risk of exposure to the sun.
More remarkably, Grosdidier wanted a picture depicting her as she coped with the worst of the disease and treatment. It is in the women's own words "quite unsightly."
While many people grouse about the photograph on their driver's licenses or disappear in the bathroom for minutes of primping before routine mug shots for the newspaper, Grosdidier refused to let vanity stop her from graphically illustrating important messages.
The first lesson, important as we head into summer, is that even a small amount of time in the sun unprotected can have consequences, especially to fair-skinned individuals.
The second lesson is our need to pay attention to our bodies and see a doctor when we notice suspicious changes.
"If you don't get attention, it's a death sentence," Grosdidier's husband, Norbert, said.
Grosdidier has since improved from the stage of her illness depicted in the photograph that ran in the paper last week. It doesn't reflect Grosdidier's appearance, but it gives insight into her spirit.
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In the face of mounting budget pressures, the U.S. Army is attempting to whittle down the price of tactical radios by inviting any interested vendor to compete for five-year, winner-take-all contracts in two major competitions scheduled for 2014.
That strategy, which has been announced for the Armys Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) Handheld, Manpack, Small Form Fit (HMS) Rifleman and Manpack radio competitions, is drawing the ire of industry executives who say it may lead to higher prices in the long run by reducing the pool of competitors vying to produce Army radios.
In the past, the Army often purchased radios through annual contracts awarded to two or more vendors. That strategy was designed to promote competition while supporting the defense electronics industrial base. Army leaders have been forced to rewrite their acquisition strategies, however, as they wrestle with the task of fielding a family of sophisticated software-defined radios in an era of declining budgets.
The Armys investment accounts are taking it on the chin, said Loren Thompson, chief operating officer of the nonprofit Lexington Institute. Unless Congress passes a comprehensive budget plan, the Defense Department will be forced to scale back 2014 spending to $475 billion from its proposed $527 billion level.
In August, President Barack Obama vowed to shield military personnel spending accounts from the cuts and limit their impact on operations. As a result, research and procurement accounts are expected to decline sharply.
Against that backdrop, the Army is preparing to select contractors to begin full-rate production of single-channel, Handheld Rifleman radios and larger, two-channel Manpack radios, key elements of the Armys $3 billion-a-year campaign to modernize tactical communications.
One unique feature of the Rifleman and Manpack radios is their ability to extend the Armys network by acting as communications towers, Chris Marzilli, General Dynamics C4 Systems president, said by email.
Aaron Brosnan, Thales Communications business development vice president, added that the radios feature cutting-edge technology that enables the Army to build-out one cohesive, infrastructure-less, tactical network.
The service has purchased 19,327 Rifleman and 3,826 Manpack radios under low-rate, initial-production (LRIP) orders.
The current Army Acquisition Objective is 193,726 for the Rifleman Radio, and 65,622 for the Manpack Radio, said Col. Russ Wygal, project manager for tactical radios in the Armys Program Executive Office for Command, Control and Communications-Tactical.
With such a large quantity at stake, competition for full-rate production orders is expected to be fierce. General Dynamics produces both radios under LRIP contracts. In addition, Thales Communications manufactures Rifleman radios, and Rockwell Collins manufactures Manpack radios under LRIP contracts. Each of the incumbents has signaled its intention to bid on full-rate production awards.
The Armys plan to invite additional firms to bid has widened the competitive field. ITT Exelis is prepared to offer its Soldier Radio-Rifleman (SR-R), which meets requirements published in the Rifleman radio draft request for proposals issued Aug. 16, said Jennifer Schoonover, ITT Exelis vice president for communication solutions.
While competing radios are likely to be quite similar, we think we are in a position to build a very good radio that will run the [Soldier Radio] waveform as well if not better than anyone else, because we are the developer and inventor of the waveform, said ITT Exelis spokesman Tim White.
Meanwhile, Harris RF Communications plans to enter the Rifleman competition with its new RF-330E Wideband Team Radio, a lightweight, hand-held device that provides voice, data and situational awareness to individual squad members, according to an email from Chris Aebli, Harris RF Communications vice president for Defense Department business.
Harris also is developing a radio for the Manpack program. Aebli declined to describe that radio except to say it offers a next-generation platform with substantial new capabilities for wideband tactical communications.
Harris plans to unveil its Manpack entry at the Association of the U.S. Army convention in Washington in October.
Many industry executives were reluctant to speak on the record for fear of weakening their competitive position or irking service officials preparing to dole out contracts worth billions of dollars. Privately, however, companies are speaking up.
During a series of meetings held Sept. 5 during an industry forum at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., executives questioned the Armys plan to select a single vendor to manufacture Rifleman radios for five years. Vendors that do not win will find it extremely difficult to hang around for five years and then try to get back in the business, Schoonover said.
Brosnan couched the issue in more general terms.
Contract vehicles promoting continuous, ongoing competition and recognizing best-value in the source selection process serve to contain acquisition costs and encourage industrial innovation and investment, he said by email. That said, we understand the resource and budget challenges facing the Army in the current economic climate.
The Senate Appropriations Committee questioned the Armys acquisition plan in a 2014 budget bill passed Aug. 1. Senators warned, When the Army tries to compete the next JTRS Manpack contract award in 5 years, there will likely be only one vendor left, according to the Senate report. The future JTRS Manpack program will not receive benefit from vendor investment, innovation, or price competition.
Wygal declined to comment on the Armys acquisition strategy except to say, We continue to examine options that would meet the intent of the competition by driving down costs while increasing capability for the soldier.
Even if the Army awards multiple contracts for Rifleman and Manpack radio production, some vendors may exit the military radio business.
The military electronics sector is overcrowded, Thompson said. Some of these companies need to either consolidate or exit the business. Trying to keep them all viable just isnt practical.


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Just because Apple are shunning Flash in their mobile environment and because the Flash plugin may be buggy on certain Mac OS X set-ups, it doesn't mean the whole Adobe Creative Suite is going to crumble. And just because your comic doesn't require the apps above, it doesn't mean that the creative world is going to ditch industry-standard software such as Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and After Effects. You have to remember that if it wasn't for companies like Adobe and technologies including PostScript and the desktop publishing revolution, there would be no Apple.
Don't get me wrong, I love Apple products, but they've got it wrong this time. With members on the board of WHATWG, Apple have a vested interest in HTML5, so they'll make you think it's a simple case of HTML vs Flash. IT'S NOT THAT SIMPLE. The 'standards' in the canvas tag are a long way from the semantics of XHTML, which are used both on Apple's website and in the eBook format. There are many great HTML5 features, but canvas is still a bit of a mess.
And although royalty fees are not being charged until at least 2015 (companies still pay other licensing fees), h.264 is still propriety software. It is a great technology and companies like Apple (and now Microsoft and Google) have backed this format in their browsers, but Firefox has not. So the argument of using video tags in HTML5 is not that clear-cut. There is also no standard API or tags to control interface or things like buffering in HTML5 video. Clearly Quicktime and Safari have these in place, but then that is just proprietary software that doesn't run consistently on all platforms
EDIT: My mistake, there are tags for controls and preloading that can be implemented in HTML5 (although I'm not sure how this works with progressive download. It seems to download the whole thing only, unless you're streaming, which requires good old-fashioned proprietary software).


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Additionally, you should make sure your teen is taking medicine as prescribed by their doctor and monitoring their blood glucose levels. When the school year starts, you and your teen should make sure their school nurse and teachers are aware of your child's diabetes care plan to ensure they're eating their meals, eating healthy foods, getting physical activity and taking their medicine during the school day.
Being diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes is a life-changing event and can be difficult for anyone to deal with, regardless of age. If you notice behavior changes in your teen, it's important to talk with them about it and let them know they're not alone. You can help your child connect with other teens with diabetes through diabetes support groups or summer camps.
Here they may make friendships and support each other. If you feel your teen needs to speak to a professional, it's important that you help them connect with a health care worker, social worker, certified diabetes educator or psychologist. We also offer a diabetes education series "Taking Control of Your Diabetes" to help you become more knowledgeable on the importance of managing the condition.
For more information on dealing with diabetes, contact your Franklin County Cooperative Extension Service at 695-9035.
Source: Ingrid Adams, UK assistant extension professor for nutrition and weight management.


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DHS news release
Contact: Bonnie Widerburg (503) 731-4180
Technical contacts: Ken Kauffman, DHS (503) 731-4012
Ray Campbell, Josephine County Health Dept. (541) 474-5325
Steve Schalk, Josephine County Parks Dept. (541) 474-5285
Public health advisory lifted for Lake Selmac in Josephine County
The Oregon Department of Human Services (DHS), in cooperation with Josephine County Health and Parks departments, is removing the public health advisory at Lake Selmac in Josephine County.
The advisory has been in place since Sept. 2, when a serious blue-green algae bloom made the water unsafe for drinking or for recreational water contact.
"The lake water is safe for recreational uses, and the drinking water provided at the camp facilities and residences is safe for drinking and all other household purposes," said Ken Kauffman, DHS environmental health specialist.
Kauffman said that at its peak, the bloom was very severe. But the season's cool, cloudy weather, combined with rainfall, have ended the bloom.
Additional information about blue-green algae can be found on the DHS Public Health advisories Web site or by calling the contact persons listed above. Local callers may wish to call the Josephine County Health Department or Parks Department.
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Bell & Ross' new Horizon
By Jamie Millar 06 March 12
This Thursday, GQ.com will travel forward in time - to Baselworld, where the watch industry's biggest and best brands display their forthcoming wares. One which can always be relied upon to have something genuinely new on the horizon is Bell & Ross. Indeed, the aviation-inspired BR01 Horizon, available from May in a limited run of just 999, takes its design cues from the attitude indicator, a cockpit instrument which monitors the aircraft's position relative to the horizon. "Attitude indicator" accurately describes the watch too.
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Gloria Trahan Linton receives a painting after accepting the Founder's Award from the Lafayette Commission on the Needs of Women during the Women of Excellence luncheon on Friday, Oct. 6, 2012. By Paul Kieu, The Daily Advertiser October 5, 2012
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Retired educator Gloria Trahan Linton has dedicated her life to motivating others. She has counseled young people and is the driving force behind the renovation and restoration of the Holy Rosary Institute. Although her background prepared her for a life of service, she was not at all prepared to receive any awards for it.
"I'm just overwhelmed," said Linton. "I just didn't realize I'd ever be awarded for the ordinary things I do."
On Friday, Linton was honored with the Founders Award at this year's Women of Excellence banquet at the Frem Boustany Convention Center. ...


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Lake's rugged, high pressure pneumatic flow meters are designed for permanent installation in compressed gas systems. These products provide a low-cost means to measure compressor volumetric outputs, pneumatic tool consumptions and other industrial gas flow rates.
Lake's flow meters operate using the variable annular orifice method with compression spring return – the identical method used in our field proven liquid flow meters. The product's follower, where the measurement is indicated, is magnetically coupled through a high pressure casing to the flow meter's internal orifice assembly.
Benefits of these design features are:
Lake Monitors are available in three standard materials of construction:
Measuring ranges cover 1.5-12 SCFM through 150-1300 SCFM. Twenty-four port sizes from 1/8" through 2" in NPT, SAE and BSP can be ordered to meet specific plumbing requirements. Lake's pneumatic monitors are also available in alarm and transmitter configurations for electronic monitoring applications.
Lake's flow meters are calibrated to measure the flow of compressible media (gases) in SCFM – standard cubic feet per minute. A "standard" cubic foot is defined as a cubic foot of dry air at standard atmospheric conditions: 70°F and 14.7 PSIA (0 PSIG) measured at sea level.
When a standard cubic foot of air is compressed, its actual volume will decrease proportionally as absolute pressure increases. For example, a standard cubic foot of air's actual volume will decrease by 50% and density will increase by 100% as the air is compressed from atmospheric pressure 14.7 PSIA (0 PSIG) to 29.4 PSIA (14.7 PSIG). See FIGURE 1.
There are three factors that affect the Flow Meter Calibration: specific gravity, pressure and temperature. Lake flow meters are calibrated for air (specific gravity of 1.0) at 70°F and 100 PSIG. Most low pressure rotameters are calibrated at 0 PSIG and require corrections for use at any other pressure.
Lake products are designed for pneumatic systems where pressures between 90-110 PSIG are used. In these common applications, a Lake monitor with a standard calibration can be read directly without applying corrections.
If a Lake flow meter is installed in a system where conditions differ from the standard listed above, correction factors will need to be applied to retain the design accuracy of the monitor. The appropriate correction factor equations are detailed in Chart 1 on the back of this page. To assure the best monitoring accuracy, pressure and temperature measurements should be taken directly at the monitor's inlet port.
Special calibrations can be performed by Lake Monitors to correct for the following system characteristics:
Consult Lake's factory or your distributor for details and prices.
To order a pneumatic flow rate meter the following information is required:
Estimating the flow rate in a compressed gas system may seem complicated, but with some research and a few simple equations an educated guess can be made. Two suggested methods are:
Method 1
A compressor is typically rated in SCFM output at a certain pressure and efficiency. If the rating cannot be located or is unknown, an estimate of compressor output can be obtained by the following formulas:
Method 2
If all of the potential of a compressor is not being used (the unit cycles on and off) or if flow rate in excess of compressor capacity is being consumed (the compressor cannot meet the demand), a summation of machine usages can be totaled to determine the maximum flow rate. Most machine tools that use compressed air specify the maximum consumption of the tool.
To obtain satisfactory operation from a Lake pneumatic flow rate meter, the following points should be considered:
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Snu School For Children
Bethany, OK 73008
About This School
In 2010, Snu School For Children had 12 students for every full-time equivalent teacher. The Oklahoma average is 16 students per full-time equivalent teacher.
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